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09-21-2010, 02:45 PM
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Don't sell yourself short. You raced balls to the walls. Not to pump your ego, but it was racers like you and Willy that got me racing. You guys didn't know the meaning of backing down. Great to see the true offshore racers on here.
Robert
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09-21-2010, 04:22 PM
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I HAD SEEN THE "LOVE IT again" DOWN IN fT. LAUDERDALE
SOME YEARS BACK....SHE HADE THREE (3) 1/4 CANOPIES ON AT THE TIME, LOOKING A LITTLE FUGLY WITH THEM TOO.
I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE THEN, THAT THE "KINETIC FORD"
SMALL BLOCKS WERE STILL IN THE BILGE. ALSO HER NEW NAME THEM WAS "PHANTOM" AND STILL LOOKING GOOD TOO...................
CRASH-BOX
SOME YEARS BACK....SHE HADE THREE (3) 1/4 CANOPIES ON AT THE TIME, LOOKING A LITTLE FUGLY WITH THEM TOO.
I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE THEN, THAT THE "KINETIC FORD"
SMALL BLOCKS WERE STILL IN THE BILGE. ALSO HER NEW NAME THEM WAS "PHANTOM" AND STILL LOOKING GOOD TOO...................
CRASH-BOX
09-21-2010, 07:06 PM
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Thank you for the kind words, Robert. Maybe we were a different generation. We raced to race. When I started in 1972, we were still testing to see if fiberglass and drives and engines would take the punishment and STILL finish.
I ran hard because I was to stupid to slow down, and I didn't like to be second to anyone. David Gilmore, Sal Maglutta and I were best of friends on the hard, but once on the water, look out. You push until someone broke, if they were alright, you kept going. If people want to run up and down the beach and call it ocean racing, that's fine. I personally liked to run in the open, no GPS, no cellphone just a compass and chart and whatever mother-nature could throw at you. Blown-out knees, broken teeth and ankles, sunk boats, but God it was fun. Sorry for the rant.
I ran hard because I was to stupid to slow down, and I didn't like to be second to anyone. David Gilmore, Sal Maglutta and I were best of friends on the hard, but once on the water, look out. You push until someone broke, if they were alright, you kept going. If people want to run up and down the beach and call it ocean racing, that's fine. I personally liked to run in the open, no GPS, no cellphone just a compass and chart and whatever mother-nature could throw at you. Blown-out knees, broken teeth and ankles, sunk boats, but God it was fun. Sorry for the rant.
09-21-2010, 07:59 PM
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I looked into buying Euro Marine a few years back. Even spoke with "Tom C" (I think that was his name) on the phone about when he used to race it. I'll look for some of the recent pics I took of the three I've looked at recently.
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09-22-2010, 05:58 PM
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The blue one has always been a pleasure boat, 1981
And I agree, I believe euro was a chris. He was asking 24 at the time but it didn't have a cabin which killed the sale for me
And I agree, I believe euro was a chris. He was asking 24 at the time but it didn't have a cabin which killed the sale for me
09-22-2010, 06:42 PM
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Open Water
Thank you for the kind words, Robert. Maybe we were a different generation. We raced to race. When I started in 1972, we were still testing to see if fiberglass and drives and engines would take the punishment and STILL finish.
I ran hard because I was to stupid to slow down, and I didn't like to be second to anyone. David Gilmore, Sal Maglutta and I were best of friends on the hard, but once on the water, look out. You push until someone broke, if they were alright, you kept going. If people want to run up and down the beach and call it ocean racing, that's fine. I personally liked to run in the open, no GPS, no cellphone just a compass and chart and whatever mother-nature could throw at you. Blown-out knees, broken teeth and ankles, sunk boats, but God it was fun. Sorry for the rant.
I ran hard because I was to stupid to slow down, and I didn't like to be second to anyone. David Gilmore, Sal Maglutta and I were best of friends on the hard, but once on the water, look out. You push until someone broke, if they were alright, you kept going. If people want to run up and down the beach and call it ocean racing, that's fine. I personally liked to run in the open, no GPS, no cellphone just a compass and chart and whatever mother-nature could throw at you. Blown-out knees, broken teeth and ankles, sunk boats, but God it was fun. Sorry for the rant.
