Desilva Delta from mid-1980's How many are left?

**25XS** · 08-01-2017

Wondering how many Desilva Delta runabouts are still out there. I know of three... (now four!)

C-5 is in Gainesville, GA and is shown in the pictures below.

This one is in Indiana and was the subject of this old BRF thread:
http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...lva-delta-wing

One more is in Georgia and I'll edit this thread to add pictures of it here.

A fourth boat is in Prop Riders Racing's shop as mentioned in a posting below.

It may be worth a trip to Hiram, GA to chat with Ralph and see if the production numbers and original owners can be listed. I'm curious what speeds could be expected from C-5 if it's powered with a 44XS engine..?

**Steve Litzell** · 08-01-2017

Tom, that boat had several different Konigs on it from 500 cc to 750. Those boats where made for Pro racing. I had a lay down version. Don't know where it went now. Brinkmanship had one that used a Yamaha 500, and Kugler had several stored in his warehouse in Illinois. I think he even tried one with a A and B motor( 250 and 350). They were outlawed very soon but I think maybe a half dozen or so where made. Yellow boat in picture was Tom Goldstones that Bill Rucker drove. I tested one with a 45 sis motor with DeSilvas at second effort before the motor was released to public.

**Yellowjacket** · 08-01-2017

i saw one for sale at the AOMCI meet in Constantine Michigan some years ago. I'm thinking it was 2012 or 2013. It looked very much like C5 in that it was in natural wood, but it was pretty rough at that time. It was a lot rougher than C5 in the pictures above, so I don't believe that was the same boat unless those photos are older. It was most certainly not the white painted one in the other thread. The decking was pretty bleached out and it was in need of a total restoration, but it was pretty much all there.

**PROP RIDERS RACING** · 08-01-2017

I have one that has never been in the water. It was the second one the DeSilva's built for me. I ran a 500cc Yamaha on the first one and it would not stay on the water once you reached 100mph+.

**25XS** · 08-03-2017

Originally Posted by PROP RIDERS RACING

I have one that has never been in the water. It was the second one the DeSilva's built for me. I ran a 500cc Yamaha on the first one and it would not stay on the water once you reached 100mph+.

Prop Riders, could you post a few pictures of your boat, and also could you post the I.D. stamp off the keel inside the boat for us?
Any pictures or video and could you tell us how the boat handled with the Yamaha 500 engine?
Thanks

**1100r** · 08-03-2017

There is,another if I'm not mistaken in Georgia. The number on the boat was 26-Z. I think anyway as its on the DeSilva Race boat site in FB. The guy was going to restore it. And love seeing Goldstone old C-5. Tom let his,wife Barbara run 1100r with that boat one year at Shadow Cliffs