Scarab Race Boat pics

[northernoffshore]

From 2008 races

[white scarab]

In the 90's there was also a 30' JJ's Express in B class and a 28' Splish Splash in S class

[olli]

[northernoffshore]

lsc scarab

[7xchamp]

Originally Posted by olli

This picture is of Omar Danial driver and Richie Powers on throttles. 43` Scarab. Tom Gentry and I set the world Kilo record in this boat at 126 mph. after, Wellcraft contracted me to run the boat in the APBA worlds in Ft. Meyers. The boat had to attend three APBA national races to qualify. Omar and I ran Miami, which was cancelled but counted as one race.
Corpus Christi, we won, Sarasota, we won, and Ft. Meyers worlds we won all in 1993, same season and 1993 won the worlds in Key West with Omar in the Apache Heritage. Donney Waduck was the crew Chief, and one of the best I have ever had, the wins were a tribute to him.

[olli]

[Mange]

Originally Posted by 7xchamp

This picture is of Omar Danial driver and Richie Powers on throttles. 43` Scarab.

Was this boat build by Larry Smith or the Wellcraft factory?


Thanks
Mange

[ufix1]

Originally Posted by mrhorsepower1

We currently have that boat which we raced in "B" class and was very successful.

Hey man Like i Know this doesn,thave to do with the subject but can you please send me the pict of the ol you have on display

[7xchamp]

Originally Posted by Mange

Was this boat build by Larry Smith or the Wellcraft factory?


Thanks
Mange

Larry Smith boat, The Scarab thunder is the same boat as the Gentry boat and Diet rite cola boat that Sirois ran in KeyWest in 1992 as a brand new boat. Allan Parieser was part owner, same guy who owned Splish Splash 30` Scarab.

[kiwicraig]

Hi Ritchie, hope you are well. Great shots, but I must tell a story about ollies shot of the A5 boat. This was Nigel Hooks 3rd race boat, with in the next two years he managed to win the World title, National title, western and South East divisional titles and set the kilo record (and crashed it trying to push the record over 100). This shot is of the boats first outing, as usual the boat was late from the builders, I got 1 1/2 days to throw it together as we needed to finish this race (Marina Del Ray) in the top 3 to qualify for the kilos at Sarasota (93 I think), the boat got a used Merc 420 (engine not ready) and used pleasure seats out of customer boat. It was lunched that morning, note holes in engine cover for clearance, scoop followed. With about 9 starting that race in A class our work was cut out but being ultra light 26' against most others being around 22" we went on to win the race! The following month we set the kilo at 93mph (up from 84) and won the race in Sarasota for good measure. Craig Archer