Lights Out??
 

Hi all, I have grown up boating all my life in Michigan. I was wondering if anyone remembers an all black offshore boat named Lights Out that would have been running in Lake St. Clair in the early to mid1970s? I was a young boy on my Grandfathers 36 Chris Craft cruiser when I remember this boat jumped our wake and blew by us. It was very exciting and left an impression on me some 35/40 years latter. Unfortunately at that time I was probably under 10 years old so really wouldn't know make or model of the boat other than being a black hull with its name on the sides.

I have the same memory of that boat. It was parked at jefferson beach.

I saw it @ Sun Up Marina, or Bobby Moore's Shipping Channel marina on the Salt River. Remember the yellow 40' Cig, called [Big Bird , King Kong] or the 38' Excalibur PEGASUS ?? All back in the mid 70's.

How about the one called booby trap? May have been a Corsa.

Lake St Clair was ground zero of the Great Lakes for offshore boats & offshore racing from the 1970's to around 2005, it was a GREAT RIDE.

hahaha you got hooked early. lol i did too, i remember being out on my father's sailboat coming out of government cut, i didn't even hear the big azz grinding offshore boat come up on us til it launched off our wake and went flying by us about 70 mph.. it was f ing awesome to a 14 year old kid... my dad was like ahole, and i was yeah boy, i wanna be that ahole!

Mark the picture of Kenny Blacks Rhino looks like speedmaster lowers on Volvo drives? Is this the E drive foots?

Great!, My Grandfather kept his Chris Crafts at Miller Marina since 1953 up till the early 80’s. We were probably making the run either to the marina from the Clinton River Boat Club in the Middle channel or vice versa when Lights Out did the drive by. Did you know what kind of boat it was?

That’s frickin’ hilarious you say that! My Grandma was the same way when Lights Out flew by us!......she said something towards him short of swearing..lol. And I was like, That’s going to be me someday!!!

Do you remember the make of Lights Out? I moved to the North end of the Lake in 2006 and rack store on the Salt River at Anchor Bay Marina.