Thank you Steve for taking the time to put together this awesome thread. It's a great history lesson.I have a 33 sportdeck that I run on LOTO and as others have said it thrives on rough water. I did some research and got some opinions from owners here on OSO before I made the purchase 3 years ago. Rock solid quality construction and outstanding ride and handling...and a cool look. I have never been disappointed in my decision to buy one. I am pretty sure I have the only one on LOTO at this time and I'm really surprise more of them didn't end up here.

Thanks again for sharing all of this information from your days at Powerplay....truly appreciated.

Is '89 the first year of production for the 33?

That is funny to hear, I would have thought LOTO would have more of them. I rarely go out in my area WITHOUT seeing a Powerplay of some type (CC's are popular). For a few years we had 3 38's in one county!

hey steve thanks for putting up the pics of my boat. this thread is awesome, keep up the good work.

I will check but 88 was when Danny was building them at his former race shop across the street from the eventual home of Powerplay and Thank you for the nice comments there were a lot of good people there with good supervising. My painter at the time did work for Danny.

Back in the day Powerplay was very busy with just our local Market ,Danny had that Ad in Powerboat and a few sales were coming in from that as well, the rigging shop was packed always.

Sir thank you for the nice comments I appreciate it and this is my pleasure ,most of all glad you are enjoying the boat, I will try to post more pictures of the construction on the B1 and the C class boat as well,again thanks and Regards.

HOW FAST?

I posted this old picture before but needs more explanation,Danny was adding to the internal structure here, you can see the floors (sailboat talk) running outboard from the stringers also their size and placement in relation to the strakes, the transom knee width, he had a large bracket on these that the size was worked out to gave the best handling and performance on these boats.

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Steve
It was a pleasure meeting you guys last night.

Sir the pleasure was ours and thank you for being a good host!

I wasn't a good host, I forgot I had a fridge full of cold Coronas. ...:) we'll get em next time..Looking forward to checking this core, I'm about ready to tear into it but decided I should wait for you....:)

It was pretty cool checking out your toys there,I will be caught up here soon and look at the Cat.

This 38 Powerplay deck came out of the last mold I built there,The Boss told me to make it one inch thick and solid glass, OK 420 Gallons of Resin and gelcoat later it was done,then a supporting structure carefully built so no stress would ever be point loaded on the mold shell itself ,,Idea here like laying it in the palm of your hand.

We finessed it once in the factory space where it was to remain, then 6 months down the road another light correction of anything that showed up was the plan. Problem here is the care that must be exercised in the storage and handling, Dan was simply going to always leave a finished part in it, which is the best way of keeping it protected and never expose it to direct sunlight/heat for any period of time.

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This was a pretty 33 Powerplay, pedal pusher


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been on that boat.. Billy Ruddy owned that at one time...

Jeff thanks, that was a cool looking boat.

Powerplay 33 SS




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Powerplay B-1 ,The Miami Beach Boat Show 1994


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Powerplay 28 A-68 Done ready to Rig.



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Powerplay 38 Engine room being outfitted.



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That all white 38 is one sweet boat (kinda funny coming from a graphics guy huh :D)

got any pics of the black one?

LOL Dave you are right, it does look very good the way it was done.

when a boat looks so good graphics detract from it . . . . well your onto something there :D

A lot went into that, Dan with his years in the business and as a So Florida boat guy all his life,The lines were micrometer around and he pushed everyone involved without stop until he got what you see on the floor there.

Powerplay 38 Defy'n Gravity



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Thanks for keeping this thread going. Took mine out yesterday and I'm still smiling:D

2003 38' Powerplay
 

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LOL enjoy, You are very welcome and safe boating .

Powerplay 38 Defy'n Gravity wiring.


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Powerplay 38 Drivers Console going in



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Hey Steve thats looks like my 33 in the pic before the repaint, any more shots of it. It's a 2002 with 496HO's

Steve 1 that wiring looks ok but if you want to see what real wiring looks like here is what it looks like under the dash of my Fountain:mad:
I thought I was working on a Bayliner last night trying to replace a temp gauge.

Sir there are photos of it and I will post them when I find them, thank you for taking the time to read the thread.

:eek::eek::eek::eek: Holy Crap!! Sir thank you for that LOL !!!

Too funny. The wiring on a PP is a work of art.

Amazing thread Steve. Love the mix of new and old, completed and build photos.

I don't follow powerplay much, whats the current status of the company? Weren't the molds for sale awhile back?

Sir thank you, the Molds were all sold off, I do not know the status of that tooling right now.