Unlimited Hydroplane Wins With Duct Tape and Bondo!

[dcarver]

iggie, you need to introduce them wet fellers to the world of long distance go phast boat races.

How about a 24 hour endurance rally to start? :devil:

 

[Ignacio]

iggie, you need to introduce them wet fellers to the world of long distance go phast boat races.How about a 24 hour endurance rally to start?

Evans already told me we're crazy. I took it as the highest praise.

I also offered to loan him my FJR keys if he loaned me his U-16.

As he patted his pockets for the keys, "Man, if it was mine..I would!"

..although if I had I fear I would have done something like this.

 

[TripperMike]

I was President in 2001 and the one that went on at lunch about riding shotgun with Seebold Sr. in their two-seat version of a

No kidding you rode a couple laps with Billy huh? His two sons weren't too shabby either in a boat.

I built F1 boats for a couple yrs for a competitor of his. Seebolds always came across as class acts, even to those of us who wanted nothing less than to whip those Seebold boats on the water.

 

[Ignacio]

When Oberto was making the championship run and was ~200 mph, how much pressure was on the repaired area of the sponson until it came up on plane? Or, even after it was on plane? I wouldn't have faith that bondo and duct tape would even hold the rocker panels on a car at that speed.

Hey, just found this

. Check the 4:40 mark and you see him go on plane with the patch job.

 

[Panman]

I saw my first cab forward Hydro in the Tri-Cities in 1967 or 68, it was Gail boat out of Detroit as I recall.

I have programs for those years and I'd have to look through to see for sure, but I know '67 would have been the year that Bardahl with a V-12 Merlin did battle with Miss Chyrysler powered by a pair of hemi V-8s. Seattle based aircraft won over Detroit automotive power that weekend with a 104 mph finishing average.

...wait I think I have it! Was it The Dutchman? I don't think any of the Gale boats (the gnarly ones were the IV and V) were cabover. If so, it didn't qualify, but the cabover was controversial (the prevailing thought was getting stuff between you and the thing you were going to hit was important). Cabover would become the way to go in the next decade or so. If so, another one of those PNW boats that added to the Detroit-Seattle rivalry.

Iggy it may have been this Pickle Fork that I remember not the cab forward.

https://mydetroitstory.com/Jerryschoenith.html

Also check out this story on the Chrysler Crew as it states:

I quote here" MISS CHRYSLER CREW's other significant performance of 1967 was her second-place finish in the Tri-Cities Atomic Cup on the Columbia River. Sterett made the winner, Billy Schumacher, pilot of MISS BARDAHL, work for it and led him for a few laps in the Final Heat."

https://www.thunderboats.org/history/history0098.html

 

[Ignacio]

Gotta love the immediacy of Facebook. The Oberto repairs are progressing nicely.

 

[wfooshee]

When I saw this thread it reminded me of something that took me a while to track down. From my Dad's 8mm movies, this is Gunterville Lake in Alabama, 1963. It might be 1962, but I don't think so. No sound, because it's 8mm home movies!

The slo-mo when it appears is Dad playing with his new movie camera. It would nearly double the film speed in the camera so at projection time it became slow motion. Annoying as heck, though!

I was 5, maybe 6 when we went to this, and I remember the noise and the rooster-tails vividly.