Books out there...about period Offshore racing?
11-17-2013 | 10:36 PM
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Keep lobbying Brownie to write a book. More in that head then all the offshore books combined. Shooting out Aronows shop lights. Watching Don go down in the woods with a stuck throttle after swamping one of Brownies just finished Donzies. Hours of entertainment.
11-18-2013 | 05:19 PM
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Jeff
I could not find a publisher so I published it myself through Shutterfly. The problem is the cost was over $100 per book. So to make the value I sold the book and threw in a couple of offshore racing DVD's to go with the book.
If anyone knows of a small publisher that might take it on, I am all set to go. Blue Water Warriors was covering the period from 1970 to 1980. I planned to do a book for each decade, but that is as far as I got.
HORBA has so many original photos that are crying to be seen. Does anyone remember back in the 70's the boat that showed up for the New Jersey race that had some new ideas. It had steps and it tried to reduce the weight factor by building the hull and deck out of paper mache.
I could not find a publisher so I published it myself through Shutterfly. The problem is the cost was over $100 per book. So to make the value I sold the book and threw in a couple of offshore racing DVD's to go with the book.
If anyone knows of a small publisher that might take it on, I am all set to go. Blue Water Warriors was covering the period from 1970 to 1980. I planned to do a book for each decade, but that is as far as I got.
HORBA has so many original photos that are crying to be seen. Does anyone remember back in the 70's the boat that showed up for the New Jersey race that had some new ideas. It had steps and it tried to reduce the weight factor by building the hull and deck out of paper mache.
11-18-2013 | 07:10 PM
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Jeff
I could not find a publisher so I published it myself through Shutterfly. The problem is the cost was over $100 per book. So to make the value I sold the book and threw in a couple of offshore racing DVD's to go with the book.
If anyone knows of a small publisher that might take it on, I am all set to go. Blue Water Warriors was covering the period from 1970 to 1980. I planned to do a book for each decade, but that is as far as I got.
HORBA has so many original photos that are crying to be seen. Does anyone remember back in the 70's the boat that showed up for the New Jersey race that had some new ideas. It had steps and it tried to reduce the weight factor by building the hull and deck out of paper mache.
I could not find a publisher so I published it myself through Shutterfly. The problem is the cost was over $100 per book. So to make the value I sold the book and threw in a couple of offshore racing DVD's to go with the book.
If anyone knows of a small publisher that might take it on, I am all set to go. Blue Water Warriors was covering the period from 1970 to 1980. I planned to do a book for each decade, but that is as far as I got.
HORBA has so many original photos that are crying to be seen. Does anyone remember back in the 70's the boat that showed up for the New Jersey race that had some new ideas. It had steps and it tried to reduce the weight factor by building the hull and deck out of paper mache.
H20boater and I went to visit a fellow Firehawk racer who recently bought a house in Naples.
Can you guess who it is?
Jeff
11-18-2013 | 09:41 PM
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Sad that Horba hasten been updated for years. There is so many raceboats out there.
I even bought a website Raceboat.info (.com, .net, .org all got bought up in like a week while I was making up my mind
) thinking I would start a database and for sale /trader section. Couldn't get anyone interested (sellers, owners). I know people want to buy these boats. I guess folks would rather let them rot away.
When I was a kid watching races on the river and bay I'm sure I and a lot of others wished we had one of those race boats. Lucky enough I found someone who actually had one local a few years back and he was willing to sell. It was just dumb luck I found it because you would have never found it on eBay or craigs list. It would have been nice to just go to a site that appreciates the boat as well as it's history but.....
I even bought a website Raceboat.info (.com, .net, .org all got bought up in like a week while I was making up my mind
) thinking I would start a database and for sale /trader section. Couldn't get anyone interested (sellers, owners). I know people want to buy these boats. I guess folks would rather let them rot away. When I was a kid watching races on the river and bay I'm sure I and a lot of others wished we had one of those race boats. Lucky enough I found someone who actually had one local a few years back and he was willing to sell. It was just dumb luck I found it because you would have never found it on eBay or craigs list. It would have been nice to just go to a site that appreciates the boat as well as it's history but.....
11-19-2013 | 07:23 AM
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Jeff
I could not find a publisher so I published it myself through Shutterfly. The problem is the cost was over $100 per book. So to make the value I sold the book and threw in a couple of offshore racing DVD's to go with the book.
If anyone knows of a small publisher that might take it on, I am all set to go. Blue Water Warriors was covering the period from 1970 to 1980. I planned to do a book for each decade, but that is as far as I got.
HORBA has so many original photos that are crying to be seen. Does anyone remember back in the 70's the boat that showed up for the New Jersey race that had some new ideas. It had steps and it tried to reduce the weight factor by building the hull and deck out of paper mache.
I could not find a publisher so I published it myself through Shutterfly. The problem is the cost was over $100 per book. So to make the value I sold the book and threw in a couple of offshore racing DVD's to go with the book.
If anyone knows of a small publisher that might take it on, I am all set to go. Blue Water Warriors was covering the period from 1970 to 1980. I planned to do a book for each decade, but that is as far as I got.
HORBA has so many original photos that are crying to be seen. Does anyone remember back in the 70's the boat that showed up for the New Jersey race that had some new ideas. It had steps and it tried to reduce the weight factor by building the hull and deck out of paper mache.
How many did you print up last time and how long did they take to sell? There's always people on the historic section of OSO, so there must be some kind of market for it.
