Old and Slow

[Ron Hill]

This is Jack Corner, 52-C Spec VI. Jack won the Colorado River Marathon at least five times..115 miles, on your knees in a AU witha KG-4...

That's me in 19-C and Jack Woodruff in 9-C (9-C and 19-C are both Moremouse Meteor Boats)...

Looks like someone is ahead of us...Maybe, 5-C Mr. Old and Slow himself, Ron Loomis...

[Ron Hill]

Hart Park, we raced arund an island.. AU, 19-C gets the jump on 2-C Bobby Parrish...I was 12 years old, pink and white "Racing Shirt", bare feet (I raced bare foot until, 1964, when they passed the rule you had to have shoes...), KG-4 serial number 448916... Morehouse boat, 22 inch bottom...

In the front seat my neighbor friends rode many a mile!!!!

[jon66w]

Johnny Craven's 290 C looks like a Champion Hull from Long Beach as I think I can Remember it featured in a Champion ad which I used to buy a Kit AB from them in 1962(??). The logo on the aft side also looks like it spells out "Champion"

[Ron Hill]

Craven had run DeSilvas, but the Champion featured a single chine and a wider bottom, and as result the were faster...

If you look at my 19-C Morehouse, she his Champion lines... Lee had started building CHampion Kits, Ron Loomis has a picture of Danny Morehouse in a Champion Boat that lee painted flames on, Lee had been a artict for Walt Disney...

Anyway, the round front seat (Cockpit opening) was Champions idea...See the measurement had a length and a width...It made the length and the width...Of course, the rule's in tent was a SQUARE or RECTANGLE Cockpit .....Rules are made to be bent!!! ASK NASCAR!!!

Where are more of your pictures????

Here's a picture of the 2004 D Runabout National Champion....(Fred hauenstein 1989)...caught him in the act of spying on my PROPS (Again)!!!

[Mark75H]

Ron, is Lee Danny's father?

Who is Ron Loos?

[Ron Hill]

I'd love to know if Lee or his wife Ibby are still alive. I saw them at my parent's 50th Anniverary, probably 20 years ago. The were "HIGH DOLLAR" people, but you'd never know it. They only had one son, but they treated me like one. I should could the number of Morehouse boats I had, and how many we paid for...

Lee raced DU for awhile, but quit and became our announcer....his favorite line was, when talking about boat bottoms, was it was slicker than S on a BH... (Snot on a broom handle)...He was one of the funniest guys I ever knew. Get him and my dad togeter, on UNCLE John's Yatch...and they were a pair!!!

Uncle John used the Morehouse money to be one of the biggest builder in California.. John D. Lusk...



Danny quit racing an went into the music publishing business.

I'm getting to be like Ted Zahorski (at Yamaha Outboards) and Edgar Rose...ask me the time, and I tell you how the clock works!!!

[Ron Hill]

I've told Dee Berghauer, I had this clipping, but I could never seem to find it....

The Wisconsin people could not believe, that California farmers would have peaches in boxes, by the highway, where you took the peaches and left the mone...(The honor systom)...Not sure they do that today...

I sort of had the job of escorting the Queen all week....Next race I was at, Jimmy Dawe asked how I did with the "QUEEN", I said, "One more day was all I needed, but had to get back to work." I could never lie to Jimmy...For years, if I had a young lady with me at the races, Jimmy would come by and say "One more day!!!" I should have just lied to him!!!



I thought this was Denny and Dewy...Carl Meyers is in the background in his Morehouse, BU....

[bill boyes]

Ron, some fruit stands still have the honor system in Northern Calif. Saw today Walnets $3.00 per pound & Persimmons $1.00 a bag honor system. Kiwi fruit in the summer is the same way.

[Ron Hill]

Hearst Regatta Program 1944.

[Ron Hill]

PODH.... Pacific One Design Hydro...

Handicap races....