Catamaran 50ft. & trailer project! 👀 Look
03-24-2022, 09:02 PM
#1
Catamaran 50ft. & trailer project! 👀 Look
Hey guys!
BLESSED Day
Ready to get Repowered
Ready to get hauled to new destination, backyard, storage facility, work area!
Ready to look same way or better
Stability all around this cat, has the need to do more than those 90 knots
Interior
Interior 2nd
Sharp performance cutting edge lines, makes easy to shopp out waves, like butter and nife
Looking great mood: Runnin
How is it going?
Cash sale!
Selling a:
Year
- 1986
Brand/Make
-Popeye
Length of Vessel
- 50ft
Type
-Race/ performance boat (catamaran) , could be converted into pleasure, with creativity. Has potential.
Trailer
-included with sale, we all know how difficult it is to have one, and with trailer.
Location
-Davie, Fl
Hull material:
-Fiberglass, no structural issue.
… own a piece of performance history one of a kind, rare! speed boat. This boat once finish would be worth $$,$$$,$$$$… its a legend.
Some history for the interested, that’s just the beginning:
“YACHTING; Slick Powerboats Add Safety, Speed
By BARBARA LLOYD
Published: July 26, 1987
Powerboat racing has adopted space age technology, and nowhere is that technology more likely to get a thorough testing than at the national offshore circuit's fifth competition of the season today in Atlantic City.
The race is the Trump's Castle Hotel & Casino Offshore Grand Prix. The boat to watch is the new Popeyes/Diet Coke, a 50-foot speedboat christened yesterday in Atlantic City that is competing against three other boats in the Superboat Class, the largest of the offshore powerboats. With as many as 60 boats racing in 10 classes, Popeyes/Diet Coke will be running on a choppy offshore course regardless of the weather.
Popeyes/Diet Coke looks like a craft that James Bond might drive if he needed to make a getaway on water. It is the first offshore powerboat with a closed cockpit, which is air-conditioned and has enough oxygen gear to keep four people alive for 40 minutes should the boat turn over. Crew members enter through an opening in the roof. Once inside, they are strapped to chairs with six-point harnesses like the ones used by race car drivers. Sophisticated Building
Al Copeland of Jefferson, La., owner of the Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken & Biscuits chain, races the boat. Looking for a builder, he went to Eric Goetz Custom Sailboats, a firm in Bristol, R.I., known for sophisticated construction. Goetz said last week that it took him seven months to build the new boat.
In fashioning the seats, Goetz drew on his experience building safety pods, or seating shells, for one of Copeland's smaller offshore boats. The Popeyes support team tested the units by throwing them into the ocean from an airplane that was moving at 150 miles an hour, at a height of 75 feet. The man inside would have survived the crash, said Goetz.
The new hull is 3,000 pounds lighter than the one on Copeland's Superboat. Its exotic construction, of epoxy resin, carbon fibers and honeycomb core materials, supports a canopy with a carbon-fiber roof and windows of the same material that is used on F-16 fighter jets.
Copeland said that he was as much concerned about boat speed as safety.
''I feel very competitive, and I don't like to lose to anyone,'' he said. He expects speeds of as much as 150 m.p.h. in his new boat. Point Totals
Tom Gentry of Honolulu, racing the 50-foot Gentry Turbo Eagle, is close to Copeland in the offshore point totals. Copeland is the current national and world offshore champion. Also closing in on Copeland is Tim Ciasulli of Basking Ridge, N.J.
The competition is scheduled to begin at 11 A.M. at the boardwalk in Atlantic City. Racing will be along rectangular courses extending south to Longport. The race today is one of four in the Household Finance Corporation Pro Series, the most competitive of eight circuit races. The HFC has put up $75,000 in prize money for today's race. The New Jersey Offshore Powerboat Racing Association has contributed another $25,000 to the purse.
