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Originally Posted by Jim Diesel

When I bought my boat in 2016, this was the first thread I went through. I was hoping to find the original or second owner, I was curious to see what graphics it had on it when it left Lip-ship in 1996. With no luck, I contacted Phil and he didn't remember that paint job but vaguely remembered the boat name and owner name (Insouciant III, Lee R. Goldstein). He owned it from 96-2011'ish and must have upgraded from the 502 MPI's (Which I have the original warranty cards) to the 525SC's in 97/98. The owner lived at Mystic Towers close to 188th and I believe the boat spent a lot of time on a rack till 2011'ish when it was sold to Charles Arnao and it spent time between Miami/somewhere in the NE Coast (I have to look at my records when I get home on what city). Carter bought it in 2015/2016 and sold to VortechSS pretty quick and I purchased in late 2016. Carter had sent me a 3" binder of info on the boat, which was awesome! But sill would love to know the original paint scheme it left Phil with, Cigarette on the bow and Cigarette Top Gun on the sides are Blue and Silver which is original to this day. The interior and cabin had blue accents and blue carpet with a red cover. If anyone knew the two original owners let me know.

Hope to have it back in the water for 2025!!

great history!! Really dig your boat and all the updates that have been done. It’s sooo clean. That’s cool you know almost all of its history. Our first top gun was easy to track history as we were the second owners. 1st owner was a very wealthy gentleman that lived on the water in lauderdale. Gun sat on a hoist next to his yacht. Factory 525SC’s matched to 3A’s. All white with vinyl graphics. He swapped out the blocks for bulldogs and upped the HP. dollar marine managed the boat. He traded it in to Phil and built a new 05 38 TS and I bought it from Phil.

cafe was a little more muddled except I did have all build paperwork from cigarette. Don’t know who the 1st or maybe 2nd owners were but Gary Sanchez (cigarette1) on the boards owned it from late 90’s through 05ish when he sold it to Carlos who owned it until we bought it in 2019ish.

Current gun kinda easy too. Have all build sheets. We knew the original builder. He sold it to James safa after 5 years of ownership. James had it for just under 2 years and it went to loto. Dude that bought it there had it for a few years and it ended up being repod at some point from what I heard. Very wealthy guy bought it and dropped it at central power and rigging in loto and handed them a blank check. They went through the whole thing from nut to butt at the tune of 350k restore. Dave bought it in Loto and had it for a few years. Barely got used after the updates. Now it’s with us, gets all service and updates at Barrett Custom Marine in Havasu. I’ll probably own it forever since there’s not many people that have the desire or means to deal with a big power #6 vee. Cool
with me though. It’s a blast.