topprop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kALNooZRYfM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZvS...1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_q7oyMK-s

sprink58

MY GOD...that's awesome!!

We owe our sport to those guys...great post!!!

scarab63

iTrader: (5)

That one boat in the second vid with the guy on that little jockey seat hanging off the back of the boat!!!!
Wtf???? Who's idea was that?& why ????
Crazy!

topprop

For sure. What's with the two steering wheels too? Not to mention how about the turbine powered boat with no bolsters....they raced it standing!....tough guys for sure.

dammmagnum

I believe that the boats had to be a mimimum length and that was the only way to meet the length requirement. pretty wild

Some Pretty long race.
Thank you
Jim

twocents

Some additional trivia about video clip #2 -- Bill Cooper was the driver and Darryl Jenkins was the "co-pilot" in the rumble seat of the "Spooky" boat -- 440 miles all 'uphill' from Long Beach to San Francisco, an incredible grind. The #148 "Invader" boat was owned and driven by Phil Caricoff from Costa Mesa, CA. The #43 "Zippe" boat was a 32 Bertram owned and driven by Maury Fortney, also from Costa Mesa/Newport, CA. Zippe was the brand name of his frozen Mexican food company (he called it the fastest tamale in the west). Fortney's head mechanic and riding crew member was Danny Oaks, one of the top midget car racers in the country. The Zippe was the first 'big' boat (over 30') to win the Catalina Ski Race in 1970 pulling Mike Kennedy to the overall win over the 62 mile course. Zippe was later sold to Paul and Betty Cook -- the Cook's originally converted it into a POPBRA high speed rescue boat for the races, but Betty eventually was talked into entering a local Long Beach POPBRA race with it a few years later -- famed offshore racer Don Pruett was her throttle person on that adventure -- Betty finished dead last in the race, and that never happened again.

f_inscreenname

My boat is at 8:50 in the first vid.

12meter joe

Holy hell! Looked like a lazy boy strapped to some rerod! Haha

12meter joe

Awesome videos! Thanks for sharing!

topprop

What a cool boat! Do you know what was the top end of super nova back then? What power was in it?