Everglades Marina/ Fort Apache
10-27-2014 | 07:32 AM
#53
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From: Granite Quarry, NC
So we had this race from Chicago to Michigan City and back in '81. I entered one of the first Shadow Cats and it was perhaps the roughest racing water I had ever seen.... The Bam cigarette was the start/flag boat...and had some new fangled transmissions...anyway after the start of the first wave of boats....it sunk....we didn't but my partner/wheelman, Don Lostumbo, broke an ankle half way through the race. The turn boat was a 58'Hatteras. The seas were so big that you couldn't see that boat until you were maybe 75 yards away from it..
The end.
T2x
The end.
T2x
Last edited by T2x; 10-27-2014 at 07:35 AM.
10-27-2014 | 08:15 AM
#54
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From: 29°50'49.74"N 95° 5'17.55"W.......TEXAS
10-27-2014 | 10:11 AM
#55
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From: Fort Lauderdale,Florida
Rough
Boy, do I remember that race. Probably the roughest race I was ever in. While turning on that Hatteras, we hit a hole and couldn't see the Hat for the life of me. Thank God I had some knowledge of what Hats looked like, because there wasn't much to see.
10-28-2014 | 04:24 PM
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From: LI, NY
What a great shot! In the one photo there is a magnum star fire, 1of 34 I believe and that boat currently carries the same paint and resides in Ontario Canada. The other great picture is of the bubble deck cigarette which is one of two. That one looks to painted orange which makes it the famous bounty hunter, now over seas. That boat had a lot of "one off" stuff on it, first set of #5 extent ion boxes, one of the first sets of #5's, Latham shifters and throttles etc.
That's my Magnum Starfire, hull #388, that was outside Toronto for most of its life. Now fully restored and living on Long Island. I spoke to you I think a few years back before I bought it. It was also a catalog boat from 1979.
- Marshall
a more recent picture.
10-28-2014 | 04:59 PM
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From: Wilson, NY
your boat is absolutely beautiful ! post a few more pictures if you would please. i believe there are only 6,7or 8 starfires left in the states! there was 34 total and half went to uk, nice job on the resto!
