Mercury Through The Years...

**FUJIMO** · 11-14-2020, 12:10 PM

**FUJIMO** · 11-14-2020, 12:12 PM

**FUJIMO** · 11-14-2020, 12:18 PM

**FUJIMO** · 11-14-2020, 12:19 PM

**FUJIMO** · 11-14-2020, 12:21 PM

**lilabner** · 11-14-2020, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by 2us70

Looks like Phil Young. Don't recall Phil racing that boat but I think his wife Rosemary did. I think that Jim and Helen Campbell took it over and ran it in H class for a while.

He raced it a few times, not many. Then he bought the Spider from Dick Spellman.

**Lake X Kid** · 11-14-2020, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

Why didn't you mention Alex

I had mention the Mercury race team members, but I was and still not certain how much of a role Alexander was involved with the Merc racing team.

**2us70** · 11-14-2020, 06:34 PM

When I first started racing there were 4 or 5 Raveaus like that one running in H class.

Originally Posted by lilabner

He raced it a few times, not many. Then he bought the Spider from Dick Spellman.

**lilabner** · 11-14-2020, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by 2us70

When I first started racing there were 4 or 5 Raveaus like that one running in H class.

Some of them were G class with 800’s on them like Treasure’s boat and the 16 boat, and the 800 boat. I took care of all of them. Luckily they never broke.

**Bob V** · 11-14-2020, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by lilabner

Some of them were G class with 800’s on them like Treasure’s boat and the 16 boat, and the 800 boat. I took care of all of them. Luckily they never broke.

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**2us70** · 11-15-2020, 11:03 AM

This boat eventually wound with the Russells. Brooke put his Merc 1000 on it. Last I heard of it was from a marathon at Lake Murray in South Carolina. Ronnie and another guy were running it there and it suffered major bottom damage and almost sank. I saw it when they brought it back and it was in pretty rough shape. Then it disappeared. I think Dale Disher had something to do with it as well.

Originally Posted by Bob V

Some of my favorite pictures...

**Lake X Kid** · 11-15-2020, 06:54 PM

It looks like when Little T, became a G class boat, she got rid of her fins.
And did she replace some wood with fabric/canvass across the bow deck to save weight?

**FUJIMO** · 11-15-2020, 08:40 PM

...you recall the speeds of the 600 boat butch, with the different lower units?... (memory test)...

**OLEGATOR** · 11-15-2020, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

...you recall the speeds of the 600 boat butch, with the different lower units?... (memory test)...

i'm not butch, but i ran behind butch with one of the original 25000 mile raveaus. with merc 600 it ran 51. with 700 fleetmaster 52. with 700 sportmaster 54. now i know why my g class rig would not keep up with butch. he was running a 800 according to his post above.
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