Recent content by FLYING FISH

http://powerboatarchive2.co.uk/galleries/Library/Boat-Builders/USA/Conquest_photos.pdf The 1987 pic looks like Key West. From the archives in 1987 Ciasulli raced the Conquest cat in South West Florida Regatta - Ret,New Orleans - 3rd,Suncoast - 3rdTrumps GP - 3rd,Key West Worlds - 3rd no record...

If you care to look at a previous post which indicates it was previously `Benihana`racing in 1982. `Wolverine` raced in 1981. Building can start the previous year,so unless you have access to the build programme,one cannot be absolutely sure. Did `Shadow` even build an OP1,if not `Active`...

That Active cat (Cougar Design),probably the 2nd one built,was one of,if not the first plastic OP 1.Not sure if Shadow can claim this for although about the same time,cannot be sure they were plastic. Skater didn`t appear until almost 10 years later. The original cougars were timber and later...

Chrysler Laser raced in 84 as well. During this period results were hard to come by,being as the U.S. powerboat rags had reduced their coverage of offshore (Nordskog had fallen out with the East Coast) These are recorded. 1983 (B.Kaiser) Chrysler 200 position unknown 1984 (R.Crain) Conch...

http://powerboatarchive2.co.uk/picture.php?/18125/category/24 Courtesy of the UK Branch of the Serious Offshore Historic Association. `Cop that` as we say in slangville.

Oh dear,`A rat in a trap`.

Officially means gets into trouble,but is used to mean is killed.Could be spelt with a `c`. I should go back to learning Italian for that tin boat.

Those were the days when a prominent magazine would cover the racing.One reason why we don`t see the coverage any more in major magazines is that the racing just doesn`t have a story to tell,unless somebody kops it.I remember the Didier Pironi crash and also Stefano Casiraghi.The social glossys...

This was the only race that Surfury did in the U.S. Extract from official CT programme for your amusement. In those days the sponsor produced nice little booklets on the race.I`ve never been aware something similar done for the early U.S. races,or even much retained reportwise on them.All we...

I`d say Sam Griffith Memorial Race quicker than you can type that lot out.

You`ll have me in floods of tears at this rate.

Yep,the only one. They also ran a circuit race on the open sea as well,which in those days were boats like Levi monos as raced in the Paris 6hr race.Just right for Reggie Fountain before sampling offshore. A sort of powerboat weekend.

Searace pages 54-65,although `cock ups` a plenty in the screed.Good ol John. Note pic of Flying Fish was driven by Mike Trimming and Dick Staddon.Trimming was a premium apprentice at Vospers (i.e. daddy paid for his apprenticeship so as to be groomed for management).Staddon was the managing...

Don`t think anybody would have considered it,especially as God and his magnums held sway on the scene shortly afterwards.If you want a tin boat,start learning Italian and visit some offshore graveyards in Italy. Not long afterwards a large billboard was seen at Bournemouth,just down the...

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