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http://powerboatarchive2.co.uk/galleries/Library/Boat-Builders/USA/Conquest_photos.pdf

The 1987 pic looks like Key West.

From the archives in 1987 Ciasulli raced the Conquest cat in South West...

If you care to look at a previous post which indicates it was previously `Benihana`racing in 1982.

`Wolverine` raced in 1981.

Building can start the previous year,so unless you have access to...

That Active cat (Cougar Design),probably the 2nd one built,was one of,if not the first plastic OP 1.Not sure if Shadow can claim this for although about the same time,cannot be sure they were...

Chrysler Laser raced in 84 as well.

During this period results were hard to come by,being as the U.S. powerboat rags had reduced their coverage of offshore (Nordskog had fallen out with the East...

http://powerboatarchive2.co.uk/picture.php?/18125/category/24

Courtesy of the UK Branch of the Serious Offshore Historic Association.

`Cop that` as we say in slangville.

Oh dear,`A rat in a trap`.

Officially means gets into trouble,but is used to mean is killed.Could be spelt with a `c`.

I should go back to learning Italian for that tin boat.

Those were the days when a prominent magazine would cover the racing.One reason why we don`t see the coverage any more in major magazines is that the racing just doesn`t have a story to tell,unless...

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This was the only race that Surfury did in the U.S.

Extract from official CT programme for your amusement.

In those days the sponsor produced nice little booklets on the race.I`ve...

I`d say Sam Griffith Memorial Race quicker than you can type that lot out.

You`ll have me in floods of tears at this rate.

Yep,the only one.

They also ran a circuit race on the open sea as well,which in those days were boats like Levi monos as raced in the Paris 6hr race.Just right for Reggie Fountain before sampling...

Searace pages 54-65,although `cock ups` a plenty in the screed.Good ol John.

Note pic of Flying Fish was driven by Mike Trimming and Dick Staddon.Trimming was a premium apprentice at Vospers (i.e....

Don`t think anybody would have considered it,especially as God and his magnums held sway on the scene shortly afterwards.If you want a tin boat,start learning Italian and visit some offshore...

Ummmm!!!!!!

30 fathoms is about 180 feet and a league is about 8500 feet.

That`s correct, a Jap stressed the hull.He was in bits when the news came through of it`s sinking,although he wasn`t to blame.

You...

30 Fathoms.

Where`s Willie Meyers when you need him!

Had another check.The boat carried race No 2 in 1989,and the background looks more like Guernsey,but it didn`t do Guernsey,so it must be Cowes.

1989 Guernsey Worlds.

This is the old grey Seahawk Cat from 1985 that used to carry race No U1,then painted black with race No 25,then Reporter,then Ferrari Shipyard racing in Europe.

Absolutely.

Not so much a hull failure as the shafting ripping itself out.

Noboby was quite sure what happened in the rough waters of Lyme Bay,but we think the shaft strut fell apart.It was...

1966 is a real offshore era.Ghost Rider and all.

The1966 film that is referenced to Cal 500,is one that I had converted from VHS,way back and was the only chap who secured it from the BBC,who used...

For those who may be interested in their own Offshore history,and not many by all accounts,the photo is Merrick Lewis in Thunderbolt,in the 1966 Cyprus race,when Offshore racers toured the World in...

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Which U.S.driver won this World Championship race,where a boat with 100hp mercury came 2nd after 150 miles.

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From the archives, Gentry raced this in 1984/5 and then had it converted to Gentry Turbo Eagle for 1991/2.

It was listed as a 48ft Cougar then 50ft when converted,but that could be journo...

So,has NNRT changed nationality and become a Brit.I don`t think so.