Very Cool photos from back in the day!
 

For years I have been asking if anyone has any pics of my dad. In 1978-1979 He raced a boat called the Executioner with John Rosatti and Tony Perry. I don't have any photos at all. Today I received some photos from a childhood friend. Quality sucks, but they are beautiful to me.
Look at picture 5! Is that cool or what??!!!

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Very cool !!

That's neat stuff !!

I love seeing the old boats and their drivers in their prime, brings heritage to our sport! Wish I could have been alive to see some of these old race boats in action :coolcowboy:

Man that is cool. And yes, pic number 5 is sweet! Thanks for sharing.

And that center bolster :eek:

I can imagine the bruised knees from those teak cabin doors

Holy CHIT is that Freddie Mercury in photo 2 .up on the right in the yellow Adidas shirt. Old man Carl Keikhafer was way a head of his time having a man named after his former Company.

Too Bad Freddie went into being a RockStar ,see how that worked out?

Lol! I was thinking the exact same thing. Freddie raced offshore??!!! :lolhit:

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

I'm not sure who that is but he looks like Freddie to me! !

Totally cool!!!

I was thinking the same thing. Got to love the Fro's!

And I thought I was the only one on here old enough to remember Freddie, lol. Cool pics

Apache Starchaser and John's Cigarette 38
 

I enjoyed building those boats , those two
clients put them thru Hell ! Thank You for posting the pictures.

I'm sure I speak for most of us on the site, We would love to hear of some of your other builds and experiences in the industry.

Gino do you know where that boat is now?

Really cool seeing the icons of our sport in their prime! If those pictures could talk................

That list of names and boats is awesom. Would have loved to been alive to see them all run

Those 2 boats turned me into the boat nut I am today!
You may vaguely remember the competition between Executioner and Dillinger, back then!!!

My best memories I being a kid was at the Benihana and the craziness that went along with racing. My dad, Tony Perry and Rosatti worked on that boat night and day!

When my cousins Mickey and Butch built Star chaser I was a teenager. I use to love bringing girls back to the marina, uncover Star chaser and hang out on the boat like it was mine! It worked better then Patron!!!!!

The night before both Cigarettes, Executioner and Dillinger Raced the first time A truck rolled in to Cigarette from New York with 2 larger engines with more horsepower from JS with a note saying install by morning and dont tell JR. We did but there was hell to pay when JR found out why JS went faster.. good memories good people. They both tipped the employees thousands.

They are still both exactly as crazy as they use to be! Everything is a competition!!!

I have no idea where it went. Would be cool to know.

Gino, thanks for posting, especially the list of names.

As can be seen both Elswick and I did not finish that race that is why we are at the bottom of the list. This might have been a race where we did a side bet as to who could get to the first checkpoint first.....XXXXX number of $ and two big egos. Result....you see it here for all the world to see.

After this we used the same tactic with new racers. Hey, Joe welcome to open class. You may not know but there is a big cash prize for the first boat to the first checkpoint. Yes, just wanted you to know everyone is eligible to try for it.

It finally got down to where none of the new guys would talk to Saccenti or me.

Good memories, thanks.

I seem to remember that. Wasn't it the first throttle man to the check point got a few grand?

Pix #2. Looks like Smitty on the right side. Great memories.

A good boat is ALWAYS "IPR"... (Instant Panty Remover)

Very Cool how about 19 boats in open class, do you think we had competition in those days, and on top of that a race course 180 miles long. We were all running basically the same motors, the difference then was the boats and the crews that ran them.

Respect for that.

I too admire these pics. This is where the sport we all love so much comes from and guys like these and many more. Keeps the pics coming. Glad you found these pics Gino; embraced them. They're priceless

Ya Richie the only basic thing was they were all V-8's

I showed these to John Rosatti today. He told me that they broke down out in the ocean and had to repair the boat. They broke a rotor and replaced it. He said they brought extra everything with them. They were hauling ass to make up lost time and it was really rough. My dad pointed his hand motioning which way to go (in a karate chop motion). They hit a wave and the bow came up us my dad was going down and my dad hit the dash and broke his hand. They never stopped and finished 4th or 5th.
Just a little different from current races.

If you look at picture 2, Al Page broke his wrist racing while they were Dillinger and Satisfaction one weekend going to fire island. They hit a bad wave and Al hit the dash.
2 broken hands during in a month period.

Gino......you asked me before to see if I could find any racing photos of this boat .........and I could not in the HORBA archives.

However, ask John if the boat was in the parade through Point Pleasant as we have a bunch of those parade shots and the team may be shown during the parade.

I think the year you are showing was 1979. Double check that too.

Gino
I gave u a pic. a few years ago.
I have a suitcase full of old photos put away.
We use to rent a chopper and put Meta in it with her camera for the Jersey races each year.

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Thanks for posting all of these priceless photos! Flying things across the water that were not meant to fly is what hooked me on offshore hulls 40 years ago!

WOW! I could look at these pics all day!!!!! Beautiful!!!

VERY COOL Old School Gino and Lucky Strike I live for this chit on this site.

Gino sorry to sidetrack you very cool old school thread about your dad in his racing days ,Way to coooll

Sorry Phuckin Freddie Merc just brings out the Badd in me.

A Little Freddie to remember the good times. one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB4K0scMysc