Searace, John Crouse, Key West World's, 1984
"If there was any one boat that literally blew everybody's minds at Key West, it had to be the drab grey diesel powered 29' Buzzi cat Grey Iveco, the only entry from Italy, that cousins Emilio and Marco Riganti drove to victory in the combined APBA Modified catamaran and UIM Class II classes.
Designed and built by Italy's innovative Fabio Buzzi, the little boat simply blew the doors off the fables gasoline powered boats using two 360 c.I., 450 hp turbocharged Iveco/Fiat engines which had already run 10 other races!"
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06-12-2016 01:23 PMThe last time I chatted with Phil he said his brother had thousands of slides that Phil had tossed out, he only kept what he thought were the best. That is what Chris now has and is digitizing.
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06-16-2016 12:36 PM
Atlantic City NJ Oct 1989
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07-02-2016 11:50 PM
The 35' Conquest Catamaran that Mark Lavin lost his life in at the 1986 World's in Key West.
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07-14-2016 10:39 AM
Here's some great footage of us racing against the Palombi's. An no wisecracks about the interview please . I was only 18 at the time.
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07-21-2016 10:24 PM
Along that line, the first reference to What-A-Package in Searace goes this way, "In the 160 mile New Jersey Offshore Grand Prix off Point Pleasant, New Jersey on July 11, 1984....... Robert Weinstein's 30' Chris Cat Smokey And The Bandit took over (first place), defeating Dominick Palombi's What-A-Package by seven seconds".
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07-22-2016 02:05 PM
Funny thing about that is we didn't actually win. This was my first race ever and it was really foggy. The entire P class fleet, except for us and What-A-Package, got lost at the BA buoy. We had them beat by way more than 7 seconds but about a half mile from the finish the left side came out of gear. It ended up being a stupid cotter pin. We had to limp in for third.
The reason everyone thought we won was that because of the fog nobody really knew how many laps were completed or still needed to be run. We, along with everyone else, thought we finished, but when What-A-Package kept running we decided to stick with him and run what we thought was an extra lap. It turns out that the "extra" lap was the actual last lap.
That's racing!
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07-23-2016 07:44 AMWell, that's not the only error in Searace, but it is really interesting to know........
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