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tooslow

02-23-2019 09:12 AM

This is what got me hooked . Marina Bay 100.

I came across this on YouTube . I don’t think it’s been up very long it only has 19 views . Thank you to freeze frame video and the person that posted it . My father took us to watch the races in 1984 and 1985 I think . Did any of you guys race in that one? I don’t know anything about the classes but it’s pretty cool to see all the stock-ish Super boats , Banana boats and even a Checkmate !

Cary 29

02-23-2019 02:14 PM

Very nice old school video. Thanks for sharing....

Pete280

02-25-2019 09:36 AM

I lived in Boston from about 93-96, bought a 1983 23' Nova from a guy i RI and kept it at Marina Bay, had some great memories up there, I was in my early 20's. Ended up in Provincetown for 4th of July, had no idea it was "their" town, LOL

Too Stroked

02-25-2019 05:47 PM

Ok, so I've got to ask. What part of the video got you hooked? Was it the race boats in the pits? Was it the race boats out on the race course? Was it the girl in the Daisey Duke shorts?

tooslow

02-26-2019 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Too Stroked (Post 4674375)

Ok, so I've got to ask. What part of the video got you hooked? Was it the race boats in the pits? Was it the race boats out on the race course? Was it the girl in the Daisey Duke shorts?

Well I was 10 and to be honest I don’t remember any daisy duke shorts , but freeze frame did a nice job of capturing them! The whole experience was mind blowing . I was used to tri hulls and 115 hp outboards . When they lowered those boats in with the travel lift and fired them up it was unlike anything I had heard . I liked the pits as well , I remembering asking one of the guys why the props on the Arenson drives didn’t cavitate because I could see the props were so close to the surface . Of course watching them race was amazing too! I think I was there in 85,86 but I’m not 100% sure . Maybe daisy duke girl only showed up in 84!

sp123

02-27-2019 07:57 AM

Don't you just miss the smell of an old 2 stroke motor.....

tooslow

02-27-2019 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by sp123 (Post 4674647)

Don't you just miss the smell of an old 2 stroke motor.....

I’m pretty sure the year I went some boats had 2.4 Bridgeport’s on them . What a sound...and smell .

sp123

02-28-2019 08:07 AM

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