Originally Posted by Steve 1 (Post 3177403)

Yes freaked the Big Boss out, he drove during this event ,Goes with the Job, saw a way to get the gearcase up and clear but still have good water flow.

Originally Posted by mastercraft240 (Post 3177430)

Sounds like you would of loved a gopro back in the day:lolhit:

Originally Posted by Steve 1 (Post 3177385)

The first time I saw a Cobra (Harry O) run in open sea was in 77 during the Magnum Marine Bahamas race, Real impressive!! I was running a 30 Corsa and we swapped lead a dozen times sometimes running a couple feet apart, lost a bottom and the Bacardi race was now upon us,
Got another boat together and dialed in @1:00 Race morning 4 Ambassadors dock Anyway Frog Joel Helperns driver came down and said the boss wanted to see me, the deal was Joel wanted me to run a 32 Cobra and was going to sponsor me with a hull and deck.

With that hull Always turn the props out you need NO transom lift the props, we always ran Mercury props, choppers on the outboard boats ,Offshore Cleavers on the race stuff and Mercury 3 and 4 Blades on the inboards.

The Chine was flared out in the aft on the old hull and looked funkey but it worked well.

The hull has enough bow flair to keep you out of trouble but still allowing the boat to settle in a little and fly straight off the wave crests ( had a ring side seat for a 100 miles) in short there was nothing I would change.

Originally Posted by Steve 1 (Post 3177385)

The first time I saw a Cobra (Harry O) run in open sea was in 77 during the Magnum Marine Bahamas race, Real impressive!! I was running a 30 Corsa and we swapped lead a dozen times sometimes running a couple feet apart, lost a bottom and the Bacardi race was now upon us,
Got another boat together and dialed in @1:00 Race morning 4 Ambassadors dock Anyway Frog Joel Helperns driver came down and said the boss wanted to see me, the deal was Joel wanted me to run a 32 Cobra and was going to sponsor me with a hull and deck.

With that hull Always turn the props out you need NO transom lift the props, we always ran Mercury props, choppers on the outboard boats ,Offshore Cleavers on the race stuff and Mercury 3 and 4 Blades on the inboards.

The Chine was flared out in the aft on the old hull and looked funkey but it worked well.

The hull has enough bow flair to keep you out of trouble but still allowing the boat to settle in a little and fly straight off the wave crests ( had a ring side seat for a 100 miles) in short there was nothing I would change.

Originally Posted by wideawake (Post 3177456)

Steve, wern't you running with Paul Haggerty then?

Originally Posted by wideawake (Post 3177458)

Frog worked for me for a while.

He was something else.

I had forgotten all about him, until I read your post.

Originally Posted by Steve 1 (Post 3177459)

I was racing out of his Shop and Stan was doing my motors we ran a Orange 30 Corsa called Switch ,Anglo and Paul were on Murphy's Boat Cocktails ,we built a lot of cool boats there including Elswick's race stuff. Tom Murphy had a artist paint Cocktail glasses with olives,limes and swizel sticks on his boat, I had a guy paint broken cocktail glasses on my deck with olives rolling away.

Ole Tom went nuts in the middle of the night and was yelling his head off all kinds of crap the long and short I must of put the Mojo on him he Broke going out of Government cut headed for Bimini.

Originally Posted by Steve 1 (Post 3177461)

Yes he was Frog came up and said in frog talk "hey the old man wants to see you upstairs" Anglo used to work for Joel back when he was racing overseas.

Originally Posted by wideawake (Post 3177462)

Steve, do you remember Fred Seymour, worked for Stan. Fred was my navigator.

Angelo, another Blast from the Past.

Tom always had a hair-trigger temper as I remember.

Originally Posted by wideawake (Post 3177463)

Last I heard, Frog was working for a high-end car restorer in Pompano.