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05-20-2010 | 11:19 PM

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phragle

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Thanks, it was a cool boat. The Pic on the trailer was when it was brand new & thats the exact way it came out if the factory in 1973. I only had it for a year & then got a 1974 Cigarette 28 SS.

Thats Don Aranow & myself in my 28 Cig

Man, people wore some funky shorts back in those days.......

05-21-2010 | 12:18 AM

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Dave, The composite superstructure (stringers, bulkheads) material, will this include (penske board) Airex PXC ?....... the reason I ask is, I'm in the process of ripping out the cockpit floor just wondering about a lite-weight replacement. Also, I found rot in the lower plywood partition (wall between the cockpit/cabin entrance) the main bulkhead is fine. It's the area that wasn't protected (above the tabbing) that wicked in the moisture. Would penske board be a suitable replacement for the sole (cockpit) floor and lower partition repair?.....Scippy

i am gutting every piece of stringer and bulkhead out of it and will be doing the transom in marine ply with Coosa stringers and bulkheads, i think Coosa and Penske are similar. While everything is out i will complety tab the deck all the way around. For the floor i will probably do a custom liner with footwells. The layout will be similar to a Gladiator so i will probably put in a console and a full width dash. Not to concerned with a cabin in this one but may have some limited deck access through a hatch or something. You can use Penske or Coosa for cockpit sole just make sure its fully encapsulated.

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05-21-2010 | 12:22 AM

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just noticed you had E drives on the 28. Cool, thats some vintage speed stuff there!
Nice tow vehicle to, that baby's probably got a better tow rating then most trucks do today

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05-21-2010 | 01:39 PM

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Tall Lifelines from the factory,, YUP!!

Think they swtiched to the shorter life lines around 75 or 76

Mine(73) had the taller one and then I switched to the short version.

Thank you
Jim

05-21-2010 | 01:47 PM

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just noticed you had E drives on the 28. Cool, thats some vintage speed stuff there!
Nice tow vehicle to, that baby's probably got a better tow rating then most trucks do today

The drives were very trick for the day with the trim option
The speedmaster lowers worked like a dream.
The 69 Caddy towed awesome with a set of air shocks on the rear.
That boat was the cats azz back in the day small blocks, big H.P. To be honest it wasn't very fast.

05-21-2010 | 06:22 PM

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Think they swtiched to the shorter life lines around 75 or 76

Mine(73) had the taller one and then I switched to the short version.

Thank you
Jim

My old 1975 Trs Mag [P-88] had the short lifeline too.

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05-21-2010 | 07:26 PM

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My old 1975 Trs Mag [P-88] had the short lifeline too.

I remember seeing that boat in Monroe, i cant remember the owners name but he was in the boat club.

05-21-2010 | 08:35 PM

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I remember the old BANANZA race boat,Dan bought it back in the late 80s I worked on it for a while, back then for me that was the coolist thing around.

05-21-2010 | 10:44 PM

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Lifeline height .....post '75 Mag Sport.

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My old 1975 Trs Mag [P-88] had the short lifeline too.

Mark, Any guess to what the lower lifeline measurement might be? I own a '76 sport and want to be period correct when the lifeline is installed. I recently measured 16'' from deck to top of eye from an old set of stanchions ('73 sport) typical of the one pictured in Lucky strike's mag sport. If anybody else knows, that's cool also.