Working with the scanner and Dad's old photos, I figured I'd post a few shots here.
Boat 898 Terry Leatherby's mod 50 Broughton/Johnson, boat 328 Bill Richter Sr, Burgess/ Evinrude, Formula 100. Clinton Iowa, 1979(?) ish.
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Working with the scanner and Dad's old photos, I figured I'd post a few shots here.
Boat 898 Terry Leatherby's mod 50 Broughton/Johnson, boat 328 Bill Richter Sr, Burgess/ Evinrude, Formula 100. Clinton Iowa, 1979(?) ish.
......These are from the same Clinton race, Rick Kasmar's SJ Hydrostream Puma with Johnson 140, and Dave Packer's Mod U......Dunno.
Clinton, IA was a good race site. I liked it because if you got tried of boat racing you could walk over to the car show. And when you got done with that walk over to the tractor pull. Then go see the rodeo and finish up with ice cream at the Burger King. Then back to the boat races. And carnival rides too. Cool place for boat races.
Mark N
Here's one from Clinton, IA too.
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Herewith some shots of early years in the Northwest. "NOMA" (Northwest Outboard Marathon Club) started out as wildcat racing and then APBA sanctioned. I raced there from 1970 thru 1983.
1st picture is of my SJ rig in 1973. The new tuned exhaust "bubbleback" Evinrude 135 was fast enough to run with the black motors, until the new better shaped gearcase came out for the Mercs.:eek:
2nd shot a beach start, Black Lake in Olympia WA. From top left, John Lehto, Greg Horn,John Abbott, LArry Lewis, Clyde Jacobus, George Abbott, Randy Zavales. In the water, Randys brother. On the beach lower left is Craig Indall.
3rd one, a placemat from Havasu. Ron should like this one.
4th, George Abbott at speed.
5th, a poleboat start at Black Lake, date unknown.
6th, Stu Deibert / Schultze / Evinrude
There was only 1 Glas Moly in Region, belonged to Dick Sharp. I THINK I may have 1 pic, will keep digging. Don't have anything else for Deibert, sorry. Here's a good shot of Bill Glennon Next to Leatherbys' boat at Beloit in '79. Without his help I couldn't have kept involved as a certain individual at Evinrude did his best to interfere. Yannow, politics and I ain't a politician - -:mad:
Along those lines, here's my MOD 50 Hering. Molinari copy. Not enough airfoil, it was either plastered flat or in danger of a blowover! Lasted 3 races and the motor punched thru the transom dumping me in the Ohio. Lesson: want it done right, do it yourself.:eek:
Sorry photo quality is poor, most of these photos were in IVAN hurricane flood.
I was wondering if you had more photos of Greg Horn's boat because I have his old SJ DelCraft. But I don't have any photos of when he owned it or what it looked like when Bob Holloway owned it.
Mark N
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The Seebold you rebuilt for Rick Remley. This is from the Kankakee nationals in the late 80s.
This hull has survived and is currently being restored.
The Schulyz tunnel with twin X-115s, I don't know who took the picture. It was given to me by someone who worked with me at OMC but I don't remember who.
I was told Rich McKinley is in the cockpit, and the other two fellas were Bruce Summers and Ray Nydahl. Bruce is often on BRF, hopefully his ears are burning and he will put in his 2 cents.
Roddy Foreman's Formula 100 LeeCraft with a Force, I thought I had one of his team mate's boat but haven't come across it yet.
A little merc Mod 50 hull, Looks like a Hering to me.....This boat didn't race the day I took this picture, the owner hauled it to Kankakee to sell it.
Hopefully someone responsible is taking care of this little gem.
Looks like Ray Nydahl at the front of the trailer...Pretty sure this is the boat Dewey Berghauer stuffed in the 9 Hour....Looks like Havasu Springs where we tested...This would be the spring of 1967...
Missed your post....The twin Johnsons were McCune's...This is the Berghauer's ride...Dewey stuffed cross my wake made by my DeSilva Wing limping back to the pits on one more!
