mr vinyl

NoCigarettte know of 5 mags sport and maltese ranging in price from $13,000 to $30,000 in various conditions.also found a purple 1971 sport..looks in great condition,still trying to track down the owner,understand it might have come from Michigan. Bud

h2oboater

Mike are you shure the drive and steering rams are moving at slow speed ?? Some single eng boat's just track like that at slow speed. Have you looked over the transom with someone holding the wheel stright. I had a old searay with a merc #3 club foot drive and it tracked like that at slow speed only too, you would think the drive was not hook up to the steering. Just a thought.

nocigarette

I thought that too.....but ya can just gently push the drive in either direction it will move but as soon as you push it fast it locks like it is supposed too....

OPA

maybe air in the lines? might need to purge it.

nocigarette

Have tried....

h2oboater

Mike I have a new hynautic check valve alum block, and helm unit your welcome to try. I'm not ready to change the steering on the Mirage yet.

lucky strike

Yo Jim....How ya doin ?

" EH " was Walter Salkowitz's, it was white. I think the boat was a early 70's model.

Jeff Galante bought an orange sport from Bill Gazell called Great Adventure it was a back up race boat for him, when I bought his 28 Cigarette in 1977. " Berks Law ". The orange sport was originally called Magnun Force. Did you paint it purple ? or was that a different boat ?

Jeff bought " Gazpacho "....30 Mirage from Joe Barrow after the Magnum. I throttled it for a season with Joe when it was new. Then it got stolen from Jeff. He had no insurance.

LS

cig28

there was a purple and white magnum that a women owned at traders cove marina in brick n.j. a couple a years ago, then it was moved to the manasquan river yacht club(old sportsman island marina)as of a year ago. it was srink wrapped but it had no drives, no k planes,and part of the bottom , rite near the transom looked to be in bad shape. i think the boat is back at traders cove.

24degrees

Sounds like your boat Jim!..........go get it!.....

dammmagnum

Hello Steve,
Great hearing from you again. It was a different boat, not sure where the Orange Sport is now.

Mine was always purple/white from the factory, I brought it up from a guy named Pete Sherman that raced Can-Am cars in Maitland Fla. He also restored cars and planes.
thus the race number P-51 he also had a P-51 Mustang plane
I repainted the whole boat purple and white and then re did the interior and all the electrical and pumbing ,dropped the floor, etc, etc etc.
then change the name from Sea Wraith to Plum Crazy.

I Raced with Jeff in the Orange Magnum Sport a few times until he sold it and he got Joe's Mirage, We always like the Mirage alot. Was a great boat.

We painted the Mirage blue and called it "Outlaw" and we raced it a few times, yes it was stolen from East Dover Marina and the police in Ct. saw it in a barn , caught one of the guys and when they went back to the barn, the boat was gone and never seen again, as far as i Know
Then we got the 30 Velocity from Gene Whipp and Steven Stepp and raced that as "Airbrooke Limo". That was supposely the first V to break 100 MPH when Gene had it. The drives were changed so many times,, that there was like a 1 inch thick plate across the entire trans some.

Thank you
Jim