1995 World Championships in Key West
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03-23-2016, 10:15 AM
#24
I saw the video and searched to see if he made it and I found this tread. Hope he recovered but probably slim chance he is perfect now.
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03-23-2016, 12:38 PM
#25
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Thanks!
05-31-2016, 06:59 PM
#26
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Wow, I guess time makes you forget! I raced both '94 +'95 in A-Class. What a crazy number of boats, I ran my 22' Velocity in A class against 35 boats in 94 and Drove the Ale House A class boat in 95, against 28boats.
I still remember the gust of wind while we were washing our boat and soon heard Gentry went over at that moment! There was a tropical storm getting ready to hit the Keys that night. Another crazy thing that happened in "94, that most knew nothing about, was a barrel role by a 30ft Velocity on the rough leg. We were behind them when out of nowhere, their boat did a complete 360deg barrel role. It was amazing, as the navigator fell out while the boat was upside down in the air. The boat landed right-side up and the navigator swam back to the boat, climbed back in and they finished the race!
The next year I Lost a good friend in Pepe' and Carlos was in a coma for almost a month! I still remember seeing Pepper's boat stopped and not being able to recognize who's boat, or what was left of it was floating at the waterline.
Boy, after all those years and about 15yrs away from racing, this post really brought back memories!
I still remember the gust of wind while we were washing our boat and soon heard Gentry went over at that moment! There was a tropical storm getting ready to hit the Keys that night. Another crazy thing that happened in "94, that most knew nothing about, was a barrel role by a 30ft Velocity on the rough leg. We were behind them when out of nowhere, their boat did a complete 360deg barrel role. It was amazing, as the navigator fell out while the boat was upside down in the air. The boat landed right-side up and the navigator swam back to the boat, climbed back in and they finished the race!
The next year I Lost a good friend in Pepe' and Carlos was in a coma for almost a month! I still remember seeing Pepper's boat stopped and not being able to recognize who's boat, or what was left of it was floating at the waterline.
Boy, after all those years and about 15yrs away from racing, this post really brought back memories!
06-01-2016, 04:49 PM
#27
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Look at the boats and how many boats are in each class!
