Hal Kelly's Ben Hur was a distinct design, but there was a scaled up Jupiter developed by an old-timer some here will remember named Dub Parker. Kelly drew a set of plans for this larger Jupiter, but I never saw a boat built from them. If the bottom angles were got right, this could have been a very good boat for the time.

Hal Kelly did get a lot of us started in racing. I have often wondered whether Nick Marchetti got his start with a Wetback, because his early A and B Stock hydros are very close to being Wetbacks without the hook in the bottom. If you fix the bottom of a Wetback (and put a sponson fin on it), as I did once, it works as well as a Marchetti. I have also wondered whether Sid-Craft's runabouts of the early '60s owed something to Kelly's late-'50s Foo-Ling and Madcap runabouts, which were his best designs.

If I had an avatar, John, it would have to show me making a bad start.