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GENERAL LEE
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Here is the bilge of the bikini girl 47 cs......it's Regie's old 47 race boat that was in all the ad's in the early 90's.....had twin turbo engines when RF was running it!
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stormrider
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What happened to the Apache 47 Dealer?
See the Apache thread on the 47' Apache in the Apache section for what the dealer became.
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You were not the Dealer B YOU MY MAN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PLAYER!!!!:cheers2:
You were not the Dealer B YOU MY MAN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PLAYER!!!!:cheers2:
GENERAL LEE
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That 47' is my all time favorite fountain
T2x
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Norville was a great guy and always had a smile and a hello for you even if he had no idea who you were........ He was not a young man during the "Dealer" years and his eyesight may not have been the best as a result, but he always made his boats available for the race sites and publicity.
One year at New Orleans in the early 90's we were out doing some television piece for ESPN or Speedvision...I can't remember which. Anyway, Norville, was running one of the "Dealer"s (Maybe an Apache?) at full throttle around Lake Pontchartrain with an assortment of media/PR types, cameramen and a couple of degenerate racing announcers on board. I was standing behind the forward bolster and helping the producer understand what "Starboard" meant or some such, when, out of the corner of my eye I see this odd line on the surface of the water dead ahead..... My mind raced and my eyes squinted until in a burst of energy..I dove over the bolster, chopped the throttles back and turned the wheel hard left simultaneously (obviously not a step bottom hull). As we settled to a slow crawl we were about 8 feet abreast of a concrete sea wall that was sticking up maybe 3 inches above the flat water surface. It was some kind of protective wall next to the airport...We had been running about 90 aiming straight for this insidious little creation, which would have torn us apart.
I'm not sure if Norville ever fully comprehended what happened as he happily nosed away and took off at full throttle....never giving the incident any thought at all.
You can't make this stuff up.
T2x
One year at New Orleans in the early 90's we were out doing some television piece for ESPN or Speedvision...I can't remember which. Anyway, Norville, was running one of the "Dealer"s (Maybe an Apache?) at full throttle around Lake Pontchartrain with an assortment of media/PR types, cameramen and a couple of degenerate racing announcers on board. I was standing behind the forward bolster and helping the producer understand what "Starboard" meant or some such, when, out of the corner of my eye I see this odd line on the surface of the water dead ahead..... My mind raced and my eyes squinted until in a burst of energy..I dove over the bolster, chopped the throttles back and turned the wheel hard left simultaneously (obviously not a step bottom hull). As we settled to a slow crawl we were about 8 feet abreast of a concrete sea wall that was sticking up maybe 3 inches above the flat water surface. It was some kind of protective wall next to the airport...We had been running about 90 aiming straight for this insidious little creation, which would have torn us apart.
I'm not sure if Norville ever fully comprehended what happened as he happily nosed away and took off at full throttle....never giving the incident any thought at all.
You can't make this stuff up.
T2x
Great thread, thanks!
GENERAL LEE
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Whew! It's those times that really make you need to sit down for awhile afterward
As you obviously know, that could have ended in any number of different ways, all of which would have been catastrophic. It never hurts to have an extra set of eyes helping scan the water while you're out there
T2x
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As you obviously know, that could have ended in any number of different ways, all of which would have been catastrophic. It never hurts to have an extra set of eyes helping scan the water while you're out there
Or as I always say.....
"Two heads are better than one....especially if one of them has something in it."
if your talking about the dealer boat it originally had 525sc and #3 drives was about a 75mph boat, did your buddy by the boat from michagan
I have always loved that boat and have tried to keep the were a bout of it over the years.
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