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Great thread!!! :drink:
Dan

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If anyone can the Candyman can. :evilb:

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Lee,
Thanks for the info! "Lil Rhino" ended up sold and raced in NJ by a neighbor of mine.

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Okay, I think I detect some interest in real offshore racing again.....you know the kind where you are in the middle of the race and you look all around you and can see nothing but ocean for 360 degrees.

An old friend contacted me and said that there might be an announcement of a real ocean race at the Miami Boat show. That is great.....however, do we have any interest in doing more than that one race?

How about Ft Myers to Dry tortugas to Key West?

or................filll in the blank

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"fill in the blank"

Miami to Bimini and bsck or
Miami Nassau
Miami to key west

or the grand daddy:

MIAMI to NEW YORK!!!!!!

Later, Pepe @ pantera boats

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here are few of a "veteren" that I'm particularly fond of.... :D

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more recent shots...

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Hey Bodyshot nice picture of Paul Lesnewski looking up at the camera. Obviously that shot was when he was on Stan Pike's boat Inferno.....Paul was my crew chief and throttleman when we moved into open class...he throttled the boat in California when we won the Bushmills.

Those shots of the old speedmasters used in Sports class really bring back the memories....those were very high tech back then......looks like you have done a great job in restoring that very good boat.

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thanks for the compliment...not mine though..raced with Greg DiRenzo a couple times...he since sold her to member "818181"...he has her in Connecticut.

Great Boat!... :D

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Here's a bunch from Key West - 1976...

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Key West '76 #2

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Key West #3

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Key West #5

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Key West #6

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Key West #7

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Key West #8

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Key West #9

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Now a few from Bacardi 1977

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Bacardi 1977 #2

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Bacardi 1977 #3

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Bacardi '77 #4...time to give me and the scanner a rest...

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If it was an SBI race you would still be waiting for the prize money!!

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NO RESTING!!!!!!!! Its just getting warmed up!

Great photos, keep em comming!!!!!!

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outstanding job scanning those great pics. Appreciate it, that's alot of work. Thanks!

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Great pics. It would be nice if you could narrate what boats i'm looking at.

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Although not my pics, I can help narrate,
Post 135:
#99 35 Cigarette Tom Gentry's "American Eagle"
#44 36 Cigarette
#126 "Head Hunter",30 Magnum, recently for sale in BoatTrader for $10,000
#M 18 "Beep Beep Too" 28' Cobra? Joel Halpern's first boat
Post 136
#P 257 28 Cigarette, "The Flying Machine"
Post 137
#68 "Really Ridiculous" 40' Cigarette
#257 The Flying Machine
#6 "Top Banana" 24' Banana
#M-18 "Beep Beep Too"
#76 38 Signature, Tom Adam's "Spirit of America"
#6 "Copper Kettle" one of Sandy Satullo's many boats-this one a 36 Cigarette
#13 "Bewitched" a 40 Cigarette, formally "Bounty Hunter"
Post 140
#US-1 "Beep Beep" the first 38 Cobra
#9 38 Bertram "Streaker" run by Preston Henn
Post 141
#4 Rocky Aoki's 38 Bertram "Benihanna"
#77 "Limit Up" 35 Cigarette, came over from England to race, owned by Michael Doxford
Post 144
#M-8 "Cocktails", 30 Corsa
#S-254 "Lil Rhino" 29 Mirage
Post 145
# 3 Joe Ippolitto's "Natural Light", 35 Cigarette

Time to get to work! :D

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Does anyone have any more photos of the Cocktails boat(s), if so please post them

Thanks

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DyD,
I've got some "old fashion" pictures of "Cocktails", maybe I can get somone to scan and post them-being that I'm computer illiterate.

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Thanks, I appreciate it.

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these are reposts of the ones that got lost

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another

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more

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Thanks for the pics of the little Rhino in post #144. My buddy and myself own a 79' 29mirage - Pete Smith's old pleasure version of the Wolverine. Playing with it in the summers and restoring it during the winters.

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Post #157 Jerry Jacoby and Wayne Vickers as throttleman in Brut.

Wayne was one of the pros in the game and had been around many years, mainly with Joel Halpern in Beep Beep during the years he was national champion.

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Bob, your younger than I am, how do you know this stuff? Waterboy gave me his secret, what's yours?

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Best thread EVER!!

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Oh...... I don't know about that....most of this stuff is pretty "obsolete"....

One thing though....Tommy Adams Signature looks an awful lot like a Hustler.........?

:p :p :p :p

T2x

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Post # 143 and 144 shows some of the "pleasure boaters" of that era in Miami in the background.

You will notice a pale green 28 SS Cigarette and a red Magnum 35 and also a 36 foot Performer which was Bill Elswick's company. That maroon boat was the show boat that year for Performer at the Miami Boat Show. It had triple engines with TRS drives.

The dry pits were located on the bridge leading over to the island right in front of the Four Ambassadors Hotel. As you can see, a lot of money was put into the tow rigs back in those days.....for the real big show offs they put a cap on the back of the pickup's.

I think that the 40 Cigarette..."Really Ridiculous" was formerly owned by Diamond Don, himself quite a character, who ended up deceased because of an indiscretion of some sort.

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Obsolete?? I didn't see that many egg beaters...

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I post 147, there is a 4 Mercury engine Magnum on the Bridge-I think the boat was called "Honey Bear", can anyone confirm this? :rolleyes: