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    Quote Originally Posted by flabum1017 View Post
    Trying to figure this one out..... hit a sandbar?
    Aussie built boat, huge waves and the front snapped off, went clear over the boat, missed the crew.
    Unfortunately it went ashore where there was no shelter, not far from where i lived as it happens
    ( there is some more to this failure about something that was glassed in and then removed, heard that from PD himself)
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    Quote Originally Posted by FUJIMO View Post
    ...bum...lots of famous offshore raceboats of yesteryear were bought & shipped & raced in a second life, in ozzie land. this particular wellknown 40' cigarette raceboat was called slingshot. they also usually kept the original american name & paint job down the side of the boats that they imported there. slingshot was a beauty & a runner, both here & there, when campaigned...that is...until it caught fire...
    PD built a few in his factory hence the longer models

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    Quote Originally Posted by FUJIMO View Post
    ...peter dean bought two slingshots - this is the boat that burned...
    the 44' ?
    He moved to the USA with that I thought?
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    Quote Originally Posted by powerabout View Post
    the 44' ?
    He moved to the USA with that I thought?
    ...don't know. i do think i remember something about the "hull" mold being 44 feet long. the decks were always lengthened(or shortened) to whatever hull length boat they were building. this was commonly done by all the offshore builders.

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    ...peter knight - "gone heavy" - 496 injected chevy - 157 m.p.h...

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    What's the story on the President Bush picture in post #2783 ? Who are the other two guys ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikesufka View Post
    What's the story on the President Bush picture in post #2783 ? Who are the other two guys ?

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    Walter Mathieu and Burt Reynolds?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikesufka View Post
    What's the story on the President Bush picture in post #2783 ? Who are the other two guys ?

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    ...dean chenoweth & bernie little. ever hear of them?...
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