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Another article of offshore history by John Crouse. Goodbye to my readers, John.

Old Article from John.

bob and I will try to match as many as we can . ciao marco,

Does anybody remember these guys that are listed? Bob Saccenti and I worked on most of these projects. -Sonny Ciao ancora

marco thanks for the foto , where do you get these? this is the race where magoon followed us all the way around the coarse and also passing ship rock check point and on to the finish near queen elizabeth cruise liner. we finish first and won, only to find out that the ship rock check point said...

Thanks for the post, I will post drawings of that boat with the engines we described, and some photos later. We are also including other MSV projects.

Thanks for the reply. This setup was ran in(1975)my MSV '40 weighing 11,000lbs, light on fuel using the 1.2 overdrive as you stated. The #3 SSM were 1:1 ratio with heavy duty upper-vertical shafts made in Italy. My rolla 4 blade props (I recall) were 26 pitch, 4% to 5% slip. At prop speed max...

The answer is 'yes' and we now include larger picture of one of the two boats on post #100. MSV '38, yellow production model came from the mold at MSV the same as Cobra. At the factory in hollywood i built around 14 like this- non race. In 1977 I started MSV Celebrity '38 style project. I...

This is MSV Celebrity 38 Brochure. This boat also used the MSV 38 hull as the same as Cobra.

yes marco this is the boat that raced against doc. carlo bonomi in the summer before this show . the red daffy duck msv 40 was built later. the 40 was the original order of mr bruno mentasti of aqua mineriale san pellegrino milano . enrico wanted the newest and fastest boat . he took over the...

This is a few pictures of our current project. The first image you see is the line drawing: The wooden form: The Two-Strake Molds: 1, Narrow 2, Widened Pictures of the boat complete/running: Current Drive-System Projects: Boat in this photo is 66'; 128,000lbs; twin 1000 cats and...

Marco, this is a 40' Cigarette in that photo. IT was custom built for Mr. Almeda and was never raced. This boat operated in St. Tropez harbour. I was trying to show the existence of turbocharged engines in the early seventies. Mr.Carimati's 44' MSV: It was green and called "Dumbo" with...

here is a photo of one of the turbo projects done in the 70,s. I built two of theses for mr george d,almeida ajaro in st tropez france .

Here are the pictures we promised. -Sonny