Das Firespttinloudenboomer, Again
There was a second boat called Das Firespttinloudenboomer, Again.
I always kind of liked "Snapper".....
We Go II was a boat I saw at the Winnebagland Marathon in 1953. I named me Apple Box Scooters after that boat...
My dad's C racing Runabout was called Forever Amber....Never did quite understand the name!
Danny Morehouse called his boat U-No-Sip. (Read it backward).
Ed Olsen had all his boats named "Cream Puff"........He did own a Bakery Clled Priscilla's Cake Box in Garden Grove.
The competition named her
When Mike O'Brien was got his first Dale Hull "D" runabout he tested a couple of different props, and they were "Ok" but nothing special. Then he tested a Dewald prop and the boat just came alive. He said "after you came out of the corner the boat just lifted up and accelerated" like nothing he had experienced before he said "it felt like it was going to accelerate right out from under you", and he knew he had something really special.
He hadn't named the boat yet, and was trying to find something appropriate, and on his first race with the new prop he got a decent, but not great start and wasn't in the lead going into the first corner so he went to the outside and when he straightened out he just left the guys he was racing against with that acceleration.
After the heat one of the competitors came up to him and said, "Man I had you by a bit when we were coming off the corner, but then you just took off and you were Long Gone" At that moment he said he knew he had a name for the boat.