I miss the F1 days w / the 500 carb and efi. We had it going on and I'll never forget the good times we had. Sarasota , Toronto , W.Palm , Corpus , etc - deck to deck every lap! P-Class today is just not for me.
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10-11-2008 11:10 PM
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10-12-2008 09:46 PM
I saw you all the time at the races. I don't know if we spoke though. F1-96 Hollis Motorsports , SVL Solarized #33 , P3-96 PowerBoatTours and F2-62 Talisman Marine. It would be so simple to bring back the spec classes in the smaller boats!
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10-16-2008 09:42 PMWe can meet again in Key West.
You were at w palm '99. That was so fun running on those mountain swells.
In "99 I crewed Tivoli B7 for APBA and drove F2-71 Fountain in SBI. That was a fun year.
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10-16-2008 10:02 PMWe broke a drive and idled back. That was frightening wondering who was going to come from behind and land on us.
Sanborn and I witnessed V-76 with Lilly throttling for Jeff Harris carrying across the tops of some of those mountains. OMG I will never forget it.
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10-16-2008 10:08 PM
You are right on the money about somebody landing on each other. That was all that was on my mind. Are we going to land on somebody or vice versa. Man.... Lance Henrichsen - Warlock and Jo w/ Pantera duked it out. If F1 Came back w/ a 500 efi or carb I would have to build a new race boat and get back at it.
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10-16-2008 10:21 PMWell SVL in OSS is pretty close. There are some nice used ready boats available.
I got lucky Drive the IMCO boat a few times. Its one of the well attended classes. LOTO had 7 or 8.
Randy was faster than we were by 1 or 2 so I made him work to get around me. I pushed him around some the best I could. It took him 3/4 of a lap to get by. This was the last moment we were ahead of him. Had a good time.
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11-02-2008 06:08 AM
I owned and throttled F1-32 and also raced F2-16, They were my all time favorite classes, That is until it turned into checkbook racing and we didn't have the cake to be competitive. Anyway, it was a very exciting time in offshore, especially going into the first turn in St.Clair with 26 F-1's
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11-02-2008 10:13 AM
ahhhh the good ole days
Wife and I went to look at buying a f-2 boat to race in 2003
Cherie was risk manager for the APBA Silver cup series and we wanted to race and not just officiate
We were just about to pull the trigger on the boat when we started to see things falling apart
We decided to wait a year and that is when the wheels fell off of the class and the sport
This was the best decision we never made to buy the boat
I would still love to race but i am no longer in the financial position I was in then, and the factory classes would have to come back for me to get interested in competing
I envy you guys who raced and who are racing
I have been involved in many facets of offshore for years
I have owned many offshore boats, and we have put on great events (Smoke On The Water Poker Run and Grand Haven off shore races)
We can not go back, but we can go forward using lessons from the past I hope we learn and re apply some of the winning thought processes when it comes to racing
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11-03-2008 05:11 PM
Factory Classes were always my all time favorites. We tried very hard to keep the class alive. It was one of the best. Dave
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you: Jesus Christ and the
American Military. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
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11-04-2008 02:53 AMYea, You guys I remember like it was yesterday. Pops I miss you too. I hope our paths cross again soon.
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