Quote Originally Posted by willabee View Post
Don't know about Jackie running the 1000 Silo, but you have all the rest correct. We put a C6 on the tail of the big boat thinking it just might get the job done in that rough water. Even with the holding of the barge traffic, that rig still could have finished in the top three or five if some rookie hadn't ground the coil mounting bracket so thin that it broke and fell from the ignition panel, promptly shutting the engine down! Oh well, that's another story.
That was the race where "Shakey" copped his clogs-------I was 10 meters to his right and his boat looked to be in good shape --------it simply just went under------no flip----no big drama----one minute it was there---the next gone---just like that !!!!!
He was not found until many years later.
My heart just was not on that race----yes i did have a great engine "twas a 1000 BP for all i knew----but it could outrun the 1250's
Garbrecht took the boat and the motor back to the states and i never raced for Mercury again.