Classic Offshore Pictures from Bugsy (Brian Moran)

**Ratickle** · 03-05-2011 01:34 PM

Nice stuff, thanks.....

**f_inscreenname** · 03-06-2011 02:50 AM

Nice!

**lucky strike** · 03-06-2011 12:53 PM

Great shots,thanks

**OneBadInjun** · 03-07-2011 09:02 PM

Peter Hidalgo & Paul Clauser, wonder what are they are doing these days?

**T2x** · 03-08-2011 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by OneBadInjun

Peter Hidalgo & Paul Clauser, wonder what are they are doing these days?

Pete the Prince was doing a little stint in Federal Camp the last time I heard...and Paul, sadly, passed away.

T2x

**OneBadInjun** · 03-10-2011 11:14 AM

Thats right...Paul pasted away just last year, I forgot. Last I heard, which was maybe 7 + years ago, the prince of darkness was out of jail. Anyone know what Pete is up to? thanks

**Ryan Beckley** · 03-11-2011 11:51 AM

google this and you'll find some good info on Pete...... I don't think he is "OUT"..... appellant peter hidalgo

**OneBadInjun** · 03-11-2011 12:16 PM

I think your right Ryan. I think he lost his court appeal. A lot to read.

**Ryan Beckley** · 03-11-2011 12:47 PM

He' lost several if you look back through all of that stuff. When I was a Kid in Key West, Pete was always super nice to me and a good guy. Livin The American Dream.....

**OneBadInjun** · 03-12-2011 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Ryan Beckley

Pete was always super nice to me and a good guy.

Likewise, to me.

**h2oMag** · 03-13-2011 10:27 PM

Was Pete's first cat a Skater 32' with one of the first canopy's around 1985? I remember everyone saying it looked like a RC toy boat. But when we raced against him in Modified class in 1986, 87 he was in his canopyed Shadow cat. Also was Pete's Shadow cat the old El Boss now with a canopy ? Than at the 1991 worlds Pete shows up in Key West with our old Motor City Magic Image cat with beaks added, needed to run in open class, now called Ray Ban, American Dream. Sadly his driver was killed in that race running in our old Image cat. I heard the old Image cat was in a boat yard down in the Key's rotting away.

**T2x** · 03-14-2011 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by h2oMag

Was Pete's first cat a Skater 32' with one of the first canopy's around 1985? I remember everyone saying it looked like a RC toy boat. But when we raced against him in Modified class in 1986, 87 he was in his canopyed Shadow cat. Also was Pete's Shadow cat the old El Boss now with a canopy ? Than at the 1991 worlds Pete shows up in Key West with our old Motor City Magic Image cat with beaks added, needed to run in open class, now called Ray Ban, American Dream. Sadly his driver was killed in that race running in our old Image cat. I heard the old Image cat was in a boat yard down in the Key's rotting away.

The American Dream was the old El Boss...... I don't recall Pete running a 32Skater in 1985...especially since the 32 Skater didn't appear until late 1986. I believe he was running his original Vee bottom in 1985 and 86.

**Ryan Beckley** · 03-14-2011 09:37 AM

He did have one of the first 32' Skater which he crashed. It later became Nightmare, which crashed again in Key West. The American Dream Shadow was El Boss then United Racing Engines then when he crashed the Skater Pete got it in 87. The American Dream later became Spirit of Puerto Rico. Pete and Peachy Perez brought the Ray Ban American Dream to Key West and turned it over off shore. Peachy was stuck in the boat and drowned. This was in about 1993 or 94 I believe

**Bobcat** · 03-14-2011 09:41 AM

Does anyone what boatyard in the Keys the Image Cat is at ?

**h2oMag** · 03-14-2011 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by Bobcat

Does anyone what boatyard in the Keys the Image Cat is at ?

Bob Owen a OSS, OPA offiicial saw it in the Key's about ten years ago. I have looked for it over the years when I have been down for the worlds with no luck.

**h2oMag** · 03-14-2011 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Ryan Beckley

He did have one of the first 32' Skater which he crashed. It later became Nightmare, which crashed again in Key West. The American Dream Shadow was El Boss then United Racing Engines then when he crashed the Skater Pete got it in 87. The American Dream later became Spirit of Puerto Rico. Pete and Peachy Perez brought the Ray Ban American Dream to Key West and turned it over off shore. Peachy was stuck in the boat and drowned. This was in about 1993 or 94 I believe

That's it Ryan, there was a 80's race on the USA network that brifely shows Pete's radical Skater. Bob Moore of Race Rock fame used it [Nightmare] for a canopy over the door way of his first Race Rock here in the Detroit area. When Bob closed the Detroit Race Rock he sold it. I don't know were it went after that, but some say that it was repaired.

**h2oMag** · 03-14-2011 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by T2x

The American Dream was the old El Boss...... I don't recall Pete running a 32Skater in 1985...especially since the 32 Skater didn't appear until late 1986. I believe he was running his original Vee bottom in 1985 and 86.

Rich it may have been 1986 when I first saw it. Pete's old Shadow sure did kick butt.

**Bobcat** · 03-14-2011 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by h2oMag

Bob Owen a OSS, OPA offiicial saw it in the Key's about ten years ago. I have looked for it over the years when I have been down for the worlds with no luck.

I'll keep an eye out for it, a lot of the older hulls sitting around the boatyards got hauled away after hurricane Wilma.