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Drove by on my lunch break and took two cell phone pics, sorry for the quality...
So who really had the first padded offshore V bottom???? Steve Stepp, Executioner/Excalibur/Fountain et al???
Geronimo,
The boat at Julians is a Squadron they claim.
The boat that Julian made, his 40'er I think that your refering to was his little center console lenghten out to 40' by Mark King who used to work for me at SH. If you remember when Joe's 40' was being built there at his shop there was an explosion that blew the garage doors off each end. The fellow that they aired out of there was Mark King with burns on his hands and face (story turned out well, no lasting injuries to Mark).
Julian made his 40'er long before he acquired the Cigarette/Squadron.
The boat was for sale for $40,000 as is.
Do not believe there is any race history with that boat. Julian's kid says "drug runner" but I think people just like to claim that?
Joe Gere
It is a 39' Squadron XII has "XEX" hin number, and was purchased from a Government auction. 2 large deck hatches, extra fuel tanks, NO thru hull exhaust, white deck/black hull sides, and NO cabin make it suspect. Price 2yrs ago was $12,000
Here are some pictures.
Couple more.
Lee, thanks for the pics and the info.... I've passed that darn thing so many times that I often think about buying it just to flip it over and pull a mold off it and put a step in it or something.......
If memory serves me, the boat used to have thru-hull exhaust and it was filled in the last couple of years. What year is the HIN?
thanks for the pics inside the hull, it must be a light lay up.
Joe, thanks for the info! If I remember correctly the boat was lengthened and the last 3-5 ft of the boat was "flat"??? Where did it go?? Years back I kept my Scarab at Gateway and he would dock it there a couple of weeks... very interesting boat but it looks like it was all done in woven roving....
Geronimo,
I believe it is still in the yard there but in the back, yes it was pretty flat. Joe built/raced JS's for many years, I think he wated a big JS!!!
It was heavy, nothing fancy about it, laid up a like a Bruno & Stillman if you know lobster boats.
First pad would be Steve Stepp,with a little help from Darris Allison
Steve had the first padded offshore vee over 30 feet in the late 70's. The first Fountain Garbrecht Executioner hit the water in 1980 or so.
The first Linder Challenger 21 hit the water in 1975.........and that was a pad hull. That was probably the first.
Of course Paul Allison created the first pad hulls and is the inspiration for all of the others. He made his first version in 1965.
T2x
Executioner