Final World Championship Standings
Superboat Cat
1 Alcone Motorsports
2 Nuff Respect
3 Jaws
4 Budweiser
5 Breezes
Superboat Vee
1 La Gran Argentina
2 INXS
3 Admiral Casino Tivoli
4 Tweet Revenge
5 Cigarette Lady
6 Flyer
Open
1 Recovery
2 How Sweet It Is
3 Heavy Metal
4 Ohio Steel
5 Budweiser
6 Katana
7 Brooks Athletic Shoes
8 Zero Defect
9 Villa D' Este
Modified
1 Carlos N Charlies
2 Udderly Fantastic
3 Harry's Hoffbrau
Placement beyond 3rd not available at time of posting
Pro 1
1 Restore Marine Products
2 Patriot
3 High Risk
4 Risktaker
5 Pennzoil
6 Touchdown
7 Hobie Sunglasses
8 Euromarine Special
9 Venus Swimwear
10 Catch This
11 Kamikaze
12 Falcon Racing
13 Black Shadow
Offshore D
1 Ocean Spray
2 C.T. Peppers
3 Nightmare
4 Predator
5 Kal Kustom
6 How Sweet It Is Too
7 Team Eriesistible
8 Airborne
9 Priority
10 Rascal
11 Dragon Lady
12 J.H. Electric Special
13 Pepsi XL
Offshore C
1 Harrah's 777
2 No Mercy
3 Sierra/Klotz
4 American International
5 Sudden Impact
6 Courageous Cat
7 OPBRA's Intense
8 Cat Can Do
9 Armed and Dangerous
10 Locomotion
11 Slam Jams
Sportsmans B
1 Buzzi Buzzard
2 Obsession Race Team
3 Instigator
4 Gulfwind's Velocity
5 Mr. Technology
6 Great Lakes Caster
7 Heartbeat
8 Southwest Securities
9 Jawanna
10 Miss Calculation
11 Magic Potion
12 Powerplay Racing
13 Tsunami
14 B-Fast
15 Buckshot
16 High Seas Technology
17 Imagine That
18 Beeper City Racing
19 Mr. K/ Frank's Marine
20 Shockwave
21 Twocan Racing
22 Triton
-- Everglades Executioner
Stock
1 Conch Attack
2 Torco
3 Team Stalker
4 7 up The Uncola
5 Cutting Edge
6 Outcast
7 Secret Agent
8 Taz
9 Cobra
Production A
1 La Baby Argentina
2 Powerplay Racing
3 Archer Marine Scarab
4 Flashpoint
5 Excalibur
6 What's Instore?
7 Team Progression
8 Quarter King
9 Mediamaster
10 Frank's Marine/ Hooligans
11 Breathless
12 Tabu
13 Ale House Racing
14 Team Hog's Breath
15 Team Exciter
16 Scatterbrain
17 Ballistic
18 Pure Energy
19 Team Chicago
20 Team Hardcore
21 Shogun
22 Pantera
23 Final Persuasion
24 Wizard of Oz
25 Hart Throb
26 Pitman Photo
27 Duces-R-Wild
28 Final Notice
Final World Championship Standings
Superboat Cat
1 Alcone Motorsports
2 Nuff Respect
3 Jaws
4 Budweiser
5 Breezes
Superboat Vee
1 La Gran Argentina
2 INXS
3 Admiral Casino Tivoli
4 Tweet Revenge
5 Cigarette Lady
6 Flyer
Open
1 Recovery
2 How Sweet It Is
3 Heavy Metal
4 Ohio Steel
5 Budweiser
6 Katana
7 Brooks Athletic Shoes
8 Zero Defect
9 Villa D' Este
Modified
1 Carlos N Charlies
2 Udderly Fantastic
3 Harry's Hoffbrau
Placement beyond 3rd not available at time of posting
Pro 1
1 Restore Marine Products
2 Patriot
3 High Risk
4 Risktaker
5 Pennzoil
6 Touchdown
7 Hobie Sunglasses
8 Euromarine Special
9 Venus Swimwear
10 Catch This
11 Kamikaze
12 Falcon Racing
13 Black Shadow
Offshore D
1 Ocean Spray
2 C.T. Peppers
3 Nightmare
4 Predator
5 Kal Kustom
6 How Sweet It Is Too
7 Team Eriesistible
8 Airborne
9 Priority
10 Rascal
11 Dragon Lady
12 J.H. Electric Special
13 Pepsi XL
Offshore C
1 Harrah's 777
2 No Mercy
3 Sierra/Klotz
4 American International
5 Sudden Impact
6 Courageous Cat
7 OPBRA's Intense
8 Cat Can Do
9 Armed and Dangerous
10 Locomotion
11 Slam Jams
Sportsmans B
1 Buzzi Buzzard
2 Obsession Race Team
3 Instigator
4 Gulfwind's Velocity
5 Mr. Technology
6 Great Lakes Caster
7 Heartbeat
8 Southwest Securities
9 Jawanna
10 Miss Calculation
11 Magic Potion
12 Powerplay Racing
13 Tsunami
14 B-Fast
15 Buckshot
16 High Seas Technology
17 Imagine That
18 Beeper City Racing
19 Mr. K/ Frank's Marine
20 Shockwave
21 Twocan Racing
22 Triton
-- Everglades Executioner
Stock
1 Conch Attack
2 Torco
3 Team Stalker
4 7 up The Uncola
5 Cutting Edge
6 Outcast
7 Secret Agent
8 Taz
9 Cobra
Production A
1 La Baby Argentina
2 Powerplay Racing
3 Archer Marine Scarab
4 Flashpoint
5 Excalibur
6 What's Instore?
7 Team Progression
8 Quarter King
9 Mediamaster
10 Frank's Marine/ Hooligans
11 Breathless
12 Tabu
13 Ale House Racing
14 Team Hog's Breath
15 Team Exciter
16 Scatterbrain
17 Ballistic
18 Pure Energy
19 Team Chicago
20 Team Hardcore
21 Shogun
22 Pantera
23 Final Persuasion
24 Wizard of Oz
25 Hart Throb
26 Pitman Photo
27 Duces-R-Wild
28 Final Notice
08-15-2016, 02:56 PM
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I've never seen these pictures - sure brings that tragic day back to light.
Thats our Navigator (Sarasota's own) Kevin Brown in the water assisting with the rescue effort. Mr K came apart running off our right side - heading towards the first turn. We were the first (only) boat at the scene for several minutes. With boat traffic all over us, Kevin did not hesitate to dive in and do everything he could to help the guys from Mr K. He really put himself in harms way without a second thought and I'm convinced he prevented this tragedy from being even worse.
Thanks for sharing the photos, Pepper...
Thats our Navigator (Sarasota's own) Kevin Brown in the water assisting with the rescue effort. Mr K came apart running off our right side - heading towards the first turn. We were the first (only) boat at the scene for several minutes. With boat traffic all over us, Kevin did not hesitate to dive in and do everything he could to help the guys from Mr K. He really put himself in harms way without a second thought and I'm convinced he prevented this tragedy from being even worse.
Thanks for sharing the photos, Pepper...
World has a funny way of working itself out to be a small place....as some years later, and after much curiosity as to what went wrong to cause the boat to fail so badly....I was talking to a former coworker of mine about boat racing in general, as I myself have become a fourth generation racer. In talking about the history of my family and racing, the accident came up in conversation when I was asked why my father had quit racing offshore. As soon as I mentioned the year and accident, and much to my amazement and intrigue, my (at the time) coworkers face went a little emotional....after finishing my story about the situation, he told me "I knew that boat well, as I worked at the power play factory at the time and built it for them (amongst other workers).
The story (as told to me) of the failure of the boat starts with the factory....when they built the boat, they built it light and with full bulkheads running from the cockpit forward and extending from the keel to the deck, effectively sealing access off, but greatly increasing the strength of the boat. However, when the boat was delivered to the team, they were unhappy with the lack of access. So, someone (outside of the factory) came up with the idea of cutting out the centers of all the bulkheads so that they could access the entire bow area, which apparently lead to a massive decrease in the structural rigidity of the boat. As it was said to me, "they just cut the holes in the bulkheads too damn big.....".
Fast forward to the accident, and we all know how things unfortunately ended....
