Re: 10 years ago
 

Step bottoms make the boat ride more level.

Re: 10 years ago
 

Here was a photo from one of the newspapers covering the Point Pleasant Beach race.

We started from dead last postion. The offshore waters were big, so I decided to keep us in along the beach. As everyone outside of us were launching to the sky from deep ground swells, we seemed to have a calmer area along the beach. I told our driver Rich to watch out for the surfers....He said "What surfers?" I showed him this pic the next day. ;)

Re: 10 years ago
 

This is what SHOCKWAVE looked like when Joe Calabro owned it. The boat ran great and was well dialed in as far as I know. Then the engine builder convinced Rich to change the entire setup after he himself set the boat up with Finish Line. If you notice in the photos, Shock Wave had speedmasters put on it and went from small bocks to big blocks...
I don't know why the sudden change once it switched owners? :confused:


Photo by Freeze Frame Video:

Re: 10 years ago
 

It has the classic cut off skegs.

Re: 10 years ago
 

:cool: :cool:

Re: 10 years ago
 

It was the 32 in the pic Sharkey posted.It had probably 468s 9.5 comp.probably 625HP per side.

Re: 10 years ago
 

One closer shot:

Re: 10 years ago
 

Scott had to have been really young back then.

Re: 10 years ago
 

I'm not sure of Scott's age but I was 27 @ the time... The good old days......... :drink:

Re: 10 years ago
 

Cool Stuff!! JC, How old are you? In your 30's? :confused:

Re: 10 years ago
 

35 :cool:

Re: 10 years ago
 

Point well noted....looking like it is the truth these days.

Re: 10 years ago
 

Byrd,read post#8

Re: 10 years ago
 

jeff isnt joe putting that boat back together to use this year?

Re: 10 years ago
 

Yea .. I know cats outa the bag now...fever boy...we still ain't scared though, mental note, we need a bigger boat ,steps,more power.

Re: 10 years ago
 

I would love to hear those screaming small blocks of Zuls again.... :drink:

Re: 10 years ago
 

So who says TRS drives are NO GOOD ? 730 HP @ 7400 an they raced more than


just 40 miles back then. More like 140 miles in the production class, imagine that !

L.S.

Re: 10 years ago
 

We almost got to race against Fever in the 1996 race at Lake Winni but someone forgot the prop nuts. Fever made it to the milling area and had nothing when the green flew.

No doubt, Fever was the greatest B boat of it's time.

Re: 10 years ago
 

That Fever boat was one running son of a gun I loved to watch that boat run
Sharkey Were you in the apollo 2 shadow cat when it rolled 360* in nj?

Re: 10 years ago
 

Actually that same day after the race I was asked to join the team. I figured what was the chances of that ever happening again...So I said yes..... :D
Besides they needed a fiberglass guy on the team after that anyway... :eek:

Re: 10 years ago
 

Tim So who did they get to do the fiberglass work? :D :D :D
How did that shadow cat run in those days?

Re: 10 years ago
 

Sharkey: any more pics from that race in MA back in 1990, love the late '80's and early '90's stuff, any more?, thanks:Matt

Re: 10 years ago
 

:drink:
We had it running right around 100+ w/triples Merc 2.4s EFIs

Fobes, I wasn't much of a camera man back then, but you may enjoy this library of offshore: http://njppc.com/librarypreface.htm

Re: 10 years ago
 

Way Cool pics! :D

Re: 10 years ago
 

Shockwave turn Instigator

Re: 10 years ago
 

We USED to build champions :D

Re: 10 years ago
 

JC,

Good stuff, it brings back good memories of the Point Pleasant races. Back then, the early 90's, I thought B class was the best for the race fan, with Fever, and Art Lilly's Fountain. You guys were definitely a little nuts from what I remember, fearless that is. I thought Armed and dangerous was a great set-up, it seemed to run good. Keep it coming with the old school memories.

Re: 10 years ago
 

Actually I think he was referring to (used) parts... :eek: But I could be wrong.... :confused:

Re: 10 years ago
 

Yo JC..I was looking at some of those pics..is the B 16 boat in 1993 a 30 Scarab??

Re: 10 years ago
 

28 Manta oh and call me Slappy. :evilb: :evilb:

Re: 10 years ago
 

I thought B-1 "Muscle" was one of the most famous

Re: 10 years ago
 

That's too recent. Muscle started racing in B class in 1996. Fever started probably 10 years before then.

Another great B boat was Dragon Lady. And of course, my favorite, Mr. Technology.
http://www.homestead.com/njoffshore/files/mrtpp.jpg

Re: 10 years ago
 

okay, thanks for the update!! I used to watch the races at Pt. Pleasant every year. They were great races. I am from Morristown, N.J.

Re: 10 years ago
 

Lots a good B class action back then ...

Jawanna
Obsession
Mr.tech.
Buckshot
Heartbeat
GrtLakesCaster
ect ......

Re: 10 years ago
 

The B Classes actually started to falter when the canopied B boats came into existence.

Re: 10 years ago
 

Absolutely .... raised the bar , and took the "Sportsman" class guys out of the loop so to speak !!! :(

Re: 10 years ago
 

They look like Super Vees to me. :D

Same thing happened to A Class. Damn that Will Smith :p

Speaking of Buckshot. They'll be featurered in the next issue of EBM magazine.

Re: 10 years ago
 

If you want to go back in time, look at all the boats that raced with APBA in 1996.

http://www.biggerhammer.net/offshorepage/teams.html

Re: 10 years ago
 

There's a blast from the past !!!!

Thanks Ron !

Re: 10 years ago
 

Or in simplier times, the classes were very straightforward, Production with the 280hp/350 cu.in MerCruiser(s) and TRS Drives, or earlier Volvo 270/280's, then Modified, like the 27' Magnum Sport's with small block tunnel rams, and #2 Speedmasters, and Finally Open Class. Your point on canopies was good, tehnology certainly went crazy in the past 10 years with performance. I do like F-1, an F-2 classes,

JC, what class, will you race in next?