24 foot rabco wild cat

[PARKER RABE]

this is a boat we built in 1985 at rabco , we only built one , it was a pop off of a sanger ally cat , i just found some pictures of it , and thought i would shar them with everybody , pictures suck , but its all i could do ...with my cell phone......the boat was here for about 10 years running around the beaches in the late 80s , then it just dissapeared, i heard it went up north. 20years ago . be cool to know where it is now. it was powered by 2.4s and ran in the low 90s

[Mr. Action]

to think a nice riding boat like a 23 sanger all that trouble to pop 1 you guys should have made a nicer looking deck.

i to this day wouldnt mind popping 1 but theres a lot more 20 sangers aroung then 23,s:thumbsup:

[PARKER RABE]

haha 28 came from corsa , 35 came from cigerette, 41 came from tempest. wild cat came from sanger , , streaker came from hondo, and the magum came from arrnow.... so no the werent exact pops , there were changed somewhat.

[JIM WEST]

Hey Hot Shot Merc, I will agree with you. Randy rabe did a lot for high perf boating and was always tring very hard to make things better, faster,and safer.I would hang out as a young teen at his shop and learn all that i could.Thanks to randy(parkers dad) and all the rabco gang I now have a fast boat and al:thumbsup:ways will.

[eggsuckindog_]

anyone I will ever know? if you only knew...



Ya thats what he said, and we know, its you thats doesn't - just say'in

I don't think Cig ever built the 35 with side consoles but it was a nice boat with 2 300 V8's, more fun than the guys 40 Fountain actually

[slowverado]

you have no idea who I know or what they have done...

[eggsuckindog_]

you have no idea who I know or what they have done...


Nope, but thats why what was said -was, that would be a very small group

[eggsuckindog_]

You are a piker - case closed


pop quiz - who is Carl Mosely and what did he do?

no google

[Corona Mike]

Fact is, Randy Raby probably did more for the "normal" weekend hot boater than all the other boat builders put to gether. Guy always had time to help answer questions, always had just about anything you needed to set-up a new boat when dealers couldn't get it...engines, gearcases, props., etc. I had the privilege of knowing Randy for a very long time, and can say nothing but good things about him. I knew Randy purchaced EVERY MOLD that EVERY BOAT Rabco Powerboats ever built. WAY different than some of the boat builders that these p!ssin contests are about. Skrew-um Park, don't let that D!ck Weed bother you! Mike T.:cheers::cheers:

[warren]

Alone the fact he was numero uno with dick pope for bare foot skiing i know u didnt know that at cypress gardens u have no idea about randy boat mauf was only 1 of his many things i knew him very well till the day he passed get off the subject of randy rabe u have no clue/red rocket out

[AZMIDLYF]

Parker, is this the boat you showed a pic of sitting on a trailer in some yard a while back?

[PARKER RABE]

yep still there , its in tampa , i knocked on the door and talked to the owners mom and he wont sell it, one of the motors is locked up , been sitting for 20 years.

[PARKER RABE]

Picture...

[PARKER RABE]

Sad to see it. the trailer is sunk down in the sand its been sitting so long all the tires are flat

[PARKER RABE]

it has about 10 tarps on it....

[PARKER RABE]

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[PARKER RABE]

just broke my hart too see it like that we sold it in 1987

[PARKER RABE]

i lost track of the boat for 25 years , i thought it went up north, then member on here saw it , and told me where it was in tampa., thank god to our big family on here

[AZMIDLYF]

That's horrible. Did you tell him it was a part of your family history?

I also wanted to ask you about the changes made to the Sanger hull. It looks like the whole transom was altered. The Sanger sponson bottoms came back past the motor transom mounting area and the Wild Cat seems to be flush with it.

[PARKER RABE]

man i dont remember the mods , told the owners mom my dad built it, and that was it.

[PARKER RABE]

gave her my card and told her i would buy it, never heard from anyone.

[delawarerick]

Parker I wish I had met your dad all his boats are cool I bought an old mod vp hull and it has been yuppified not alot left and more of a project then I wanted. Feel assured that your old boat made one hell of impression on the owner and that is probably why he won't part with it.

[PARKER RABE]

no idea rick , ive drove buy it a few times , no one has ever contacted me.

[PARKER RABE]

ill go pull it outta there tonight if the price is right:)

[AZMIDLYF]

I want to get a hold of a 23 and change the deck/transom to look better and handle twins out behind the sponsons.

[delawarerick]

I have a friend that bought a 23 sanger off the board and put twin 2.4 it is a blast to ride not the fastest but the motors are the cause they are grenades.

[AZMIDLYF]

They eat up the chop though

[dogeatdog]

ill go pull it outta there tonight if the price is right:)

Ill go with ya, lets go Saturday and do some convincing.