Homer Kincaid was A True Gentleman
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Originally Posted by
Gene East
I have been watching this thread to see if the Alky race in Chicago would come up before I added my 2 cents worth.
Larry Latta told me the Coast Guard would not sign off on the sanction permit until the Admiral was told Mayor Daley #1 supported the race. Such was and still is the power of the Daley name.
I echo any negative comments about the Alky race in Chicago. Terrible pits, tight course. A Navy (Reserve?) ship was moored just off the first turn. I kept waiting for somone to swing wide and crash into the ship.
The tight course did produce some action that the spectators enjoyed.
As mentioned in an earlier post Homer Kincaid went out of the boat there in C-hydro.
He had some help!
Jim Schoch and Homer put on quite a show in C-hydro that day swapping the lead several times.
They touched on the last lap and Jim's steering bar poked a hole in the side of Homer's boat. The crowd cheered wildly as Jim crossed the finish line and Homer slowly sank.
As I recall, Homer wasn't nearly as thrilled about the results as the crowd was. However; being the gentleman he was, Homer came over to our pits and congratulated Jim.
Interesting note, both drivers were piloting white Schultz 4-point hydros.
Has anyone ever seen a Schultz that was not white? We never did paint ours yellow like all the other Quincy boats.
It took forever to find the setup on that boat. When we did, it was never very fast but it performed very well in rough water and went through the turns like it was on a rail.
So did Homer's!
Homer Kincaid was a super star! If my memory serves me correctly Homer is the only man in history to win every heat of every class of a sanctioned regatta.
Hopefully someone can confirm this statement and provide the details of this amazing accomplishment.
I wasn't too happy with Homer Kencaid when I broke the C and D Runabout Kilo Records with Harry's new VC Konigs and Homer didn't approve the records because the motors weren't available til 1968 or some such BS. Harry Bartolomei, my sponsor, applied to UIM and both records became World Records, not APBA records. But, truthfully, HOMER DID THE CORRECT THING BY OUR RULE BOOK. There weren't as many classes in those days, but it was always said that Homer was only driver to every win ever class at a race.
Homer was always a real gentleman!