Were there regional events where more points were awarded than at local events?
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Were there regional events where more points were awarded than at local events?
Let’s go Racing
The V6 “EVIL-RUDE”
Bundaberg Powerboat Club Inc.
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Wow..Bob is the man..https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...5/16/1f44d.pnghttps://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...5/16/1f44d.pnghttps://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e....5/16/2764.pnghttps://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e....5/16/2764.pnghttps://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...f1fa_1f1f8.pnghttps://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...f1fa_1f1f8.png
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Bob had the knack of finding new records in stock outboard classes where breaking the records were assumed to be impossible. Set ups, rigging, propeller selection, weight distribution, you name it. He was the perfect choice for the Bud Davie world record attempt. Always had me puzzled that they never achieved 200 mph with Bob on the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
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Originally Posted by Rotary John
HaaHaa..
Well..a beautiful sunny day here at Lake of the Ozarks..No Florida temperature yet but in the low sixties today.
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Originally Posted by WaterZebra
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A better picture of Bob Hering's record setting boat of course with Evinrude V8 power....https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e....5/16/2764.pnghttps://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...5/16/1f44d.png
Bob Hering, U.S.A., Parker Dam, Evinrude V8, 169.53 MPH
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Same boat............earlier version
We all know Mom is always right..!! :)❤️
Carina Strom..!!
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I'm not sure but if I remember correctly they used NOS, but only a burst at mid track. Bob said he had to use the last 1/3 of the track to "land" the thing. Maybe at mid track, the package was traveling at 200 MPH?Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
#2 Arthur Mostert in his Velden/Johnson V8 having some issues in the Montreal, Canada GP 1985..:)
Thanks Troy Boettle.
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I don't think anybody came forward over the years to validate this famous OMC V8 fable but the story was that between Strang and Woods, somebody came up with some side cash to fund 2 V8 blocks cast out of magnesium to further reduce the weight?
Troy Boettle
My dad Ziggy Boettle with Mouse Wade!! Not a great picture but I thought it was funny.
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Troy: If your mother is still alive, tell her HELLO from John Sheldon.
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Originally Posted by lars strom
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Hey water zebra good analysis on driving skills. It definitely is a learning curve. I went on my head too many times and being stupid really wasn’t the way to learn to drive a tunnel boat. But I am living proof that if you’re gonna be dumb, you Gotta be tough.
Key West marathon race think it was 1972 first good race with the Kitson tunnel and a blue stripe twister that I had just bought to start racing tunnel boats with. Managed to blow the boat over about halfway through the race. Part of the learning curve went back to Miami, dragging the boat less the cowling had to leave that in the water found out a couple of weeks later I had broken my leg for the second time in a year got my leg fixed. Four months later my brother and I went down to try and find the cowling. It was bright red and still in the same place. Only problem was about an 80 pound grouper had made it his home and wasn’t having any part of people taking his home , we had to chase him away after he had chased us away. A couple of times did manage to get the cowling back and I continued to raise for a few years after that and different tunnel, boats life of a local racer.
191 Jimbo McConnell and his Evinrude Super Stranger V4.
Thanks Troy Boettle
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Very nice.
Thank you Sean Seagriff.
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191 Jimbo McConnell and his Evinrude Starflite SS V4.
You have to love OMC's name of the racing outboards.
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[QUOTE=lars strom;3383184]Troy Boettle
My dad Ziggy Boettle with Mouse Wade!! Not a great picture but I thought it was funny.
https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...1&d=1680015048[Nice to hear from Ziggys son any more pictures to post Ziggy and Mouse were like a double act many happy times and memories were had by all.
Cathy McConnellQuote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Great Guys and Many Memories and Times with both of them. They both built Many Winning Motors and Jimbo Won or Broke dozens of them.
Loved them Both!! https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e....5/16/2764.pnghttps://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e....5/16/2764.pnghttps://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...5/16/1f3c1.png
Cees Van Der Velden.
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Lars Strom
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South Africa racing 1975.
One of the best experience in my boat racing history.
Got invited to race the BP 200 at the river Vaal and spent a week with my racing hero Jimbo McConnell and the technician "Mouse"
Yes..I won the OE class race..but even better was to get to know Jimbo & Mouse.
