Swimming at a race site

[Expensive Date]

Tim,
I was not there in '98 I crewed V-76 for APBA and SBI that season. Martin and I became friends during the course of that year. I first drove for him in the Bahamas. Then Biloxi and Key West. I am curious was Reggie's the big Cat?

It was a vee, was black if I remember correctly will try to find the picture this weekend.

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

St Pete '99







We didn't spin out. Reggie was in a copter and described it as corkscrew. The boat was always pointed forward. Richie Rich said he saw us fallout of the boat when it was 10 in the air upside down. It snap rolled so hard it broke Martins upper arm, bruised my upper arm so that it swelled the size of my thigh. The boat carried enough rotating momentum that it rolled right side up and came to rest pretty near where I had pointed it. After checking to see Martin was OK I swam to the boat, climbed in, assured it was pumping, secured a tow line and then surrendered to the rescue personnel. It was bad enough we were swimming, but I had to make sure the boat didn't sink as well.

Again, Martin and I were very lucky that day.

 

[THEJOKER]

St Pete was not offshore powerboat racing , it was the INDY 500!

 

[Expensive Date]

Jim Reggie's boat was white not black will post some pictures this weekend.Also on that roll were pictures of my then almost 2year old triplets it feels like that was a lifetime ago.Were is that 38 now?

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

The 38 fever was sold in '99. Raced thru '03. There are pix in my website. click race whore below. I has lucky to continue to race it a full season in '00 and the worlds in '01 and '03. The same owner added an interior from Fountain and he pleasure/poker runs it.

 

[RACESDAD]

we watched, mike a wouldnt let our newly rigged 36 skater run that year. we spent 7 weeks at lake x after that week in st pete..
you know what the old girl did the next year.! win, win, win, win,!!!!!!!!!:26:

 

[catmando]

Tim,
I was not there in '98 I crewed V-76 for APBA and SBI that season. Martin and I became friends during the course of that year. I first drove for him in the Bahamas. Then Biloxi and Key West. I am curious was Reggie's the big Cat?

Reggie had a 46Skater he called the Big Red Sled. I saw it in the back lot of Fountain in 2005 when I went to pick up the Carlson I bought from Sanborn. I think he put some bigazz diesels in it and had a lot of trouble getting it on plane, maybe needed multispeed transmissions?

 

[Ryan Beckley]

The red boat WAS NOT a Skater it was an FB design , formerly the Ugland Group....

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Good catch Ryan. I have never heard of a Skater called a sled.

 

[Ron P]

I swam. Damn glad they made us do the dunker.