Makes sense it wasn't one of the Banker Racing boats. The first of the Banker Racing B-7 boats was a 35 footer. Here's a photo of that one on Texoma in 1993.

the title has james coates on it. from what i am being told this was his first one. coates was the banker.

Max speed 45 mph LOL

That certainly is black on white proof right there. In comments with regards to a later Banker Racing boat, the canopied B-7 boat, they refer to the previous Banker Racing boat as a 35.

That indicates that after Your 33, another open 35 was raced as B-7 too, and then finally the canopied boat. Can't wait to see this run. I'm partial to red boats. Used to own an all-red Round Britain race boat

for a while.

Jamie Coates was here in 3rd place, in his later Tivoli Fountain boat, when the dramatic, sad crash happened at the 1999 Chesapeake B-Class race. Very competitive and exciting racing,

but this could have ended so much worse. One of many times when the flipside characteristics of stepped hulls have been on display. It's good Your sweet hull doesn't have those,

well I'm not a fan as you can tell.

took the wife out Friday she loves it. Feels good to have it running, just dialing it in now.

Oh, yeah! Congrats, impressive looking boat, and even better: you got a wifey that's onboard All the way. That's completely crucial.

And she looks happy to be behind the wheel! But did she try to dump you off the nose?
Is that a whistler on the bench under the roll of tape?

i think so. Frank is a man with many tools of the trade. Lucky to have had him do my engines. Never seen a shop this clean.