Jordan and Mike ,

What a great story, and to bring back "Still Crazy" back to her glory days. its so great to see so many talented people willing to help with this project. great job everyone.

i had the pleasure in the early 80s to co race a 30 Velocity out of NJ with the late Jeff Galenti. it was called "Airbrook". We were told it suppose to be the first V bottom that Gene Whipp broke 100 mph with. It had a 1 inch aluminum plate covering the transome. It was converted back to TRS drive when we got it. Was a great boat to race.

Best of luck with your Project

Thank you
jim

Hey guys, classic or original is the way to go.

I agree Guardado!

very nice paint work!! can't wait to see this one shine again!!

We're definitely going to be repainting the boat exactly as it was! However, with the help of Chris and Eddie it may look better than it ever did!

There may be another StillCrazy in the future with a modernized paint scheme on it (when we can afford a 50' mystic or 388 Skater as a second boat) :evilb: but this boat will always be the way it was :flag:

I saw this boat at TnT when they were rigging it and all I can say was it's amazing. Great job Guardado!!!!

like the way you think:drink:

Wow how did I miss this thread! Love projects like this.

Nice! StillCrazy circa 201? ... 388 Skater or 50' Mystic or 48' MTI or 50' Nortech? Go for it guys!

:eekdrop::panda::woohoo::greenchainsaw::woohoo::pa nda::eekdrop:

That is stunning! It is nice to see a proper restoration.
Steve

whats going in it for power?

Mr. Roberts
 

After the crash in Key West the boat was repaired and fitted with a huge roll bar system in an effort to protect the occupants. That would be the biggest give away. I can tell you if I see any photos if it;s the boat.
Thanks, Cadillac

I will make time this week to find some cool pictures of before and afters of some restores Chris and I have done recently.

Hello Again Everyone!

Mike and I made some progress on the boat again this weekend. First we made the trip over to Marine Performance to pick up the bolster, hatches and tabs. Steve's upholsterer is going to be remaking the bolster and his glass guys have some minor repair work to do on the hatches. I'm going to have the tabs sandblasted so we can repaint them like new.

After a quick pow-wow with John on rigging and gauges, it was back to the Velocity Factory to get to work! :signs069: Steve's guys have been busy digging out the rotted wood and have already glassed in two new floors in the cockpit. Steve and I went into planning mode to figure out the final direction we're going to go with the fuel tanks.

Here's Steve's got his calculator out figuring out how many gallons we can get:
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Apparently Mike can't hold the camera level :lolhit:
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Chris Dilling met us at John's then followed us over to Velocity to take some final measurements, polish a section of the boat to try and get a color match and then show us newbies how to sand without screwing up the boat:D
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Then it was cleaning time as we needed to get all dirt and grime off the boat before sanding. Thankfully, we didn't need anyone to show us how to do this at least!
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She looked pretty good after a bath
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It was definitely bittersweet sanding off the paint that had been on the boat since the beginning, we just had to keep imagining how good it will look in the end.
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After a slow start we started to make some progress to at least get one of the sides mostly done on day 1.
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We got a nice early start on Sunday and knocked out the other side.
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By the time we got done using the boards our arms were like jello!
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Thankfully, we were smart enough to leave the deck to last, which was much easier on the arms!
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Hopefully by now you can tell how much this project means to us...but if you need further proof just check out Mike's side:
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We we able to get most of the deck done before our bodies said no more. It was pretty cool to see the old "M" designation under the paint, which was the boat's original class.
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Overall, it was another rewarding weekend working on StillCrazy. We are so fortunate to have such great people helping us out and showing us what we need to do. Thank you Steve, Chris and John for helping to keep the ball rolling:ernaehrung004:

Mike and I will be heading down to Key West for World's this coming weekend. Hopefully we can get the opportunity to meet some of you that have posted and puts some faces to names!

-Jordan Poppa

Wow...
 

Guy's.... my arms hurt just looking at all the work you did this weekend. I admire your ambition :drink::drink::drink:

Have fun in Key West...

imax

Awesome job guys and thanks for the updates. I see Steve is in the thick of it , you could not ask or a better man to be helping with this job

hey good luck with the project and sure it will come out great

Great job guys. Looks like it is coming along good for you. Keep it up. Cant wait too see the finished product.

looking good guys.......keep up the great work......also can't wait to see the finished product.......

Lots of work but will be well worth it when it's done. Gotta love the old 30' Velocitys

Wow, you guys cooking. Should be on the water in no time

hooked
 

Ive never read an entire thread before. Great story:drink:

Great story

no news?!?! you guys must be hard at work...keep it up. i, like others i am sure, am keeping an eye on this thread...

maybe I could slip in another hull and they would just keep sanding away?:party-smiley-004:

Great progress! It's looking great so far guys. Keep up the great work, & keep us updated whenever possible! :ernaehrung004:

Nice talking with you last night good luck with the project. My drives would look great on the boat. I will talk to you soon.

I talked to John Pompi in Key West he is excited about your project.

