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There's a picture of the Bertram after the event you discribed hanging on the wall at the Swap Shop.
Bill Elswick donated his prize money to Smiley's family after the race. Jeff |
Originally Posted by Ratman72
(Post 4236238)
Nah, that's a 36 not a 40.......there's no step on the topsides. From what I can make out, Don Aronow had created the 35 from cutting down the top sides of the 36 and using the same deck. He then sold the old 36 moulds to Bill Elswick, who called it a Performer 36. The first one out the mould was Thunder, it raced at Cowes in 77, don't know what came if it after that. Elswick then changed the top sides of the mould, so that it looked like a 40 Cig.....all very confusing but I'm pretty sure this is correct. Two more race boats were then built, Night Moves and a black one called JPS which sank in Argentina and Elswick/crew were drifting in a raft for weeks before being picked up by a Russian freighter. I think Performer got sold off but I can't really make out what happened to the 36 moulds??????? Anyone know?????? Elswick also had the Jean Claud Simon 32 Cary/Cobra moulds which he used for the Performer 32.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]534517[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]534518[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]534519[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]534520[/ATTACH] He suspected they wouldn't make it. He strapped the life raft to engine hatches before the race. They had to give up their Rolexes to the freighter crew. Needless to say the old lady in the galley served up Borscht and rice for every meal. Mmmmmmmmmm. H20, ask him how many hours in the life raft and how many days on the freighter. Also, ask him how many seconds between throttle blips on those big seas. This was the same race that Billy Martin mixed up his patented "Rocket Fuel". Jeff |
Originally Posted by Ratman72
(Post 4236240)
Agreed, very sad! I've seen the pictures of the Flapjack 38 when it delaminated, I won't post it in the interests of good taste and respect, since I assume this relates to the same incident of the fatality, right?
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Sammy is just an email away. Should I ask him?
Jeff |
Originally Posted by hallj
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Sammy is just an email away. Should I ask him?
Jeff |
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Originally Posted by Redman
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I also have a picture of the delaminated Flapjack. That was at Pt. Pleasant, an earlier race. I always thought that was the first Kevlar race boat---
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Originally Posted by Ratman72
(Post 4236238)
. From what I can make out, Don Aronow had created the 35 from cutting down the top sides of the 36 and using the same deck.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]534517[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]534518[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]534519[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]534520[/ATTACH] Think about it.....if Don cut the sides down on the 36 to make the 35....... how did the crease get in the side? Then how did he pull in a 9 foot plus beam down to 8 feet. He did use the 36 wide deck on the 35's and cut the walkways off them. Depending on the day and the worker, some of those 35's had decks that were put on straight and some others did not. Don said the crooked ones had more character! |
I thought that was why the crease was put in the side........by pulling in the topsides to take the flair out the bow and go from 9' to 7' 6"............ I thought that everything below the crease was basically the same, including the misalignment on the spray rails, although I have read that the rocker was modified as some point as well???
Yeh, the deck on Martini is skewed a little up front. Can you shed any more light on the Performer story? |
Originally Posted by hallj
(Post 4236249)
Bob Sheer was throttling the JPS Performer or Cig. Anybody have pictures?
He suspected they wouldn't make it. He strapped the life raft to engine hatches before the race. They had to give up their Rolexes to the freighter crew. Needless to say the old lady in the galley served up Borscht and rice for every meal. Mmmmmmmmmm. H20, ask him how many hours in the life raft and how many days on the freighter. Also, ask him how many seconds between throttle blips on those big seas. This was the same race that Billy Martin mixed up his patented "Rocket Fuel". Jeff |
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Here is a story were side exhaust would have been nice. At the Stroh's Ceder Point race Bob & Davey Gillmore were racing Diamond Don's newly acquired REALLY RIDICULOUS Bertram. The night before the race while backing up the Bertram Davey hydraulic one of the engines. Bob was elected to pull the plugs & flush the engine out. Bob was not happy as his buddy Dave left him in the bilge and went to the local tavern. Bob said if the Bertram had side exhaust this would not have happened. They raced the next day only to have the PVC plumbing that was used in some the rigging to break & fill the bilge up.:picard1:
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