Well folks, been waiting to make this known for a while, and now that the mold is in my garage I feel I can put it out. The Stealth is ready to go, but I will not be building it. The mold is now in the hands of Greg Shoemaker and Mike D. Greg has ben building and setting these style boats up since they were first developed at Eliminator. When I originally took on this project, I wanted to build river hot rods, not race boats.... Set up is extremely crucial on these things and Greg and Mike are much better equiped to do it correectly. All of my experience is in a gullwing and not a tunnel boat. I still have access to these boats thru them (So Cal Customs), and I can get one whenever anybody wants. Prices for a bare hull is around $9200.
Now for the good news. I acquired the So Cal 19' gullwing mold and it is sitting in my garage now. Some folks might recognize the mold from the boat that Dave Batista built and had for sale on the PB site. The bottom is identical to a CP 19, and there are some slight differences in the deck. This mold has a slight arch or bubble in the deck and the CP is fairly flat, the difference is very subtle. I have wanted to build these for years and finally got the chance to jump on it. It just worked out well for both of us, Greg and Mike got a race platform to compliment the daytona, and I got a river rod hull.
Prices are going to be very close to the So Cal boats, and I will be setting these up race style ( 1" stringers, Calgo steering, etc) that aren't available in the CP 19. I want to keep the graphics kinda old school, but any design will be welcome. We should have the hull ID #'s very shortly and will start taking orders very soon. Lay ups will be done at a local laminator that do some of the best gel work in the industry. My goal is not to compete will CP. Bill Scotten builds an outstanding boat and has a very devout following. The goal is to build a few very custom gullwings the way I think they should be built, and pay very close attention to detail. Let me know if anybody is interested and I can get you more info.
