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I just got my Extreme Boats Magazine and WOW!!! What a great story and an AWESOME Historic Raceboat, DRY MARTINI!!! GREAT job Ron Polli and of course Kurt Berger on the story and the rebuilding of the boat!!! That boat is simply, BEAU-TI-FUL!!! Ron, great writing as always and I even called Kurt to learn more about the boat and it's history. Thanks very much for sharing and I REALLY hope that more of the old raceboats get restored. Where is ELBoss, Favay, Love it, and many more??? Please keep it up.

Thanks for the history lesson, Ben

PS: And JoJo, you looked great as always, Navigating... :D

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Saw it At Kurt's Marine.....Sweet!!!

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That story is really great, I live in Naples Fl, and Roger Munn has a Engine shop here and works on my Cig the former Zero Cavity. While I was there talking to Roger I told him about the story in Extreme Magazine, found out that the motors in his shop in the corner for a couple of years came from that boat and that Kurt has them in the boat now they were in the mountain and when Roger got them they were rapped just as they said in oil blankets, Roger has been in the mountain and says there are more there.

Sweet ride love those old wave crushers!

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do you have contact info for roger? id love to get my hands on a pair of those old mills to put in the michelob boat, those beltless engines were too cool.

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Try Rogers Speed shop
Naples FL.

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Rogers Engine 239-597-3599, I'm getting Roger to let me scan some of his pics, he has boxes full of old races and race boats I have 20 or 30 vhs tapes of races that he let me borrow, I love to listen to all the stories he has, of the days of racing.Call Me 239-465-9639

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Let him know about HORBA....Historic Offshore Race Boat Association.

We just had Jerry Jacoby of AJAC HAWK fame join today and I called him.

The stuff Roger has would make a great addition to the site.

www.historicraceboats.com

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Spent a hour telling him all about it and how much we need all he has stored away, he also speaks highly of you, He just got a computer in his shop on line next :evilb: :evilb:

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We are doing a fun run in Naples Thanksgiving, he says he's going to bring out the Magnum, and he has been working on it lately still sounds good, those motors in his boat were raced in the boat he built the 31 Spirit.We had allot of fun on that boat.

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Where is Kurt's Marine ?? What address for Roger's Shop ?? Thanks CHEERS AW

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Rogers Engine & Machine
795 Washington St. Unit 5
Naples Fl. 34109
239-597-3599

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CaptNate THANKS CHEERS AW

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Kurts Marine is on Mantoloking Rd. Brick N.J.

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Roger sold the shop to Kurt along time ago.

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Did Roger Munn used to have a Magnum called "The Jolly Roger" up in NJ?

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Are they cousins/relatives or something??

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Yes

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Yes he did I asked Roger to let me scan his pics so I can post, will take a long time, he has boxes full, I will try to do it asap so HORBA can use them also.

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I'm currently rebuilding kurtsmarine.com for Kurt and just finished rebuilding the dry martini article this morning.
It truly is a an awesome boat, and an awesome story. It's always been a dream to come across a find like that and restore something with such meaning.
I was actually standing next to the boat yesterday, taking pics of a few other boats in his yard being prepped for Destin.

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Gotta love it, you don't see those stakes everyday, Roger still has a EFI with stakes on it in his shop.He had 2 but some guy bought one for a street bike Boss Hoss going to call the bike Stacked!!!!

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Looking forward to it! There were a couple of fast Magnums on the Barnegat Bay and Toms River in the mid 70's. If I remember correctly the Jolly Roger had a raised deck and Needle Nose was a flat deck.

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After that beautiful recent pics anyone have some "so rare" pics of the original old time Dry 35'?
Here alls that I have:

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http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6...07resizoh0.jpg
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/436...02resizlg5.jpg
From an old OSO thread

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7246/dry35resizoe1.png
Still the first version without the windshield of the 1975.

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The Formula 1 champ Jackie Ickx look the instruments explained by Cesare Fiorio,Martini Racing Team's manager waiting to race like navigator in the Miami-Nassau of 1975.
The race was posticipated for two weeks because bad weather and Jackie,former Ferrari driver,do not raced because the test of the Lotus F1 waited him.

Now I'm waiting colours pics of that last version with windshield of the Dry Martini 35' from someone in OSO!

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My dad and I are restoring a sister-ship to Dry Martini - the Benihana 35' Cigarette (it's almost an exact copy!). I saw your pictures from yesterday (they look great!) and was wondering if you wouldn't mind doing me a favor...?

When we bought the Benihana boat, the previous owner ripped out the engines, drives, and gimbles and sold them. I have spent the last year slowly acquiring the missing pieces etc. I was wondering if you could take some more detailed pics of the engine room and e-mail them to me? What I am looking for is how everything looks from the motors back - i.e. how the crash boxes, tail-stock, and transom plates look all together. Also I'd like to see how the engines are attached and where the hydraulic pumps for the tabs & drives are located.

I hope I'm not asking too much - I'd really appreciate it...!!!

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Roger's 27 Sport was a flat deck - Red and White , it was older and heavier. I think it was a 1969 or 1970 model.
His and Bud Crisp's Rated X 27 Sports Yellow and White were pretty much the fastest Sports on the Bay for many years.

Thank you
Jim

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Not a problem I'm actually going down there tomorrow night but it may be too dark by the time I get there.

I also wanted to let everyone know that they are not all my pictures some were from the article by Ron Polli and photos by Sharkey Marine. Didn't want to make these guys mad after all they have helped me with over the last few weeks.

Next time I'm there during daylight I will ask Kurt.
I'm sure if you called Kurt he would do it for you...

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The resto has begun.....we hope to be out there at next years NY City Poker run with Billy Frenz.

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Thanks, I hope you all enjoyed reading it.

My appologies if the facts of the opening few paragraghs were not exactly correct. It's hard putting something together from tidbits of info but I think it made for an interesting read.

Thanks to Kurt and his gang for getting her ready for the run.

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Kurts Marine Competition Center
732-477-7400

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post some pics charlie

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THANKS!

By the way - Ron P - I still haven't seen the article yet. I've been waiting for my OSO Platinum subscription to kick in and the place where I usually buy Extreme Boats (Books-A-Million) doesn't have them. Can't wait to read it!

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:drink:

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What is it? A joke?!
This is the 36'.

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OOPS :eek: Sorry...still a great shot :D

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That's it sure! :cool:

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Hey guys!
Anyone want to bring out a picture of that old Dry 35'? :evilb:

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Marco....Daddy Cool is hull # 7 do you remember what the original name of that boat was?

Maybe that was the old Bounty Hunter 35?

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I know that Daddy C. was the former Spirit of Panama.
I remember that the former Bounty Hunter was another panama's boat,Panama Hawk of Barcenas. Spirit of Panama raced almost alls races in APBA in 1982. Then appeared Panama Hawk. Maybe they was the same boat.

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Charlie...By the way was builded 5 boats 35' for the 1976's season, starting to the #6.
They was:
-American Eagle (maybe the #6)
-Bounty Hunter (#7?)
-Eraf (#8?)
-Jumpin Jack (#9?)
-Impossible Dream (#10?)

The American Eagle seems became the Ajac Hawk after it was lenghtened to 37'6".
Eraf went in Italy
Jumpin Jack became Limit Up and raced in England still in the eighties.
They remains only the Impossible Dream and Bounty Hunter like candidates to the #7.

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Bounty Hunter.

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Spirit of Panama I think ?