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    Quote Originally Posted by RogerH View Post
    TRIPLE motor?????
    Definitely not..simply an illusion caused by the scoops in front of both motors on the boat fin.
    20 Foot Switzer Wing 2 X S3000 (Dust'n the Wind II)
    !6 foot Wood Eltro Vee (2X Merc 1500's) (Dust'n the Wind IV)
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    Obsolete and Proud of it

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    Quote Originally Posted by T2x View Post
    Definitely not..simply an illusion caused by the scoops in front of both motors on the boat fin.
    Roy Ridgell finished 5th in the 1965 Gold Coast Marathon.


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    Quote Originally Posted by RogerH View Post
    TRIPLE motor?????
    Hi Roger - Just twins running break in on engines and SSM's. It does look like trips, but it was only twins. - Steve

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    I might be dreaming but it seems to me that one of the 18' wings was rigged with the cockpit in the middle of the wing section. I think I saw it at the 9 hour in 1966.

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    In a single driver wing (no passenger), did they put ballast in the other seat?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2us70 View Post
    I might be dreaming but it seems to me that one of the 18' wings was rigged with the cockpit in the middle of the wing section. I think I saw it at the 9 hour in 1966.
    We did have one center cockpit Switzer wing at Lake X. Jim Harkins was assigned to it for Miami 9Hr. I don't remember if it actually ran in race. It was slower than clean wing side seats.I firmly believe that center cockpit disturbed airflow over wingtop thus reducing lift. Plus it looked funky. i think it had brown swoop on sides. - Steve Sirois
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    Thanks Steve. It is good to know that I still have a couple of brain cells functioning up there. I always thought they balanced the drivers weight with the batteries but I never got the chance to examine how the wings were rigged up close.
    Quote Originally Posted by seeroy View Post
    We did have one center cockpit Switzer wing at Lake X. Jim Harkins was assigned to it for Miami 9Hr. I don't remember if it actually ran in race. It was slower than clean wing side seats.I firmly believe that center cockpit disturbed airflow over wingtop thus reducing lift. Plus it looked funky. i think it had brown swoop on sides. - Steve Sirois

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    I was thinking there was a wing Owned and driven by Don Edmondson out of Elisnore Ca. anyone remember what or where this boat came from.

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    Quote Originally Posted by doubleeagle View Post
    I was thinking there was a wing Owned and driven by Don Edmondson out of Elisnore Ca. anyone remember what or where this boat came from.
    Don and Ed Steward had two wings both a 18' and 20' footer. The 18' was bought directly from Kenny Kitson which was supposed to be the Miss Diablo III. It is now restored.

    They had a 20 foot wing that Dave and Bob Switzer first raced at Parker or Havasu....don't recall which. Dave was driving somehow a boat flipped in front of him punching a hole in the boat....it sunk in front of the judges stand with the pickels sticking out of the water. Ed Steward and Don Edmondson tried to buy it at that time, but couldn't because they were not Mercury dealers. Bob Massey did buy it. He tested it and did not like they way it handled because of the known porpoising issues the 20's had. Bob soon after sold it to Ed and Don having never raced it. They modified the bottom which Don claimed to have solved the porpoising issue and he really enjoyed racing it. It came in third overall at Parker in 1969 and was last run with triples. Ironically Don never liked the way the 18 foot wing they had handled.

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    "It was last raced at Parker in 1975 as a tribute to Bob Massey who had passed away years earlier. It was a dinosaur by then and probably the last wing ever to be raced. One eye witness said it was actually doing pretty good until a powerhead let go and that was that."

    At the 12:20 mark is footage of the T140 Switzer running at Parker in 75.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkLjBAp2Ghc

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    [QUOTE=GENE LANHAM;2525106]
    Quote Originally Posted by willabee View Post

    A test? Jan won the 1967 Gold Coast Marathon, the first year it was run in Biscayne Bay---the '6' indicates the GCM class---

    gene, if this is the race & the photo location i'm remembering...this is at the "new" ramp across 79 th st. from pelican harbor. he bent a prop a few laps in & still won. i was a kid on a bicycle back then, ride down from 105 st, west side of the bay & watch a lot of races at pelican harbor. cool way for a kid to grow up, ronnie russell, alan rebel, & ricky lingheimer all lived down the canal from me.
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    look at them purty PIPES on those motors...

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    [QUOTE=moparbarn;2563822]
    Quote Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM View Post

    gene, if this is the race & the photo location i'm remembering...this is at the "new" ramp across 79 th st. from pelican harbor.
    Mopar--I had forgotten that ramp---there were so many boats---the ramp at Pelican was so small--but I remember the Russels--the Rebels--- the Lindheimers--


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Smyth View Post
    look at them purty PIPES on those motors...
    ----and there is a chance one of those 1100 Stackers has survived----Great job, Tom---


    Last edited by GENE LANHAM; 11-28-2013 at 01:46 PM.

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    Thanks Gene- after all the research , talking to quite a few folks and some information from Mercury, I am quite confident this is one of his engines.

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