Best photo EVER on OSO! Thank you Pete Boden!!!!
01-26-2015, 04:26 PM
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Gino, Going from memory decades ago...there was a machine shop in Point Pleasant, tiled floors, all the machines were set up on black mats, handles on the Bridgeport and South Bend lathe were chrome plated, impossibly immaculate shop, Huge Joel Halpern signed banner hanging on the wall. I believe the owners name was Charles. Did the "Executioner" Cigarette get work done there? That Cig in the pic looks familiar, but lot's of years have passed.
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01-26-2015, 06:30 PM
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Great story and congrats on the find.
01-27-2015, 11:45 AM
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This is a good example of what offshore racing was really like back in that Golden Era 1970 to 1980. The board shows 19 boats in the top class or Open class. I think I remember that in addition there was also Preston Henn in Natural Light who broke a trim tab off in practice and Tom Gentry in his 38 foot Scarab with engine problems and neither one made the start. So we had 21 Open class boats that day.
Plus three classes of Production boats, Sports, Modified and Production. Probably more than 60 boats from all classes showed up to race that day.
As you can see Gino's dad was in a regular 35 foot Cigarette Mistress that had pleasure boat seating and it looks like big engines by the size of those hatches. That is how people tried the sport and had a chance to see if they liked it and how good they were at it. By looking at the board you can see the first checkpoint was at Barnegat about 24 miles from the start line.
The first group of boats arrived there a little after 11. Gino's dad in a pleasure boat, arrived there only 5 minutes later, but still ahead of some of the names in the sport like Jerry Jacoby in AJAC HAWK with Bob Saccenti throttling. You know those guys know how to win races, so there must have been a problem with their start.
Plus they moved up from 10th place to 8th at the second checkpoint, so they were doing pretty good staying in the race and staying out of trouble. Well done!
Plus three classes of Production boats, Sports, Modified and Production. Probably more than 60 boats from all classes showed up to race that day.
As you can see Gino's dad was in a regular 35 foot Cigarette Mistress that had pleasure boat seating and it looks like big engines by the size of those hatches. That is how people tried the sport and had a chance to see if they liked it and how good they were at it. By looking at the board you can see the first checkpoint was at Barnegat about 24 miles from the start line.
The first group of boats arrived there a little after 11. Gino's dad in a pleasure boat, arrived there only 5 minutes later, but still ahead of some of the names in the sport like Jerry Jacoby in AJAC HAWK with Bob Saccenti throttling. You know those guys know how to win races, so there must have been a problem with their start.
Plus they moved up from 10th place to 8th at the second checkpoint, so they were doing pretty good staying in the race and staying out of trouble. Well done!
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01-27-2015, 12:42 PM
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This is a good example of what offshore racing was really like back in that Golden Era 1970 to 1980. The board shows 19 boats in the top class or Open class. I think I remember that in addition there was also Preston Henn in Natural Light who broke a trim tab off in practice and Tom Gentry in his 38 foot Scarab with engine problems and neither one made the start. So we had 21 Open class boats that day.
Plus three classes of Production boats, Sports, Modified and Production. Probably more than 60 boats from all classes showed up to race that day.
As you can see Gino's dad was in a regular 35 foot Cigarette Mistress that had pleasure boat seating and it looks like big engines by the size of those hatches. That is how people tried the sport and had a chance to see if they liked it and how good they were at it. By looking at the board you can see the first checkpoint was at Barnegat about 24 miles from the start line.
The first group of boats arrived there a little after 11. Gino's dad in a pleasure boat, arrived there only 5 minutes later, but still ahead of some of the names in the sport like Jerry Jacoby in AJAC HAWK with Bob Saccenti throttling. You know those guys know how to win races, so there must have been a problem with their start.
Plus they moved up from 10th place to 8th at the second checkpoint, so they were doing pretty good staying in the race and staying out of trouble. Well done!
Plus three classes of Production boats, Sports, Modified and Production. Probably more than 60 boats from all classes showed up to race that day.
As you can see Gino's dad was in a regular 35 foot Cigarette Mistress that had pleasure boat seating and it looks like big engines by the size of those hatches. That is how people tried the sport and had a chance to see if they liked it and how good they were at it. By looking at the board you can see the first checkpoint was at Barnegat about 24 miles from the start line.
The first group of boats arrived there a little after 11. Gino's dad in a pleasure boat, arrived there only 5 minutes later, but still ahead of some of the names in the sport like Jerry Jacoby in AJAC HAWK with Bob Saccenti throttling. You know those guys know how to win races, so there must have been a problem with their start.
Plus they moved up from 10th place to 8th at the second checkpoint, so they were doing pretty good staying in the race and staying out of trouble. Well done!
Those were the days. Glad for you Gino to find the pic. Will you at the Miami show? Let's grab one, (or two. lol )
01-28-2015, 03:43 PM
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