Posting pictures, intructions anywhere?

[Skoontz]

My sister finally sent off the old family photos...Man what a find! Got my dad in a full color 5x7 driving a Sid Craft/Mark 20H I beleive, open deck utility boat, B-6-V racing on Lake Geneva, Wisc.

Got dad changing props on his Switzer Baby Bullet, with I beleive a Mk 10 H, and one of his buddies with something, got lots of boathouse shots, even a cutsie of me, I was 22 months, Schlitz beer hat on, standing on a motor rack screwdriver in hand working on an Evinride fat 50, circa 1959. Old Evinrude packing boxes, a newspaper article where dad won the Evinrude Silver service award, first ever in the state, all kinds of stuff to share. Then I got one that the midwesterners might be able to help out with.
Dad driving a Coil-Form boat, bottom design was get this....Deep V into flat, with one of those hand grenade 110 Mercs on back. All kinds of early Switzer woodies, Thompsons, Yellow Jackets, and hanging in the boat barn, a pair of Sid hydros.

Missing from the batch sadly enough, dad's Rockholt/4-60, the 36 cubic inch 25 HP Evinrude with dual carbs, and Big George's Yellow Jacket/89 cubic inch 75 HP.

Anywho, if some has some step by step instructions, I would love to share this stash. Ron, I'll have them at Mission Bay Saturday. Get me through these and I can get to the container where I got more cool stuff to photograph and post! I don't do electro junk well at all.

[Tomtall]

Bill - Go to this BRF link it will take you thru the steps.

http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=735

Thanks to Sam the man.

[Skoontz]

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[Skoontz]

Ok, now that I fijurred out how to do this, now I gotta scan the photos I want to post, find them in the computer, get them to the site....Stay tuned!

[Mark75H]

Excellent! :)

[Skoontz]

Lets see what we got....

[Skoontz]

Oh my, I did it....This was dad, 1957 August at the Lake Geneva Regatta, before he was brought into my grandpas Evinrude Dealership.

It's a Sid Craft runabout, a very popular boat with the lake gang as he told me.

[Skoontz]

This was an experimental boat made by Coil-Form, Inc. It was a Deep V into flat, brutally hard riding design, fast as hell on flat water. Power was a 110 Merc hand grenade. Circa September 1968, Pistakee Lake, Illinois

[Master Oil Racing Team]

Hey Skoontz...I read everything you post. Some excellent insight and great stories. Glad to see you learn how to scan and post photos. I went through all that trial and error myself, but it is well worth it. No better way to learn how to use a computer, scanner, etc. than to be a member of BRF with a host of boat racing memories and shoeboxes full of photos that need to be shown. Looking forward for more.

[Skoontz]

When Dave and Bobby Switzers dad was alive, and long before he went blind, a person could bring any conceptual drawing to him and he would build the boat. He was Dave's mentor and an incredibly talented human being to say the least.

This boat was what Switzercraft looked like for families. Powered b y a 1958 Fat 50, slow as ever, the 50 would do what no single Merc could ever dream of doing....Pull 6 water skiers, from a dead stop, at over 30 MPH. This boat was an 18' runabout, my dad's first woosified boat after he hooked up and married my mom.

[Skoontz]

This is the first of several Westside Boathouse pictures you will begin to see. Check out the 50's style Texaco fuel pump....I'll let you gag on the price...103 octane, .24 a gallon.

[Skoontz]

This was the first in the state for Dad's mechanical/sales abilities. He won his second working at Stirn's Marine in 1973, Johnson issued the Gold service award when dad was service manager. Once again the first ever in the state of Illinois.

[Skoontz]

This was one of Dad's first boats, a Switzer Baby Bullet. The other guy you see there is his friend Danny Salzgieber who used to work at OMC in the late 50's, early 60's before relocating to Connecticut. He was running a baby Yellow Jacket. My mom has her back to the shot on the pier smoking a cancer stick.