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Own The Legend That Built Legends...
 

Performance Marine in Ft.Lauderdale is offering the following:
33' & 38' POWERPLAY molds. $ 300,000.00 OWN THE LEGEND.
Marc 269.208.5321 cell, Pat 954.658.0829 cell, 954.970.3335 shop

cool, i hope picked up by some one capable of doing them justice.

I only know one guy who can build a real Powerplay and that is Danny trust me on this ,the molds are meaningless.

good point . . . . . very good point.

Steve,thats not entirely true....Pat Sullivan is more than capable of building a POWERPLAY to the strick standards that were instilled before. Timing is critical in everything,and you know just how long it takes to do it right on a PP, it is a very expensive boat to build because it would be built in the same manner as Danny built them. Other builders can cut corners here and there to keep cost down...this would not be the case.In this case you get what you pay for.

IMHO this guy owns the Navy Blue Powerplay WOW what a cool operation looks like a City block long :eek::eek::eek:

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Powerplay 38 Rigging


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Powerplay rigging



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Picking up the 33 tomorrow

Chris, your boat looks beautiful,the guys here did an amazing job.

Powerplay wiring



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Wiring going in a Powerplay 38 SS drivers console


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I like that forward look! :hitit: :kiss: :lolhit:

Cat LMAO so do I ,Very nice decorations.

You think Pat will buy the molds? If anyone can build Powerplays again it would be him.

It is going to be interesting to see what happens in the near future.

Looking forward to seeing the pics of all the work finished.:drink:

Pat S. at PMT? He already has them?? Or do you mean another Pat?

300K for the molds? You could splash the hulls a lot cheaper!
I would be stunned if you got 75K cash.......

Do you want to bet that those two girls 7 years later (pic was shot in 03) couldn't fit up there!

That puts you in the position of having to do one of two things on the 38, Precision fair the boat for tooling or the most expensive correcting the molds after the fact.

also example the 33 you had a sport deck, a SS deck,a sport fishing deck and Console and the race deck.also the mold block for the stepped transom. and a ton of small part molds, to restore Powerplay levels in the tooling big money.

LOL that is the reason I have a Asian Wife.

Steve – Your thread provoked me to post my first reply – Great thead…shows the respect and quality for the powerplay brand. My first pp was the 25 w/ Bbrackets (post 631 with the purple interior). I never been in a boat that knew how to catch and land air better.
I recently got into the 28’ w/ ob’s….been searching for years for this exact boat – and apparently only 2 were ever made. Can you give me any pic’s/history of the boat? I believe I have the one from the original brochure. Currently set up w/ twin 300promax – Thanks Cowisl - (pics to come). Any idea of the other 28’/ob’s?

Where are the pics? :D


Funny Powerplay story. Oliver (built black 38 new) was a regular at Peanut Island. We are in the same business and have kids the same age but I only really met him because of boating. He had the boat for about 4 years (400 hours/10,000nautical miles on the GPS) and was shopping around to trade it. He had a lot of varied interests including superbikes so his circle of friends didn't necessarily cross over. He had a buddy who came out on the 38 with his girlfriend. Girl was 5'6, blond and very cute. She had never been on a go fast boat so Oliver offered a ride. It was windy, 2-4's and he took off towards the inlet. Her boyfriend rode shotgun, I was in the backseat behind the driver, she was backseat behind her boyfriend. A 38 Donzi w/ 575's rolls out hard with us. Oliver lays the sticks all the way down and it is on. It starts to get rough and she is holding on to the seatback for dear life, 3 guys are laughing. Well her tube top bathing suit isn't fairing too well, the tatas pop free and she is still holding on to the seatback with a death grip! I tap Oliver on the shoulder to let him know of the situation, he sees and laughs some more with the sticks buried on the dash!

After a minute he pulls them back and offers her a t-shirt.....needless to say that ride left an impression on her! :drink:

That is funny ,Thanks for the story.

Shaun welcome to the party you have the right ticket there were 12 -28's built I will try to put the numbers and power combos together and find more Pictures,those are the Rare Powerplays .

Pat Haughey at Active Thunder.

Whoever did that is a perfectionist. Doesn't get any better that that. Awesome!

That is the way the boss wanted it and everything else the same way.

He already builds a 33 and 37, adding a straight bottom 33 to the line up really won't make sense and the 38 isn't that much different than the 37 so why bother. Add in the cost of the molds and the fact there is no volume in the performance business and you can see where it wouldn't make sense.

Powerplay nowadays, setup a repair, parts and service company and build a few boats a year or whatever the demand is with the original people,The boats were all nicely done.

Look we all can buy the same material, but from the first drop of resin coming into the plant area to the finished boat leaving, every step of the way must be calculated and well supervisied, the right person is there motivated to do their best,same with the vendors in the old days.
I saw interiors come in from shops that had a good reputation, Danny took one look and told the guys to take it up to the loft there it sat for 10 years, sold to someone refurbishing another make of boat.

he had his own interior shop was the end result with Bill Forestall who was my fishing buddy.(I built flats boats once upon a time)

Same with the Paint in the early days Mike Nicholson, Billy Swartz ,Joey Earls (he did the B1 Boat also) It is how you put it all together and the Boss did a good job,Further I came from Jaguar and the glass crew from Apache.

I have seen all the tooling and there is a lot of specialty jigs and molds for each boat. 1or 2 boats sold and you could have your money back., but 300,000 g's is a lot of money. What molds does Lattitue powerboats have?

Thanks Marc! Are you around this weekend? We hope to meet up with Pat. We should have the 38', 33' and one of Pat's 38's.

The old cobra mold.

a 32' cobra with 2 , 250or 275 verados on a bracket. Fairly light boat, top speed? good combination? Just thinking about a new project.

It's more like 5 or 6 boats sales especially right now if you want to be competitive..and keep your guys just working.... or you could take the approach of one builder..and then your right ..two boat sales and they are paid for.

@ 5500# Total The Max speed 75 MPH from what I see and at 6500# just under 70 MPH maybe 67-68.

That wiring impresses me ! Most people do not understand the talent and manhours that go into those installations.
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I have heard stories from customers when their electronic guys would try to do an installation and were stunned at the factory wiring job in the boat. It would be better just to bring it back and have Danny install it.