Among the most competitive of the small-boat racers is Lloyd Gootenberg of Boca Raton, Fla. His 30-foot Scarab-built boat, Lucky Strike, has a cruising speed of 85 m.p.h. Gootenberg learned to race speedboats on Jamaica Bay while growing up in Brooklyn. He is world champion in the Sportsman Class, a group that qualifies on a regional level for the national championship. Boats range in size from 21 to 32 feet. They race on local circuits, but are just as competitive as their national counterparts.
Leaders in the other classes are: Spirit of America, raced by John Antonelli of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the Open Class; Auto Armor Special Edition, raced by John D'Elia of Greenwich, Conn., in the Modified Class; Boardwalk, raced by Nicky Cutro of Lake George, N.Y., in the Pro Stock Class; High Risk, raced by Richard Felson of Great Neck, L.I., in the Stock A Class; and Fully Involved, raced by Joe Sorrentino Sr. of Lauderhill, Fla. in the Stock B Class. ---- AROUND LONG ISLAND
More than 200 sailboats, both monohulls and multihulls, are expected to compete Thursday in the 11th annual Around Long Island Regatta. The event, sponsored by Newsday, is scheduled to begin at 1 P.M. at the Old Orchard Lighthouse in lower New York Harbor.
* This article was published by the New York Times* ”
it has the connections for the inboard, this project could easily be transformed for outboards. Not interested in trade.Only cash $$ Boat with trailer
only…
Cash 40K takes it, bring those 40K and it’s your
40K going once, 40K going twice, 40 K for the win and its… lucky winner are you!
Blessings!!
Serious inquired only!
BLESSED Day
Ready to get Repowered
Ready to get hauled to new destination, backyard, storage facility, work area!
Ready to look same way or better
Stability all around this cat, has the need to do more than those 90 knots
Interior
Interior 2nd
Sharp performance cutting edge lines, makes easy to shopp out waves, like butter and nife
Looking great mood: Runnin
How is it going?
Cash sale!
Selling a:
Year
- 1986
Brand/Make
-Popeye
Length of Vessel
- 50ft
Type
-Race/ performance boat (catamaran) , could be converted into pleasure, with creativity. Has potential.
Trailer
-included with sale, we all know how difficult it is to have one, and with trailer.
Location
-Davie, Fl
Hull material:
-Fiberglass, no structural issue.
… own a piece of performance history one of a kind, rare! speed boat. This boat once finish would be worth $$,$$$,$$$$… its a legend.
Some history for the interested, that’s just the beginning:
“YACHTING; Slick Powerboats Add Safety, Speed
By BARBARA LLOYD
Published: July 26, 1987
Powerboat racing has adopted space age technology, and nowhere is that technology more likely to get a thorough testing than at the national offshore circuit's fifth competition of the season today in Atlantic City.
The race is the Trump's Castle Hotel & Casino Offshore Grand Prix. The boat to watch is the new Popeyes/Diet Coke, a 50-foot speedboat christened yesterday in Atlantic City that is competing against three other boats in the Superboat Class, the largest of the offshore powerboats. With as many as 60 boats racing in 10 classes, Popeyes/Diet Coke will be running on a choppy offshore course regardless of the weather.
Popeyes/Diet Coke looks like a craft that James Bond might drive if he needed to make a getaway on water. It is the first offshore powerboat with a closed cockpit, which is air-conditioned and has enough oxygen gear to keep four people alive for 40 minutes should the boat turn over. Crew members enter through an opening in the roof. Once inside, they are strapped to chairs with six-point harnesses like the ones used by race car drivers. Sophisticated Building
Al Copeland of Jefferson, La., owner of the Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken & Biscuits chain, races the boat. Looking for a builder, he went to Eric Goetz Custom Sailboats, a firm in Bristol, R.I., known for sophisticated construction. Goetz said last week that it took him seven months to build the new boat.
In fashioning the seats, Goetz drew on his experience building safety pods, or seating shells, for one of Copeland's smaller offshore boats. The Popeyes support team tested the units by throwing them into the ocean from an airplane that was moving at 150 miles an hour, at a height of 75 feet. The man inside would have survived the crash, said Goetz.
