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SCOA: Southern California Outboard Association
My dad had raced in Newport Harbor, California. Probably one of the few power boat races every held in Newport Harbor, the year was 1941 before the war we won...
The sponsoring club was SCOA.
After the war, my dad got involved with LASA (Los Angeles Speedboat Association)...My dad put on some the first APBA sanctioned boat races in Southern California.
When the Mercury Outboards came along, my dad loved these motor from the first time he saw them...
USA (United Speedboat Association) was spun off LASA and my dad went with USA. Later Valley Speedboat Association was formed and they had the TV series....
Around 1961, my brother, Russ Hill, Jr. decided we needed one strong STOCK Outboard club and he wrote by-laws for SCOA, as SCOA was long defunct by then...
SCOA is still an APBA club today, 2009. 49 years after it was reformed...
Just and FYI!
Club paper cover and letterhead...
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Mr. Rickey's Vapor Trails 1978
I went to a figure skating reunion the other day, I was the tallest person in the room. A lady asked if I still skated, I saidm, "No, I never skated except a little in college in Flagstaff, I always raced boats..." She said did I know Mr. Rickey? As she had lived next door to him... I said, "I've know of vapor Trails Magazine since I was five and been in it several times..."
Here is part of what Mr. Rickey wrote about the 1978 Parker Enduro...
The late Brad Miller owned the boat. Fred Hauenstein built the motor...Jim Nerstrom helped "DIAL IT IN", Don Henrich made the prop, and made it work...Fred and I drove it...I did little in this win...but always said, "I was the brains behind it...."
Brad was a great sponsor, He owned Crazy Horse Camp Grounds and Crazy Horse Steak House and 97 Del Taco fast food restaurants...
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Sigma Chi Fence: 2010 Plans
http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...?t=1463&page=5
When I first went to Flagstaff in the Fall of 1964, I had one friend going there and that was Ernie Dawe. Ernie rolled his brother's VW on the way to school and broke his collarbone. He was in the hospital. I drove to Flagstaff to enroll knowing no one. I wasn't there five minutes when I met some guys that were really cool. They offered to let me sleep in their dorm until I could get settled. They were Sigs.
I graduated in May of 1966, I had spent the happiest two years of my life in Flagstaff. The Fraternity, Sigma Chi Omega, later to become National Sigma Chi was a big part of my happiness, not to mention all the great young ladies of NAU!
My fraternity brothers and I cut Christmas trees together and sold them to the city, we sold donuts, we raised money for low income kids, we partied, we cooked dinner as fund raiser, we put on school dances. We build this fence for the city. Being around the Sigs, I never had a dull moment, though I was frequently the topic of conversation.
The fence is in need of repair, and in 2010 we plan to rebuild it....
Mike Gianelli Weighs In..
Mike's dad was the head sports writer for the Arizona Republic for many years. He covered our boat races with style...Wayne is the alumni adviser helping me plan the fence rebuild...
Reading Mike's e-mail, I felt some might enjoy it...
Wayne,
MG checking in. I've seen Hilly Billy's email back and forth between the two of you. I think rebuilding the Sig split rail fence is a great idea. As you probably remember, the Sigs were always in hot water with Dean Rolle for our off campus extra curricular activities and the fence building project was one of many attempts by Carl Menke and myself to somehow rehabilitate our fraternity reputation as something other than party animals, sexual predators and jocks. The year I was president of the Sigs, I spent a lot of Monday mornings in the Dean's office, trying (with very little success) to explain Sig faux paux's.
I think the fence should be called the Sigma Chi fence. We were doing our best to achieve Sigma Chi national status while we were Omegas and fencebuilders. Virtually no one remembers the Omegas now. We're all men of Sigma Chi.
Keep me in the loop on your fence restoration venture and let me know if I can be of any assistance.
MG ZO -65
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Havasu 1967 and The Puddle, 1955
This is me, at Havasu, 1967. First in Twin Engine, Second Overall. $8,500 in CASH. $1,500 from the Calcutta, and a lot in Lake Havsu City.
19-C is me. This was Speed Boat Rodeo, live TV. Charlie Harter was ahead of "Silky Sullivan Hill" as Dick Lane called me.
Charlie INVITED the cart that all kneeldowners use today. Charlie raced alone and came alone. So, he had to launch his boat by himself. So, he "INVENTED" the cart...
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Mike Wallace and I, Paris 1971
Mike Wallace is alive and well, the last time I saw him which was several years ago. Mike's dad owned the GN, Tiny Tim , number 7. Mike and Bill Cooper won the Parker Nine Hour at least once.
Mike and drove Mike's Schultz in the 1971 Paris Six Hour, we were leading when we broke a crank 20 minutes before the finish. Paris was a rough water race, about 90 boats started 20-30 finished. We did set the INDEX of Performance Time, that is for the fastest lap of the regatta compared to last year's time.
Jim Nerstrom sent me the original a 14 X 20 that had hung on Jack Leek's office wall until Jack retired.