What I heard is there were NO issues and it handled great,Since you have made a 27' foot boat in essence. Thanks and Safe Boating .

and what boat is the 300 on?

mine

Single or twin?

twin 300x's, but have a problem with the connecting rod, will move to 250 xs's

Billy, WTF!!!!! Were have you been? In NOLO next week, Lunch? Robbie

Hi Robbie do you still have your Boat?

Defy'n Gravity Powerplay 38 SS Beautiful Boat


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Steve, GREAT THREAD!!!!!! Danny would be proud!!! Yes, we still have the boat, and 90% of the boating is done has been done in fresh water!!!! Trying to post a couple of pictures, Thank You for the thread, have enjoyed reading it, if you talk to Danny, tell him I said Hi!!!! Robbie

Great thread!

This 33 used to be on the Potomac, not sure where it is now.

Sir as you can see I have made your gorgeous boat the center piece of this thread and you are most welcome this has brought back a lot of memories for me and I most certainly will tell Danny when I see him.My Best Regards and Safe Boating

Beautiful 33 SS Thank you for posting the pictures and the nice comment.

I think that is the coolest 38 and Jromys is the coolest 33. How fast did that 38 run?

Powerplay Cougar Cat 1984 Picture they were National Champions "S" 1982 These are the largest Pictures I can put up


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I posted a lot of pictures of the 38 Defy'n Gravity build and still have a lot more,That last 33 that is Jeremy's Boat ,When I saw it I told Danny the same thing, That is your Classic 33 Powerplay . The 38 Speed, I have about three numbers let me double check before I post it.

what kind of race speeds do you think they saw with that boat. I love the old race pics :cool:

Dave How have you been? Those "S" Boats had a higher speed than the open class sometimes, they were allowed every modification like the big boats, but were limited to 750 CI instead of a 1000 CI, I seem to recall speeds in the teens ,when talking to them in Smitty"s shop at Cougar 188 st ,I will check and get back.(seem, key word)

Active Fun: fully optioned (a/c, gen.) 38 w/525's ran 82-84
Twin 700/NXT boat also fully optioned runs right at 100. Twin Cobra 750/Imco boat runs low 90's.

And with huge blower engines and #6's boat does well over 120 MPH !!!!!!
( see " CAN'T TOUCH THIS " )

Forgot about John's boat! The only issue he has is running out of fuel. The tank isn't oversized enough to handle the fuel burn of the engines! He has run out of fuel at two poker runs I attended, one "outage" was about 100 FEET from the fuel dock!

The May issue of Performance Boats magazine has a two page spread of this beautiful boat on p. 76. I know a lot of guys don't like all those pastel colors but to me that boat is drop-dead gorgeous!

Thanks Steve, just been smokin busy and in and out of the shop a lot. Had some big boat jobs i had to travel for and have only been able to check in from time to time. These threads move fast and i really enjoy catching up on them. I really get a kick out of the old race photos. When i was in high school in the 80's it was funny my friends all had some sports hero they idolized, football baseball whatever. Me i had boat raceing related stuff, they had no idea what the heck i was talking about. It was a real treat to get a feature issue of boating with a Cig on the cover because it was still pretty rare. I still have lots of old mags and a few programs from back then. Keep the good stuff coming :cool:

Down here the offshore made the papers and with Cigarette,Donzi,Magnum,Factories and the Marine stadium races. Good times

The last year 1984 the Cat with the drives all the way up The boxes were above the transom 116-117 Remember In 1982 Danny won the "S" title those boats ran faster than the open boats .

That 32 Cougar was built by Asia craft same as the Arneson #6 Boat the second 38 wood Cougar IMHO,Now when I was at Cougar (188 st) working on a customers boat , they came through and a drop dead Beautiful Filipina was in the mix, I could not focus on my work for the rest of the day.

Cat, Pat from Active Thunder painted that boat.

Dave 1982 Barcardi Trophy Race ,Danny won and look at the competition he was leading here, none outer than EL Boss


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Dave check out the Drive Heights remember this is 1984



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I'm checkin out that four step hull. How did it run?

Cat which one?

The one right above.

Two step, there are metal pieces on the chine to keep the wood from being damaged from slings

Pedal Pusher Crazy fast 33 SS Powerplay 100++


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When I was in high school in Boca Raton I worked for Air and Sea Charters. They owned a 53' sailing catamaran, a 45' monohull sailboat, and a 33' Powerplay SS. The powerplay had twin 415hp 502s and of course Bravo One drives. It was a white hull with green interior, and I think it had pink and seafoam green graphics. As always it was a great running boat and looked great, the special thing about this boat as the hours. It was run everyday for almost 15 years. God only knows how many hours were put on her but the boat held together. I don't remember what happenned whether it was stolen or sold but the boat had some nasty 540's in it before it disappeared.

They had a good glass crew and used top shelf fabric like advanced textiles in those days and a Vinylester lay up.

Is it just me or in the last pic the dash is one piece? I see no screws...

That was the Race style Dash setup,Everything drilled in and wired powerplay style from the back side, no dash mask.

Powerplay J here is Danny's factory raceboat with the same system




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Man that's a great Idea! wish mine was like that

Here is the Powerplay 33 SS Boca Hotel boat


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Powerplay 33 SS Fast Forward Miami

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