That is Rich and Bruce for sure....We stayed at Savard's Motel at Havasu Springs and tested up there before the enduro...In those days the road ended at Havasu Springs...There was no road to Havasu City from Parker, without going back through California...
A couple shots of Bob Parsons boat, I think he won that day.
At the 1973 "225" held in Seattle on the unlimited course. I was doing pretty well until, on one of those big turns, my fuel pickup was starved and I ran out of gas! This was probably the best boat I built, very forgiving and fast!;)
We considered UJ to stand for "Used Junk", all I could afford.:D
Rick Remley bought this white Champ Boat and turned it into a Formula 100 boat and raced for one season, Then I got to do quite a few tricks to it. It turned out to be a really fast boat.
Mark N
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I was going to scan a few OPC pics from around 1973, but couldn't find them. Keep yours coming.
ADD: Found these from Lake Charles 1979. Have had much scanner trouble. Can't get these sized right.
Thanks to all who have posted on this thread!
Rick Remley's Formula 100 used a CCC/RS tower and gearcase under his V4, which worked quite well.
Keith Barco used the same setup on his V4. His boat was also very fast.
I took these in Jensen Beach Florida (near Stuart) in '88 or '89 when I worked for OMC.
Bobby Cullinan's boat and motor from the same race at the Jensen beach causeway.
I never saw anyone cut the exhaust snout off of a clubfoot before but it must have worked pretty well....he won that day.
Another Formula 100 V4 powered boat from Jensen Beach. I don't remember the name
of the driver.
I was surprised at the large number of V4s there on that day.
1ST picture is Dick Sharp # 157 in the Glas Moly, don't know who in the # 99 dual stacker sidewinder - Camas Washington 1970
2nd pic is Barry Woods 335 in a "Marathon", foreground Glaston/Molinari, 18 footer, # 380 is Ed Lane.
A couple of in-action shots.....Jerry Guinn maybe?
First picture: Not sure about these but I think 266 is Lon Sawyer and 16 is Joy Gohr.
The location was Libertyville Illinois, 6-23-1985.
Second picture: Bill Richter Sr.in boat, me on the pier holding the boat. Can't remember where.
What hull and vintage is the #244 in the pictures. I would love to find and restore one some day. Those are the OPC boats I remember watching when I first started getting into performance boats.
Thanks for the awesome pictures!
Joe
That 244 boat looks a lot like my old Broughton.
It does look look like a Broughton with the cowls replaced. Heres another shot of the same hull, Bill Richter Sr in the other boat. The class is Mod 100, 1978 or 1979. I wish I could remember the race location....that building in the first picture looks so familiar.
I remember these kneeldowns were pretty popular at one time.
Is the motor on the top scatcraft an omc with stacks?
I think it is a Johnson FT-10 S..(a 55hp powerhead on the same midsection I used on the Evinrude65 SS 1973).
The pipes are not from OMC..
Dick Ingebretsen's OMC factory sponsored ride at Clinton IA....it was destroyed at Rockford shortly after this picture was taken.
No capsule.... With Brad MIller's Crazy Horse, on a 125 MPH Keller, seems I saw 122 MPH. After Parker 1979, I parked that boat and never got in a tunnel again.
I remember Bill Seebold calling my Dad from wherever Billy first blew over in a capsule. Seems like it might have been Parker or Havasu. Bill was telling my Dad how much difference that capsule made. He was telling it like a bad blowever was just about like a cakewalk. Billy had no injuries.
Note the water brakes on Ingebretsens boat . I remember when the when they tried this they must not have worked out to well only saw a few boats with them . Sam Hemp had them on a DSH one time i think they might have been for show are he may have tried them i'am not sure.
Somewhere in one of my Powerboat & Waterskiing magazines is a picture of Renato Molinari's boat coming apart after he applied water brakes he had just mounted on his boat. I believe it was at Bristol, England.
Tried that on my Mod 50. It was like either all or nothing! :eek: Imagine locking up your brakes every time you wanted to slow your car. I never ran them in a race.
Here are some random photos, Misc. molinaris, bouy trouble at Saint Louis, and sst140s
The boats from this era in OZ due to the brakes they put on them. most of them exploded sooner or later.