[PCW] Gibbons review

[Malcolm Tennant]

Interesting to see Pat Reischmann mentioning the Awesome 60.  I designed the 
original Awesome 16years ago and it seemed to have great promise. Everybody 
loved its looks and it performance was indeed Awesome. There were something 
like eight examples built [I can't be sure of the exact number because I 
never got paid any design royalties] Awesome Boats got into financial and 
legal difficulties both in New Zealand and the USA and the whole thing 
ultimately collapsed. However it appears that a lot of the original owners 
still have their boats and they do seem to sell well when they do come up 
for sale.

A couple of years ago I was exhibiting at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show [ I 
exhibited there for some 8 years in all] and I had photos and the model of 
my Escape design which I considered a reasonably handsome boat. I talked to 
a lot of brokers about how good it was in rough water, how fuel efficient it 
was and how fast it went for the size of its engines. All the things that I 
as a designer considered important. The universal response was " It doesn't 
matter how well it goes. The important thing is how it looks on the marina".

Malcolm Tennant.

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