Peter Dean's Slingshot Cigarette now
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To be honest so did i. Maybe there were a couple? It is just odd that a factory worker working on the boat said its name was slingshot and it was a raceboat...there arent too many cigs in australia, and the odds of there being two different race boats both cigs here called slingshot from the same era probably aren't going to happen.
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Peter Deans 40` was a wide beam, not the narrow beams like slinshot etc. He also did a pop of the 40 and stretched it to 44` that boat I raced against in 1980 ???? in one of the qualifying races for the worlds in Port St. Phillip bay in Melbourne, I was with Gentry, the seas were horrendous, 8 to 12`s wind blowing 40 mph. Really nasty day. it took us almost four hours to complete the 80 mile short course, anyway the 44` came past us in a blaze of glory, and then stuffed through a huge wave, when it came up it was broken in half, and washed up on the beach. We won the race, it was called the Mercury Trophy race. 7XCHAMP
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