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"21S Force" Psycho Clowns boat as illustrated in OSO Industry News...

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/o...ian-water.html

Ripped from Orbit1000 with US conversions:

Name: 99 Psycho Clowns F1
Boat: Velocity 7
Length: 6.85 m 22.5 feet
Beam: 2.40 m 7.87 feet
Dead rise: 22 degree with varying width planning plank and steps,
Capacity: 400L 105 US gal
Ballast: 300 L 79 US gal
Weight: 1800kgs 3968lb Race Ready – dry, no fuel or liquid ballast
Engine: Mercury Racing 1350QC4V
Gearbox: Mercury Racing velvet drive - dry sump. Drive: Mercury Racing M8 Surface Drive with 1.30:1 gear ratio
Top Speed: 140 mph / 225 kmh / 121.5 kts
Fuel: 98 Octane Premium Unleaded
Race #: 399

mattyboy

besides the two that Philip posted, there was a 21 challenger race boat that ran around greenwood lake NY late 70's early 80's. had twin mercs on it, the boat was named infinity III owned by a guy named Gene who lived on the island but owned a house in gwl. he owned a few car dealerships.

anyone know what happened to that challenger? wouldn't mind making that my next project boat was a blast

Pismo10

Who owns it now?

TeamSaris

The original was a Challenger, the new one is a shadow

mikefili

Hello Matt, Michael here, you are speaking of Gene Violla's boat
InfinityIII. Gene lived at the entrance to the east arm of the lake. T2X ran that boat in a number of races back then. I drove it a few times on the lake, boat ran beautiful, as did most if not all of the twin 21's.
Gene also had two more single engine 21 challengers, a red and I think a blue or was it brown? Maybe Philip remembers. They sat at his house mostly neglected and only would be used infrequently.

TeamSaris

It was brown, it was my boat. Its in Aruba now

berzerko

Nice to see George Posting on his thread

Here's a link to a video from this past Sunday 9-23-12

Ran from Jamesport around shelter island and back, a good 65 mile run.
Running In water I have to assume this boat was originally designed for
Maybe george or rich can chime in on that.

The boat ran flawlessly and took the pounding no 35 year old hull should, unfortunatlly the motor did not fair as well LOL .

Check at about 9 min in for close ups of her running

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3S08...e_gdata_player

Thanks to dnelson in his 22 activator for posting this

berzerko

I think this is the boat your referring to

TOASTY

soon John...Soon. Just you wait!

dnelson964

Thanks for posting our video run of the Peconic Bay Bobby. That was a fun day and a great place to run !
Your Challenger still looks beautiful running !