CUV scores C-T-C victory 25 years after it's last C-T-C victory

[Steve 1]

Out of paranoia or necessity?

No they ran in big Water I guess expediency instead of having to dive into a sinking boat to retrieve it. I saw the Logic after we (under orders) set up a boat with two 2 man rafts the boat went down one was pulled out but in the rush the second was inflated on the way out of the round hole in the main bulkhead.

[Dude! Sweet!]

Ah, misunderstood your inference. Looks like a raft on the back of the Tussaud boat in my last post.

[olli]

It's a 41 correct?

38'

This is a 41':

[MikeyFIN]

and the difference can be seen in the pics where?

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Mr Roberts was Steve's first professional throttling job, the 1985 championship was the first of eight todate.

I have enough of a problem remembering what I did last week let alone 24 years ago! I do remember it was a strange week for us all, the shock of the loss of our team mates Dick & Mike was hard. Once the decision was made to continue racing we really did not have much time to think about what had happened as our boat was falling apart and needed re-riveting back together after each race, I cant even remember where we came in each race, just know we won, I still have the navigation charts from those races somewhere and the red ensign we flew.

This following year.. I would love to see you charts if you could find them

I'm really glad you guys participate here on the board.
I love this stuff, and it's great hearing about it from the guys that were there.

Me too

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Mk4 outboard and the longer Mk3 in the centre

Here is a pic from '08. Did it always have the boxes?






Thanks so much for your input here.

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Welcome! Pictures and proof please (ok, I'm just fishing to keep more oldschool discussion going here!)

It was AJ Jr's Mr. Roberts.

This boat was 1st overall (Driver: AJ Roberts, Throttle Man: Steve Curtis, Navigator: Me)

Score card:




Should be able to double click to read.

[FLYING FISH]

The ironic thing is that Trussardi was Alitalia Due which was co driven by Davy Wilson,and in actual fact a Picchiotti built hull not a CUV,although the CUV/Picchiotti politics has been documented on OSO by `Black Tornado` in the past.
The rear gunners seat is usually the givaway between a 38 and a 41.

[olli]

Mmmmh, FF are you sure that Alitalia 2 became Trussardi? Alitalia 3 looks more like it but is still different. Why would someone make all these changes to the deck?
I took the pics of Trussardi on the cradle and there was 3/86 (not sure about the 3) hammered in the boweye. Any ideas?

[smokeybandit]

Score card:




Should be able to double click to read.

Thanks for posting that. Always love to see my name at the top of any list. Which race program is that from?

Amzing that back then we had more boats in one class than they get in an entire now.

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Spirit of America Grand Haven , Aug 9, 1986

[Steve 1]

As I understand a lot of the Italian tin boats were Designed by Mr Shead and the first did not have any strakes they were added later on.

[Dude! Sweet!]

Very nice. Thanks guys! I see Sun International on there as well. As I recall that was the CUV that ultimately became Panatta's Thuraya right?

Jim any guess wether the Modified class "United Racing Engines" entry driven by Al Garbett was a Pantera?

[FLYING FISH]

CUV made deck changes to various CUV boats.

Alitalia Due looked much the same when it became Dry Martini 2 and then Ego.Then the deck seemed to be modified when it became Rothmans Ego and then Ouragon and then Trussardi.

Black Tornado could well comment on all this if he dialled in.Between us we have looked at these past boats to fiqure out the history and it`s quite a minefield believe me.

I can tell you that when the original Alitalia boats were drawn (strakes and all) for the Picchiotti build,the only other involvement by Don Shead was to extend the lines to 41ft.The construction drawings for the Alitalia boats were used for the CUV boats and presumably modified as most people do.They were a work of art ,alloy boats are,even back to the days of Thunderbird and Momma Maritime and the Vosper built Flying Fish.

Can`t comment on the bow stamp.Maybe a lifting code.

Alberto Smania had the Alitalia Tre eventually.

[Steve 1]

Davy and myself worked together on tooling projects and some other stuff, we were discussing Bottoms on the Italian Boats when something was mentioned about an early build without strakes that was ran and they were added later His comment was it ran fine, As for the drawings I can’t Imagine doing a set without the lift strips/spray rails being shown, I did not mean my comment that way.

[Dude! Sweet!]

And by the way, glad to see the european contingent finally finding your way over here. I always enjoy the discussion from you guys. Hopefully someone will get Marco over here too!

[PJC]

And a American built version, originally made for Ted Toleman and rigged by Davy Wilson

[Dude! Sweet!]

And a American built version, originally made for Ted Toleman and rigged by Davy Wilson

Never seen that one before. So basically a CUV type hull but built in the US? Who built it? I take it that it's in the UK now?

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Jim any guess wether the Modified class "United Racing Engines" entry driven by Al Garbett was a Pantera?

Dude in '85 United Racing Engines was listed with Al Garbett in a 30 Shadow.

[FastDonzi]

And a American built version, originally made for Ted Toleman and rigged by Davy Wilson

Pete, is that the Salt Shaker? (I think they called it)