I think we should race at Salton as far as smell goes do we want no racing or a little aroma? I recall races at Fox Lake Illinois that were next to a municipal garbage dump. Many many races were...
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I think we should race at Salton as far as smell goes do we want no racing or a little aroma? I recall races at Fox Lake Illinois that were next to a municipal garbage dump. Many many races were...
When I started racing my first heat was in a stock BU runabout in a Van Pelt with a Mercury KG-4H on the back. (I stepped up because they were not racing AU in that regatta) The BU field consisted of...
Ah, Take me back to those days. Wouldn't it be great to see all of those classes race once more with the old motors and boats? 14 classes that day.We used to have Frenso races every year. I notice...
A correction for both reg 11 and 12 lists. The are each one year running from fall 1952 through end of summer 1953
In addition to the 1952 region 12 venue list here are the CA marathon venues for the same year
Fresno
Modesto
Marysville
Sacramento
Santa Barbara
Oakland
Here is a lost water list from that...
Region 12 - 1952 race venues & number of races
2 in Blythe
4 in Bakersfield
7 in San Diego
1 in Canyon Lake AZ
1 in Lake Malibu
1 at Hansen Dam
2 at Parker
5 at Long Beach
1 at Salton Sea
Up in the Canadian Prairie Provinces in the 50s and 60s there were a few custom built all aluminum class D runabouts. Fenton Malley was one driver of a metal DU in competition and I think his son...
Thanks Sam
Your posts in this thread made my week.
They evoke a wonderful era of a great engaging sport that in recent decades has entered the doldrums.
In recent years I caught some of that...
Forget about naming motors according to displacement or just assigning model numbers.
If new racing outboards are ever in production again lets go for whimsical names like they were back then. ...
It was good to see these pictures and to know that boat racing seems to be in good shape over there.
Take a look at this video and you will see those motors Scott/Koenig? in action
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Wow great photos! Where were they taken? Were you there? What's the racing like? The hulls look like tunnels or are they hydros?
Found on Ebay last night54045
Some drivers newer to the sport may not know that there was once an alky class called M Hydro. It was active from the 1930s until sometime in the 1960s. It was based on a full race OMC outboard...
Sports Illustrated used to have articles about boat racing. Here is a page where they posted the winners of the 1954 Nationals -both for APBA and NOA.
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Lodi was an ultimate boat race showcase. So were the 1100s and even more so on a short course. And those throngs of spectators from the central valley before Lodi became a higher end wine suburb of...
From Speed & Spray -1952 APBA nationals Lake Merritt Oakland CA
EUs - an example of forgotten racing history.
By the way look at the tight course close to shore at the nationals with full classes...
There is so much racing history that needs to be documented. All of us should send in stories and importantly photos to BRF Our history of the 1950s is fading. For example if you Google boat racing...
Thank you so much for posting all of this. A real treat!
More Lost H2O? My introduction to racing that has never ebbed since was at an all-alky race at Lake Maxinkuckee near Culver Indiana. All-stock races in that area were often held at Manteno, Ill. That...
Todd: I think that you and I might agree that Lodi was perhaps the best lost water for the number of spectators, a close-in exciting race spectacle where spectators could feel like they were in the...
Years ago I raced in region 11. Recalling those days I am aware of how many NorCal venues have been lost to racing. Here is a partial list: Stockton, Modesto Reservoir, Lodi, Berkeley Marina, San...
I am still hopeful that we will see some personal stories about Wiget and Kinkaid. In the meanwhile, I found a 1955 Sports Illustrated article about Wiget and Bill Tenney who I am hopeful we will...
Did anyone know these legendary drivers? Please share some stories about them.
I think this Fantom is a reproduction but a good photo anyway
From the club cover circa, 1963. At that time some of their races were Hansen Dam in LA. That year on the schedule were alky classes M, A, B, C Service hydro and ARR, BRR, CRR, CSR and FRR. Stock...
Fremont marine Stadium - Built for boat racing..now an industrial park!
The name of the boat is a Fantom. I had the last "new" one. It was never in the water when I purchased it. Mine was an F Racing Runabout that hung on the wall in Shirey's hardware store in Oregon. He...
Did you know that in In 1953 there were EU and FU runabouts.
Straightaway records for that year in the big stock runabouts:
DU 57mph
EU 36 mph
FU 44 mph
C Service, which still exists. Originally the class was for the OMC 30 ci opposed twin with the "service" (stock) lower unit.
In the 50s and 60s, there was C Service, Section 1 and C Service...
Very interesting info. Thank you. It would be fun to see photos of as many of these record rigs as possible. Looks like the 460s did not make quantum leaps in velocity like the Italian machine the...
Good ol days!
What a great day is the annual 4th celebration. Every such day for 35 years I used to race and later spectate at Lodi Lake. It was real Americana. Community outdoors pancake breakfast, live dixieland...
Right on, Mad Cat!
I agree with all you said about the earlier OPCs.
I double agree about Lodi and Sparks and FRR and Crackers. For me, the only thrill in the world better than watching a race of a...
I agree with your entire post and thought the same even before you posted it.
Although I am an avid spectator and a sometimes racer these days, many stock heats and some stock races are even boring...
In Reg. 11, I remember Livermore Outboard Racing Association was in business for about 5 years. Also several of us formed the Redwood Empire Outboard Association for a while. Then there is the...
Can we all send our clubs logos or emblems to this thread? I like the cartoon hydro racer of East Bay Boat club. Have some logos changed over time?
I agree that this thread has devolved from its original intent but it is interesting. We are now dealing with two issues. The first issue is that the term "stock" is not very accurate about what is...
We do agree in general. Super Sport racing seems like a very good moniker for the current "stock" classes.
About the Yamato imports. Even though they are still made new for parimutuel betting in...
Good point. If people race these they are stock outboards (except for pwc) and APBA should sanction those as stock races. I am not against the current stock outboard classes, it is just that the name...
No doubt you are correct. Lets just leave well enough alone and we will survive. It is certainly more sensible to use a rope starter, have no neutral or reverse in a runabout class and kneel as if in...
We have classes that are faster than pleasure boats but I wonder if they are really boats. A single person in an enclosed capsule with oxygen mask and very limited side and rear visibility says more...
So that does ring a bell. I was at your home and it was your dad!
Sounds like bike racing is a good substitute for boats. Never-the-less, sorry that you never got in a rig again after the early...
Then for sure I had your Dad's boat! And it must have been him that sold it to me. I also purchased a 55-H from him with the boat. He and someone else assembled it from parts while I was there,...
Sounds like it might be the one! I recall that I did purchase it in WA and it was the only one that I ever saw on the West coast. It was so long ago I do not recall who sold it to me, even though...
Back in the 60s those Price-crafts were very competitive. Will Adams, Commodore of East Bay Boat Club in Reg.11 did quite well with his. They were great on the tight turns as well due to the rounded...
Hi Gary
My racing in the Bay Area started in 1958-59 when I moved there and some of those guys were still around. Unfortunately, my house burned down some years ago and my racing boats, trophies...
I am aware that EBBC exists and is active. But-there is no public record of its very interesting history which dates back more than 50 years. I would wager that not many current EBBC members or...
Before older members of existing and defunct racing clubs are no longer able to share history, memories and photos, we should make a record of the clubs, their members and activities for posterity....
In 1959, NOA had unlimited alky hyro and unlimited alky runabout in addition to F classes. APBA did not.
Another NOA/APBA difference in those days had to do with minimum dimensions and specs for runabouts- stock. mod and alky. NOA preceded APBA by years in eliminating the front cockpit requirement on...