** Rabco Powerboats / Rabe Photo Collection - Batch Four **

**PARKER RABE** · 08-31-2016, 07:53 PM

lynn died in a car crash wtf are u kidding me? i just talked to him ....

**lilabner** · 08-31-2016, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by willabee

Rodger Hanks ..... I think the race officials had borrowed someone's Hatteras to do their observations and Rodger decided to run by them close to make sure he got scored .... slight miscalculation on what is close and what is too close! Lanham probably has a picture of that accident in his scrapbook. Can't imagine what the owner said when they brought his "boat" back with a big Cigarette resting in the front stateroom!

Greg, thank you for all of the effort you have put into bringing all of this history back to life, great memories

I kind of remember Lanham and Magoon doing a flyby next to our Fino production boat one race day.

**GENE LANHAM** · 09-01-2016, 02:16 AM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

...Left...Right...Left...Right...

If you look VERY CLOSELY, you will notice that them BP's are actually---.MC-1's----(and those 'little' 3 blades are probably 13")

**GENE LANHAM** · 09-01-2016, 03:16 AM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

In those days, Cigarettes fiberglass lamination schedules were ridiculously over-done. The boats were "really" heavy-duty..

The Boats were 'Purpose Built'. For a sport that was popular in in the 70's.

It was called 'OFF Shore Racing'---

**Scream And Fly** · 09-03-2016, 02:33 PM

Great thread everybody! Thank you everybody for posting all these details. It really adds so much to the photos.
Batch five will be up this week!

Greg

**3rd Gen** · 09-10-2016, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by Scream And Fly

Great thread everybody! Thank you everybody for posting all these details. It really adds so much to the photos.
Batch five will be up this week! Thanks for Sharing ! The pics and details ! All comes together !

Greg

**Black Tornado** · 09-11-2016, 04:03 AM

Originally Posted by Scream And Fly

Here begins batch four of the historic Rabe/Rabco Powerboats photo collection. Many hundreds more to go. I will be adding many more this month, so keep checking for updates.

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All photos on the offshore boats, starts etc. can be attributed to the Hennessy-Hurricane Classic race it was the first race of the 1972 APBA circuit, which took place in St. Petersburg on February 19th.
This is deductible from the date FEB 72 of all the photos.
Confirming this are the images of the Copper Kettle of Satullo which made its debut just in that race, winning.
Even the photo of the 21' Abbate cat of the German Oskar Trost confirms it because that boat previously had made it's first race in Miami December 1971 America's Cup.
All the images during the race are in calm waters like the cronicle of the race confirm and the location of some pics it seems is off St. Petrsburg like FUJIMO has spotted.
Really beautiful and interesting pics! Thanks to Greg (Scream & Fly) for sharing them. Waiting for others...

**MN4V** · 09-17-2016, 03:37 PM

This is a pit shot at the 1975 OPC Nationals in Miami just after the completion of a heat race in FJ class. The boats are lined up to get weighed. Just pulling out is Ben Robertson in his Allison, second is my brother Allen Nelson in the just introduced Ventura 2 Hydrostream, third - unknown, forth is Larry Guimond, fifth is Ron Baker. Can't tell after that.
Mark N

**2us70** · 09-21-2016, 03:58 PM

Are these pictures going to continue to be posted on this forum or have you moved them?

Originally Posted by Scream And Fly

Great thread everybody! Thank you everybody for posting all these details. It really adds so much to the photos.
Batch five will be up this week!

Greg

**PARKER RABE** · 09-22-2016, 11:47 AM

No idea . im sure greg will chime in soon...

**Scream And Fly** · 09-23-2016, 08:32 PM

Hey everybody, I'm sorry for the delay. I made an upgrade to the scanner I've been using so I am in the process of getting that configured. I will be back into scanning this week.

Greg

**2us70** · 09-24-2016, 10:15 AM

I hope you got what fujimo uses.

**GENE LANHAM** · 10-01-2016, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

The Boats were 'Purpose Built'. For a sport that was popular in in the 70's.

It was called 'OFF Shore Racing'---

---But it wasn't long---using new materials and techniques---the Offshore boats could be built super light--and super strong----

**T2x** · 10-05-2016, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

---But it wasn't long---using new materials and techniques---the Offshore boats could be built super light--and super strong----

Super Light yes....not so sure about the Super Strong part.......Even today...the "space age" light weights have frequent delamination... and many of them behave like either potato chips in a strong wind or empty Clorox bottles in big seas.

**Scream And Fly** · 10-17-2016, 02:27 AM

@Black Tornado @MN4V

Fantastic details, thank you for posting that! I absolutely love history like this, and I have many more photos coming. I am working on batch 5 right now. I meant to have it up much sooner, but I wanted to switch to another scanner. The one I was using (Canon) produced excellent output but it was quite slow and the high resolution I was scanning. I kept the first Canon scanner though, as a backup.

I'm planning on having batch 5 up in just a few days!

Thank you everybody, and thank you so much for adding those details!
Greg

Originally Posted by Black Tornado

All photos on the offshore boats, starts etc. can be attributed to the Hennessy-Hurricane Classic race it was the first race of the 1972 APBA circuit, which took place in St. Petersburg on February 19th.
This is deductible from the date FEB 72 of all the photos.
Confirming this are the images of the Copper Kettle of Satullo which made its debut just in that race, winning.
Even the photo of the 21' Abbate cat of the German Oskar Trost confirms it because that boat previously had made it's first race in Miami December 1971 America's Cup.
All the images during the race are in calm waters like the cronicle of the race confirm and the location of some pics it seems is off St. Petrsburg like FUJIMO has spotted.
Really beautiful and interesting pics! Thanks to Greg (Scream & Fly) for sharing them. Waiting for others...