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xlr8by
08-11-2009, 10:07 PM
Anyone have good pictures of the Fort in its glory and any shots of the race boats being rigged? Anyone actually keep their apache or any other boat there? I know that the site and street are now condos and townhouses, but is there a reason why all the boat builders left?

erierunnin
08-12-2009, 08:27 AM
I think J-Bonz posted some in another Thread

Dude! Sweet!
08-12-2009, 12:38 PM
My favorite pic of Ft Apache... :sifone:

Bobcat
08-12-2009, 02:25 PM
Anyone have good pictures of the Fort in its glory and any shots of the race boats being rigged? Anyone actually keep their apache or any other boat there? I know that the site and street are now condos and townhouses, but is there a reason why all the boat builders left?

they changed the zoning laws and basically booted everyone out to make the worlds ugliest condo

MarylandMark
08-12-2009, 04:10 PM
Selling land for condos pays a tad better than building boats does

Geronimo36
08-12-2009, 04:53 PM
It sure does and it becomes one less place for us to store our boats... Then add all the new environmental regulations and it becomes even tougher to run the buisness on that valuable realestate.

Aren't a lot of these places zoned commercial, how do they just all the sudden go residential?

phragle
08-12-2009, 04:59 PM
simple answer... $$$$$$$

J-Bonz
08-12-2009, 08:10 PM
I think J-Bonz posted some in another Thread

Here's a few I a have posted before...

J-Bonz
08-12-2009, 08:14 PM
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J-Bonz
08-12-2009, 08:15 PM
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J-Bonz
08-12-2009, 08:17 PM
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Offshore Ginger
08-12-2009, 08:26 PM
There was a special on the learning channel at one time and it was all about Fort Apache and Bennini..... and i think you all know who im talkin about and i have seen it, more then once over the years .

inbetween
08-12-2009, 10:18 PM
this is all I have

xlr8by
08-12-2009, 10:44 PM
WOW great photos guys! Must have been awesome to be there back in the day. What is that huge red boat with surface drives?

J-Bonz
08-12-2009, 10:49 PM
I beleive it is an Aronow... I will have to dig out some old mags to find the ads that it was in
Jr.

Expensive Date
08-12-2009, 11:27 PM
Great pictures

cosmic12
08-13-2009, 05:42 AM
Thanks for the pics they are awsome. I have some but can't find'm from when I was there just before it disapeared mid 90s. I still have a white polo shirt with the logo embroidered on it that is all worn out and unwearable but will never part with it.
Spent a few hours there with Richie Powers giving me a tour and history lesson that I will never forget and I am so glad I did looking back on it. The Apache factory building was still there and the old Cig building. So glad I saw it all before the end and had no idea of what was to come. The history that was lost, sad so very sad.

HiPerf2000
08-13-2009, 10:44 AM
WOW great photos guys! Must have been awesome to be there back in the day. What is that huge red boat with surface drives?

37 Aronow. there used to be one at our marina a few years back........

wstultz
08-13-2009, 11:53 AM
I believe it is a 47. Sweet boats. There is one on Boattrader right now for $79,000.

xlr8by
08-13-2009, 12:09 PM
Very cool thanks for the info on the Aronow...Was Fort Apache where the actual race boats were built and rigged? Back in the day would you see the team testing as you were sitting at the bar area? The whole place sounds like the ultimate place for a race boat fan.

HiPerf2000
08-13-2009, 01:54 PM
yes.....47. sorry, fat fingers today.

Brad
08-13-2009, 01:55 PM
I beleive it is an Aronow... I will have to dig out some old mags to find the ads that it was in
Jr.
Yep

wstultz
08-13-2009, 04:27 PM
There were plenty of Aronows, Apaches, Ciggys, USAs, Magnums, Panteras, you name it and you saw it there. I was lucky enough to visit in the early '90's and see a lot of it. Most of the factories were closed because it was the weekend but we got to walk around Fort Apache for quite some time. Cool place.

DollaBill
08-13-2009, 04:41 PM
Used to be my favorite street. now it's all gone. No better place to be than there early in the morning. From Dons old office at Cig you could hear all the boats firing up and echoing up and down the canal.

Man if that didnt give you goosebumps nothing will.

lowblue320
08-13-2009, 04:52 PM
Used to be my favorite street. now it's all gone. No better place to be than there early in the morning. From Dons old office at Cig you could hear all the boats firing up and echoing up and down the canal.

Man if that didnt give you goosebumps nothing will.

same here, I thank my dad for taking me down there when I was young. As I grew older I used to drive down there in the car and check out the boats until I was 18 and had my 24 Pantera, then I used to go down there to have luch at the bar. I really miss that place.

Brad
08-17-2009, 02:37 PM
My last time there was spring of 1992. Was there looking at a 28 Apache and was overwhelemed with all of the hardware. Dan Campbell had a 4 engine cat he let me climb om board and look around. Guy showing me the baots was Rick Conti, is he still around?

whatboat
08-17-2009, 03:15 PM
I had a chance to visit in early 90's. We showed up at Apache.
Bob Saccenti was there and invited us in and showed us around !!!!!! :)

While we were there a big go-fast (different brand) limped in with a crack
around the midship. Apache used their hoist to lift the the wounded the boat out.

Bob was explaining to the cracked boat owner why he wanted an Apache so
we wondered over to the bar. On the way back Bob ran into us and pointed
out some of really special boats that were racked at the fort !!!

What a day !! :26: I have been hooked ever since !!