New 30' Rage(Activator) Build - FIrst one with Twin OB's

[Gladhe8er]

Gladhe8er once again brother absolutely love the boat and all your the decisions to personalize it. My question may be hard to answer with all the truly custom fabrication, Painting, & one off rigging from scratch however bare with me if you can. Once you had the boat on trailer and all your custom parts in house and motors mocked upped how long did the rigging take? Thanks again

After it came back from Mitcher T rigging should have taken 6 weeks. It took 5 months. Some parts were backordered. They ran into some problems getting the steering mounted(first boat growing pains)...they had to have some parts refabbed multiple times. Wish it would have been done earlier but we are happy with the end result.

[Oceanrunner1]

After it came back from Mitcher T rigging should have taken 6 weeks. It took 5 months. Some parts were backordered. They ran into some problems getting the steering mounted(first boat growing pains)...they had to have some parts refabbed multiple times. Wish it would have been done earlier but we are happy with the end result.

Hey the end product speaks for itself and under your circumstance with all the custom fabrication and a true rigging job hole cuts wiring I'm sure it was justified. Heck probably take you a couple weeks alone just to install that monster stereo!!!!!

[RobF]

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whats the relationship between Rage and Activator?

who owns Activator?

who owns Rage?

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Mark is the grandfather of it, he sold some molds to that guy in sweden who is "activator"
mark only sells under Rage now

[quicklt1]

beautiful...
(not a fan of painted motor covers though)...

[Gladhe8er]

Mark is the grandfather of it, he sold some molds to that guy in sweden who is "activator"
mark only sells under Rage now

Yes, Mange in Sweden has the 27 mold.

[Brabender]

Love it!!!

Congrats. Very Impressive work all around

[RobF]

Yes, Mange in Sweden has the 27 mold.

I thought maybe he had the 22 mold too

[Rayzor]

Beautiful rig! Very cool big-water alternative to all the outboard cats in that size range. I'd way rather be in that rig than my 28 Skater once it gets over 3' or so.........

[Oceanrunner1]

After it came back from Mitcher T rigging should have taken 6 weeks. It took 5 months. Some parts were backordered. They ran into some problems getting the steering mounted(first boat growing pains)...they had to have some parts refabbed multiple times. Wish it would have been done earlier but we are happy with the end result.

what type of steering did you decided to go with?

[Gladhe8er]

what type of steering did you decided to go with?

That's a good question...not sure

[Coryc]

It has IMCO

[Oceanrunner1]

It has IMCO

nice I'm a huge fan of Imco steering have it on my own boat.

[Gladhe8er]

It ran 87 today at 5900 rpm with the 28P props. They are going to drop the motors an inch and put 26's on it to see what happens. Motors are still breaking in. merc rep says we wont see full performance until we hit 10 hours and get the oil out of the gas tanks.

[PARKER RABE]

Good to see your on the boards my dad raced with your dad for many years , he was racing a 35 rabco called four runner, I had a cougar cub all painted like the Michlob light boat , I remember you black duck cougar cub too , good people in that class then , country boys , sheer terror , love it , then was the Sassoon boat. Man o war , good times I still have tons of tapes , I know I have some black duck stuff with the old 2.4 , why did they change the name to boardwalk??

[Gladhe8er]

Good to see your on the boards my dad raced with your dad for many years , he was racing a 35 rabco called four runner, I had a cougar cub all painted like the Michlob light boat , I remember you black duck cougar cub too , good people in that class then , country boys , sheer terror , love it , then was the Sassoon boat. Man o war , good times I still have tons of tapes , I know I have some black duck stuff with the old 2.4 , why did they change the name to boardwalk??

We still have the Black Duck Cougar Cub...it sits outside the restaurant.

I think I remember seeing pics of Four Runner...4 outboards, right? I believe that boat and the ones you mentioned were in M class. My Dad was in P class with boats like Thriller, ACR Spirit, Docksider, Triton, Enterprise, Special Edition(Shadow Cat, not the Chris Cat), Smokey & the Bandit, Sunkist, Fox, The Galleon, Manta, etc.

When my Dad sold it in 1985 to Nicky Cutro from Lake George, NY the name was changed to Boardwalk, which was Nicky and his Dads restaurant up on the lake.