Mercury Through The Years...

**lilabner** · 01-25-2019, 10:09 AM

You should know better than me Jim, I was gone from 64 to 68 then too poor to have a race boat. I didn't see Toms boat until about 2005. What is this one then? It sure looks like the one I described. I have a picture of it somewhere.

**2us70** · 01-25-2019, 11:52 AM

I saw the boat that Tom brought to Mt Dora up there. Tom told me he had completely rebuilt the hull. In 1965 after I came home from the Army I went to a race at the Stadium. The E class had a full field of boats. All but one of them were Raveaus. One Madcap in the field. A year later when I was running E class in my CurtisCraft the only one left was Chuck Saunders and he had converted it to a V-bottom.

**GENE LANHAM** · 01-25-2019, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by lilabner

Looks like the Raveau copy Tom built. He didn't round off the bow. Boat was black and wood. Very well built. I saw it at Mt Dora in the early 2000's. He was displaying with Bobby Walwork.

TOM passed away a couple years ago—he got away from outboards and raced inboards—280 Hydro?

**lilabner** · 01-25-2019, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

TOM passed away a couple years ago—he got away from outboards and raced inboards—280 Hydro?

I know about that. Tom’s mother and my mother went to college together.

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**lilabner** · 01-26-2019, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by OLEGATOR

not.

A BIG NOT at that Jim. I was way wrong, must have been the wine. I found the picture of the boat I was thinking of, a Raveau. I had seen that other boat some where though, back in time..Thanks for keepin me straight.