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Sadly he was hospitalized for quite a spell in early summer '86 for the "issues" and he never seemed to fully recover physically.

John:

That was during the period that Don was working with us on the Jesse James Super Boat project right after Mark Lavin's death. Billy Don had endured some urinary issues a few years before and...

Beale:

Not possible. This was all down well before the internet started. There were no provisions to harness hot air from a world wide computer network built into the concept....but it certainly...

John:

Ahhh yes the Methane gas moment, you only heard Edgar's earlier secret tapes after his bratwurst and beans dinner...... The hydrogen part came later in the design process..... :)

Actually it converted water to hydrogen.....so the faster it went, the more fuel it received directly from its cooling system....

agreed ;)

These were real ultra hush hush motors..... not even Charlie Strang or Jack Leek knew about the project.......

Edgar Rose hid the prototypes away so thoroughly that 2 days later even he couldn't...

Read my sentence again carefully......."2 liter, rotary, V10, turbine OMC"........

Jackie is much more knowledgeable about this project than I am.......:p

Do you have any shots of Dick O'Dea's Jones tunnel running at Valleyfield with his 7 liter/Mercruiser II?....possibly 1977? I believe Johnny Yale was running it and blew over running down the front...

Jackie and Rotary John at OFF 2010, conspiring to reveal the secrets behind the legendary 2 liter Rotary, V-10, Turbine OMC that only Renato Molinari was allowed to test drive. This engine would have...

Lee:

I presume this is what you are referring to.......?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4buTnduRJXc&feature=player_embedded

Looks like a great concept........... and lends itself to a...

Jackie:

Between us and Chris Craft, who built a later variant of the design (The "Chris Cat"), there were as many pleasure boat versions of the Shadow Cat hull as race boats....and we sold...

Lars:

Interesting to see the Molinari/Konig in 1977. Didn't OMC have some form of exclusive agreement with Molinari, or was that only in the US?

Now all you need is the Cobra..........

I was referring to the standards. We put small individual OPC sized capsules in the Jesse James cockpit in 1986 and they were modeled after the early tunnel hull versions, but they offered no real...

Bernie Little started the capsules when he put F-16 canopies on his Unlimiteds in 1985. We had the first set in Offshore ready for installation on our 35" Conquest Cat, Jesse James in late 1986, when...

Even though the Shadow Cat was designed specifically for the biggest outboards, we were forced to turn to inboard power to make them live up to their potential....As a died in the wool outboard racer...

Sorry Jackie but there were a bunch of hulls capable of handling the big V-8's. We built one of the first, the Shadow Cat, which was designed in 1979 specifically for the T-4's and promised V-8's....