I believe the winningest offshore boat of all time. The boat won 27 of the 40 races it entered. But after Peter Aitkin sold it to Nick Cutro, it caught fire and sank 20 miles from the end of the 1987 Port Huron Michigan race. Peter won World titles in the boat in 1983 and 1984. He also won the US Championships in 1982 and 1983. Cutro won the 1986 World Championship and the 1987 US Championship in the boat. Searace
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01-22-2015 11:00 AMLast edited by Serious News; 01-22-2015 at 07:44 PM.
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01-22-2015 12:36 PMLast edited by Serious News; 01-22-2015 at 07:50 PM.
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01-22-2015 08:45 PM
After the fire @ the Port Huron race our owner of the Magic race team was Bob Kehrig. Bob was friends with Nick & the one who supplied the crains for this race. Bob K & our race team stood by making sure Nicks damage cat was pulled out of the water carefully. This where one of my biggest mistakes took place I introduced Nick to Jim Klem. [Klems Gems,, Aero, Lancer, Awesome] Klem told Nick he would rebuild this cat for him if he could make a new deck cat mold off it. Klem screwed Nick & his boat & it took Nick forever to get it back from Klem. Nick would eventually fix the deck himself paint it yellow & race again with the Pennzoil name. After that I dissolve a 15 year friendship with Klem as I knew he would stop at nothing & Lie, lie, lie. All the bad finally caught up with Klem a few years ago & did us & the boat building world a favor . More can be seen here.
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01-23-2015 05:55 PM
The KAAMA team like most racers would cut the drive skegs off for speed, a practice APBA would later ban. The clarity & color of these pic's are GREAT.
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01-23-2015 07:35 PMOK here is my favorite photo of Betty Cook. Great shot as the boat leaps out of the water, but if you look closer you will notice off to her left is a wake of a boat that is in front of her. Yes, that was my boat out front. This photo was used on a boating magazine cover. I autographed the cover and gave it to her and asked her to hang it in her shop to give both she and John Conner more motivation. John told me later, she never hung it up!
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01-26-2015 05:56 PMBernie had been running the hydroplane Miss Budweiser in the Unlimited class for a few years and then in the mid 70's hr decided to take a shot at offshore too. The first boat he sponsored was Tommy Adams in one of his 38 Signatures. Then he was quick to pick up Preston Henn in his 38 foot Bertram who stayed the primary Natural Light boat until 1980. If you also look on P 281 under the top photo, you will see where John states that Bernie would sometimes have two Michelob Lights in the same race. Both Betty Cook amd Tom Gentry were also sponsored by Bernie later in their careers. Joel Halpern who was owner and driver of Beep Beep for many years also accepted Michelob Light sponsorship for his 38 foot Cougar cat that he was killed in.
When I walked up the ramp from my boat after winning the Bushmills race in California, Bernie was at the top of the ramp waiting for me. He told me that Preston was talking about retiring and he would like me to become the next Natural Light sponsored boat. I thanked him but declined. I had spent two long years finishing that boat and now to just repaint it was not the right thing to do. In hindsight, it would have saved me a lot of money of my own. The following year I did not pass up the opportunity and was sponsored by the Economic Development Department of Puerto Rico. The name on the boat was Rums of Puerto Rico.Light travels faster than sound....that is why some people appear bright until we hear them speak!!
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01-27-2015 10:32 AMLast edited by Serious News; 01-27-2015 at 09:48 PM.
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01-27-2015 07:28 PM
Probably the most famous boat designed by Fabio Buzzi is CESA 1882. Completely restored in 2006, this glorious monohull is again racing with the dress of Red FPT.
Red FPT won the Cowes - Torquay - Cowes 2008 and 2010 race in 2h 18' 5' at an average speed of 91 mph.
This incredible mono hull was born from a project that went wrong: Nitro, of 1985, was a losing boat for the old same reason: it was too heavy!
With four diesel engines by Iveco and with the first two speed gearboxes of the offshore history, Nitro raced in class 1 of the European Championship with very little success, and was later converted into a comfortable pleasure boat.
For the 1986 racing season the boat was totally rebuilt, and painted red: a much quicker color than the white of project Nitro, and was given four new Iveco engines of 600 Hp (which lasted for few minutes!), without any gearbox. The new boat was very fast, but not very reliable, winning only the Cowes-Torquay with the name Rolly-Go.
The next year (1987) the boat raced with some more luck and the name Groupe Luchiare, powered by the first four Seatek engines: it won the last race of the season and it conquered the third place at the Key West World Championship.
In 1988 the boat got its most celebrated name: CESA 1882, after the sponsor, who was a silver jeweler. During that season it won more than every other boat in the world: 17 consecutive podiums, with 3 second places and 14 first places. It's not only Italian, European and World Champion for the U.I.M., but also, in November, World Champion for the A.P.B.A. in Key West and winner of the Miami-Nassau-Miami.
During 1989 the boat is named Gancia dei Gancia and, driven by Stefano Casiraghi and Romeo Ferraris, in Atlantic City it wins again the World Championship, being the only boat to take it two times in a row.
But in 1990 the U.I.M. decides to penalise diesel engines, and for Gancia dei Gancia is the end. It's sold to the japanese Yoshiro Kitami and compete with the name Tecno in the first Venezia-Montecarlo, winning al the legs but the first one, where it pile up an overwhelming gap of more than six hours.
Then it races in the Superboat class in USA, with the name Super Hawaii.
Then it's the beginning of the dark ages: the boat is lost in some american shipyard, where the english pilot Drew Langdon re-discovers it and decides to bring it back home.
This incredible and winning boat is also on the 31st place of the ranking of the most beautiful boats of every time ("Motor Boat & Yachting" - August 2004) and is still considered the icon of modern offshore.
It's was restored by FB Design in 2006 with the utmost care, exactly as it was, and is now racing again with the name of Red FPT.
With Red FPT Fabio Buzzi won for the third time in UK, the most prestigious world offshore race, the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes 2008 of 182 miles.
Red FPT completed the race in 2h 18' 5' at an average speed of 91 mph.
Thanks to: http://www.fbdesign.it/history-racing/cesa1882Last edited by Serious News; 01-27-2015 at 09:13 PM.
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