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Thread: Gold Coast Marathon
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03-04-2012, 04:02 PM #1367000 RPM
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03-04-2012, 07:15 PM #137Registered User
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gene if i get ascanner ill shoot this this computer for sure.
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03-07-2012, 11:36 PM #1385000 RPM
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but we've lost another friend today, Jim Hauser is gone. I really got a chance to meet and know Jim through OFF and he and Steve Sirois took me for a fun ride with all my racing heros with our fun gathering in Oct. So sorry, Cadillac
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Hay Seeroy,
First, Melanie & I enjoyed being with you and all the guys & gals at the 2013 CRA/OFF event.
Next, it was only recently that I ran across this thread. I mentioned at CRA/OFF wanting to meet Lilabner because of his work with HM, Jeff Hunt & Uncle Bright. Maybe he will make it to our 2014 event.
Best to You & Iris,
Noel Scott
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10-02-2014, 12:06 PM #140Junior Member
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Hi. I just dug up this old thread during a Google search for info on the Gold Coast Marathon. Thank you all so much for sharing your photos and memories. What a fascinating concept for a race with probably the most open entry criteria for any marathon. The result seems to have been the widest variety of hulls and powerplants of any boat race ever.
Of course, living in NYC I had never even heard of this race until a few years ago (thanks to the internet). I do however, remember watching a movie, on our black and white Admiral TV as a kid, in which the race (didn't even know what it was called at the time) was used as a background for the plot of the film. It was some kind of crime drama, either a heist of a murder mystery. Does anyone know what the name of the movie was? And, no I'm not talking about Clambake. It might even have been an episode of a TV show.
Thanks,
Eric
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78 Hydrostream Vandal - under restoration here: VANDAL RESTORATION THREAD
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10-04-2014, 08:27 PM #142
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10-04-2014, 10:15 PM #143
I seem to remember a 7 Litre Hydro running it once and I also recall a guy running his kitchen table upside down with an outboard on it.
I ran it 4 or 5 times and was lucky enough to finish in the top 10 overall a couple of years.
Lil Abner ran it a bunch as did Gene . Odel, Bakos, Seeroy and brother Bill , Rigell and many of the other Lake X guys ran it a number of times. It was the race of the year.
Rich Baiz I teamed with George Griley one year with a boat I designed and Rich and I built.
George started the race and was second overall going into the canal and was much faster than the lead boat.
He got to Ft Lauderdale and did not back off where the inlet is and flipped in the ships channel.
I was super pissed at him as that was our chance to win 1st overall. We did not get back together for about 20 years!Charlie
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10-23-2014, 12:37 PM #144Member
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Great shot--looks like you were having fun which was the point of the race for most of us amateurs.
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10-10-2015, 10:40 AM #145
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMB0dtuoVOA
This uploaded video shows the Gold Coast Marathon of 1963, a powerboat race from Miami to West Palm Beach and back. Viewers see pit crews at Pelican Harbor Yacht Club and aerial shots of the race. Source: Florida Memory-State Library & Archives of Florida
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10-11-2015, 12:20 PM #148Member
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Any remember Stu Wilson? I have been asked to get a photo for a historian.
Here's a link, apparently Stu raced a hydro, the Wa Wa Too, F-247: http://www.vintagehydroplanes.com/bo...atoo_f247.htmlLast edited by Tx Guy; 10-11-2015 at 01:05 PM. Reason: more info available
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Dave Craig and other GCM participants.
Here is a photo of Dave Craig (far left), who was mentioned in the 1962 GCM video, driving a Switzer Wing boat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMB0dtuoVOA
Also in the Kissimmee Marathon winners circle photo above, are some other GCM participants like Roy Ridgell & Joe Anderson. In the photo left to right are class winners: Dave Craig (overall winner), Roy Ridgell, Tom Sheldon, Joe Anderson, George Thompson, & Bobby Walwork.Last edited by Lake X Kid; 11-08-2020 at 07:28 PM.
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Great video! I was 15 that summer and watched the race from the first bridge on Sat. We went back on Sun to Pelican Harbor for the finish. Two years later in 64 I ran my first "Gold Coast". There were so many familiar faces in this video it was a wonderful trip down memory lane.