Fly right into cartagena (easiest) or you can fly into medellin and then bounce to either tolu or cartagena, the boat from cartagena is like 30 bucks 1:45 mins, the boat from tolu is like 8 bucks 1:10 mins. Rm

Looks pretty nice to me

I'm just screwing with you about where you live. I actually wouldnt mind a visit. I was very close to buying your old Scarab after it was restored. I went with a newer one as it was the same money and Larry Smith told me Joey Ippolito (sp?) really tested its limits while racing it.

Oh snap double post

Yeah the hostel is getting cooler by the day, we are putting in all kinds of cool games and drinking games. Dive shop coming soon, im going to buy several types of sail boats to rent, as well as inflatables with electric trolling motors. I even hope to score an old flying dutchman sailboat for experts as those lil bastid will run about 40 mph with a strong wind filling the spinnaker... rm

They raced it in argentina in like 12 to 14s lol, that water beat the crap out of everything.

My boat spun out in the st pete grand prix, they cut the skegs off the drives back in the day! The boat launched off a big cruiser wake at a 45 degree angle, within sight of the finish line while leading the race to the checkered flag. It spun, spit a crewman overboard, and ripped the kevlar down to almost the waterline on the lf rear area of the cockpit. A first class repair was performed and i blocked the hull true as can be for two months with and air file, i had it all prepped primed and ready to shoot when i sold it. Hell of a boat, it was in pristine condition inside.

Randy rabe of rabco called me about the boat while i was working on it, he was at the rigging shop when the boat was delivered new. The hull with 6 fuel tanks, no drives, or engines, weighed 2,000 lbs!

Randy was part of the crew that originally rigged the boat, i was going to put 2300 ponies in that old girl... lol

Joey ipalito called charle mcarthy, when he heard i had the boat, not long before he died. he told charlie mine was the faster of the two mich light boats. It had a ton of rocker it. He said it ran very true...

The deck had three layers of kevlar, the sides 7, not sure how many layers of kevlar on the bottom of the hull, when i walked on the deck between the bulkheads my weight made the deck sag about an inch... super light layup schedule, everything inside was triangulated as larry was originally an aircraft engineer and brought a lot of that technology to the marine world via his badass hulls...rm

I ended up buying the former Mickey Mills/ Evolution Marine boat. Don't have as much detailed info about the layup as you do and never weighed it. It's an 89 and has the same thin deck as yours. I always try to step on the bulkheads when walking to the front but the flexing doesn't seem to hurt anything. When I talked to Larry Smith about the boats he said the deck was just there to keep the water out.

Did larry tell you how many 39 kevlar race scarabs he built?

Post up sum pics o dat bad mofo...dont be shy.

Did yours have two huge circular holes in the rear cockpit bulkhead, with a snap on cover over them, so you could crawl from the cockpit into the engine compartment mid race?

No it didn't have those. It was built to showcase the Evolution Marine engines. Never raced but was the apba paceboat for a year or 2.