LOL... I met a BOAT RACER tonight...

[OldSchool]

I dont know anyone that owns 3 47 Apaches.....Michael Friedman would be the only candidate and he has 2 that I know of and one is a 41'.....De la Torres have a couple....Theo Peckermentos sold his fleet...The cuban from Miami has both Warpaths.... so I would think although it's possible, it's not probable!!!!! Ask Mark Adams he's more up on it than I am he can tell you I am sure!!!!!

We knew right away that this guy was just a drunk that thought that we had no clue. The funny part was that we were laughing our azzes off right in front of the guy and busting on him and he was so wasted that he didn't pick up on it!! :rofl:

Mark Adams was there the second time that we saw this tool and had never seen or heard of him. Mark was a very cool guy to hang out with. He had some great stories!! He was there with the owner of Kemosabe (another cool dude, but I can't remember his name to save my life). As old as that boat is, it had as many people drooling over it as any boat that was there!! It was wicked cool when he fired that beeotch up on Sunday morning and let 'em warm up for 5-10 minutes before leaving. :sifone:

 

[Top Banana]

We're all gonna be a bunch of old goats full of war stories someday!!!:sifone:

That's right Kurt........You all will use our saying of.....The older I get, the faster I was!!

I was getting ready to start the Plymouth race one year and this very attractive girl comes over and asks if I am with the Top Banana race boat.....Yes, I am. Can I help you? She tells me she is looking for Charlie McCarthy, the driver.

Before I can answer, she goes on to tell me that "Charlie" had met her on a plane and told her all about the exciting world of offshore racng and invited her to come by and visit the team at any of the races. When I asked her to help me with a description of this "Charlie"....she described my shop manager down to a T. He even had given her an autographed photo of the boat.

At that point I was able to help her.....I said follow me. I took her right over to my shop manager who was getting ready to board a spectator boat with....his wife.

 

[baddogz28]

I like meeting old dudes like that. At least he's not a hater...or a tree hugging kayaker! :26:

A couple years back, I pulled into a local marina for fuel and this old buck walked over and told stories of how he raced boats back in the 70's. He claimed to race a Pantera. We shot the bull for a few minutes, he'd just got back into boating and bought himself a new Crownline cuddy.
Several weeks later I was tinkering with my Cig at the dock and the old dude pulled up. He handed me a stack of old offshore race boat pictures from the late 70's. He had pics of his old race boat, a Pantera named "Mr Mean" and then pulled out a Bennihana Grand Prix jacket with lots of cool patches. He needed a hand changing his oil and then gave me the jacket and pics.

We're all gonna be a bunch of old goats full of war stories someday!!!:sifone:

Old guys like that are awesome. I can't believe you scored the Benihana jacket. :drool5:

 

[FastDonzi]

Old guys like that are awesome. I can't believe you scored the Benihana jacket. :drool5:

Once I hung out at this "fenced In" place in Miami where you couldn't leave, I saw a guy wearing a benihana jacket, he had no idea who/what it was so I traded him a carton of marlboros for it:sifone: I still have all the patches off it.

 

[glh]

Try living in a small azz town like we do here.

I went to West Marine this weekend and the guy started telling me all about this boat getting rigged at the shop where the MTI is and telling ma all about it's owner. It was interesting to learn about "that guy that owns it". My dentist buddy with me was pissing his pants!

 

[phragle]

you know why these people your laughiingat are so proud of themselves??

because, in their head..they are singing.....

Aww ****, get your towels ready it's about to go down (shorty, yeah)
Everybody in the place hit the ****ing deck (shorty, yeah)
But stay on your mother****ing toes
We running this, let's go

I'm on a boat (I'm on a boat)
I'm on a boat (I'm on a boat)
Everybody look at me 'cause I'm sailing on a boat (sailing on a boat)
I'm on a boat (I'm on a boat)
I'm on a boat
Take a good hard look at the mother****ing boat (boat, yeah)

I'm on a boat mother****er take a look at me
Straight flowing on a boat on the deep blue sea
Busting five knots, wind whipping out my coat
You can't stop me mother****er cause I'm on a boat

Take a picture, trick (trick)
I'm on a boat, ***** (*****)
We drinking Santana champ,
Cause it's so crisp (crisp)
I got my swim trunks
And my flippie-floppies
I'm flipping burgers, you at Kinko's
Straight flipping copies

I'm riding on a dolphin, doing flips and ****
The dolphin's splashing, getting everybody all wet
But this ain't Seaworld, this is real as it gets
I'm on a boat, mother****er, don't you ever forget

I'm on a boat and
It's going fast and
I got a nautical themed
Pashmina afghan
I'm the king of the world
On a boat like Leo
If you're on the shore,
Then you're sure not me-oh

Get the **** up, this boat is REAL!

