Race boat grave yard
 

I picked this up off yachtforums. One of the guys there is building a big yacht in Italy. The person who is building it used to be a famous racer & took him to see some of the old boats kicking around behind his yacht building business.
I see a few future poker runners in the pile!

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a few more............

This one got a little warm during a race in Italy

a few more.!

How about a link to the thread?

Thats awesome.

Must of been one hott race :cool-smiley-011:

Power Marine is the boat that is toast. Turbos caught the hatch on fire and away she went. 1996 pole position champ even after fire. Isotta Fraschini 3 turbo motors

Benedetto is a 55ft V with a big wing and a loooong snout.

Fresh and clean (Spelta) Isotta Fraschini diesels.

Good boats in their day.

pat W

There isn't a link to a site, it was just the pictures you see here. Since I posted this, I have made contact with the guy who took the pictures. Anyone want to make a package deal offer on all the boats with me? I see a few poker runners there!

That's just it, I don't see pics. My membership ran out and I don't see that it's worth $40 to see pictures.

LOL......well....I guess it's not woth $40 to see the pics then. Good grief!

Those are the most incredible pictures I have ever seen!

Thats unbelieveable what a find. How many are there?

man thats like run'in across a field of old Vette's and Shebly Stangs :cool:

cheap cheap :)

40 dollars broke me ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Then i joined and took a boat from 1974 and turned it into a 80mph rocket.......All from that huge 40.00 bucks....

Oh yeah thanks oso..............

I've paid the $40 for the last 2 or 3 years. Just decided not to pay for it anymore. I'm not in the project business and don't own a powerboat anymore.

WTF dude $40 bucks thats like a couple happy meals at mickie Ds , or a good lap dance at the club .Pay up or your CHIT out of luck . thats .11 cents a day man mmmmmmm :eek:

HEY DJD let me know what you find out im interested :cool-smiley-011:

I used to film all those boats and many more when I filmed for the Italian group in 1993 - a shame to see them like this -

Walter Ragazzi was my contact then - dont know what has happened to him - another good guy there.

sad to see those boats like that - I just remember them running fast - seeing all the excitment in the pits etc. -

PHIL

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It is probably the CUV plant. There is some really cool stuff there for sure....it is a shame to see it wasting away like that.

Or I could just do a 3 minute search and find the real thread, not one that someone else jacked.

And this is how you post pics:

http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/at...cemetery-1.jpg

Randy Scism once showed me a picture of a boats stacked on top of each other like you would stack barrels. I think they were discarded victory boats.

Well.....there you are! Now you can buy 10 gallons of gas! :D

I found a penny!!!!!!!!

I'll just buy a few boxes of

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Well then whats the need to even use the site then ?? maybe Santa will bring you an OSO membership so you dont miss out on the good stuff
ROCK ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:drink:

make sure you buy the cookies from the day/week old bakery thrift shop cause the girl scouts cookies are pretty expensive nowdays LOL:eek:

I have illegal aliens steal them for me. Cheaper that way :cool-smiley-011:

pretty cool picks:D

Talk about diamonds in the rough! Wow!

Thanks for the thread Dave! Great stuff, :drink:

Kurt

i got a pic somewhere of 11 or 12 of them stacked up that way...

Hey man! Really ya think someone could buy one of them. If so I'm interested.Someone let me [email protected] Thanks JOHN

find them tough guy

shipping may cost more than the boats worth:(

It is a shame to see those wasting away like that.

Let's do some math though;

Ship old hull from Italy: $15k
Pair of supercat motors: $100k
SSMVI or Arnesons: $100k
Cat Trailer: $20k
Rigging: $150k on up
Paint: $50k

We're at $435k and I'm sure the cost would end up being much higher. You can buy an awful lot of boat ready to run for that kind of scratch.

As sad as it is there is a good reason nobody has done anything with them.

I think you are light on the shipping. I am checking on shipping my boat and trailer too St Thomas. Its around 10K with an 9ft by 50

Could be way off on that #. I just took a WAG at it. We just shipped a Fourwinns to Kiwi for a customer and it was right at $11k for a 25ft boat.