This is a 23 foot boat with a single big block that carried the famous "Larry Smith" of ......."That's not a Scarab, that's a Larry Smith Scarab!"

Hi Les......No, SEARACE is the same as originally published.

John is working on a new book now, that will not be like SEARACE, as that was loaded with statistics....this new one will be loaded with stories of all the characters, good and bad, from this sport.

John's health is fine, he is very focused on his new book and puts in pretty hard days on the research etc.

Here is a running shot of the aluminum cat that we found on the west coast of Florida a coouple of weeks back.

Yes, the waters of the ocean do get tough and can sink race boats. This is the famous sinking Bertram 36 sequence.

The running shot shows the delamination starting on the bottom behind the prop shaft.
The next shot shows how having just one bilge pump sometimes isn't enough.
The last shot shows how these old racers never lost their cool....still has his sunglasses on and is thinking that, maybe Top Sider's could use this floating shoe as a good advertisement for their products.

And here is the guy behind those Foster Grant's....... Richard Bertram.

Here are a couple for Brownie.

Who is that guy standing behind the pickup, under the bow of Fayva Shoes?

Who is the other guy facing the camera putting on the fin?

too bad Maynard did'nt listen to Brownie about runnin that cat in the ocean...

I worked with Anglo and Bobby on that boat Fayva cat 2! and also cut it up in pieces after the accident small enough to fit in the toyota parts truck and junked it (we wanted to rebuild the boat)

The boss said he did not want a splinter of it left ! I had the Drivers cowling on my shop wall for a while.. We took Fayva Cat 1 to the worlds (in those days you had two boats ) borrowed a Cigarette from Halter and used our engines engines in it.

Ed,
We need to get our common friend to ask his wife Mickie to fire up the computer for him so he can check out these old raceboat photo's.

Looks like Barbara Bush. Fin guy is Jake Trotter.