boatnuts

Anyone know of where the deck mold for the early 80's version may have gotten to or where there may be an old deck?

FeverMike

Cigarette has the deck and hull mold. It was resuced out of the "graveyard" nest to the old Cigarette plant back in 2000. Steve Miklos had a 24 Firefox built for APBA F1. It is not do so well and was turned into a pleasure boat. Adib Mastery now has this boat.

boatnuts

I may be mistaken but I believe the Firefox is narrower than original 70's and early 80's 24 foot Cigarette which was 7' 10"

Biggus

A 24' Banana Boat is the same hull and deck as an early 24 Cigarette. Contact Charlie McCarthy in the Banana forum. He bought the molds from Don Aronow many years ago.

FeverMike

Hummm, not sure guys about the Firefox but this was the boat that Miklos had Cig build for F1. It was very much like a Corsa but we found that the Corsa would out run it easy. The Firefox was a little wider than the 7' something beam of a Corsa. I think the Firefox was around a 8' beam.I was unaware that Cigarette had 2 different mold for a 24' boat. I thought the 24 Firefox was there 1 and only.

Stormrider

There was a 24 cig in the classifieds asking big $.
And the 24 banana came from the 24 cig which was mid 70s.
Ask Charlie McCarthy 'top banana'... he'll know.

boatnuts

I have a 1976 that I wish to rebuild. The hull is in great shape but the decks are a disaster.

Sean

There were at least 3 decks that i know of for the 24 hull...and from what i can tell, there was only one 24 hull.

1-flat teak deck with windshield boat had twin i/o - 70s
2-flat fiberglass deck with windshield single engine boat - early 80s
3-firefox deck with integrated faring - mid-late 80s and then finally miklos' boat

Air Dog

I believe the way it went down was that Charlie McCarthy bought the 24' molds in 75-76 and began the Banana Boats using that mold. They were such a hit, that Don A built another one and started making the Fire Fox.

The original Fire fox molds are at Cigarette and the original Banana Molds are in Florida with Chalie McCarthy, (he has since made some newer ones that are pretty much the same but he fixed all the minor imperfections and the hook).

boatnuts

You are right about the first two boats you have listed. The Firefox is a totally different boat. LOA 24' 3-1/2 " and beam of 7' 4-1/2"