Brownie: I remember the boat. Point Pleasant, 1986? I was flying Miller, Birkett, Branson over the race, and they stuffed it!!! We saw Tom, Norman and Sammy back at the Marina a coupla hours later and no one was very happy. The aluminum boat had a huge kink in the hull and deck. Sammy was going to take the boat back to Belle Glade to 'fix' it---you're right, all Tough Guys.

Those stories are pretty consistent with what the current owner told me. I guess he traded a center console for it. He thought about making it a non-floating billboard (road side attraction) but the transport costs weren't worth the trouble. He said that he'd thought about doing it up as a turbine boat or maybe big diesels with sixes as well... :D

No pictures of that as the 48' was buit in England, I remember seeing it during construction in the Netley Abbey workshop when I was back home one summer, the only wooden boats made at Asia Craft where:
The first Arneson class 1
Six 32's (the first was Powerplay, the second was for the Toleman twins, two where shipped to the UK and I eventualy burned them as they where rotten, the other two I think remained in America)
A Light weight 32' triple outboard for Craig Mosley! and Sony ?? (this came as just a hull and I put the deck on in Smittys raceshop)

Is this the Medicine man ?

Here are some old race programs I saved .
For me , back in the day was the early/mid 80's when I was introduced to the sport , later doing a little racing that I sorely miss .

I know Ben Kramer needs no introduction on this forum , the first one is from the 1986 Apache Offshore Grand Prix of Miami .
The second is us ( before we added canopies ) from Billy Martucci's United Grocer's Classic in Barnegat Bay New Jersey . We only ran 2 guys in the boat , but that year Don Hermann an APBA inspector from NJ asked if he could tag along for a race . I figured Barnegat was a safe venue . He was thrilled .
I'm on the deck , my driver/navigator , Lanny Dellinger is seated and Don Is the readheaded dude .
New Jersey is a great place to race , everyone there is so into it . I remember going to events , asking directions and getting the reply " What race ? " You'd never get that in NJ . In New Jersey they'd give you an escort !

Didn't Stu Hayim own that boat when it was new?

He did , it was rigged by Bobby Moore . They did a great job .
I've got a program with Stu and I think Joe Imprescia on the cover . I'll try to find it and post it .

Before she was the Medicine Man, she was Steve Baum's Maverick Marine, 1 of 3 hull's he built.

Any photos of it in it's current condition?

I heard it sank, and when it was recovered the hull was beyond repair.