Boat Racing Novel - part II
Novels give writers artistic license to larger than life characters and amazing storylines. Hollywood script writers are professionals and give us a synopsis of what is successful. Future historical-novel writers of Boat Racing can learn wise techniques from the Hollywood pros. :thumbsup:
Exaggerate the Hollywood suave and good looks of (i.e. Johnny Sanders, Bob Spalding, Bill Seebold) the drivers (women are attracted to approachable, confident, and good looking leading men). Include the pressure to secure and maintain a corporate sponsor (i.e. OMC, Mercury, NGK). Disclose the driver’s motivation to win, and to place the sport’s danger in a convenient perspective of risk and reward.
Add hyperbole to the owners (i.e. Carl Kiehkaefer, Bernie Little, Al Copeland) wealth, lifestyle, play toys, and extravagant spending. Over the top celebrations post wins.
Include Drivers' dynamics with wives and/or girlfriends, integrate on the pages the ladies' charm, beauty, vivacious, romance, sexiness, flirtations, affairs, and loyalty.
Reveal the drivers’ family members at home, shop, and in the pits. Nepotism, work ethics, and friction with the race team will help, the readers to better identify with the characters.
A rogue’s shady dealing adds counterpoint to the protagonist’s lifestyle. And the storyline is always better with a mischievous counterpart (Don Aronow, Cocaine Cowboys). Many cowboy movies have the bad guys wearing black hats.
A great novel which people/readers can identify with the protagonist (main character) and root-for, will bring extra new fans to the Sport of Boat Racing.
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Stickle at Long Beach .....
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peterse90
Willabee, looks like Tom's engine might be a 'cowbell' ????
Also, pretty sure Tom's Molinari is not one of elusive 16's but it does look 'stubby', I say that because the arrow graphics on the side decks look like they stop much closer the the bow than most of the other Molinaris that have the same 'arrow' graphics of this time period.
I'm not positive, but I think the power was a Twister I. I asked Tom, he said "I don't remember, that was your department" :D
I agree that the boat looks a little 'stubby', but I don't think it was a 16'. Tom said it was the best boat he ever had. Seebold was his co-driver at Long Beach and Garbrecht gave the boat to him for the July Miami 225. It was the first of his boats named Old Blue.
From Powerboat .....
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To Be or Not To Be ..... a bell
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Bob V
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I enhanced the picture of Jackie's Cowbell so it better shows how the bottom end of the rear cowbell extends out beyond the back side of the mid.
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:iagree: You guys have convinced me, Stickle is running a Cowbell on a stubby little Molinari (probably 16') at Long Beach in 1971 :cool:
I thought we were done with the cowbell by the time Long Beach came around, obviously we were not. Also, I didn't think the 'bells' extended beyond the mid, obviously they did. :o
Here's my defense (excuse) ..... Look at the difference between the bells on Wilson's 1970 Havasu entry compared to the bells on Kitson's 1971 Long Beach machine. Jackie's are a weldment, one of a few fabricated to use for testing to determine the final configuration. Kenny's are a casting, made in the shape and size of the weldment that had the best test results. There is quite a bit of difference between the two pictured.
Bob Hering and I did the testing with the weldments and I didn't remember them protruding past the mid and maybe they didn't. However, the pics show the the cast version does protrude and, if he was running a cowbell, that's what Mr. Stickle would have been using.
I really liked the Cowbell, wish Merc would have decided on them instead of the Silo. I tell ya, just hearing a couple of them at full song would have sent Rotary John hustling back to the drawing board. :D
