1. Memorabilia from ca. 1977
2. My 1980 13' Allison. Jay Cox and I had widened the 5.5" pad to 8 " right after I'd picked up the boat in Louisville, and that was too much: the tail ran deeper in the water. However, I let George Laycock (130lb) drive it in the 1980 NOA 40-70V Class Nationals (NOA had no weight limits in any class) and he won, beating the 85 Mariners that had dominated the class all season.
3. With Joe Burgess leading in the GP Nationals at Eufaula in 1981. I finally passed him but we both were disqualified for jumping the gun, so Danny Critchfield won in spite of running far behind us. Jay Cox said to Danny as we were waiting to be weighted, 'It's better to be lucky than smart', but Joe and I weren't smart or lucky that day.
4. John Calley and me somewhere in Central Texas, ca. 1983.
5. John Calley (333), me (853), Terry Strack (353), Texas, ca. 1984. The gray 13' (7" pad) was my fastest EP boat. John's driving my old red/white 13' Allison, Terry's in John's old orange/white 14' Allison. I won, but after I got out of their way in 1985 both John and Terry won a whole string of EP National Championships!
6,7,8. I got on a Johnson poster without ever driving a Johnson-?
9. My garage workshop in 1981 after Havasu. Unordnung, but very effective .... . If you look hard you can see my Rundquist pitch gauge on the workbench. I did my own prop work, discovered a camber effect that no one else understood at the time. Louis Baumann had let me use his Houston prop shop in 1978, 1979.
10. 1977 ad.
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