was hoping 4 help finding history on the boat i just got.. can someone help. i cant post pics here either.need help boat is really cool.just need a history lesson so please help. 32ft cobra with twin 200 mercs. i wanna post pics so you can see. thanx galeforce

that's a great hull ....sorry i don't have any pics but i will tell you that's where the 33 power play came from ....great rough water boat...congrats

mike

i have pics just cant post.. too big. need help

That boat has a great heritage, going all the way back to Don Aronow's Cigarette, which was a Cary 32.

Here is a shot of Jean Claude Simon drivng a 32 foot Cary ...Beep Beep. This is the boat that made Wayne Vickers famous.

You can find more info on www.historicraceboats.com

thanx for the input. this is great. wanna post pics and hope that some will say hey i kno that boat..

Posting this for galeforce

thanx for the pic post pantera1

That's one heck of a hull.

What color(s) is it? Two tone brown? Ed

yea two browns . sweet old 80s colors

thinkin of selling or trade for something smaller 22-24 ft range. but i think i would regret it. it needs work but it is worth it .. i think

I really like that you have so good knowledge of old classics!!!!!
My prev boat 312 Stinger -89 was a JC Simon design.
What other boats was hs design?

Thanks, and let us know when you have some news of your new line.


Mange
Sweden.

yea i am really happy about the history lesson about my boat. thanx keep it comin

32 Cobra, designed by JC is the same as the 33 Powerplay... very diffrerent to the Coyote 34. The Coyote 38, owned by Claud Tubianna of Islamorada was the boat used to make the original big sonic mold in 79. The mold, while 38', used a dam to make the original 33's.... which is why the boats rid bow heavy.. there is a company in NJ called Avante that is building a 34 similar to the coyote if not the same hull... may even be the same mold.

Dan Weistien race a 34 Coyote called... Powerplay in the mid 80's. It was a great running boat.

The main difference between the 32 cary and the 32 cobra was the beam... Cobra was 10" narrower at the gw and 7.5" narrower at the chine.

Quoted by Mange:

I really like that you have so good knowledge of old classics!!!!!
My prev boat 312 Stinger -89 was a JC Simon design.
What other boats was hs design?


That is the first I've ever heard of that. CC got the stinger patterns from excallibur. Farmers maybe? Not familiar with JC involved at CC though.. Gus Anastossi for sure though..

MidOcean, thanks for the info about 33 Powerplay!!
Iam think of a 33 Powerplay, does it handle water well??

In my original CC-Stinger broschyr 1988 its typed "Hulldesign by Jean Claude Simon"

Thanks,
Mange

another

thanx for help with pics. just wish i knew more about what she was ....

What are the first 3-4 letters of the VIN #

galeforce22:

check out this old thread of mine - lots of Cobra & Coyote pics as well as a little JC Simon history... Someone above said the coyote mold was created in 1979 - actually it was 1978 - Simon was commissioned by my father to design it.


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Attached are a cople of 32 Cobra pics - that's my dad (Charlie McCarthy) and JC Simon in the boat.

wow thats awesome..thanx for all of this really cool. first three letters are cob. but they are like hand written in the hull, mite not be authentic

these are the hull numbers.. COB32P81582* was really hard to get a title here in mass. the environmentals had to come out and issue me a new hull number cause the old one didnt have enuff numbers.. pain in the ... but i did get it done so ..if anyone knows how to find original owners through hull id please let me kno. i ran merc numbers and came up with a local guy named Ted Turner but i dont know if he was original owner from beginning and he didnt help as much as i wanted. i want original pics so i can restore. to perf. thanx...

What is the MSV? Is that the model? Who built it?

kinda weird my initials are NRG

Hmmm I realize this isnt it but its all CG has
http://www.uscgboating.org/recalls/m...il.aspx?id=COB

Hey heres the Company with Jean Cimon
http://www.uscgboating.org/recalls/m...il.aspx?id=HCN

thanx pantera1 now i gotta find a buyer for this beast. know anyone lookin to buy or trade something smaller let me kno. more pics on screamandfly.com but its under 32ft manta, thats what i thought it was

If its a Cobra and an outboard I would suggest you have a RARE piece there !

Deck shot