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Hi Ron:
I raced with Dick and drove the single Miles boats. As you can tell from my posts they were great boats for us......very fast and handled well. The first rides in our sprint single were...

Sorry to hear of your unfortunate experiences..............mine obviously were quite the opposite. If you didn't get the prop from Dick or myself personally.....it wasn't one of ours. I drove a few...

I would guess that "someone" was Dick Summerfeldt! Having raced in Europe (where he was seriously injured) Dick of course met many of the Mercury people, Phil Rolla, Freddy Miles and others.
You of...

Some Cantek Milesmaster racing hulls from the early 70's;

Brian could tell the story about each one better than I can.

I think the full-front picture was taken at St. Jean 1972, the #988 at the...

Quite a "spill" and story............I have read quite a few stories about how "unforgiving" the Miles boats were. I drove 4 different ones over the years, won a lot of races (including region 2...

I drove with Cantek Racing in Toronto in the early 70's. Over the period we dad 4 \Miles boats and they were great....very fast as you know. Merc didn't like it much as they had their committment...

Thank you so much for posting the pics.................Yes I recall many friendly battles with John, Bucky Thornton, Bert and many others.

Thanx also for the compliment. We worked very hard on...

Thanx Peter: I don't recognize who you are but obviously someone familiar. Those were great days. The hook was really sudden, that boat was really tiny for the power and pretty unforgiving. I guess I...

Hey there to all and Thanx to Jeff Lytle for telling me about these sites while in Toronto recently.

From 1971-74 I drove with the CANTEK (Mercury) Race team based in Toronto (#s 588 & 988) in UU,...