Salco3

I was told by Bobby Moore that it was Kevlar. He said the deck and hull weighed 4200lbs. He said the boat was 8500 rigged.

MF

Damn.....I need to stop thinking of selling mine and go to work on to splash her !!!

Black Tornado

Your 36' won the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes in 1972 after a long battle with the Black Tornado, which came second.
It could be a fascinating idea it can be restored in time for the event of the next year ....

Salco3

Our Hull is stamped 73 and I was told by Bobby he ran it in the 74 season. Are you sure we are talking about the same boat?

larslindroth

Slap Shot was built late 1972 by Don Aronow with the intent to come back to racing for the 1973 season. However he changed his mind and only first returned in 1974 in a single production boat race with Steve Wynne in a stock Cigarette 36 wide-body.
Slap Shot was bought in 1973 by the owner of The Detroit Red Wings, Bruce Norris. He gave the boat to his nephew Arthur "Snapper" Norris to race for the season and he proved to be an excellent driver. Bobby Moore was throttling and he was enormously impressed by the young "rookie" driver Norris. They won 4 races in 1973 and 3 races in 1974 and ultimately claimed the 1974 National Championship in Slap Shot. At the end of the season they sold the boat and Jack Tushinsky entered ex. "Slap Shot" December 14Th 1974 as "Jumpin' Jack" in the Diplomat Race, off Hollywood, FL.
The 23 year old 'super talent' Arthur "Snapper" Norris retired from the sport and was missed by many fans. Legend Booby Moore summed it up after having previously throttled for four World Champions, "Snapper is the best driver I ever ridden with".

After Jack Tushinsky raced ex. Slap Shot as Jumpin' Jack throughout the 1975 season he sold the boat and stepped into a Cigarette 35' for the 1976 season. He called that 35' Jumpin' Jack also, but mechanical issues and a fading support from his father Irv Tushinsky ended his further attempts to accomplish glory in the sport.
I don't know who bought Slap Shot/Jumpin' Jack from Mr. Tushinsky at the end of the 1975 season.

Slap Shot was traditionally laid up and it wasn't 'till Bertram introduced the 38' Kevlar 49 boat "Copper Kettle", with DuPont's and Aeromarine's backing, that 1975 Champion Sandy Satullo the 19Th of January 1976 took delivery of the boat that he later jokingly claimed "would last a thousand years". Due to the fact that it had been, unknowingly to Satullo, overbuilt out of fear by DuPont that the hull would have a failure. They later chopped out 700 lbs in weight out of desperation to make the boat more competetive, but it was not enough. The "Copper Kettle" was the first larger offshore race boat ever built with Kevlar 49.

The first Cigarette built using Kevlar 49 was the 1977 Cigarette 39' 'Powerboat Magazine Special' and the very first offshore race boat built using Kevlar 49 was Larry Smith's Scarab 9 Meter 'Wyld One' for Australian Kevin Wyld in 1975. Bertram followed as previously mentioned with the larger 38' 'Copper Kettle' in 1976, but Larry Smith was way ahead in the game and it took a few years for other manufacturers, (basicly only Bertram), to start getting used to this new complicated material.
By 1980 Kevlar 49 was pretty much a must use material if You wanted to be a contender on the offshore racing circuit.

Black Tornado

In 1976 the boat was sold to Lawrence Wood,that re-named it Tamarind Seed,for the APBA races seasons 1976 and 1977.



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larslindroth

Well it's time to move forward 3 years and give an update on Jørn Amundsen of Risør, Norway and his Kiekhafer Aeromarine III. He will be competing in the now historical open ocean offshore race Skagerak Across the 12th of July 2013. The 144 nautical miles for the distance Tvedestrand(Norway)-Hirtshals(Denmark)-Tvedestrand is famous for offering some treacherous conditions. The weather gods have not been kind since the 1982 race and even that was no walk in the park. The record from 1982 belongs to Peter Marcussen and Audun Tegdan. 2 hours and 48 minutes for the distance Tvedestrand-Hirtshals-Tved​estrand and 21 years later the record is still standing. At the time they drove a Norwegian Windy Junior. It was 22 feet and rigged with two Johnson outboard engines of 235 horsepower each. Last year the winner, Dag Rasmussen, did it in 3 hours and 10 min. The boat was a Goldfish 36' rib with 2x360hp Yanmar diesels. My ex. Swedish offshore racer Flying Flipper 29', (1989 28 degree v-hull), with 2x300XS Mercury placed 3rd under capable Dag Rudstrøm's command. Myself always cheering for the older boats against the newer Million Dollar boats participating is hoping that Jørn and Dag do really well!Video from Skagerak Across 2012: http://youtu.be/sgAeJtkeLjk

Comanche3Six

Bravo!

MF

Damn sleek !!!
What a boat !!

36widebody

Thank you Lars,

Its a small world and we might do a quick trip to Sweden and Strømstad later in the summer(if the boat and engines survive Across skagerack 12.th July).

We are getting ready for the race and the engines enters dyno room tomorrow, more on the results later.

Take care, best regards Joern