My dad and I saw Barry at the Miami show on Thurs. - yes he does in fact still own Ghost Rider. He is having the engines rebuilt by Merc....

Hey Ron - we looked for you but you had gone already for the day... Hope we get to meet you in person sometime soon.

Chatim,
Why don't you come to the OPA meeting this Saturday at Smitty's Marina in Brick NJ? There is talk of doing a P6 Class for boats under 24'. It would be cool to see one of the Bananas on the course again! I'm sure Ron will also be at the meeting.

Bringing this thread TTT for new OSO member JAdams.
Check out post 138 for a pic of your dad's boat. Post 100 is "Adios Gringo", a 27 Signature.

Anyone know more about this boat? Had to be owned by a futures trader.

Thanks. Great thread.

"Limit Up" was raced by Michael Doxford from England, the boat was a 35 Cigarette, later became "Benihanna"

this sure makes me realize what a pup i am. i dont know chit about the history of this sport, thought i did,, i love thses threads !!!

thanks

bringing this one ttt guys - I can't get enough of it . . . who has photos of Aronow's original Cigarette? I know there has to be someone in Miami that snapped some shots way back

Harry

The boat pictured is a 35 Cigarette running in the Key West race in 1976.

Michael Doxford was a commodity broker from London who raced all over the world. He and co-driver Tim Powell raced both 35 and 40 foot Cigarettes.

As a team they won 9 races in the the '77 season, most of them in far away places like South Africa and South America.

Those guys had a great way of travelling too. At the '78 race in Mar Del Plata, we all flew into Buenos Aires first and then flew down to Mar Del Plata on smaller planes.

Limit Up and company came into Buenos Aires on the Concorde from Europe no less.

There is a great shot of this 35 in a race somewhere, the angle of the shot makes it look like it is jumping over the actual spectator fleet.

Boby Davis of B&C had it hanging in his shop for a while, maybe someone else has a copy out there. It is one of the all time best offshore photos.

Someone else said they thought this was the Old Benihana boat, it was not. I am the present owner of the old Benihana 35 Cigarette. It was the 6th 35 footer ever made and began it's racing life as Spirit with Hal Sahlman.

Stinger, does this look familiar? I finally found it. That's me and my sister a long, long time ago.

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This was on Howard Quam's #45 "FlapJack".
Keith Hazell was his throttleman until the end of 1979.
"FlapJack" was a 38' Bertram in Kevlar that year.

Howard and Keith are both gone now.