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02-01-2008, 09:48 PM
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Location: Wildomar, CA
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This past summer some friends rented a house on the (Colorado) River just north of Havasu. Well daytime temps get up to 120 or so and we party pretty hard, hammer down to the Sandbar, Channel etc. Lots of traffic, running the boat fast, dodging idiots, etc. By the end of the day I'm done driving my boat so I'm riding in my buddy's Ultra lake boat. Bunch of good friends in the boat we run down river and grab something to eat and I can drink now. We hang out until the sun starts to go down and head up river. Most of the boats are off the water now and it has flattened out. As the sun drops over the horizon the sky kind of glows just enough for us to see where we're going. Riding in the back with my feet proped up, not a care in the world, low freeboard so I can drag my hand and skip the surface of the water as we fly up the river at about 70, warm air blowin in my face, nicely buzzed, good friends on board and this song comes on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwbowi-8Yoo
One of my all time favorites songs (and band). It was one of those absolute perfect moments and if the world ended right then I would have died a happy man!
I have a lots of those days in my memory banks and most of them are when boating.
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02-01-2008, 10:07 PM
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Location: Rhode Island and Florida
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1969 Cary "The Cigarette", 2008 24 Banana Boat
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Originally Posted by Dude! Sweet!
Dang, I was thinking Long Beach, Two harbors, Avalon, Newport, Long Beach! 
I agree the safety thing is an issue, but how is it different than going out and running as hard as you can with a couple of buddies on a saturday? |
If you left coast guys want to see some old school running from that neck of the woods, click on
www.bananaboatco.com
and go to the section called media archives. Between the Autoweek and Esquire magazine articles is an old Super 8 Home movie of the California Bushmills race from 1979 .
It is about 25 minutes long, but the start is at the 7 minute mark and that was a run down to Dana Point from Newport Beach. Around the 20 minute mark is the oil island turn point before heading to Catalina.
Enjoy.
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02-01-2008, 10:44 PM
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Wow, great video, Charlie! Man, you really were the Top Banana that day! Doesn't look like anybody and anything for you. Thanks for the link.
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02-03-2008, 10:03 AM
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WOW that is crazy water.............Great video charlie...
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There's nothing harmonious or Zen-like about a Cigarette ride. It's an anarchic kind of rush—the nautical equivalent of Viagra.
still pouring hundies into this resin bucket................
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02-03-2008, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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question,why dont you guys do a bad ass poker run with vintage speed boats easy to do and everyboby will have an awsome time....remember time its the only comodity you cant buy so live the present and have fun what happen in the 70s and 80s is part of history not the present think as a 25 year high school reunion.
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02-03-2008, 02:42 PM
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I think the idea of this post is to try to return the "offshore" to offshore racing. Top Banana has been preaching this for awhile. Now he has a race planned with Horba and OSS at Sunny Isles in June I think. Don't get me wrong I love watching the Super Cats at the races but what makes the small circle track racing any difrent that the Hydro racing on the lakes? Point to Point takes alot more if you ask me.
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02-03-2008, 03:07 PM
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I like to be realistic a poker run will be by far a more realistic event from whatever point to point you want to do it,however if it indeed goes down will be a great race....
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02-03-2008, 04:11 PM
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Location: Where the water meets the oaks 'n Pines in the Sierra Nevada's of NorCal
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work in progress- an old Cig
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Top Banana
If you left coast guys want to see some old school running from that neck of the woods, click on www.bananaboatco.com
and go to the section called media archives. Between the Autoweek and Esquire magazine articles is an old Super 8 Home movie of the California Bushmills race from 1979 .
It is about 25 minutes long, but the start is at the 7 minute mark and that was a run down to Dana Point from Newport Beach. Around the 20 minute mark is the oil island turn point before heading to Catalina.
Enjoy. |
Appreciate those from the past and present that keep this sport alive.
The stores told from the 'masters of yesterday' are priceless.
Thanks so much for the memories.
TB, nice site.
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02-03-2008, 05:01 PM
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Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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Pantera 28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Top Banana
If you left coast guys want to see some old school running from that neck of the woods, click on
www.bananaboatco.com
and go to the section called media archives. Between the Autoweek and Esquire magazine articles is an old Super 8 Home movie of the California Bushmills race from 1979 .
It is about 25 minutes long, but the start is at the 7 minute mark and that was a run down to Dana Point from Newport Beach. Around the 20 minute mark is the oil island turn point before heading to Catalina.
Enjoy. |
Should I admit that I've had that downloaded onto my computer for over a year and probably watch it once a week!
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02-04-2008, 12:42 PM
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Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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Allman Bros! I was just listening on the way in to work this morning.
Here's a clip from the Scope poker run. I wish they'd shot it with both of us in the video at the same time (BajaFresh and I were side by side on this run).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rr-tTMQAdU
And yes, my Pantera is named "Corndog"!
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