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cashbrain
11-29-2009, 02:04 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0kc1SzY2bQ&feature=related

I didn't know he raced a Cigarette..anyone know where this boat is now?

Brownie
11-30-2009, 07:42 AM
I think that boat had SternPowr drives.

DAREDEVIL
11-30-2009, 09:38 AM
Isn't that the Michelob Light Boat with #3's ????
Now Crazy Creek !!??

BattleCry
12-01-2009, 10:44 PM
Somewhere, there is a village missing its idiot.

OneBadInjun
12-01-2009, 10:59 PM
:iagree:
Somewhere, there is a village missing its idiot.

OneBadInjun
12-01-2009, 11:04 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0kc1SzY2bQ&feature=related

I didn't know he raced a Cigarette..anyone know where this boat is now?Who did this filming? Not bad film work, but the commentator sucks.

HIGH LIFE
12-01-2009, 11:23 PM
He also had a 39' Cig BUBBLE DECK, it's on ebay now, at LSU...."HIGH LIFE"

cashbrain
12-01-2009, 11:35 PM
Ya...forgot about that one. I saw it run in NOLA and it run incredible..
(it didn't have stern drives:driving: )

glassdave
12-01-2009, 11:50 PM
Who did this filming? Not bad film work, but the commentator sucks.

That would be our own T2X. I believe he did these on the fly (literally . . . in the chopper :D).
He is to offshore what Frank Gifford is to football . . . .

Fast Shafts
12-02-2009, 12:27 AM
Wasn't Frank a legend in his own mind??

glassdave
12-02-2009, 12:32 AM
Wasn't Frank a legend in his own mind??


heck i dont know . . . i dont really know much about football. I was just try'in to think of that guy i always heard on those NFL news reels :D

wasnt that Frank? . . . . or Chris Schenkel? . . . . one of those guys ? . . . . anyway, Rich is like whoever that guy was :D . . . the voice of offshore racing

cashbrain
12-02-2009, 10:10 AM
Did you guys happen to read the thread topic by chance?

Toasty
12-02-2009, 10:14 AM
sure it was rich? i thought it was the man right before rich. kinda doesnt sound like rich.
crist my ears stink anyway. too much small blocks and open headers on the sutphen

happy holidays
Christian

smokeybandit
12-02-2009, 12:03 PM
Definitely not Rich on that one.

Now back to the thread. There is a pic out there of Popeye's in huge seas. Looks like something out of Deadliest Catch. I believe it was in one of the races in Europe. If anyone has a copy they should post it. Very cool pic.

T2x
12-02-2009, 02:07 PM
That would be our own T2X. I believe he did these on the fly (literally . . . in the chopper :D).
He is to offshore what Frank Gifford is to football . . . .

Actually that's not me doing the announcing........I started with Phil shortly afterward.......

T2x
12-02-2009, 02:18 PM
I believe that is the Popeye's boat that landed on top of Joel Halpern's Cat, Beep Beep, injuring Joel fatally, the following year at New Orleans...... The accident occured in the pre race milling area when Popeye's was planing off and the Beep Beep, Aluminum Cougar sort of drove under the bow of the monohull. I saw Al shortly after and he was devastated. There was a lawsuit and some settlement was reached. I may be wrong, but think that was Al's first race boat. He came back into the sport, thankfully, with the old Satisfaction, Cougar Cat which he raced for a short time. He also raced Mike Drewry's Open class, outboard, 36' Maelstrom in one event, prior to unveiling the first of his four engined Cougar Superboats.

That accident is the reason why you have the pre-race off plane clockwise circles that are still in use today. This assures that all boats are going in the same direction and at a slow speed. In the old days the boats randomly ran around waiting for the start boat to pick them up.....

T2x

h2oMag
12-02-2009, 04:18 PM
Here are a few pic's I shot of Popeyes racing on the Detroit river in the early 80's.

Black Tornado
12-02-2009, 06:29 PM
Isn't that the Michelob Light Boat with #3's ????
Now Crazy Creek !!??

Not the former Ippolito's Scarab 38' but a original Cig. 37'6 sister boat of the Jacoby's Ajac Hawk.

NNRT
12-02-2009, 07:20 PM
Actually that's not me doing the announcing........I started with Phil shortly afterward.......

It was my lawyer friend Doug Calhoun who was pressed into service. I just told him to say what he saw - he did - !

All these Memories - wow -

Phil

chewiekw
12-02-2009, 09:54 PM
Didn't Al have an old school Cig with the bubble deck and a scarab?

h2oMag
12-04-2009, 11:42 AM
I believe the Popey Cig became Warren's Cervini, Stiletto.. Around 1982 I took this shot at the down river Detroit race.

cashbrain
12-04-2009, 01:32 PM
That's a great pic !!
Love the Top Banana boat !

fund razor
12-04-2009, 01:47 PM
I believe the Popey Cig became Warren's Cervini, Stiletto.. Around 1982 I took this shot at the down river Detroit race.

Where is that location? Looks familiar, but different.

Top Banana
12-04-2009, 03:07 PM
That's a great pic !!
Love the Top Banana boat !

Thank you....BUT....I sold that boat to the new owner and part of the agreement was that he would take off the name.......not only did he keep the name, but take a look at the number he requested....666

That is definitely not my number..... and that was not me in that boat in that season.

cashbrain
12-04-2009, 03:12 PM
Very cool boat..was that your original hull or someone else's ?

dnebo
12-04-2009, 04:28 PM
Where is that location? Looks familiar, but different.

It is the Portifino Restraunt in Wyandotte Mi.
Leopa stops thete every year for the fall Poker run.

The 20' Cigarette group also stops when it comes to town.

h2oMag
12-04-2009, 07:46 PM
It is the Portifino Restraunt in Wyandotte Mi.
Leopa stops thete every year for the fall Poker run.

The 20' Cigarette group also stops when it comes to town.

Right you are, nocigarette's dad was was a owner there and helped bring the race to Wyandotte. :cheers2:

fund razor
12-05-2009, 07:22 AM
It is the Portifino Restraunt in Wyandotte Mi.
Leopa stops thete every year for the fall Poker run.

The 20' Cigarette group also stops when it comes to town.

Ok. I knew that it looked very familiar. Thanks.

phragle
12-05-2009, 03:10 PM
Ive been there :)