Lets fill this spot

[hydroc888]

I do hope that some more of the oldtimers that weren't as well known , but loved boat racing as much as the next guy will fill in some of the blanks of boat racing history that they have in there memories . Ron and Ted have a great site here . The only one like it I have found. there are great pictures sitting in boxes of racers houses that the world would love to see and lots of individual stories that need to be shared. lets share them with the kids , the next generation , if we oldsters are going to be able to go to a race and remember our younger days. Ron and Ted cannot do it all without sounding self serving and I know that is not what they are about. If you are a boatracer but dont have any storys to tell but know an oldtimer that does but isnt computer literate get them involved and send the stories and pictures.
This site is good , lets help make it great and a part of history

[Ted March]

Thank you for the kind words. You sure hit it on the head. We need and want the stories and the pictures. Everyone on here surely has at least one.

Please share them with our Boat Racing Facts community and let's have some fun.

Thanks to all.

[Peter Crowley]

Boat racing has got to have some of the greatest stories going.... You should ask Charlie Gonyea about his ride to the Nationals in California (from Massachusetts) with a young Billy Rosado, a teenage Ken Rosado and Joc Rosado. Must have been Modesto? I believe that Ken won in CSH? Charlies story is funny. The daily ration of sandwiches (peanut butter and jelly) and beer were the highlite to a days driving! Billy slept on the back seat, Joc on the front seat and the "teenagers" were under the trailer! It was a cross country trip made on a rediculously small budget, but fueled by an intense desire to compete and a dedication that few would have been resolute enough to stick with..... in the end their sacrifices paid off!

[Ted March]

They are RACERS!!!

[Peter Crowley]

It is surprising that they are still racing so many years later. Ken was the star racer of the family back in the early 60's. I find it amazing that he still has that same intensity today! Ken is in my opionion, one of the best outboard drivers that I have seen over the decades that I have been involved. Little brother Billy became a very good racer in his own right. Perhaps it was his AU in the mid to late 60's that he was best remembered running. Billy couldn't carry that same intensity (who could?) forever. He also raced... almost everything! His son Sean Rosado did very well in the "J classes". Bill retired from racing a few years ago. Oh and Charlie? Charlie did well for himself as well!

[Mark75H]

After a couple rough crashes last year, Ken retired from racing and sold his equipment. :( 49 years of excellent racing!

[Peter Crowley]

At the SSOA club banquet a couple of weeks ago, Ken gave my son his FEH high point trophy as encouragement! Pete will start racing this year in J...

"And now.... the rest of the story"- In 1966, my father brought out my older brothers Marchetti ASH. I was 12 years old and had been racing JU for about three years. It was time to make my first race in ASH. My father had waited until we went to the first Maine race where there would be fewer entries in ASH. I had a driving coach that day. In my ASH debut, I came in first! The boat of my brothers was the boat that Ken had won the ASH National Championship in a few years earlier. My "coach" was Ken Rosado.... The reason that he wasn't IN the race? Back then, if you raced in more that 15 races, your average (which is what the National High Point Championship was based on) would actually go down- even with a win!