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12-12-2010, 03:39 PM #1
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Dick O'Dea
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12-12-2010, 03:54 PM #2
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Cool pictures.I wanna see how ya coming on the Kitson ? hf...
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12-12-2010, 03:54 PM #3
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Very cool.
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12-12-2010, 07:45 PM #4
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Totally cool . In 1975 I sent my "A " Merc lower unit that I had adapted to a stock 20 Merc of the same year using the A tower housing and had them re - seal and impeller it for me . I was only 17 but they did me right and I did a few 25ss races with it in a boat we got form Peter Scopinich in 1974 at the Hampton Bays boat yard they had .At the time I was in Key West with four buddies from Freeport high School taking a Marine Propulsion course . Good times for a kid like me !
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12-13-2010, 07:50 PM #5
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John, Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware of this website.
Originally Posted by J. Sherlock
Take care,
Roger
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12-14-2010, 07:39 AM #6
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Nice link/site. Thanks for posting it John. Hope Dick is happy & healthy. Great guy.
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12-14-2010, 08:18 AM #7
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Dick was and is one of the classiest guys the sport has ever known. I am proud to call him a friend.
T2x20 Foot Switzer Wing 2 X S3000 (Dust'n the Wind II)
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12-18-2010, 05:49 PM #8
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HeeHee I used ta ask him silly questions when ever I met him at races. Silly Me......Real nice guy.
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12-18-2010, 07:38 PM #9
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Very cool! I bought a bore light off e-bay yr's back and it showed up in a small metal storage box w/a very well worn "Dick O'Dea Racing" sticker on it. I e'd to ask if it was him and that I was a huge fan after he confirmed his identity. He thanked me for the compliment and said he had taken that little box all over the world with him. I don't see ever letting that thing go.
Also, cool story on the C Crescents. I started racing right at the end of their history and always wanted one.
Thanks for sharing John!I'd rather be competitive w/junk I built in my garage than win w/stuff I bought.
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12-18-2010, 08:06 PM #10
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Back in the day (86/87/88...) Dick-O-Dea was "The Man" If you sent a P/H to him you had something back then!
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12-22-2010, 02:08 PM #11
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Sherlock drove his kilo boat the year before Andrews drove it for Dick. Great guy but the loudest snorer I ever heard. At the Moorehaven Kilos the rooms at the fish camp had the old slatted doors, no air cond.
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12-23-2010, 08:37 AM #12
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Was there...lol...that, & the proliferation of love-bugs. Originally Posted by Jeff_G
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01-11-2011, 06:53 PM #13
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Some time back someone had mentioned they did not know of a 125 MPH Club. When I set the record in the Dick O'Dea hydro this was a club I became a member in....
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01-11-2011, 09:18 PM #14
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A cool decal I got with a catalog.
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01-12-2011, 06:08 PM #15
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That series of certificates replaced the old Gulf Oil 100 mph club, which was later upped to the 150 Mph club as speeds increased. Originally Posted by J. Sherlock
Some time back someone had mentioned they did not know of a 125 MPH Club. When I set the record in the Dick O'Dea hydro this was a club I became a member in....
20 Foot Switzer Wing 2 X S3000 (Dust'n the Wind II)
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(Single engine boats are lacking something)
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