NNRT Offshore Classics

[baronmarine]

hey pete. fantastic to see you ended up with this great collection. i want to get some of the cig pic's for what sheri calls the wall of shame at the cottage, where do i go to get them? also great history lessen by top banana (thanks). i remember about 80 - 85% of these boats. wow i fell like a teenager but i must be older then that.

todd

 

[Pete B]

Hey Todd, I am in Qatar be back next week , and ill will fill you in on the details

 

[Ratickle]

I'm at a loss here. I'll shoot an email off to John. This boat obviously has the Superboat logo on the side, but I thought the only "Extractor" Superboat was the Catamaran they built? Anyone?

I'm still waiting to hear from John, and have not heard from anyone else yet on this boat. (Or found anything out myself yet). Anyone?

 

[Ratickle]

Sometime in 1976 Rocky Aoki switched from his 35' Cigarette Benihana to this 38' Bertram Benihana. From what we've been able to determine, it was most likely the 1976 Key West race where Rocky first piloted this boat. It's first win was with Rocky and Harold "Smitty" Smith in the 1977, 178 mile, San Diego Mission Bay Race. Finishing second in that race was Billy Martin in Bounty Hunter. Searace

The first Bertram Rocky ran was a red one. He had a deal with Bertram where they would give Rocky a boat for $1.00 and he would pay the rigging costs and operating costs. This was the first one they built him special with those colors.

I'm gonna have to do some digging on that one. Any idea how many there were total?

 

[Ratickle]

Spent quite a bit of time chatting with Charlie today at the boat show. We ran into a whole bunch of guys who either remember him racing, remember racing against him, or recall their fathers racing against him.

 

[Top Banana]

Spent quite a bit of time chatting with Charlie today at the boat show. We ran into a whole bunch of guys who either remember him racing, remember racing against him, or recall their fathers racing against him.

The best part about getting old is......."The older I get..... the faster I was!"

Just wanted to .....Thank the Rat.... for helping me up a few flights of stairs and introducing me to the next generation of high performance boaters.

Waited forever to get an autograph from that Curtis kid, the line was just too long....maybe next year.

 

[Ratickle]

Too funny Charlie.......

Last night Billy Moore was running around with "that Curtis Kid" and had a chancer to chat with him about Tommy's Apache and other stuff. His Dad is doing well. We'll be chatting some more when we have time. Too bad you weren't still here, you and he may still be discussing past races!!!!!

 

[Pete B]

Sorry Folks about the lack of updates, as you can tell between boat show and poker run I have had my hands full of photos, glad to say we Got Gino some photos of his Dad;s Boat and I hope to start catching up, as well I am now accepting credit cards, to help the burden of payment! so back to the pics and the history lesson.



Robert Weinstein's 30' Chris Cat once again.

 

[Serious News]

I think one of the guys in this boat was Gino's (Lube Jobs) dad. I sent him a PM to have him check it out.

 

[Pete B]

41' Team Apache "Red Banner Boat". Raced by Ben Kramer & Bob Saccenti.

Currently owned by Paul Lasassa and is now "Warpaint"?

 

[T2x]

I'm at a loss here. I'll shoot an email off to John. This boat obviously has the Superboat logo on the side, but I thought the only "Extractor" Superboat was the Catamaran they built? Anyone?

That was Jim Laznovski's earlier race boat. He did have race boats before the cat.......

 

[Ratickle]

Thanks Rich. I was finding nothing. I am waiting for John to get back to me.....:toetap05:



Racing under the name EXTRACTOR in three different Superboats over the past 18 years, Jim Laznovsky understands the meaning of the word perseverance. One of the oldest and most successful racing teams on the circuit, the EXTRACTOR has endured every fathomable scenario from never having had a sponsor to sucking in a crab trap float in Key West which cost them a world championship.

In 1979 Jim Laznovsky drove his first race boat, a 24-foot Superboat, to victory with another young novice boat racer, Artie Swanson. In 1980 Laznovsky's thirst for power was again quenched with a 30-foot Superboat rigged with triple 200 Mercury outboards, and over the course of the next four years, he acquired numerous titles all over the country including the three time NPBA championship, second and third place national championships in the APBA and second at the world's for three years. OFFSHORE RACING MAGAZINE, Spring 1997

 

[Pete B]

Cristex with George and Gerard Christensen, (Father and Son), was the former Streaker (Second One ?) of Preston Henn and later became Mr. Goodwrench (possibly?).

 

[Pete B]

Do not know when this picture was taken, the only reference to this boat in Searace is: "New Orleans driver Mike Drury, race director for the Popeyes offshore race in New Orleans and an offshore commissioner, and his 36' Jim Caldwell designed Innovation cat Jolly Rancher with twin 550 hp Innovation engines, pulled the upset of the day by winning the Modified class." at the 1987 Trump's Castle Grand Prix. Searace Page 501

 

[c12]

35' wood Caldwell/Innovation with Innovation motors

 

[Ratickle]

Thanks, gave us a starting point to look but not much out there. You know anything more about it?

 

[c12]

Thanks, gave us a starting point to look but not much out there. You know anything more about it?

Sorry I don't , I got that info from Ryan Beckley. Possibly someone at Innovation might know more about it.

 

[Top Banana]

Mike Drury had a boat company that was named Innovation.

That was totally different from Innovation Marine that makes engines.

 

[Pete B]

 

[jetcruzr]

41' Team Apache "Red Banner Boat". Raced by Ben Kramer & Bob Saccenti.

Currently owned by Paul Lasassa and is now "Warpaint"?

Paul, I believe the boat is actually still owned by Bob Vesper. Marc Jacob has the boat listed for sale.