The Powerplay 33 Bay Watch boat triple outboard this was Dannys personal boat for a while.



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Two Powerplays in Key West a 33 SS next to a Sport deck outboard look at the room in the OB Cockpit Amazing Danny was doing Graphics in the upholstery for a long time.




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Powerplay 33 SS Fatal Attraction




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Powerplay 33 Sportfish deck plug


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Powerplay 33 B-1 Factory Raceboat



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Powerplay Factory B-1 Raceboat showing cockpit


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Everything is for sale but I don't think Matt is actively trying to sell it. It is an amazing boat. Runs well into the 90's with a gen set, AC, etc. It is immaculate and a fantastic boat in the rough, best of the best.

Powerplay 33 SS Red this Boat went to Japan, the Gelcoat was matched to the dealers Ferrari by a paint chip sent to Danny




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Steve,
Love the Thread, been reading it from the start. Really Great photos and great information.
Thank you for the history lesson
Now the question,, when you sleep? You are on here all hours of the day and night
Thank you Again

Jim

He doesn't. :party-smiley-004: :drink:

I could keep going but my eyes need a rest,Thank you for the nice comments and I have a lot more going up,inside pictures of the mold building and the boats going together ,Cool stuff.and You are welcome.

LMAO we have a love affair with the boats, the clock is meaningless.

Steve and Cat

I agree, when i was working putting my Magnum Sport back together,, there were no clocks, just working to get it back together and back in the water
Rest up the both of you and I'll be looking for the next installments on both your Threads

Thank you again, I i learn something new each time i read your thread
Jim

what and where is Dan now?
if anyone has leads to a 25 twin outboard please let me know
the rigging and mold work of your powerplays is great to view!

Chris M. Del Collo
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Thats a great boat..Imagine, a brand new 2011 38 with trip Verado 350's hangin off the back.. Simple paint job, and just curious.....could you get 4 bolsters and a seperated bench in the back..cause you have the room..I wonder what top end would be..82-85mph..??????

I want one!.....the vents in those later boats remind me of the vents in the donzi zr's....very cool. How fast would later 33 run with 500's?? That would be the perfect combo for our type of lake boating!

Sir You are very welcome, going through this brings back a lot of cool memories.

there are 3 open outboards available now I believe

all are local to me

two are twins and one is a single, one of the twins can be bought sans power

all 3 have been for sale for awhile

Danny is still around and I hope he is viewing this thread,He had a damn good eye and got exactly what he wanted in his boats. The molds are another story ,we put a LOT of effort into each set. Thank you for looking and the comments.

Jeff I would think your numbers of 82-85 are very realistic,The cockpit area would be huge 4 bolsters and a "U" bench like Danny did on the 33's.

Mid 80's easy from what I have seen.

Back in the Old days these "S" Boats sometimes had better times than the open class boats.




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Dave I have this picture up before,But the lamination is done with a magnum internal mixing pressure fed roller to our prescribed mekp percentage.

Funny thing when I brought that system in a long time ago Medina was there in the glass shop and another glass Foreman Louis they both threatened to walk when they saw the machine..

WOW They meant it I!!! and I had visions of standing alone there and explaining "Whys"to the Danny "why" nothing was being done and "why" I personally drove his glass crew off..

A think Quick :I said guys you know me,for your friend Steve Please try this machine for an Hour if you do not like the new process, have a helper load it in my truck and it will be gone.

After 20 minutes you could not take that machine away from them without gunfire.

I setup a acetone recovery system as well another fight another story.


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lol old habits die hard i guess. Why did they not want to use it, did they feel they would be replaced or some of them downsized? So you prefer a fed roller over a gun then as well?

What is the advantage with an internal mix system over external? i would have tought external would be the way to go but what the heck, i didnt think you could build boats without molds either :D

Again thanks for taking the time

The internal mix roller eliminated the Pile of used buckets and allowed more exact control over mekp initiation once they saw that their lives would be easer they were onboard 100% Plus when the valve was pulled shut that was the end of the resin usage.

The external while giving you a apparent cure it is "streaky" at best NASA could not align that MEKP spray to be 100% across and equal on the Gelcoat fan. I use a 4 pass build up horizontal then vertical then repeat.Down here in 95 Degree and better heat I spray the hull side to side in 4' panels the gelcoat was going off two panels back trying to catch us,we were around 1.75 - 2% with the cook production gelcoat.

So do the mixing before the spray tip!! now for lamination the roller offers the best of the two worlds in wet out, One the crew does not have stop and get back from the gun and second the guy on the roller does half the work for the crew, also back-wetting you get exactly enough down with the roller: Cons cleanup a couple gallons acetone on a big job.but I had a recovery system in place

Just got home..couldnt wait to read this thread......Cool..now hurry up and build me one:drink:

LOL Sir for you in a second if we had the molds! Those were gorgeous boats.

Awesome thread, thanks for taking the time!:drink:

As an owner of a 28 single, I can't recall seeing another out there! I have heard 3-4 built were singles.

Mine is a 96 that I believe was originally to be a race boat, and has a 99 HP500 and over the rub-rail exhaust. It has blue checker paint, if you know any of the history of this boat I'd love to hear it!

Anyone in Southeast MI knows how crappy last summer was and the lake was always rough, boat handled it pretty damn well. I was out on days when there was no one else in sight (taking it real slow though:grinser010:).

Thank you for the nice comment and supporting the Powerplay thread about these cool boats and will try to dig out more on Your boat in particular, Also I have a lot of pictures of Danny's factory to post up.

Jeff, Pat has the 38 outboard at PMT with trip 300 Verados. Runs upper 70's (guessing that means 77-78). He rerigged from 250xs to 275 verado to 300 verado. He should have a good guess on speed, but I agree with 82-83 based on the 300 speeds. I'll bet a 300xs boat is faster than 350's though.

82 With Jeff's Hot Tub in the Engine Bay.

Powerplay 33 Supersport Look where the water is coming off the bottom


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Powerplay 33 Supersport "on the Edge" Leaving home.




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Powerplay 33 supersport 3 position back seat



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Powerplay Nacca Vents



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Powerplay 33 Supersport the owner wanted an US1 Look





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you guys are just set up and rigging kings.
i bet apache and cig used lots of ideas...

Another Powerplay 33 Supersport at the factory



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Powerplay 33 supersport interior




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Danny had the Apache Glass guys Pedro and his Dad ,there was a constant "think tank" going on with the Boss over his boats ,I am glad to have been there it was a cool experience looking back (very hard work at the time) and I built my first Cheetahcat while working for Danny.