This is a picture of me in the Miami boat show in 1995 with the 28 I raced in Key West and Puerto Rico.It had a great airbrush Pantera painted near the bow by Gail Paik.It was powered with triple 2.5 Mercs.

We won many races in Puerto Rico with this boat.

JO

This is a pic.of a 24 SE in 1978.

Check out the swim wear on the girls.:D :cool:

JO

This is an article that was done on the 24 Sport in Go Boating Magazine in 1978.


They gave us a great write up.:D

JO

This is the second page of the article.

With a 454-330 HP package retail pricing $ 15,500 :D and top speed 64 MPH.

JO

This is a picture of the custom paint work we did on Vanilla Ices 28 in 1992.This picture was taken at Fort Apache Marina in 188st.

JO

This is Ice taking delivery of his bopat.This was the first Hi- Performance boat with Purple interior.Purple caught on real quick after this. It was Ices idea.

JO

This is my Father and Ralph Linero getting their first place trophy in a 1976 race.

My Dad had a full head of hair back then.:D

Ralph is still in the marine buisness working at TNT custom rigging.

He was my Fathers Navigator for a few years and was the Navigator when my Father broke the Miami to New York outboard record in 1978 with the 24 Pantera pictured in this thread.

JO

This is another pic. getting another first in 1977.

JO

This picture was taken at a boat show in 1978 with customers reading articles on the record run from Miami to New York.

We sold many 24s back then and produced 100 24s a year.2 boats every week were delivered all around the world.

JO

This is a pic. going out the cut in the 24 that set the record with the number 2 and 3 2.4 Mercs.My Father and Ralph were getting ready to race.


JO