Cary info?

[Jerry Eisele]

I went up to Erie yesterday and saw an interesting boat. It was a Cary 26 with a raised deck. Can anyone give me any input,information, etc. . It had great lines.

Thanks Jerry :eek:

[falcon]

I am not familiar with a 26---but have seen 27 and 33 models---both had twin straight inboards and rudders mounted on transom like a 28 donzi. The hulls were sold to blackfin which produced them for a few years.

[Jamesbon]

I'm told my 20' Rabco was pulled from a Cary mold. I don't have any other details at this time.

http://www.donzi.net/photos/nschlaerabco1.jpg

[Gearhead99]

The most popular Cary I've seen is the 50' Cary with 4-outdrives. Most have big block Chev. I have seen one with 4-diesels and outdrives. Awsome with four throttles and shifters. Lots of headroom in the bow too. Like a Magnum.

At Ft. Liquiordale boat show they alway have several. The 70' one, that has been there for several years now, has a gas turbine in the middle of two diesels. VERY LARGE oval shaped exhaust pointing up at the transom.

Further, I understand the first Cigarette. The one that Arronow raced and called "The Cigarette" was a 32' Cary.

Back in the "Miami Vice" TV show days they had an episode that the bad guys had a 50' Cary. They raced it and would switch with an identical boat in the middle of the race. Drugs were involved somehow.

[CrackerJack]

32' Cary offshore for sale.


picture (http://www.harborboats.com/cary.html)

[Jerry Eisele]

Thanks for the input on Cary.I do appreciate all the information. I have never seen a raised deck quite like this. It was like a reg. deck, but abought half way down the deck it taperd up as high as a windsheld.

Thanks again Jerry
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[Voodoocanoe]

Cary did make a 26', I have some pictures if anybody is interested I can Email them to you.

[ALLAN BROWN]

The 26' Cary, belive it or not, is the lower two-thirds of a Cigarette 28.. If you look closely at a 28' Cig, you will notice a second gunwale (bulge) about 5" below the rubrail. I ran Cary in the early 70's, primarily engineering the original 49' Cary, which was the first of the big fast deep vees. Anyway, if you cut the 28' Cig on that line, and sloped the transom, you had a Cary 26'. When the frogs owned the company during that time, we build a full height 26' sport, and a 29' sport.

AB

[Voodoocanoe]

Scott, I sent you some pics of the Cary, not sure on how to post them here on the Registry.

[Jerry Eisele]

VOODOO, Email me the pics if you don't mind. Allen, thanks for the info.

Jerry

[harbormaster]

Hey canoe...
look at the top of the page on the red bar.

There is a menu selection called
"Photo Posting"

[Voodoocanoe]

BTW, The 26'Cary pictured above is a 1974 and it is also for sale http://adcache.boattraderonline.com/6/7/1/1488271.htm

[boldts]

For anyone interested, the dealer listing the 26' Cary also has a number of used Donzis including a 33' ZX Daytona with T/500s (Hint Hint VA Bob) Watersedge Marina (http://www.watersedgeboats.com/listings)

[avanti]

I have a 33ft. Avanti which is as I understand it the same hull as a 32ft. Cary. It was built by Avanti Powerboats in Miami which is now out of business. Mine has a Stainless Marine bracket on the back and twin 250HP Evinrudes. I can tell you that we spend a lot of time in the Gulfstream between here and Ft. Lauderdale and this is a serious rough water boat that does not wet you at all. There have been many times when other brands of boats have turned around in the rough and the Avanti hull keeps on going.

[turbo2256]

Avanti still existsts in New Jersy

[Christian]

There where two boat builders that have that name. One in Fl and one in NJ.

[oldLenny]

...who penned the lines for the Cary boats that existed prior to the Cigarette introduction?...and then who penned the Cig's for Don once Cigarette was up and running on its' own designs?...

I probably missed something in one of the last 5 billion posts here that stated this. Sorry if I missed it.

[Gearhead99]

The Avanti in New Jersey use to be built from Corsa hulls and decks. They were sold near Palmayra, NJ.

[BIG BAD DONZI]

Len, there were no Cary boats prior to the 32' "The Cigarette." "The Cigarette" was Don's own design, plain and simple. The named manufacturer however, was Cary. Don was precluded from buiding any boats until 1970 in his sales contract with Clayton Rautbard's, (Bobby's brother) American Photo Copy Corp. (APECO) who had purchased Magnum in 68.
A quick study, Don penned the entire original Cigarette line. All Cary boats came from Don after the 32'. Elton Cary and Don were very close friends at the time having a close personal as well as business relationship. (Elton was in the insurance business)
As for the Cary the 50'/49', that was intended to be follow the Magnum 35' as Magnum's next boat until Don sold the company. Don took it and it was built as the Cary 50' instead.

[ALLAN BROWN]

Elton Cary started Cary Marine in 1967, using the Donzi 008 (cut down) mold, given to him in lieu of insurance payments. Elton turned it into a twin engined sport fish and sold the first two to Jim Kimberly and Dinny Phipps, two of the top tournament fisherman. Elton did his own 19' outboard. He (Cary) let Don use his name for the 32', which was a stretch of the Magnum 28', which was the higher version of the 27' and 28' which are still built in small numbers, and were designed and built by Harry Schoell, to Don's bar napkin blueprint. In the end, with all the non-competes that he saddled himself with, his raceboats might have been branded Formula/Donzi/Magnum?Cigarette/Squadron/Apache/ USA/etc.

[oldLenny]

Thanks, logged and now memorized. wink.gif