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    1959 Foto - Fast Fwd to 2019

    Quote Originally Posted by John Schubert View Post
    Anyone notice whose signature was on the picture with the transom & 2 Mercs? Jack Leek, many times record holder, first to set a record of over 60 mph with a 15 c.i. merc & long time OMC race team director
    Bob Carver's signature is also in the lower left corner. The location of the jump was in front of the long gone Redondo Marina (WA). If you look at the Merc Boathouse Bulletin copy you will see a tree line near the shore. Today, all of those trees are gone and covered with water front and view homes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM View Post
    Until I enlarged this photo, I did not realize that that large piece of debris to the right of the lower engine is actually the boat and driver - less engines and transom. This gives new meaning to Screaming and Flying... Does anybody know how the landing went?...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob V View Post
    Does anybody know how the landing went?...

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    ..."Piecefully"...

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    Had to have hurt the resale value of the boat and engines!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Onetime View Post
    Had to have hurt the resale value of the boat and engines!
    Pacemaker engines

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob v View Post
    until i enlarged this photo, i did not realize that that large piece of debris to the right of the lower engine is actually the boat and driver - less engines and transom. This gives new meaning to screaming and flying... Does anybody know how the landing went?...



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    chek out the 'marina'--bob

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    Looks like Lake Ship here in Winter Haven?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FUJIMO View Post
    4,000 of these were built

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    Quote Originally Posted by FUJIMO View Post
    I dunno what the little white Pickle fork think background, but WANT ONE! As the rest of course..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robby321 View Post
    I dunno what the little white Pickle fork think background, but WANT ONE! As the rest of course..
    It's not a pickle fork it"s a Race Craft runabout.

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    1959 Landing

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob V View Post
    Until I enlarged this photo, I did not realize that that large piece of debris to the right of the lower engine is actually the boat and driver - less engines and transom. This gives new meaning to Screaming and Flying... Does anybody know how the landing went?...

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    I was 4 years old in 1959. I'm pretty sure that no one is alive today who may have witnessed this jump. Bob Carver's boat race photos were published in a book years ago. It may say something about the outcome of the jump? Redondo Marina (Redondo / Des Moines WA) is long gone and the only thing that remains is the boat launch (Google Maps). Redondo WA is on salt water which explains how the ramp got built (minus / low tides). It would have been financially impossible to build a ramp in fresh water (Lake Washinrton, etc) at the time. An impossible project in this day and age (EPA,DNR, state, federal agencies, etc) No wonder Lake X is a nature reserve now. Many of the sites we used to race at in western WA have been eliminated or stopped. Constructing a dock on private land requires a 5 year lead time for environmental impact alone and does not include hearings where your neighbors are given the chance to complain about it.

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