Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[Rotary John]

Troy: If your mother is still alive, tell her HELLO from John Sheldon.

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Troy Boettle

My dad Ziggy Boettle with Mouse Wade!! Not a great picture but I thought it was funny.

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[Amberjack1234]

Hey water zebra good analysis on driving skills. It definitely is a learning curve. I went on my head too many times and being stupid really wasn’t the way to learn to drive a tunnel boat. But I am living proof that if you’re gonna be dumb, you Gotta be tough.

[Amberjack1234]

Key West marathon race think it was 1972 first good race with the Kitson tunnel and a blue stripe twister that I had just bought to start racing tunnel boats with. Managed to blow the boat over about halfway through the race. Part of the learning curve went back to Miami, dragging the boat less the cowling had to leave that in the water found out a couple of weeks later I had broken my leg for the second time in a year got my leg fixed. Four months later my brother and I went down to try and find the cowling. It was bright red and still in the same place. Only problem was about an 80 pound grouper had made it his home and wasn’t having any part of people taking his home , we had to chase him away after he had chased us away. A couple of times did manage to get the cowling back and I continued to raise for a few years after that and different tunnel, boats life of a local racer.

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191 Jimbo McConnell and his Evinrude Super Stranger V4.

Thanks Troy Boettle

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Very nice.
Thank you Sean Seagriff.

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191 Jimbo McConnell and his Evinrude Starflite SS V4.
You have to love OMC's name of the racing outboards.

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[QUOTE=lars strom;3383184]Troy Boettle

My dad Ziggy Boettle with Mouse Wade!! Not a great picture but I thought it was funny.

[Nice to hear from Ziggys son any more pictures to post Ziggy and Mouse were like a double act many happy times and memories were had by all.

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Cathy McConnell

Great Guys and Many Memories and Times with both of them. They both built Many Winning Motors and Jimbo Won or Broke dozens of them.
Loved them Both!!

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Cees Van Der Velden.

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Lars Strom

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South Africa racing 1975.

One of the best experience in my boat racing history.
Got invited to race the BP 200 at the river Vaal and spent a week with my racing hero Jimbo McConnell and the technician "Mouse"
Yes..I won the OE class race..but even better was to get to know Jimbo & Mouse.
We have been to Needles, CA to met up with Jimbo and his lovely wife Cathy a few times. We are all getting older..Jimbo's life is a bit tough after his bad F1-V8 racing accident..Cathy knows boat racing history like no body else and is the nicest person you can ever meet.
Mouse left us a few years ago. R.I.P.

[WaterZebra]

191 Jimbo McConnell and his Evinrude Starflite SS V4.
You have to love OMC's name of the racing outboards.

Is this the infamous "goat boat"? Who built it? Sprint boat?

[WaterZebra]

Sacramento 1985. Kinda of a ominous race for Jimbo . I was there. Jimbo was never really in the top 5 contenders that weekend and struggled with His boat. Way out of character for him. I have VHS tapes of that race from both the series TV and local media channels. In all of these years I have never played them nor likely to. It was a long plane ride back to Seattle WA that Sunday night after the race. We weren't sure if Jimbo was even going to make it that first week or so. That race was held with a mix of both conventional boats and safety capsule boats (Velden and Hodges). Jimbos accident kind of set things in motion to mandate using safety cockpits.

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Is this the infamous "goat boat"? Who built it? Sprint boat?

Cathy McConnell

That is the Little Goat Boat as it was referred to. Built by Bob Nagode, driven by Jimbo.
Both photos are the same boat. There was also a Big Goat Boat.

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Tim Bostic

Just a little "motor porn" to get the juices flowing!

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