We have been to Needles, CA to met up with Jimbo and his lovely wife Cathy a few times. We are all getting older..Jimbo's life is a bit tough after his bad F1-V8 racing accident..Cathy knows boat racing history like no body else and is the nicest person you can ever meet.
Mouse left us a few years ago. R.I.P.
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Is this the infamous "goat boat"? Who built it? Sprint boat?Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Sacramento 1985. Kinda of a ominous race for Jimbo . I was there. Jimbo was never really in the top 5 contenders that weekend and struggled with His boat. Way out of character for him. I have VHS tapes of that race from both the series TV and local media channels. In all of these years I have never played them nor likely to. It was a long plane ride back to Seattle WA that Sunday night after the race. We weren't sure if Jimbo was even going to make it that first week or so. That race was held with a mix of both conventional boats and safety capsule boats (Velden and Hodges). Jimbos accident kind of set things in motion to mandate using safety cockpits.
Cathy McConnellQuote:
Originally Posted by WaterZebra
That is the Little Goat Boat as it was referred to. Built by Bob Nagode, driven by Jimbo.
Both photos are the same boat. There was also a Big Goat Boat.
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Tim Bostic
Just a little "motor porn" to get the juices flowing!
OMC V6
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Here is the second (larger) Goat Boat. PS 100's race Toronto, Ontario 1974 .
I consider myself pretty lucky. I got to see Jimbo in the small Goat Boat a few times in Peterborough, Ontario. Got to see him in the above Goat Boat and then also saw Jimbo drive a Rotary for an exhibition run in Peterborough (wish I had taken pictures).
I have also met Jimbo a few times here in Canada and also at the Havasu reunion in 2021. Both Jimbo and Cathy are really nice people and Cathy is really fun to talk to about their visits to Canada.
He also ran Provo with a rotary on the Goat boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by peterse90
Besides the Goat Boat, what hulls did the rotary end up on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
As far as I remember all were Scotti's except for the 1 James Beard ran at Windemere; Cougar and the Goat boat at Provo. I'm not sure what Sanders ran in S. Africa, but I believe it was Scotti also. That was one of the biggest problems with the rotary. The boats were old 175 HP V-4 boats. These boats ran 90/100 MPH with the V-4 and now were pushing 120 + with the rotary. Newer pickle fork Scotti's were run in late '74 at Paris, but Scotti only had V-4's for development. Beard's Cougar in '73 ran the rotary for the first and only time on the boat. As I have said before, OMC racing in the '73-'75 time frame, was put the motor on the back of a boat, try a couple of props and go race. Virtually no system development. It didn't matter if it was for a 9 hr. endurance race at parker or a 3-pin short 20 minute sprint, the same boat and setup was used.Quote:
Originally Posted by WaterZebra
I am beginning to see why the OMC factory driver situation ended up where it did from 1976 on. Scotti's death put a huge dent in whatever plan they had. Barry Woods was the sole distributor for Scotti hulls in the USA. No surprise to me that Molinari, Hering and Velden transitioned to OMC from Merc. It's very curious that the rotary never made it onto a Molinari hull? Velden? Not so much. Jack Leek probably had a lot to do with how things ended up and how the OMC V6 engine program would end any chances of the rotary's survival. Sounds like where ever the rotary went (UK & S. Africa) for demos, OMC had a veil of security around where the engines were and who had access to them? Aside from Sanders and Jimbo what other drivers were blessed with the chance to drive the rotary? Woods? Posey?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
Four OMC rotary powered boats in this race.
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Appears that Windemere was nearly all Scotti hulls. Downard also got to drive one. Circa 1973 so Molinari was still with Merc. So history says that Molinari and the rotary never crossed paths.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Correct..newer a Rotary powered Molinari.
James Beard in a Cougar / Evinrude Rotary.
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One more James Beard Cougar/Evinrude Rotary.
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Scotti's death was late 1974 (October) in Paris..The year after 1975 Cees Van Der Velden won the UIM ON class World Championship race in his own built Velden boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by WaterZebra
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