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Originally posted by Just Say N2O
T2x, Got any pictures from the late 60's showing the twin engine boats with tall Mercs with 6 trumpet exhaust pipes blasting out the back? I remember watching one of those races out in Colorado in somewhere around 1966. Awesome sounding.
T2x, Got any pictures from the late 60's showing the twin engine boats with tall Mercs with 6 trumpet exhaust pipes blasting out the back? I remember watching one of those races out in Colorado in somewhere around 1966. Awesome sounding.
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Which was first the Shadow 21 or the Challenger 21? Both gerat boats and tons of fun especially one I was in with a twin turbo BBC, 65 at 3200rpm and 1?? at 6000 Thanks, Ironman.
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Originally posted by IRONMAN
Which was first the Shadow 21 or the Challenger 21? Both gerat boats and tons of fun especially one I was in with a twin turbo BBC, 65 at 3200rpm and 1?? at 6000 Thanks, Ironman.
Which was first the Shadow 21 or the Challenger 21? Both gerat boats and tons of fun especially one I was in with a twin turbo BBC, 65 at 3200rpm and 1?? at 6000 Thanks, Ironman.
After seeing the Superboat, George and I decided to distance ourselves from it through a redesign of the Challenger deck, adding a molded in Windscreen, and an insert of the hull mold at the transom..... giving the boat a built in "Back Porch"... an 8" overhang. This design which we called the Shadow 21 seemed to handle a bit better and was a smidgen faster. That boat was the first to carry the "Team Shadow" logo..... The construction standards were identical to the original Challenger and the weights were basically the same.
At about this time we conducted a series of tests on stepped bottoms using both I/O and outboard hulls......... and after proving again that Vees had speed and handling limitations, we combined my tunnel boat experience, George's monohull design and engineering expertise, and our combined years of rough water marathon racing experience ....to create the Shadow Cat.
In an interesting twist of fate........ The original Shadow 21 molds were recently purchased by a Long Islander, Wes Werner, whose father, Sonny, raced Eltros...with George and I back in the day.
I guess the circle is unbroken.
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Do you know the 21 Challenger named "Uncle Guthrie"? It was on Lake Muskoka back in the 80's.
Do you know the 21 Challenger named "Uncle Guthrie"? It was on Lake Muskoka back in the 80's.