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[Lake X Kid]

Ear Plugs are a necessity for me to look at this photo.

13 Stackers (in the photo) or more, roaring around the stadium at the same time, would alarm the Ocean Drive vacationers that a hurricane is coming. Although my preference is the single pipe sound.

Nevertheless this is an iconic photo, that powerboat racing (vintage included) will never duplicate this number of stacks again at an event.

[2us70]

Where did 50 years go? I was so fortunate to have been there to see this stuff in person. I got to see and do things that would be impossible today. As I have said many times" it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time".

[GENE LANHAM]

Where did 50 years go? I was so fortunate to have been there to see this stuff in person. I got to see and do things that would be impossible today. As I have said many times" it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time".

[lilabner]

More TRIVIA---

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Bob Waldo and Bob Seever were good friends, Seever was at Dade Marine all the time. Waldo was helping him with the engine in Skylark. He built him a special oil cooler for the GCM. We would take the boat to Pirates Spa at Blackpoint to test it. Seever had a 54 Chevy Conv with AC. Pretty cool car. We did most of our testing at the Spa. Waldos buddy Herb Roberts ran the place.. Just Trivia

[2us70]

From back when running 60 miles at a time in an inboard hydroplane "seemed perfectly reasonable".

[peterse90]

Nevertheless this is an iconic photo, that powerboat racing (vintage included) will never duplicate this number of stacks again at an event.

Also the number of 16 foot Molinari sprints all in one place/in one picture I predict will never happen again.
Willabee, Hering's Molinari does not look like a 16 to me, looks like a 17?
Are 998, 187 and 554 in the distance the only 16's?

[willabee]

Also the number of 16 foot Molinari sprints all in one place/in one picture I predict will never happen again.
Willabee, Hering's Molinari does not look like a 16 to me, looks like a 17?
Are 998, 187 and 554 in the distance the only 16's?

You have it pretty much correct. The three numbers you called out are the 16' sprints, Sirois, Merten & Renato. I'm pretty sure those were the only 16'ers we ever received and this was the only time all three were at an event. If there were more, they must have shipped directly to Canada.

Hering's #457 is an 18', the same as boats #174, 177 & 251 driven by Pruett, Clark & Dewey Berhauer (subbing for Downard). Stickle's #254 might be the only 17' we ran at Miami. I say 'might be' because it was an 18'er from the last Paris race when he started driving it. He managed to blow it over and when it was repaired, it was about a foot shorter ..... Tom named it 'Stubby' ...

[peterse90]

Hering's #[/B]457 is an 18', the same as boats #174, 177 & 251 driven by Pruett, Clark & Dewey Berhauer (subbing for Downard).

Speaking of Molinaris that made it to Canada, Don Clark's #177 actually did. It appeared in the Mercury display at the 1971 Toronto Boat Show (late February 1971 maybe shortly after these picture were taken).
At the Toronto Boat Show I'm pretty sure it still had Don Clark's name on it. You can't imagine how long I stood and stared at the first tunnel this teenager ever laid eyes on in person.
It was driven here in Canada in 1971 by Barry Taylor, not sure what happened to it after 1971 because Barry Taylor drove a Burns Craft after that, it may have gone to Oley Berkis, perhaps Mark Rotharmel would know.
Maybe you had something to do with getting the #177 up here to Canada.

[willabee]

..... Maybe you had something to do with getting the #177 up here to Canada.

Not that I recall, I believe that would have been arranged between Patterson & Garbrecht. I may have been charged with getting it ready to go, but the decision to send it wasn't mine to make.

[peterse90]

[QUOTE=willabee;3197371]Not that I recall, I believe that would have been arranged between Patterson & Garbrecht. I may have been charged with getting it ready to go, but the decision to send it wasn't mine to make.[QUOTE]

Hope this is readable (or maybe Fujimo can enlarge?).
You were right, Gary did have something to do with getting the #177 here to Canada with Carl Scheel and Dave Brown.
I got to work for Dave Brown and Bob Patterson for a short time in 1980 at Mercury Canada in Mississauga. Very nice people who treated me very well. Also liked Fred Wolf and Bev Henry.
In the copy it quotes Gary as saying the hull is a 17, but I'm with you I think because it is a true 'rocker' bottom I think it is an 18. I think the 17's were the next generation mostly 'sprints' that had less lift and ran flatter with the new first generation Twisters. Like the one Spencer Dunn ran here in 1972.

[Lake X Kid]

[Lake X Kid]

With the great number of Molinari tunnel hulls (and spin-offs) participating at the 1971 Miami race, has any other hull manufacture dominated the field as the preferred racing hull?

Would the Power Cat (preceding the Molinari tunnel) in its heyday of being a leader of the pack, have had as many hulls racing at one time and been the preferred race hull then?

These two hulls and the Switzer Wing hull seemed, to be the mainstream game changers of 20^th century outboard-powered racing hulls.

[Lake X Kid]

Post# 4086.

[willabee]

..... You were right, Gary did have something to do with getting the #177 here to Canada with Carl Scheel and Dave Brown.

In the copy it quotes Gary as saying the hull is a 17, but I'm with you I think because it is a true 'rocker' bottom I think it is an 18. I think the 17's were the next generation mostly 'sprints' that had less lift and ran flatter with the new first generation Twisters. Like the one Spencer Dunn ran here in 1972.

That's the way I remember it, after the 18' rockers came the 17's. The first of those were run in Paris, 1970, but I don't recall anyone labeling them sprints. They had a little different tunnel configuration to handle the rough Paris water.

Don Clark in his Paris 17'er .....

The first ones I recall being called 17' sprints were run at Havasu 1970. Stickle & Hering ran identical boats with 1350 stackers. On Saturday, Tom set all new 1, 2, 3, & 4 hour records for laps completed and average speed. On Sunday, with fewer boats running, Bob broke all of Tom's new records!

Stickle & Hering in sprints .....

[STEVERINO]

That's the way I remember it, after the 18' rockers came the 17's. The first of those were run in Paris, 1970, but I don't recall anyone labeling them sprints. They had a little different tunnel configuration to handle the rough Paris water.

Don Clark in his Paris 17'er .....

The first ones I recall being called 17' sprints were run at Havasu 1970. Stickle & Hering ran identical boats with 1350 stackers. On Saturday, Tom set all new 1, 2, 3, & 4 hour records for laps completed and average speed. On Sunday, with fewer boats running, Bob broke all of Tom's new records!

Stickle & Hering in sprints .....

Jacki Wilson and Donn Ross won the Chasewater 500 race with a 17ft Molnari in june 1970 i think both Molinari and the Rasini bros ran them also.