Top Banana

Pasta shirts look great. Maybe I can come over next summer and take a ride....you should be up to 100 by then.

Top Banana

It is not a similar hull. It is the same hull. When Don started Squadron he called me up and had me build him a 24 hull out the 24 Cigarette molds he sold me. We built it with a lot of cross supports and ran it down to Florida for him. That hull was the plug he used for the 24 Squadron molds and also he later split it in half and made it into a cat. That was his first experiment in trying that....as we know now he later did the same thing with the big 39 USA cat.

My 24 with twin 400 small blocks ran on it's best day at 88 MPH. So your big motor running 90 is very believable. Nice boat, good luck with it.

Biggus

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Here's a few of my old 24 Banana with twin blown smallblocks, originally "Hells Banana" M666. It handled incredibly well, flew level (had twin tanks, one in the cabin well) and would wind the Nordskog speedo past 90 (way before GPS) It was built like a tank with a huge center stringer. Beat that thing off the coast of Gloucester MA for several years. Bought it as a project back in '89, re-rigged it, blew up countless motors/countless late nights in the driveway pulling engines only to blow it up again on the weekend... Learned a LOT back then.. Sold it back in 1995 to a guy from Lake Winnipesaukee. -He still has it!

Top Banana

Kurt these twin engine boats had about one inch of safety at rest. Theses boats sat so low that you had to keep them in gear to be safe and moving forward all the time.

Biggus

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Oh I remember all too well (notice the water line in the top pic!) One morning while running off Newburyport MA, I lost an engine quite a few miles out. While idling back on the other I had a fuel issue and was dead in the water...Fortunately seas were calm but even with the gentle rocking of the rollers, the transom would take "sips" every few.. After a few nervous hours dead in the water, I got towed in by a buddy.

Top Banana

Bacardi race to Bimini, 1977 Modified class racing side by side with Bill Elswick in his 28 Magnum... Evil Ways... We both broke within a mile of each other, it was a rough race and we were about 3/4 of the way to Bimini. Long ride home on one engine with the wind coming off the stern blowing AV gas fumes in our noses. My crew took turns riding on the bow with legs hanging over to give some offsetting weight to the engines. That sealed our friendship for the remainder of our racing careers. Sorry to say he has gone on to his final finish line a few years ago. He and I both moved up to Open class with Top Banana and Long Shot.

thirdchildhood

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This one was on Lake Huron last year. I just thought someone might like to see it.

OLD MAN

Great photos Kurt. Thanks

Top Banana

Thanks for posting the photo.

pasta

Thanks Charlie for your help with t-shirt.
You know you are wellcome any time. Bring the familly and get over here.
Ill set you up with a place to stay and a t-shirt.