TOPIC: Power Cat FIND, Any Info would be great!!

Hello, I just got this Power Cat that has been sitting for 15 years and has dual 35 Johnsons on the back. Anybody know anything about these. A year or anything would be great. The johnsons are a nice set up. Thanks for any info. I figured you guys would atleast appreciate this find

Very nice find and thanks for sharing. Good info in the Glassic Library here.

www.fiberglassics.com/library/Power_Cat

Nice score,
There are several of us guys that own Powercats and to find out more click on the link below. Danny Leger can help you figure out what model you have too. If you go to the link I am posting there will be another link on the website to join the yahoo Group and I would suggest that. Tell um Cowboy sent ya. There are hundreds of Powercats restored and now that your a owner too you can have your project posted on the Powercat website too. Come on over and meet the boys.
Cowboy

www.powercatboat.com/

thanks for the info guys. And i will go check those out, this boat is really neat with the dual johnsons and dual controls. I will get to it. Thanks

This is an 18c model. They were made between 1959 and 1966. It should have a small aluminium plate that will have the model year & serial no. It looks like an early version as I see it has the wooden foot boards up front forming the bow floatation tanks. Another clue will be the nameplate but I can't see it well enough in the photo to judge.
powercatboat.com/89.html
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This link shows the basic info on this model.
Danny Leger

jl_300,

GREAT FIND. - i once had a 1963 model in two-tone blue, with a pair of MK 800s, that i used to run on Lake of the Pines, TX.
(you're in for a TREAT, as that rig will FLY right on down the lake.)

warning: a 'CAT will pound the fillings out of your teeth in "the chop". - it's smooth-water rig "par excellence".

ENJOY, satx

Thanks for the info Danny, where would the ID plate be on this boat? I haven't been lucky enough to find it yet. And Satx that sounds really cool, thanks.

It should be on the inside of the transom in the water well
centered between the motors. If it turns out to be a very
early (1959-1960) there may not have been one as those ID
plates were not always used in those early years.
www.powercatboat.com/brochure/Emblem.html
Also check out the Nameplate page linked above, If your
cat is like the top ones on this page then it is a very
early one.
Danny Leger
Austin, Texas

There is no ID tag on the boat and here is a pic of the name plate.

The engines are original and the models are RDSL-21B. They dated to 1959. So im guessing the boat most likely 1959.

Well the nameplate would indicate a late 1960 model at the earliest, as Power Cat did not incorporate until late that year. What makes it difficult to say for sure is that often boats and motors could set in dealer inventory for several years before being sold. The 1959 motors could have been installed as brand new on the 1960 boat for a customer and no telling what year for sure. Remember the boat, motors, trailer, and often hardware and rigging was done by the dealers using the brands they had access to. So you see many variations of equipment on boats from the same era.
Danny Leger
Austin, Texas

powercat; jl_300,

you are 100% correct. = Marlin M_________ (one of our local Mercury dealers in NE TX) was still selling NEW "dockbusters" to the Lake of the Pines/Lone Star Lake/Caddo Lake "hotrodders" when i was in college in 1967.
(those "new dockbusters" were anything BUT "factory stock".- never knew what his chief mechanic was doing to them, but they were "smoking HOT".)

i have GREAT memories of that "wild period" of "PURTY quite willing,bikini-clads" (mostly stunning Rangerettes & Apache Belles), skiing, racing, "white corn likker" & 24/7 partying on the lakes of NETX!

yours, satx

There was a power cat on Sacramamento Craigslist on Sunday Needed a ton of work but had twin Mercs. $100 bucks

Knots

knots,

and you aquired it?

i would have, had it been nearbyt.

yours, satx

That makes total sense. And I have already talked to the guy about that power cat.