Scott what time you heading over?

Scott give me a call if your going over. 863-5635

Tried to call ya but no answer. Left a message.

when you guys going?

I went to Gleasons just outside of Clayton Saturdaynight, not too fancy but it was A-Ok with me. Let me know when you guys are heading out, I will try to meet up with you.

Did your father have the HAIRY CANARY ? I built my first blower motor to get by that boat..lol

Anybody doing anything tonight???

Yes he did. What boat did/do you have? He had it for 19 years. Bought the Phantom after the Hairy Canary. (picture below of the 1974, 27' Magnum Sport he owned). That was a great boat for the time he had it.

Went to Filomena's last Wednesday for a couple of drinks and some food. A guy walks in wearing a Cigarette Racing visor, I apologize but I forgot his name, said he has a 36' Gladiator with staggered 525's. You never know who you will run into at any given time. Filomenas is not know to be a clubhouse/restaurant for the offshore boat enthusiasts in Gloucester/Camden county, but I was suprised to see another hot-rodder there, on a given winter night. Appetizers and Budweiser for me....and time to bull****, and hit on single women...

And my date that night was loaded (drunk), what a hot-mess.


I actually spent Saturday night home, that does not happen often. I should have checked this board, I would have met up with you (Craney).

I had a 24 baja NEVER E NUFF Yelloww/red and black stripes.. Had a 525 bandit motor in it and could never get bye the CANARY. forced me to go a blower motor , which led to more blower motors...lol.. He actually was the 1 who told me to try Mach propellers.. they always worked awesome on that hull..

Did you put in at Hargroves one day, me and my father were in the Magnum, we raced twice going north on the Delaware River (this was a yellow 24' Baja with Blower motors, motors were just done, the owner did not have enough prop, needed a larger wheel for the added power, waes that you?). I rememeber some of the boats he ran.


Funny you said he was the reason for wanting to go faster. In my childhood my father had 16' and 18' Donzi's, and a 20' Cigarette, and his friends had similar sized boats and every weekend they all went boating, and raced. So every Sunday night after a day of boating was the search for extra mph.

He kinda left the Magnum alone after a while (15 yeasr of tweaking) because he had no one left for those side-by-side races, either there were the 100 mph boats, or less than 80 mph boats. There were many boats that went in the 80-90 range, but none of his friends that he could have had a friendly rivalry with so that each would look for that added 1 or 2 mph which to some is not such a big deal, but is a huge deal when you buddy has you beat by a boat length at the end of a four or five mile race.

I wonder how many other people he was the catalyst for added power from back in the day? Glad to hear you tell me that, good stuff. One thing about my father he would race boats that UI thought he had no business turning around and going after (meaning faster boats), he did not like to lose but he hated not trying to race, he would rather race and lose that to not race at all, he would run anybody.

PS I see you have a 28' Skater with 2.5's. Now that is one awesome boat in my opinion.