Cat wanted

roofer · 19-12-2005, 09:55 PM

Im in the market for a cat 24 foot upto 30 ish without engines, prefer fully rigged to take twin efi's, anybody know of anything in the uk?

scottyboy · 19-12-2005, 10:13 PM

Nautique on here has a race cat he doesnt use much! Not sure if it will take twins or not you'll have to ask him! Its cliff smiths old cat! Sure mark said cliff had it at 86 with one 2.5 offshore! Drop him a pm!

Jon Fuller · 19-12-2005, 10:40 PM

Cliffs old cat is well old now, plenty of aggro.

kiwiracer · 20-12-2005, 07:27 AM

old plywood cats give nothing but grief, take some advice, be prepared to spend some coin and get a good boat

K9 racing · 20-12-2005, 07:27 PM

heres a pic...

K9 racing · 20-12-2005, 07:27 PM

here's the one i ment to post

Jon Fuller · 20-12-2005, 07:30 PM

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Originally posted by Jon Fuller
Cliffs old cat is well old now, plenty of aggro.

When I posted this, I was assuming you were refering the 'Simply the best' class II cat, (ex 'Fays One', as Roofer said he wanted to fit 'twin EFI's'

BREN · 20-12-2005, 08:40 PM

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Originally posted by K9 racing
here's the one i ment to post

seen that one roll a couple of times at littlehampton regatta

scottyboy · 20-12-2005, 08:45 PM

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Originally posted by BREN
seen that one roll a couple of times at littlehampton regatta

Think Mark said its abit of a handfull turning since cliff put the canopy on it!

scottyboy · 20-12-2005, 08:46 PM

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Originally posted by Jon Fuller
When I posted this, I was assuming you were refering the 'Simply the best' class II cat, (ex 'Fays One', as Roofer said he wanted to fit 'twin EFI's'

Simply the best is long gone! That was a nice cat! I remember cliff takin mystic meg out in that off of ( I think) brighton pier?

Jon Fuller · 20-12-2005, 09:24 PM

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Originally posted by scottyboy
Think Mark said its abit of a handfull turning since cliff put the canopy on it!

It doesn't need a turn to fall over, It barrell rolled right next to me, in a straight line, flat out at LA about 4 years back.

NAUTIQUE · 20-12-2005, 09:40 PM

HEY HEY got my pic on boatmad

NAUTIQUE · 20-12-2005, 09:52 PM

Cliff rolled it about 4 years ago cos the dopy git didn't check his hydraulic steering, as he was going round so every turn after a hose had split it pumped out oil untill it ran out down the straight. He reconed he was doing 85-86 mph. I rolled it on a righthand turn having missed the turn buoy off Rustington not going as quick but still a kin interesting experiance. If any one needs a wood boat builder I have one handy at the back of the work shop, put both sides back on tub humping after Cliffs roll and you would not know the difference. Probably get it back on the water next year if I get the time, it is a fast boat----in a straight line and very good in the rough, buildt for longer offshore racing and not the shorter courses of today.

K9 racing · 21-12-2005, 09:27 PM

here u go then....

roofer · 21-12-2005, 09:38 PM

Im after one without a canopy and something that will take 2 modified efi's, no disrespect but i dont think an old wood cat will do.

Ben · 21-12-2005, 09:47 PM

There should be a couple of old 25 Cougar glassfibre cats lying around.

I believe Adam's brother had one 'Ambrow Trailers' that ran in 4 ltr and there was another known as 'Tropic Heat' or something like that which was owned by Mark Shepherd and powered by 2.4s.

Maybe someone knows where they are.

Jon Fuller · 22-12-2005, 09:15 AM

How about 'Wing Ding', whatever happened to that?

PJC would know...

Woody · 22-12-2005, 09:56 AM

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Originally posted by Ben
There should be a couple of old 25 Cougar glassfibre cats lying around.

I believe Adam's brother had one 'Ambrow Trailers' that ran in 4 ltr and there was another known as 'Tropic Heat' or something like that which was owned by Mark Shepherd and powered by 2.4s.

Maybe someone knows where they are.

Adams brothers boat "Ambrow Tailers" had a bad stuff at one of the Bournemouth races in 1991 and lost its front end. I know he had it rebuilt but I seem to remember that after that he did not race it again, or if he did not that often after that.

The day of that race was a day of attrician I remember splitpin and myself going out to race and throwing the bush in our prop and unable to get on the plane so we had to limp back to RMYC, then act as recovery for the boats that fell foul to the rough seas that day.

Phantomfanny came flying in taking on water due to their bow tank being rupture and them forgetting to shut the valve. Adams brother Scott's boat came back being towed by a trawler it took a dozen of us to get it on to the trailer then 3 support vehicles to pull it up the slip as it was so full of water. I also seem to remember Mike Sheppard sustaining some damage to "which way know ?" as well.

I have a suspicion that the declared winner that day might have been Pennpromo.

scottyboy · 22-12-2005, 01:30 PM

Simply the best! With cliff driving and dave tyrell navigating!

phantom18 · 22-12-2005, 05:08 PM

Roofer i dont think you should get a boat with two engines, you keep blowing the engine up on your phantom, no wonder hutchy goes on holiday a lot !!!!!!!!!!