top banana ....i was checking out those patches ! Parker Rabes dad Randy Rabe (Rabco Boats) sponsored the hurricane classic , and so did the st pete yacht club , he showed me that whole race on vhs! , i can get it from him if u want ???, hes got about 50 old offshore races !!! betty cook , rockey , all those old guys !???? we can post some ! hes got betamax tapes of old offshore even !? ill ask em !!!

Sure....tell Randy that the e-mail address he gave when he signed up as a member of HORBA, doesn't allow him to get mail from us....so we need one that does.

Also tell him I still have his package of photos that I have been trying to return to him. He can PM me his current mailing address.

By the way, what do you mean referring to......" Rocky and all those old guys"

We sure don't feel old. Here is a photo of Rocky and me at the New York Boat Show this past January....looks like a couple of kids to me.

I don't think you know this one in USA.
It was a Cougar 40'(I think) aluminium, that Tom Gentry used in only one race,the first of three,in the Viareggio's World Championships in fall 1984.
Gentry abandoned the race very soon and because the weather in those days was very bad did'nt race the others two.
He preferred to made a visit in Ferrari Factory to buy a new supercar model.
I don't know what was the destiny of this interesting Cougar.
One of the two Cougar cat with central cockpit. The other was the first Toleman Group built in wood in 1979.

Wow Marco!! What a great looking boat. Shame it didn't perform well. I wonder if it raced again under new colours with new ownership?? I'm surprised to learn that the set up didn't work. The motors on this boat are on either side, whereas if I remember rightly the Toleman wooden cat had the motors centrally yes?

Marco,

You sent me this pic of the 35' cig Eraf which I never knew existed. What was it before or afterwards??

I got lots of Great stuff , I`ve been collecting thiss stuff seen i was a kid.

I have to start making a photo book of it.


Mike

You are right Nigel. I spoke of the cockpit only.
This Cougar 38' had the same concept of the succesful cat Molinari of Stefano Signoretti,"My Cude-Topolino" ,a class 2 with single engine,Mercruiser.

Viareggio-Bastia-Viareggio 1979

Very poor news of it. This is the only picture that I have.
I think De Angelis raced with it in the Bacardi Trophy 1976 with no name. Then it was in Spain,San Feliu, in 1978.
De Angelis preferred the old 36' in those years.
The 35' was starting boat in Costa Smeralda race in 1980 when De Angelis was withdraw from competitions,and there I think the boat was located untill the roman builder was kidnapped and killed.
One of him sons Elio(ERAF was an achronimous of Elio,Roberto,Andrea,Fabiana),was a well-know F1 driver.
He was killed in the '80s inside him Brabham F1 burning.

Can you post some anticipation?

Just wanted to post something to keep this thread on Page 1!!
Having a decal moment....................