**** land, I'm on a boat, mother****er (mother****er)
**** trees, I climb buoys, mother****er (mother****er)
I'm on the deck with my boys, mother****er (yeah)
This boat engine make noise, mother****er

Hey ma, if you could see me now (see me now)
Arms spread wide on the starboard bow (starboard bow)
Gonna fly this boat to the moon somehow (moon somehow)
Like Kevin Garnett, anything is possible

Yeah, never thought I'd be on a boat
It's a big blue watery road (yeah)
Poseidon
Look at me, oh (all hands on deck)

Never thought I'd see the day
When a big boat coming my way
Believe me when I say
I ****ed a mermaid

I'm on a boat
I'm on a boat
Everybody look at me 'cause I'm sailing on a boat (woah)
I'm on a boat
I'm on a boat
Take a good hard look at the motha****in' boat (sha-sha-shorty, shorty, yeah)

 

[redhotsommer]

I LOVE stories like this. Chick in a bar in Cadillac this winter who was tellin us about the motors on her dad's boat that had TWO superchargers on each one had me rollin'. She also mentioned "the guy he bought that boat from" down in Florida that had a boat that went 207. It was KILLING me!

 

[Wrinkleface]

LMOA Reggie VS. Saprono:rofl:

OUCH!!!

 

[Wrinkleface]

It was KILLING me!

But Mikey, we know it doesn't take much!!!!:26::seeya:

 

[Chris]

I believe that he said that his name was Jeff Taggert. Three-time world champ in Key West. He flew to happy hour on his helocopter and was going to have one of his three 47 Apaches down there on Saturday......Never did get there!!!:rofl::rofl:

I hope that he was better at racing than he was at drinking. Looked like a Weeble!!!:biggrinjester::rofl:

I even checked in SEARACE. Not there.

Maybe it was George Morales with ALOT of cosmetic surgery?

 

[Tony]

Try living in a small azz town like we do here.

I went to West Marine this weekend and the guy started telling me all about this boat getting rigged at the shop where the MTI is and telling ma all about it's owner. It was interesting to learn about "that guy that owns it". My dentist buddy with me was pissing his pants!

Dont you just love it. I was sitting in the barber shop a few years ago hearing about the local guy with the Cigar boat that must be using it smuggle drugs.:ack2:

 

[sellsman11]

I even checked in SEARACE. Not there.

Maybe it was George Morales with ALOT of cosmetic surgery?

SEARACE....thats funny!:rofl:

 

[Scotty B]

If I only had a dollar for every person I've met who used to have a Fountain or Cig in sizes they don't build

 

[Chris]

I LOVE stories like this. Chick in a bar in Cadillac this winter who was tellin us about the motors on her dad's boat that had TWO superchargers on each one had me rollin'. She also mentioned "the guy he bought that boat from" down in Florida that had a boat that went 207. It was KILLING me!

Yeah, but they were quad-rotor Whipples and the other guy was Dave Callan.

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

On the flip side of that... I stopped in to Pfaff's a few years ago to see about getting some service done on my Pantera (24 at the time). I desribed the boat to Gordie and he kindly offered the name of an AUTO repair shop.

Paul was sitting next him, slack jawwed... He looked at me and I said "you know there's a boat brand called Pantera, right?" to Gordie. Paul couldn't hold it in any longer and let out a big laugh. He said "I coudnt figure out what the hell Gordie was talking about! We used to race those guys in A"

 

[nifoxke]

Try living in a small azz town like we do here.

I went to West Marine this weekend and the guy started telling me all about this boat getting rigged at the shop where the MTI is and telling ma all about it's owner. It was interesting to learn about "that guy that owns it". My dentist buddy with me was pissing his pants!

Did you learn anything about yourself? :biggrinjester:

 

[DonziGirl]

That's right Kurt........You all will use our saying of.....The older I get, the faster I was!!

I was getting ready to start the Plymouth race one year and this very attractive girl comes over and asks if I am with the Top Banana race boat.....Yes, I am. Can I help you? She tells me she is looking for Charlie McCarthy, the driver.

Before I can answer, she goes on to tell me that "Charlie" had met her on a plane and told her all about the exciting world of offshore racng and invited her to come by and visit the team at any of the races. When I asked her to help me with a description of this "Charlie"....she described my shop manager down to a T. He even had given her an autographed photo of the boat.

At that point I was able to help her.....I said follow me. I took her right over to my shop manager who was getting ready to board a spectator boat with....his wife.

That's great! I would have loved to see the look on your manager's face!

 

[JupiterSunsation]

He was there with the owner of Kemosabe (another cool dude, but I can't remember his name to save my life). As old as that boat is, it had as many people drooling over it as any boat that was there!! It was wicked cool when he fired that beeotch up on Sunday morning and let 'em warm up for 5-10 minutes before leaving. :sifone:

Kemosabe left the lunch stop Friday on two motors and was still haulin' azz. That boat was a weapon then and can still hold its own against the new stuff today.

Best quote I have ever heard about a 47 Apache was from Michael Friedman. He said his 47 Apache "will knock down a piling if he's not careful," and he wasn't laughing which leads me to believe it may have actually happened.

 

[stainless]

That's great! I would have loved to see the look on your manager's face!

Or his wifes :sifone: :rofl:

 

[redhotsommer]

Yeah, but they were quad-rotor Whipples and the other guy was Dave Callan.

Tried that avenue of inquiry...she couldn't recall any further details. :ack2: 'Sides...she said the boat was an old 39 Stinger...you don't see too many of those with quad-rotor Whipple setups!