This is a great picture taken at an APBA National Convention a few years back!
This is a great picture taken at an APBA National Convention a few years back!
Dave Bryan and I started this project about four years ago. Bill Curtis finished it and ran this motor with an ALUMINUM PROPELLER all summer. 34 MPH with John Lane's 250 pound body in the boat.
We are heading to Salton Sea, then to Needles. We are not sure what we'll see. But driving the jeep in Needles and shooting a few guns will be a "HOOT". We plan to look up Tito at Havasu Landing.
http://www.havasulanding.com/casino.html
Fixed my dryer before I leave...
Last edited by Ron Hill; 12-27-2014 at 10:13 PM.
Interesting day, the other day. Lots of water at the Salton Sea. I plan to return to the Sea with an inflatable, and see if i can figure out a suitable place to launch. The State Park is trying to get their launch ramp dredged so boats can launch. There were no bad smells and I could see the bottom at more than 25 feet from the shore. What I don't know is if when the wind blows does it stir up the "STINK"??
Last edited by Ron Hill; 08-28-2022 at 05:43 PM.
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In our retail prop shop I get asked everyday is, as new boater, should they use an aluminum propeller? I tell them, as a new boat, NOT to use an aluminum prop.
When I raced boats for Evinrude, I convinced Jimmy Jost, Evinrude's Public Relations Manager, to give me a new 7 motor for my ski boat. Jimmy would "memo bill" me a motor every year, this lasted for 5-6 years or more.
Every year, my new motor came with an aluminum prop. I usually got the boat in the water for Easter week and quite a few teachers would come to Needles for Easter week. The water was usually cold, and the women usually wanted to use the rest rooms at Needles Marina. I'd tell them to take the boat but look out for sand bars.
I could see these ladies driving right through the sand bars, throwing a sand rooster tail. After the first day, my aluminum propeller was total JUNK. I'd take if off and put my stainless prop on. For about 5-6 years it seemed this routine continued, as no one every seemed to see sand bars but me.
I kept that stainless steel prop for 17 years and sold it for money money than I paid. Had I bought aluminum props every time they were ruined, I would have spend a thousand dollars on aluminum props.
Well, we have the three-D printer printing, filling some big orders, making gimbel rings for Bravo I, II and III.
Chad bought one buggy, then because it wasn't really put together, he decided to buy a second one from Greg Foster. After testing at Glen Helen Raceway, he a John Soares decided to make a few changes. One change was to go from two rear shocks to four. They made a few other "TOP SECRET" changes also. It is looking good....First race is this Saturday.
I was a junior in college in the fall of 1964. The Sigma Chi's build this split rail fence for the city of Flagstaff, the fence survived for 40 years. The guy with the big nose, and the AXE, is Ron Hill.
As a boat racer, I felt very "COOL" to see my picture in the year boat at Northern Arizona University.
Scotti spoke the international language of boat racing. For Berlin, 1971, he made it clear he wanted me a co-driver. When we started the race, the water in the boat was frozen from the night before. We broke a crank early! Scotti is in the yellow Evinrude jacket. That dude next to Scotti is me. That is my 20 foot Ron Jones that we are leaning on. I loved that twin engine boat.
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