2024 Cigarette 52' Thunder

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by jrj3rd

...but with a $3M dollar boat I don't think fuel price is the first concern

Rich people are frugal, and sometimes to a fault. I briefly dated a guy that had a 38' Fountain offshore speedboat like the one below. It never left the lift due to fuel costs. He also had a Testarossa he never drove because, "miles affect value."

He's living proof that you can know the price of everything, yet the value of nothing.

[speeder]

You can say that again!

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by Dixie

The Bahama basin occasionally has a depth of 30 feet, but it plunges more than 6,000 feet beyond that.
Still, there are some that make the trek via jet ski. I guess their reasoning is, drowning in 30' vs 6,000' is moot

Think I can just see my childhood house if I zoom in enough

Cigarette offshore boats were a huge influence on me, watched in awe as the Miami- Nassau race boats skimmed across the sea at insane speeds under Paradise Island bridge in Nassau, around my birthday over a few summers

No car racing in the Bahamas so watching powerboats racing once a year fueled my passion of wanting to work on fast and cool stuff

Dreamed of working at Thunder Row, never happened but I did have two unsuccessful interviews with Victory Racing, a Class 1 offshore world championship winning team in Dubai, UAE

Even after too many decades I still have a Class 1 offshore powerboat racing itch that I need to scratch

[HobieMarty]

I remember swimming at a kid's house when we lived in Destin, and his Dad had a Cigarette boat. I knew enough at age 11 that it was a special boat and asked what engines were in it and the kid said twin 454s and I was like, wow, I'll bet it really hauls a$$, and the kid says he didn't know because they used it for fishing. I was like, what the heck???

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[pwd72s]

Guess I'm a raghead when it comes to yachts...remember the days when I dreamed of having a Freedom 40 aft cockpit. No stays or shrouds to mess with...and fuel? The wind is free, man.

(edit) I've only actually seen one when in Ulu Deniz Turkey, it near friend Stan Mott's boat. Just liked it's lines...a lot. "Blue Swanny" on it's stern, flying a USA flag and a Turkey courtesy flag. That was Sept., 1980...little did we know we'd soon be fleeing a coup....but that's another story.

[KFC911]

Reggie Fountain knocked on my apt. door one hot, humid, summer afternoon back in '82....

Asked me to turn my stereo down .... I was blasting Rush's 2112

I went 74 mph in my bass boat once .... ONCE! I too prefer a more leisurely 4 knots under sail

[porsche tech]

A lot of stuff to go wrong on both those boats. (Electrically opening floorboards??). Probably wouldn’t be much time to use it as it would continually be somewhere getting repaired. It looked pretty good, brand new just after a detail job…imagine after it sat in the marina for a couple of weeks. You’d need a three man crew just to keep the thing clean.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by porsche tech

A lot of stuff to go wrong on both those boats. (Electrically opening floorboards??). Probably wouldn’t be much time to use it as it would continually be somewhere getting repaired. It looked pretty good, brand new just after a detail job…imagine after it sat in the marina for a couple of weeks. You’d need a three man crew just to keep the thing clean.

Bingo..electrics and salt water...disasters waiting to heppen.