7xchamp

Evidently when they measured the boat they measured from the transom to the nose, so I presume the back of the extension where Daryl sat was considered the end of the transom or the bottom, and they actually added a beak to the nose for the extra few inches needed to be legal. Must be where Reggie got his idea from with the Fountain Beak`s. Cooper ran a monster motor in the thing, when he ran, all you could see was spray, really wet boat, I saw back in the forums that Brownie had gone for a ride in the thing. I was in the race, I think it was Miami Nassau, when they showed up with the boat for the first time, sure got a lot of attention, Cooper was a maniac driving the boat, and poor old Daryl used to hang on to his fake steering wheel for dear life, not sure if it was that race or not, but in one of the race`s, Daryl actually had his clothes ripped off his body, I think he finished in his scivvies.
Bill Cooper also ran the Salton Sea 500`s in the OPC days, semi sponsored by Kiekhaefer Mercury, Think he ran a ron Jones tunnel with triple stacker 135 hp mercs. Complete wild man, and all around great guy, reminded me of another crazy, Roger Hanks with the Blonde boats, that`s another story.

aex

Here are PTM Express , Canada Homes and East Coast Marine .
I always wondered what happened to that 32 Superboat . I had heard it was sold to someone in the Middle East .

h2oboater

Here is a Wellcraft Nova that raced in the mid 70's in the Great Lakes region. The Come Again originally raced with the OMC electric shift drives, but not very well. Sam Altese in 1975 made the change to Volvo drives and then won many races in the APBA class D.

SAS M454

Man those were the good old day's, i remember Sam nice guy. I had a couple of 29 mirage's running around on LSC back in the day. one raced and one played. it was the best of times

h2oboater

Did you have the SILVER STREAK. Hope you can make the OLD SCHOOL OFFSHORE REUNION at Jacks [Emerald City Harbor] June 14. I have posts here on the classic site [Reunion] and Magnum owners thread.

SAS M454

That was me. thanks for posting a picture of my old boat it's been a long time since i have seen one. an offshore reunion sounds great i'll make sure i'm there

Nanni

Please, h2oboater can you give us more details on Walt Burns' fatal accident?
When did it occur? What did it really happen?
Thanks.

h2oboater

The race was the 1974 Blue Lagon Classic on Lake St Clair. Walt was racing in Steve Baums 8m Chris Craft [MAVERICK]. I believe a steering part broke and the boat rolled in a turn. The crew were thrown from the boat, and Walt was hit in the head by a deck cleat. This was the first U.S. offshore racing fatality.

SHAWNA

A friend of mine and I bought the hull mold for the 8 meter Chris when they closed down the Holland Michigan plant, many years ago. We had the great idea to go into the boat building trade without knowing a thing about it. Long story short...it got burned up. I'm still a little bummed!

h2oboater

This L.S.C. Mirage [Lil' ABNER] just went up for sale on craigslist Detroit. By the looks of the pic's she has held up very well for being 30 years old.
http://detroit.craigslist.org/boa/660132890.html