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    Hi Folks

    My name Johnny, I am from Mallorca Island, Balearics Island, Spain.
    The boat SD489 is my racing boat, 13 feet long, deep V hull, italian made
    all in plywood. The engine is an ARCHIMEDES PENTA AP-550x, 60 Hp,
    weight 112 pounds only, fuel consumption 17 liters /hour at full speed.
    Racing propeller Radice (italian) in bronze to achieve the maximum
    performance.
    30 years later I managed to get an identical boat and engine , I have
    restored it to the same racing configuration. I am very happy and proud
    to have it back
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    any pictures?
    http://www.spnmotorsports.com

    Go Fast - Turn Left!!!

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    Yes I have,...
    I am triying now to post them now.
    I am a new comer in this forum,
    Sorry

    Johnny
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    Johnny is the motor on #943 a Selva or Carniti?

    I like your boat. Who is the maker?
    Since 1925, about 150 different racing outboards have been made.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark75H View Post
    Johnny is the motor on #943 a Selva or Carniti?

    I like your boat. Who is the maker?
    That’s mighty Carniti, very competitive in SD with Volvo/Archimedes before Selva.
    this is SD Volvo 600 (60 hp) driven by my 16 year old brother at the time
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    In those days in Racing boat (in Europe that is the only I know)
    we hat mainly 3 competion categories, SD, SD and ON.

    ON, very very big outboards in catamarans (before F1), they very expensive
    and sofisticated, in all Spain we had just 5 boats at the best, as I could see
    powered by Evinrude V-4, mainly sponsored by dealers.

    SE, much more popular, because not so complicated, in V-hulls and some
    catamarans, each boat tipe has a different race classification.
    The winners were mainly Carnitis 3 cilinders, the Johnsons- Evinrudes direct
    from production plant were no match, but when some one could get one
    of this engines tuned up from factory, the difference was mas not big.
    But Carniti prior to the big 3 cilinders hat a 2 cilinders for this class who was
    also a great runner.
    Mercury was no competitive then, I don´t know why.
    König- german made, like craftmanship, just know in Germany, totally unkown
    in the rest of Europe, every engine was different, and this engine was capable of the very best and of the very worst,...

    SE very popular too.
    We had Chrysler, not good. Johnson-Evinrude 2 cilinders, no competitive
    with italian Carnitis or swedish (Crescent and Archimedes Penta, wich were
    identical, like Johnson-Evinrude).
    In this class the swedish engines has a specially build for racing series, (550 sPORT, 550X, Crescent Tornado, later VOLVO PENTA 600 SX ) wich had
    block and pistons oversized from factory, this gave about 50 cubic centimeters more combustion volume.
    The italians also did they best, ... with his competition engines, tuning up
    as hey could.
    But here comes my personal opinion, some of the 2 cilinders Carniti who had entered in SE class races, when out classed by the new 3 cilinders Carniti
    went to enter in SD class, (totally unfair), as they were identical for the eye, and the only way to know it was to file a claim to the Jury to disasemble the
    cilinder head, and as you know when the race is done every one goes home
    as fast as possible, ...
    Ah, what a times when we were young,...

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    To Mark75H,
    Nr. 943 is a Carniti (as I can remember is a 45HP, with a very high combustion
    volume, near 650 cubic centimeters).
    Here in Mallorca we had a marvelous racing time from 1969 to 1973, in summertine we used to do races in every harbour in Mallorca, every 15 days, so we were rather polular, by then we had gasoline very cheap.
    We had some Offshore activity too, I can remember american "cigarrettes"
    coming to Mallorca for the Wolrd Offshore Championsiph, I keep some
    super-8 movies, and some pictures. Whe had boats like Dry Martiny, Black Tornado,ERAF, American Eagle, Hot Omelette, Unowhot, from Italy, UK, USA,
    and Spain.
    I had the luck to participae in our local class racing type, but I can say
    I was driving at the side of this boat when the race started, ....
    By then I was 20-22 years young, and luckyly I kept as many info got into
    my hands.
    But, when in 1974 the Oil Crisis came, all this fun goes away, the petrol increased the price 3 times in two months,..ˇˇˇˇ
    It was the end of many activities, and a new era started.
    As this fact was common in all Europe, the racing activity came to a sudden
    stop, the consecuences were spectacularly bad, in the economics of everyone.
    So the Carnitis, having no maket place in the familiar boating, as they were used for racing only, came to end. Later the machinery and organization was
    taken by Selva, an still goes strong, ...
    The show must go on,...

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    The boat is a Canali , Jerry Model.
    She is all plywood. It´s build in the early 70´s, 1971 I think. 13 feet long,
    for 60-70 HP, not more.
    The fist I had was a present of my late father,who was a boat dealer, and I used one of the engines we sold by then, Archimedes Penta, later we got an special tuned up production model the 550X.
    During the 74-78 Oil crises, I sold the boat.
    I keep in the boat business since then, a I had a lot of boats, but none like this particular one, and several nights I awake dreaming with it, ...
    So I decided to get one, I found the actual I have in North Italy, the builder
    Gianny Canali gave me the info, and I bought it without having see nothing
    of it.
    When it came to me, I was greatly suprised It was in great shape, no substantian hull damage, all the original fittings includes, and a surprise
    it was in a four seat configuration, (not very practical at all, because this is
    a boat just for racing, rather tricky to drive), but I decided to do the minimal
    modification and keep it in this dual driving form, so now can use it with 1 seat "for racing" and four seats for "touring".
    It was stripped from the old paint, repaired, repaint, ...a lot of work.
    The problem was the engine. I knew if I fit a 4 strokes actual engine all the
    "charme" is gone, and the boat do not go well as the engine wheigt is double, so the vital balance is lost,....
    I bought a 550 engine, it came stripped in four cartons, ...., not good, to complicated to restore.
    I looked into e.Bay and found some interesting engines, it took a while, but
    I got an complete and working engine in Germany, not very expensive.
    And this summer I got an authentic factory tuned up engine, complete,
    working , hood in "good shape", it is the CRESCENT TORNADO version, in
    bright orange colour, serial number indicating special racing production aproved by the U.I.M, affordable price, and i got him... now I am painting it
    the original colour,...
    I send some pictures,...
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    Default Great stuff !!

    Jonny - Great reading and pictures. Please keep us updated on your progress with this boat and motor. Welcome to "Boat Racing Facts".

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    Very good! I like the pictures and the story
    Since 1925, about 150 different racing outboards have been made.


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