I remember Arruda on "Build it Bigger" and being called, "The Howard Hughes of marine turbines!"

I also remember this being said as well as Haggin pulling out a black American Express Card.I knew there was a reason for Haggin switching a starting to do his own thing,he is no fool and it just sucks that Jeff also learned the hard way.Good luck in the future and I hope the bottom of the boat gets repaired.

Joe,

I have a similar story (different shop), with my boat from a few years ago, I saw it in pictures at events in NJ after I moved here to FL, while it was suposed to be in storage.

Glad to hear the new turbines are running strong. If anyone can 'stop the bleeding' and get the boat were it needs to be, it is you guys. Your team does not have the word "quit" in the vocabulary.

If you get to SW FL, call me
If I can do anything to help, let me know

Frank Fasulo

Frank

Now that is story you need to tell

I see it happening here all the time

A local mechanic thinks he needs to take a boat for a ride everytime he works on it .eEven if he only just changed the oil

Then you see him at events in customers boats WITHOUT the customer

It is worse than that, I was in FL, he was in NJ, and he used the boat multiple times during the summer without my permission or knowledge. He broke stuff, and left if broke. He sold the business and when I went to have the boat shipped to me is was broke, and had junk parts in it. The new owners were honest with me and told me what they saw and found in the boat. It was a big dollar OuterLimits, and after I got it back, in something like 10 hours, one motor (that he had built before it went into storage) exploded and caught fire.

No point in more details, he is gone, and I have been told the new owners have built an excellent reputation since then.

I had someone else remove both motors, and completly redo them. They found that the internals were not what I had originally paid for.

Sorry for the intermission, we now resume our regular schedulled programming....Jeff & Joe's turbines

ok time to call bull****. 193 in the corners??? show us the telemetry on that one. more bullchit form the tema that always seems to be racing from the pits.

agian, wrong. please add facts to prove your statement.

if your statement was even remotely true offshore racing would be in a much better situation than years past. geico/amf is only doing what is good for itself. geico/amf need a stage to put on their show and they also want to have the upper hand and gaureenteed wins and titles. the turbine class is perfect for this. this way they can out spend anyone who attemps to run agianst them. and they throw some money to the orgs to put them in the spotlight.

the racing is a complete joke for turbine class. they and people like yourself have only hurt the sport more.

while the boat's at skater, drive over to Sterling and pickup a set of supercat engines and see how much of a "racer" you really are. it would be interesting to see how long you guys, and also amf would last if you had to actually race.

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Is someone "cranky".




Sam

Didn't both of these teams (AMF/JBS) already race in other classes and their natural progression in the sport brought them up to the Turbine Class? Just think you have some harsh words for two teams that put a lot of hard work and $$ into their teams. Those types of teams should be applauded, not ridiculed.....

I don't believe that AMF/Gieco has raced other classes. Both Scotty and Mark have raced nearly everything. JBS as a team has raced in SV and SC.