Thanks mel, my tanks are both in the rear flanking the motor....But i have a molded glass insert in the nost of the boat....Helps keep the nose down......I due have to be carfull with tab input and drive when running in the ruff but she flies nice and level....


heres a pic of the inside have not finished that part yet

Anybody,I have never seen a 27 with a insert for a finished cabin up front,does anybody else have this?Vixen had some carpet glued to the sides of the hull an floor and some kind of headliner glued to the top in the first compartment but that was all,i tore it all out along with the floor to get at the fuel tanks.I just layed a new floor up there and left it like that,i would have to give up so much of the strenght of the hull i never even thought of somthing like that.I sure like it,it makes it into a pleasure boat ware you could overnight if you wanted to.Got a couple more picts of how i got Vixen set up today compared to how she was first.One gives the seats we use, another the front lifting cleats,and the the throttle shifter and trim an tab switches.

Just a few more seeing im on a roll here.No Cig,when i repaired her after the wreck i put on 30 inch k planes with mechanical indicaters,marked at neutral with bottum and strict orders to set them were you want but not above those marks.did the same thing with trim indicater,not above the red line.Never had another problem,but it cost us a little top speed,but she flys nice now and shes safe.When i was working on the H.P.boats i was always fixing seats that tore loose, so on Vixen i welded the bases to quarter inch alu.plate and tied them down with 4 half inch bolts,have never moved in 7 years. On the bottom of the eng.pict you can see the oil cooler we use,that is the mech 540,need about 10 more hours on it and then it comes out and maybe i will get a chance to see how the blue hyd.540 i built 3 years ago compairs,its been sitting on the eng.stand complete.i run it a half hour every month so nothing gets stuck in it and i even borrowd it to dave for one race in 2005.

Hello Mel,

Nice Photos and you did a great job on her. Looks great, I know how much work it takes
Very nice

Thank you
Jim

Mag 27 nocigs boat has a cabin insert from Cherokee boats that were made in Michigan in the late 70's and 80's. Cherokee boats made a Magnum hull copy , but had a raised deck. Bob Lish who owned the mag before nocig had Cherokee make him the insert and thet put it in, Bob raced this Mag for many years with the Double Vision name. Cherokee boats mainly made 25' and 28' fishing boats, but did build a few offshore boat's . They also made the raised engine hatch like nocigs, that you may have seen on many Mags that raced on Lake St Clair. The shop in Algonac MI were they built Cherokee boats then, is the shop were they build Sunsation boats now.

I never get tired of seeing someone else post a pic of my boat..............


Thanks mark.........

Wait till ya see her this year at the races..................

24 Degree asked about jel color,i was going thrue some picts last night and came across this one after i took the wood off the bow,and it gives a good look at it because it was never painted there.In 2002 we always seemed to good press in some towns so i posted a couple of them too.

Dave working the chain lift to put in the new 540,that had always been my job but the left arm still wasnt working very good,so he grunted and i guided it in.We run 1 APBA race 3 SBI races and blew it in Sarrasoto,it was a great eng.but really to much.If i went with a 28 4blade it would run around 81 or 82 at 52 to 5400 rpms but if i put on the 26 4blade at 6200 rpms we were so illegal we couldnt run it.After Sarrasoto i built a 510 12 to1 eng. that would work good with the 26 prop and used it untell Marathon in2003.Anyway heres a few more.Thats all for today,juat started to rain and i think im going to see what its like to get wet once,been so darn long since we got rain just about forgot what it was.

Heres a few from St.Cloud.Geo.T was their with a couple friends.Boy i wish my wife would let me have friends like that. This was my only race in 2002,after 2 laps Dave seen i couldnt use my left arm to hold on and shut it down,by the time i found out what he done it was to late to get back in.That was one time that boy was on my s--t list.After the race i was upset over everything and went to see the chief referee about another matter and wound up getting DQd on top of it.Well with the DQ we got no points,so any chance of winning the gold cup were gone for the year.Thats when i went with SBI for the rest of the year.

The last ones from 2001,sorry i got them so mixed but a couple of these are kinda neat.After Lauderdale we got invited to the Magnum plant,so after 30 years Vixen got back home.