The new hull is 3,000 pounds lighter than the one on Copeland's Superboat. Its exotic construction, of epoxy resin, carbon fibers and honeycomb core materials, supports a canopy with a carbon-fiber roof and windows of the same material that is used on F-16 fighter jets.
Copeland said that he was as much concerned about boat speed as safety.
''I feel very competitive, and I don't like to lose to anyone,'' he said. He expects speeds of as much as 150 m.p.h. in his new boat. Point Totals
Tom Gentry of Honolulu, racing the 50-foot Gentry Turbo Eagle, is close to Copeland in the offshore point totals. Copeland is the current national and world offshore champion. Also closing in on Copeland is Tim Ciasulli of Basking Ridge, N.J.
The competition is scheduled to begin at 11 A.M. at the boardwalk in Atlantic City. Racing will be along rectangular courses extending south to Longport. The race today is one of four in the Household Finance Corporation Pro Series, the most competitive of eight circuit races. The HFC has put up $75,000 in prize money for today's race. The New Jersey Offshore Powerboat Racing Association has contributed another $25,000 to the purse.
Among the most competitive of the small-boat racers is Lloyd Gootenberg of Boca Raton, Fla. His 30-foot Scarab-built boat, Lucky Strike, has a cruising speed of 85 m.p.h. Gootenberg learned to race speedboats on Jamaica Bay while growing up in Brooklyn. He is world champion in the Sportsman Class, a group that qualifies on a regional level for the national championship. Boats range in size from 21 to 32 feet. They race on local circuits, but are just as competitive as their national counterparts.
Leaders in the other classes are: Spirit of America, raced by John Antonelli of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the Open Class; Auto Armor Special Edition, raced by John D'Elia of Greenwich, Conn., in the Modified Class; Boardwalk, raced by Nicky Cutro of Lake George, N.Y., in the Pro Stock Class; High Risk, raced by Richard Felson of Great Neck, L.I., in the Stock A Class; and Fully Involved, raced by Joe Sorrentino Sr. of Lauderhill, Fla. in the Stock B Class. ---- AROUND LONG ISLAND
More than 200 sailboats, both monohulls and multihulls, are expected to compete Thursday in the 11th annual Around Long Island Regatta. The event, sponsored by Newsday, is scheduled to begin at 1 P.M. at the Old Orchard Lighthouse in lower New York Harbor.
* This article was published by the New York Times* ”
it has the connections for the inboard, this project could easily be transformed for outboards. Not interested in trade.Only cash $$ Boat with trailer
only…
Cash 40K takes it, bring those 40K and it’s your
40K going once, 40K going twice, 40 K for the win and its… lucky winner are you!
Blessings!!
Serious inquired only!
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distantthunder (03-25-2022)
03-25-2022, 07:13 AM
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03-25-2022, 07:23 AM
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I should have been a little more clear. What manufacture is the hull or who built it? Looks like it’s been altered.
Btw I just watched the 87 Trump castle race in Atlantic City. Donald did a quick interview near the end. 😂.
Btw I just watched the 87 Trump castle race in Atlantic City. Donald did a quick interview near the end. 😂.
Last edited by getrdunn; 03-25-2022 at 08:15 AM.
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03-25-2022, 07:38 AM
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“Looking for a builder, he went to Eric Goetz Custom Sailboats “ 
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03-25-2022, 07:40 AM
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1983ScarabIII (03-25-2022)
03-31-2022, 01:49 PM
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First post but been lurking for awhile. Always was a huge fan of the big Popeyes boats as a kid, and joke with a buddy about restoring this one or the 50' Cougar after I acquire truckloads of throwaway money. We always wondered how those two hulls would fare with modern quad 1100s or 1350s, and modern props. Wish there was more video and testing info on those hulls, as I recall the team stuck the 900hp Fords in the big Cougar for a race, and put Arneson's on it. Just need to wait for those truckloads of cash....
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