Apache I Am Sold
08-08-2006 | 09:42 AM
#31
Registered User
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 9,495
Likes: 6
Re: Apache I Am Sold
Originally Posted by Sydwayz
. If it had been any other boat in that trip at the end, including many build to todays standards; they would have been dead.
08-08-2006 | 09:47 AM
#32
Frank's Marine Service
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 11,959
Likes: 142
From: Elkton, MD
Re: Apache I Am Sold
Originally Posted by Stormrider
Scary thing is... it wasn't rough out this weekend. 
08-08-2006 | 09:51 AM
#33
Frank's Marine Service
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 11,959
Likes: 142
From: Elkton, MD
Re: Apache I Am Sold
Originally Posted by Chris Sunkin
And that was the super-light boat they built. Warpath wouldn't have pitched up, let alone slowed when it came back down. The wave would have moved. If you watch the running surface on the "Team" boat, it isn't even in the water most of the time.
Originally Posted by Bob Saccenti
WHAT TABS?????
We had none!!! We discovered a electrical problem on the Team Apache Boat at the start of the race. That’s why we started 15 minutes late. We had a lot of time and water to make up… Every time I touch the trim tabs or the drives. The engines would lose power. Too much voltage needed to run all the trim motors with shorted batteries. So I set all the trims to a “happy medium general type setting” and told the crew to hold on baby!!! We are going for it..
Surprisingly we finished only of few seconds behind the first boat in spite of the spine and wound up in second place UIM world Champions 1985
Ahhh the good old days
Bobby Saccenti
We had none!!! We discovered a electrical problem on the Team Apache Boat at the start of the race. That’s why we started 15 minutes late. We had a lot of time and water to make up… Every time I touch the trim tabs or the drives. The engines would lose power. Too much voltage needed to run all the trim motors with shorted batteries. So I set all the trims to a “happy medium general type setting” and told the crew to hold on baby!!! We are going for it..
Surprisingly we finished only of few seconds behind the first boat in spite of the spine and wound up in second place UIM world Champions 1985
Ahhh the good old days
Bobby Saccenti
08-08-2006 | 09:57 AM
#34
VIP Member
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 10,397
Likes: 402
From: Cape Coral, Florida
Re: Apache I Am Sold
Originally Posted by sakoutis3
The Cat Killer would break up long before that old dog. Just like it did in the NC Race this week end. 
AWESOME video!!!!!!! Thanks for posting it!
__________________
Happily retired and living in Heavens waiting room.
Happily retired and living in Heavens waiting room.
08-08-2006 | 10:00 AM
#35
JC Performance Engines
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 8,904
Likes: 33
From: Long Island, NY
Re: Apache I Am Sold
Originally Posted by Panther
Saturday was flat as a lake. Sunday was NE winds at 15 mph, 3-4 ft. Nothing big, just enough to have some fun in!
You coming to Paddy's this year? Expensive run for a few beers.
08-08-2006 | 10:02 AM
#36
Forum Regulator
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 24,210
Likes: 1,604
From: Worldwide
Re: Apache I Am Sold
Originally Posted by Chris Sunkin
The wave would have moved.
Now THAT is how you describe and old-school Apache running in the rough!
I did notice that the first 41 in the clip had 2-4 feet of boat touching the water for 90% of the time. SICK!!
08-08-2006 | 10:04 AM
#37
Frank's Marine Service
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 11,959
Likes: 142
From: Elkton, MD
Re: Apache I Am Sold
Originally Posted by Stormrider
3-4 you're just starting to air that baby out.
You coming to Paddy's this year? Expensive run for a few beers.
You coming to Paddy's this year? Expensive run for a few beers.
08-08-2006 | 10:29 AM
#39
Registered
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 2,149
Likes: 0
From: Colts Neck,NJ
Re: Apache I Am Sold
Originally Posted by OldSchool
Could you elaborate on that please for those of us who weren't there???
Monday, August 7, 2006
Faulty oil canister crushes Roses’ run
By Lawrence Keech, Staff Writer
It wasn’t quite what Team Fountain wanted, far from it actually, but Fountain Powerboats President David Knight still had excitement in his voice, despite a breaking on the first lap and finishing second in the touted Super-Vee Unlimited class, during Sunday’s fifth annual Fountain Powerboats Grand Prix.
Not my words.
Cat Killer?
With magic engines?
