Heart Break for yachting history buffs with gonads

[Halfhitch]

For those that like to "Let em run"....it would have been hard to watch.

The Sad End Of A Legendary Yacht, The Record-Breaking 11,500-HP Gentry Eagle (msn.com)

 

[LTD.330]

That makes me sad.

Looking at the pic, I can't help but wonder how beefy those surface drives had to be to accommodate over 11,000 horsepower, and how big the wheels were.

 

[440 Jim]

Dammit

 

[OllieC]

Piss pounded for 62 hours….yikes

 

[Shoyrtt]

Here is the listing by Gentry when it was for sale: http://www.gentryeagle.com/

Here is a better link to the history of the boat and when it was dismantled in Ventura: https://www.boatinternational.com/y...older-motor-yacht-gentry-eagle-yacht-scrapped

Video of it in racing trim:

Gentry was in a serious boating accident in 1994 and died in 1998. Apparently he made his money in Hawaiian real estate: http://archives.starbulletin.com/98/01/19/business/story3.html

And a few pictures of the boat in the Ventura harbor and scrapped:

 

[Captsteve427]

I remember seeing that boat at an off shore boat race held at in Atlantic City New Jersey at Trump Castle, back in the late 1980's. It had a spare propeller on the swim platform that was huge.

 

[Shoyrtt]

I remember seeing that boat at an off shore boat race held at in Atlantic City New Jersey at Trump Castle, back in the late 1980's. It had a spare propeller on the swim platform that was huge.

I found these pictures of the boat in the yard. It looks like it had both jet steering and the big prop. Someone saved the prop.

 

[Captsteve427]

I found a recent video of Mr. & Mrs. Magoo touring the exterior of it.
It had twin jet drives an a single Arnison drive.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7yny-CvWjao