DeSilva brothers

[Steve Litzell]

Revenge....More details needed here!

WAS HOMER ALKY VP AT THE TIME???

At The time around 1972/73, the flat deck boats would take to the sky for no real good reason, The bigger the motor the more this would happen. The rules were relaxed if you will to allow the sides of the boat to be narrowed and brought in at the top deck lines. With a cowl added it was thought that the down force at the cowl and because the sides were brought in. The boat would stay on the water. It did. The lift rails as they were called were also used on some of the later flat deckers but the flat deckers still would shoot for the moon at good speeds. When bruce got the first KR it was proven that this was the way to go as "Miss Laurie" was the Cadilac that it looked and was faster around the race course. Seems that Homer got his boxers in a major bunch as he thought a runabout should hold the lines like the antique boats. After much talk, ( screaming and crying on Homer's part) it was voted to allow this "new type of runabout" and the name KR as in Kincade revenge was born. That's as I was told. Still a major breakthrough for us, and made runabout racing safer for us all. Seems natural that what Mike Krier made in the mid eighties that looked like a stealth fighter, was still again a major improvement on our boats. The Delta also would of been interesting to shake out if it were not for a few nay sayers. Steve

[Lee Sutter]

This is really neat stuff.
So, the DeSilva brothers put the Delta on the bottom with a traditional runabout deck and Krier put the Delta to the deck with a traditional bottom. Did the rules in the early 70's allow cowlings and turned in sides? They did in Stock Runabouts.
Lee

[Steve Litzell]

This is really neat stuff.
So, the DeSilva brothers put the Delta on the bottom with a traditional runabout deck and Krier put the Delta to the deck with a traditional bottom. Did the rules in the early 70's allow cowlings and turned in sides? They did in Stock Runabouts.
Lee

Hi Lee, Yes that is the relaxing of the rules i was talking about. Pro boats went first then the stocks. Steve

[Tim Weber]

The KR means Kinkaids Responsiblity, got it straight from Ralph.

Tim