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Here are some photos from my old collection. I helped do Race Patrol a few times and worked with Bruce Carter at Baja Marine. He raced with Chuck Kimberline in Pacifier.

Looks like first photo is Rascal.

Dave

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A few more photos. I even have a mint un-used GLOPRA windshield decal I want to donate to the Rascal project. If you want it send me a PM with your mailing address.

XT

legend

I think that was the Cleveland race. I raced my CheckMate in that race. The second picture to the end is a picture I have been looking for. The 24 Baja behind D Manta was a couple of crazy teenagers like myself back then from Buffalo. That Baja ran good.

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I got your PM and decal will be sent out tomorrow.

When I took the Baja photo I too was amazed at watching the little 24 foot Sport running with the big dogs. The 240 Sport was the first smaller Baja to have a 24 degree bottom design from scratch. It was stretched and modified many times to create many other Baja models like the 250 Sport, 270, Shooter/272, 252's, 25 Outlaw, and 275. All of them ran well. The red boat in the same photo was a twin OB rigged 240 Sport, but Baja was not real good at setting them up at the time or something. (Not many of them were ever sold) The 25 and 28 Checkmate models were also good running models, but even though I graduated High School with Kip Combs I ended up working for Baja.

Most of the photos are in Cleveland, but some are Sandusky Bay. Bruce Carter always told me how special Rascal was designed and was the boat to beat back then.

CIG3

Here are a couple oldies.

legend

About time. You keep going down south your going to want to stay there!

CIG3

I wish....It freezing up here.

X-Driver

XT,
I remember the Baja campaigned a 28-30ish' V with dual OBs (Mariners) in the GLOPBRA sportmen B class....probably early to mid 80s. Might have been called "Magnum" if I remember correct? Do you remember that boat?

TENSION

That was a "Force 320", with 2 Mariner Magnum outboards. It ran in the "V" class in 1982-83. Was called "Magnum Force", owned by Dan Jenkins, from Huron.

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Some what, but I was good friends with John & Carla Sauselen when John worked for Baja. They raced a 28' hull with a modified 320 deck on it with twin OB's. Later it was converted to IO's.

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