Mercury Through The Years...

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[Robby321]

DAMN them SHORT harness lines on skiers! Low and slow and plowing too! And in front the boat wake?

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[RogerH]

Need some help identifying a vintage Seebold that I am currently restoring. I've been several day now stripping off several layers of paints and primers. I do not have the original rear cowl and the front had been stripped, so they have been no help with identification.
It boils down to this: The 1st layer is a gray primer with mostly a light Blue color (robbin's egg blue). The next layer is a black primer with msotly a black color with bright blue accent color. Beyond that are some yellow, silver stripe and solid red.
Mark Rotharmel sent me a photo from August 1979 at Hamilton, Ontario. In the photo (back to front) are: Ken Stevenson, Oley Berkis (#44), Art Kennedy (#2), and Mark Rotharmel. I read that Mark's boat in this picture was Billy Seebold's 1978 boat. The paint I am finding on the 2nd layer indicates it might be that boat. --> Can anyone verify what the paint scheme was on Bill's 1978 boat?? If it had a lot of light blue, then I am quite sure I have that hull. BTW, the #44 hull is very close, but I see blue vs red in the accent areas. Post any pictures if you have them

[RogerH]

gray, lt blue, black primer, black and bright blue accent, gray primer...etc....... #122 Seebold as received, all in red (top layer)

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[willabee]

Need some help identifying a vintage Seebold that I am currently restoring. .....
Mark Rotharmel sent me a photo from August 1979 at Hamilton, Ontario. In the photo (back to front) are: Ken Stevenson, Oley Berkis (#44), Art Kennedy (#2), and Mark Rotharmel. I read that Mark's boat in this picture was Billy Seebold's 1978 boat. The paint I am finding on the 2nd layer indicates it might be that boat. --> Can anyone verify what the paint scheme was on Bill's 1978 boat?? If it had a lot of light blue, then I am quite sure I have that hull. BTW, the #44 hull is very close, but I see blue vs red in the accent areas. Post any pictures if you have them

I believe the photo below is from St. Louis 1978. When comparing the two photos, it appears that Mark is driving what was Seebold's #190 in the picture below and Berkis appears to be in what was the #241 that was driven by Earl Benz.

[peterse90]

Need some help identifying a vintage Seebold that I am currently restoring. I've been several day now stripping off several layers of paints and primers. I do not have the original rear cowl and the front had been stripped, so they have been no help with identification.
It boils down to this: The 1st layer is a gray primer with mostly a light Blue color (robbin's egg blue). The next layer is a black primer with msotly a black color with bright blue accent color. Beyond that are some yellow, silver stripe and solid red.
Mark Rotharmel sent me a photo from August 1979 at Hamilton, Ontario. In the photo (back to front) are: Ken Stevenson, Oley Berkis (#44), Art Kennedy (#2), and Mark Rotharmel. I read that Mark's boat in this picture was Billy Seebold's 1978 boat. The paint I am finding on the 2nd layer indicates it might be that boat. --> Can anyone verify what the paint scheme was on Bill's 1978 boat?? If it had a lot of light blue, then I am quite sure I have that hull. BTW, the #44 hull is very close, but I see blue vs red in the accent areas. Post any pictures if you have them

Doubt you have Mark's 1979 Seebold pictured above. Mark can tell you more but that Seebold had a career ending injury at Picton in 1979.
Mark survived but the boat did not.

[RogerH]

Peter, thanks for the reply. Mark called me yesterday and we had a long talk about this and other boats. He said it was toothpicks after the blowover. BUT! He also said that Bill had a back-up boat painted that way. Will probably go with that paint scheme if I can't find any further definition of what hull mine is. BTW, we'll be making molds for the front / back 2nd generation cowls if all works out well next week. Obviously there were several other Seebolds painted similar in '78 (reggi + Benz and Oley +?) Thanks for your help Y'all....have a great 4th

[peterse90]

Thanks for your help Y'all....have a great 4th

Thanks Roger...but up here in Canada we do July 1st CANADA DAY !!
I guess you could say it's a Canadian thing