Hi, I just bought a 1980 Pantera 24 sport. I love the old school look of the Panteras. It reminds me of a mineature Apache or Flat Deck Cigarette.

I've seen a lot of good info on the Panteraboats.com web site but I was wondering if anyone has any more good history or photos? I'm curious about the history on the hull shape and additional photos of Pantera race boats over the years.

Thanks!

you have to do a search on the pantera owners forum for the thread Jo has w/ tons of old pics.
As far as hull history, it seems kinda an unknown, with lots of similar hulls from different builders from the 70s.

Thanks. I actually sat down one afternoon and went through almost all of the Pantera section. Some great stuff.

Since I've recently had some people that I would have expected to be pretty knowlagable act like I was talking about a car when I mentioned my boat, I thought I'd see what kind of info there was outside the "cult"!

The hull shape did make me curious. Specifically why the Pantera is such a good rough water boat in comparison to other similar hulls (at least based on internet commentary). I wondered where the origin for the shape was.

Brownie may correct me but most boats that look like yours, including the 38 Cig and 41 Apache, came from the 27 Magnum........here's Don in about 1968.

Here's an early 70's 24 Cigarette.....

BTW.......nice looking Pantera......

Pantera was a plug that was made from scratch by Pepe ( Pantera's owner)..He designed it all

Mike

If you compare the Pantera 28 hull to Cig 27 and the other hulls that was developed from the Cig there is not much that is unsimilar, just look at e.g the cancave freeboards and the distance between the "hull steps". My experience says that it's origin is the Cig 27 and Pantera updated and improved it to there own specifikations.

28pantera's based on a 28mag.
But the 24 is 7ft beam.

Thanks for the compliment. I got my boat from Ironman here on OSO. It's a great boat.

I'd heard a rumor/offhand comment that the 24' was derived from a Chris Craft hull. The magnum/cig connection seems more plausible, but I'm not that familiar with the CC line after it went to fiberglass...

I guess as far as a straight 24 degree V hull most of them are going to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.