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Thread: Life at Lake X in the '60s
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01-16-2013, 07:30 PM #1201
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01-17-2013, 04:47 AM #12026000 RPM
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Funnily enough Stavros you hit the nail on the head !!!!!! 'twas me again that failed in the attempt to get the boat to the line in time.BUT THERE WERE ----'MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES' INVOLVED YET AGAIN.
Flew out of Berlin Monday and got back to Sussex late afternoon, drove the1200 miles to Como arriving late tuesday evening. Put the hydro on top of the station wagon, [which had a 2 litre BDF 200+ hp engine stitched in front-----120+on a good day ,downhill, with a tail wind].
Left Wednesday midday----like all things boating, nothing ever went as fast as you wanted it to. 1300 miles to Poole to SWMF where Dennis Stacey and Ron Masterman installed the motor. It's now 21-00 hrs Thursday and 350 miles to Windermere and i have not put my head down since Sunday--------for the first time in my life i felt "TIRED", something i never did. So i slept for 6 hours and took off for Windermere at 3 am. Got as far as Nottingham when i was stopped by a policecar-----it was raining datsun cogs and this copper stuck his face in the window and yelled YOU JACKIE WILSON????? i said COURSE I AM !!!!!! he then uttered those unforgettable words i shall remember for the rest of my life---------------------You can turn round and go home-------WINDERMERE'S BEEN CALLED OFF DUE TO STORMS !!!!!!!!
Don't remember ever feeling more miserable in my life------------all that effort by so many people pulling together to get a result and it all turned to worms.
Renato lending me the rig-------Mercury providing the motor-------SWMF for dropping everything to get the rig prepared------doubt if it could happen again !!!!!!
Anyway there you have it "THE MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES"
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01-17-2013, 03:24 PM #1203
Well MY Funny Talking Friend, once again you have given me the best laugh I have had in a few days. Seems like "Mitigating Circumstances" have a way of popping into the hum drum of life more often for some than others. - Old Seeroy
When I wrote this, I meant your story was hilarious. How the heck did that cop get sent out to find you? And then, how did he find you? I'm trying to visualize him standing there with water pouring off of his hat? All the time you thinking, "What the hell did I do know, when the lights came on behind you.
great story Jackie.Last edited by seeroy; 01-17-2013 at 08:24 PM.
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01-17-2013, 06:09 PM #1204Member
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That house was the best, having lived in a company trailer for the first twelve years of my life, it was a castle. My little sister and I accompanied our parents to Italy in March of ’71. Dad could not get me into the American Community School of Milan or some boy’s boarding school in Switzerland, so I was sent back to St. Cloud to finish the seventh grade. I remember when mom came back to get all of us in June after school ended, she told us about you and your family staying with them. Terri Ann picked up you alls accent, and I remember eating these tins of meat and potatoes from England. Thanks for tapping my memories.
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01-17-2013, 09:09 PM #1205
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01-18-2013, 07:48 PM #1206
Charlie - That sounds vaguely familiar and certainly within the realm of possibility. - Steve
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don't remember it being in '71 but I did witness Renato building a boat to handle triples for Roger Hanks -The owner of The Blonde Offshore Racing Team. To test it, they rigged it with two engines and Mr. Rassini ran it in the River Po Race. Dad had some pictures of the start and he loved showing them off. All the boats puttered around about 200 yards from the starting line. You could tell in the pictures when the gun went off because all the hydros' rooster tails fly up. Mr. Rassini was behind all of them by the time they crossed the starting line, Mr. Rassini was in front. Unfortunately the Po river dumps into the Adriatic Sea just south of Venice. The water rough up that Mr. Rassini flipped. He was ok and Renato was very happy that his boat did so well.
I am going to look for those pictures - hopefully mom got them.
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01-19-2013, 04:39 AM #12086000 RPM
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Hey Willa the infallible ??? Seems KINDA weird don't you think, that it takes Ridgells boy to tell us that the boat you are standing in front of, that you knew was for two or maybe 3 motors and was actually run in the River Po race by Carlo Rassini----------------and YOU DON'T REMEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jesus wept------there's hope for the Democrats yet--------McDonalds may stop putting dill pickle and iceberg lettuce in a Big Mac-----and french fries will be called freedom fries for real one day----------and eating with just a fork could be banned world wide---- V8 engines outlawed--------Starbucks paying taxes-------and the NFL changed to FIFA---------these are MINOR encumbrances of piddling importance compared to the devastating news that his right royal majesty "WILLABEE" the great,----- did not know about the RIVER PO RACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ho, Ho HO, and a bottle of rum------thank you willa----thank you-------for not being INFALLIBLE --------as Sinatra said to the mike----YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO YOUNG------YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE SPRING HAS SPRUNG ETC: ETC: ETC: Have a great day Y'all.
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01-19-2013, 08:57 AM #1209
1971 paris 6 hr race
I can remember this race well i was now driving with Bill Shakepeares team running OMC power and for this race he built and entered 2 19ft cats`he did this because we ran 2 15ft shakespeare cats the year before and they couldn`t handle the rough conditions and we had Pruitt over telling jokes and looking these large cats over and he said he had the same idea and had entered a very large Molinari cat we looked it over must have been 20ft but that was the year they held the barge traffic back`another thing i remember this was the race that Georgio Molinari ran that special small displacment engine based on 1000SBP with silo i believe someone said Roy Ridgell had built it.I do think this would be the same engine Jackie used at Windemere on his 16ft sprint Molinari?
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01-19-2013, 07:23 PM #1210
Not so fast Slick .....
Stop the music, spring has not sprung yet!
I still don't recall anthing about the River Po race, but I can tell you that the boat in the picture is not the Rodger Hanks boat. The boat that Grewupon is talking about is a completely different animal. It was much bigger than the one in the photo, about 27' I think. Renato tried to run in in an offshore race, but it wasn't enough boat for big water. I believe Garbrecht was involved in that project and I think he was also behind having it brought to Hi Performance in Oshkosh to have it converted into a KT for Hanks. Turned out it was too big to be competitive in KT so it became a big flower pot somewhere in Texas.
Now lets crank that sterio (think Sonny & Cher) .....
They say I'm old and I don't know
What happened back then is comin' to me slow .....
da, Da, DA
But I got you Babe
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01-20-2013, 12:56 AM #12118000 RPM
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What! I have to Wash your raceboat Dad.
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As a youth in the 1960s, I was summoned over to the Lake X shop. The family skipper told me to commence washing boat# B-300. This was not something I relished, but performed my duty as required. I did enjoy identifying with the camaraderie of the other drivers & mechanics, in the shop, setting-up their raceboats.
If memory serves me right, Dad race this boat at the Miami Marine Stadium.Last edited by Lake X Kid; 11-09-2023 at 12:25 PM.
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01-20-2013, 01:26 AM #12128000 RPM
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01-20-2013, 10:12 PM #1214
Ah yes, the #1 boat, 21' Ted Jones Cat. You would not believe how many hours I had in that boat going round, and round, and round ad infinitum. But it was a sweet ride :-). - Steve Sirois
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01-21-2013, 12:04 PM #1215
Agreed .....
Don't know about Jackie running the 1000 Silo, but you have all the rest correct. We put a C6 on the tail of the big boat thinking it just might get the job done in that rough water. Even with the holding of the barge traffic, that rig still could have finished in the top three or five if some rookie hadn't ground the coil mounting bracket so thin that it broke and fell from the ignition panel, promptly shutting the engine down! Oh well, that's another story.