Sweet! She's really well kept. Great to see.

Thanks . The next time that I speak with Kurt , I'll ask him if he remembers if any work was done to make it lighter or stronger. I reall don't think so though . It's a 75/80 mph boat I'm going back to single plane intake manifolds, I wanted to try the dual plane since i mostly keep the rpm around 3500. We'll see what happens.

who owns it now?

Larry Smith's first 'Scarab' race boat.
 

Doc Bobby Magoon was the first owner of this 1969 Cary 32, and then it got passed to racer Mike Matheson. For the 1972 season, Larry Smith couldn't stay away from boat racing any longer.

He had for years in the '60s raced with his pals Peter Rothschild and Chuck Daigh in Peter's Formula 233 'Thunderballs'. Larry was running his restaurant/lounge, The Windjammer, out of

the Marina Del Rey Hotel, and Larry's classy place was The 'watering hole' for the boating party crowd. He ran the boat in 1972 and 1973 as the 444 Sea Tune Marine Special/ Windjammer.

For the 1974 season, he named the boat Scarab in honor of his late pal Lance Reventlow, and Lance Scarab racing cars. Lance had passed away in a plane crash in the summer of 1972.

Larry's racing buddy Pete Rothschild had campaigned a twin inboard Cary 32, 'Thunderballs II', with a combined 1,000 hp for the 1970 season, so Larry knew what the Cary 32 could do.

He won a couple of races with it and in the meantime, he was developing his first Team Scarab race boat model, the 9 Meter.


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Australian Kevin Wyld in his Team Scarab 9 Meter Kevlar49 boat racing in Class II. World Champion in 1977.

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Unique decked Team Scarab 9 Meter Kevlar49 boat, Sea Claw 42, with triple Evinrude power. Father and son, racers John and Al Stoker, of Stoker mod-vp boat brand fame, rigged and crewed.

Forgot the owner's name. Very quick boat that's still around SoCal. Won more than 10 races during the 1981 season.

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What does a 9 meter LS share in common with a Wellcraft Scarab 300? Is it the same running surface?

THUNDERBALLS II............lol