OLD RACE BOATS - Where are they now?
12-14-2005, 12:25 PM
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Re: OLD RACE BOATS - Where are they now?
Originally Posted by wstultz
Holy Smokes!!!! I'm probably the only one who hasn't seen this but I just took a look at the past.
I was watching the t.v. and saw the fellas across the pond racing in a P1 Race.
Big V-hulls!!!!!
Big water!!!!!!
Open cockpits!!!!!!!
Am I the only one watching this?????????
I was watching the t.v. and saw the fellas across the pond racing in a P1 Race.
Big V-hulls!!!!!
Big water!!!!!!
Open cockpits!!!!!!!
Am I the only one watching this?????????
I wish Big-Seas.com would get some of those old classic Needle Nose tapes redone soon - there was some great big water racing back then too. One of the best films was when Phil Lewis was taping the World Champs in Mar del Plata Argentina in 1978 - huge waves and the helicopter he was in could only go approx. 50 mph - very creative flying & filming was done to capture the boats in action...
12-14-2005, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Geoghegan
D-58 appears to be 32' Cobra, "Harry O" , "Rolling Thunder" maybe???
12-14-2005, 12:52 PM
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12-14-2005, 12:56 PM
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There is the old P79 24' Banana Raceboat, converted to pleasure, FS in California with Twin 225 Merc outboards. It has wet stringer's but no rot and needs a few other things, asking price was mid 4 digits
Last edited by Dregsz; 12-14-2005 at 12:58 PM.
12-15-2005, 08:35 AM
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Re: OLD RACE BOATS - Where are they now?
Originally Posted by Chatim Racing
Nope - I've been watching P1 too!!!
I wish Big-Seas.com would get some of those old classic Needle Nose tapes redone soon - there was some great big water racing back then too. One of the best films was when Phil Lewis was taping the World Champs in Mar del Plata Argentina in 1978 - huge waves and the helicopter he was in could only go approx. 50 mph - very creative flying & filming was done to capture the boats in action...
I wish Big-Seas.com would get some of those old classic Needle Nose tapes redone soon - there was some great big water racing back then too. One of the best films was when Phil Lewis was taping the World Champs in Mar del Plata Argentina in 1978 - huge waves and the helicopter he was in could only go approx. 50 mph - very creative flying & filming was done to capture the boats in action...
When you get that footage let me know!!!!!
01-04-2006, 11:11 PM
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I think the picture posted in #275 is the boat that Rocky Aoki had built as a new boat...but he had a really bad accident in San Francisco in a Deep V boat. He was hospitalized for a while and never raced this boat..he sold it to Howard Quam.
He and I were just talking about this boat today at the NY Boat Show at the Ghost Rider exhibit.
He and I were just talking about this boat today at the NY Boat Show at the Ghost Rider exhibit.
Last edited by Top Banana; 01-05-2006 at 04:30 AM.