It was great to meet you guys and have you join us at our table for the Sunday races. If I make it back to FL in Decmber, ill stop and check out the project.

great thread cant wait to see it painted

I know it's been mentioned, but great thread, stellar story, and wonderful to see her slowly coming back to life. I'm looking forward to seeing more of this documentation and the final results! :cool:

What's going in for power?

since you guys seem to be loaded....put in twin billet aluminum big inch sbc, na with oh i'd say 10.5 to 11 comp. pump gas, dry exhaust. big cams so the engines talk to you at idle :ernaehrung004: got to have jesel valvetrain too

Hey everybody, we were in Key West this past weekend hoping to meet some people that have posted on this thread and some others that John Pompi and Steve Stepp could introduce us to. We were a little disappointed that nobody from OSO showed up to Island Dogs on Friday (that we could tell) so we didn't meet many people from the board. Steve introduced us to Doug Seyler of Shorline Marine on Sunday, who let us watch the race with him on Sunday from his private table on the pier, one of the best spots in the house!!! It was great to meet you Doug and we'd love to show you the boat if you make it down here.

We were also lucky enough to meet Eddie Guardado and his brother, who came in last minute to work on the CMS boat. They both were great and took time to talk with us and answer the 100 questions that Mike and I always have anytime we meet someone in the boat industry:) We have to finalize everything but so far the plan is to work with Chris Dilling of Grafik EFX and Eddie to paint the boat. They both are willing to work with us and teach us how to do everything as well as let us do as much of the labor as possible to hopefully cut down on costs. Mike and I can't wait to get to work.:drink:

Don't worry, progress was still being made on the boat over the weekend as Steve's glass guys at the Velocity Factory were hard at work. Looks like they are pretty much done with all the repairs, with just a little more work to do smoothing out the outside of the transom after filling all the holes. The gas tanks have also been ordered and should be ready by the beginning of December. Looks like we're going to have a rear 119 gallon tank and a front 72 gallon tank so we should have a pretty good range.

As far as power and drives, all is still up in the air unfortunately. I've been concentrating on drives first as we need them to be able to set up the transom and x-dimension we're going to run. Ideally we'd like to have a pair of Bravo XR Sportmasters with ITS to keep a clean transom. However, dollars are limited and I need to make sure we keep the ball rolling with the glass, tanks, bolsters, trailer reconfiguring and paint coming up. I've been searching everywhere for the best deal on second hand drives, which is where I found John who posted above (he's got a great pair of XR's), but I need to find a good deal on transom assemblies to get a number for the whole package.

Engine wise, if money was no issue we would just put in 525's and call it a day. They put out the perfect power, are blue to match the boat:D and would probably run for a long time with very low maintenance. However, they're pricey even second hand so more realistically a pair of older carbed 500HP's or 500 EFI's would be great, or even 502's. Steve says that StillCrazy will run into the 90's with 500 per side, which is plenty fast for us:evilb:

Overall, Mike and I are just ecstatic to have the boat and be able to actually do some work on it ourselves. John asked me the other day if I had a budget on what it was going to cost when we got the boat. I told him "nope, it doesn't really matter what it costs as we will see this project through no matter what." How long it takes us is entirely dependent on cost and the good thing is that I'm 28 and Mike is 25 and time is on our side. I can honestly say that I have never worked on a project that has meant more to me than this. I hope everyone reading this gets a chance in their lifetimes to do something like this, or work on something that means so much to them, because it is so amazingly rewarding. On top of that, it has been incredible to see the generosity and feel the support of those we have been fortunate to meet so far or who have posted well wishes on this thread. Thanks again to all of you out there.

I won't have any pictures for a couple weeks as Mike and I are headed up to Ohio for Thanksgiving and for my grandpa's 90th birthday. No one in the family knows about the boat yet, so we're planning to suprise them all with pics at his party. I wish we were further along and could show more progress before we told them, but it's been near impossible to keep it a suprise for so long so this is as good a time to fill them in as any!

Have a great Thanksgiving everybody, we'll be back soon:ernaehrung004:

-Jordan

Haha, loaded...no, motivated...yes!

you guys are awesome! i am living vicariously through this thread. oh, and i was being sarcastic about you guys being loaded. my apologies....

good stuff guys! this boat is going to be badass!! tom a. posted a thread about selling his its/xr stuff. you might wanna send him a pm!

If it were mine I would make it as close to the way it used to be as far as engines and drives. Maybe a little upgrade to newer ignition and stuff like that.

How about this shot! Thanx to Smooth One of taking the picture of a picture for me.... And a scan of the big boat.

Great story/project, cant wait to see the finished project! I went through my boat (not as in depth as what yall are having to do) but I know the feeling,excitement, and the passion that goes into a restore. It will pay off in the end!!

Hi Jordan,
I've been told, though never made certain , that the top boat in that promo pic at the velocity booth was mine. Thats the paint it came with when a friend of mine bought it in 89 through Greg Gluck and brought to mass where I've had it after him for the last 12 yrs. It's almost identical to yours though has gone through many changes over the years. I also was at the miami show in 08 I think and met Steve for the second time and his plant manager invited me to Sanford to test and dial in the boat.
I was also told that my boat was used as a promo boat for Lowenbrau, hence the bluish tint in the paint back then. Any info I have no proof or 1st hand knowledge of my boats history but one thing is for sure. It was built as a emty race boat with Hawk 550's in it and the set up is or was almost identical as yours, even the interior, excect the wheel is on the rt and thottles in middle. I wish I was better at posting pix I'd send you some. Good luck with the boat. Even with the trs's mine goes pretty good and has served me well, though I must admit it's getting old on me. The fact that you have a great story behind it is terrific and inspiring. Have a good day, Brianhttp://gofastboat