CUV victory circa 2009
 

It will be a few days before I can upload any of my pics, but for info the classic CUV Cinzano won the Cowes Torquay Cowes race today!
http://www.britishpowerboatracingclub.co.uk/index.htm

Exactly 25 years after the 1984's Della Valle victory with the same boat!!!!!

Fantastic stuff.......great news for the restorers of the old boats.

The cigarette "bounty hunter" with round deck was also on the entry list.
Patrick

Spectacular! Patrick was a great custodian of that peice of history. Glad to see that boat went to a good home and is back doing what she does best. Congratulations to all involved.

It seems to me that this is one of the few offshore boats that can challenge the reputation of Warpath in the pantheon of great and beloved race boats.

Warpath can´t even hold a Candle against CUV´s.
Or Apache in general...and that´s the Honest Thruth.

Or show me otherwise at CTC 2010 or the Next RBR...

I'd love to see it. The must have run against each other in Key West. But I was talking about legend and folklore more than actual performance anyhow... And you've seen my new sig line on SO, you know where I come down on that discussion!

Well In My eyes there´s more Legends by CUV than Apache...

Deep Vee´s or Cat´s---- CUV is a LEGEND because of the Racers (only) and Folklores follow.

Most americans wouldn't know a CUV from an S.U.V. but Mikey, I couldn't agree with you more!

85 Worlds
 

I remember one 3 race series where they went head to head and I believe that Ben's 41 Apache's came out on top after three days...I am sure there are many other races where they went head to head but that was a big one...

re 85 worlds
 

Looking through the files

Race 1 - Apache 1st,Cinzano 4th
Race 2 - Cinzano 1st,Apache ret
Race 3 - Apache 2nd,Cinzano 4th

Total Points - Cinzano 738,Apache 700

How do you rate success from above?

Overall if I looked through the files I`m pretty sure I would find more CUV victories than Apache,but then again CUV boats attended more races,and the head to heads were almost non existant.You could compare CUV with Cigarettes but we all know the U.S. boat dominated the market with plastic fantastics,whereas the CUV boats were nigh on hand built .I have never seen weights for cigarettes or apaches,but if I did, I could soon tell you which was the lighter as have the CUV wts recorded.

Flying Fish, thanks for that. I started a thread over on SO about this as well and if you don't mind, I'm going to post the provided results there. Feel free to drop in on that discussion as well. I'd love to have more discussion on this subject (basically just me and MickeyFin at this point soking the CUV legend).