T2x set me straight please.

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Didn't APBA sell off or some how separate the Offshore from the rest of it in the late Nineties. Can it be said that every race org somehow split or emerged from something since the NPBA days? APBA had their schedule and NPBA had sportsman club racing years ago.

Who held the First Bennihana and when?

 

[Sean Stinson]

Offshore hasbeen around for a long time I think it was referred to as the ORC back in the eighties....I think you can find a history in the APBA website although I haven't been there for a long long time....it used to have all the factions....I may be confusing the ORC with the OPC so I am trying to remember from an old mans memory at the moment....it comes from a life of excess!!!!!

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

I thought the Offshore Racing Commission was separate from APBA somehow.

 

[Sean Stinson]

You know buddy.....I will have to dig back in the archives and find the actual structure of Offshore back in the day!!!! Again I may have the ORC and the OPC confused but let me dig it up!!!!

 

[Top Banana]

APBA was around forever. In the 70's they had two major classes of offshore racing. Open and Production. The Open class consisted of Open 1 and Open 2. Twin engine up to 1,000 cu in and single engine 500 cu inches.
Production was P for stock stuff, M for modified, meaning you could do a little balance and blueprint and carb changes and Sport for exotic stuff like speedmaster lower units and headers.....I think the lower classes had 750 cu in limit....(350 blocks)

The first Benihana started as the Around Long Island Marathon in 1959. Then Hennessey Cognac sponsored it from 1966, and finally it was known as the Benihana Grand Prix for the first time in 1975..... and won by none other than Mr Robert Saccenti. in a new MSV 44 foot boat called "La Tortuga".

The thing with OPC...Outboard Pleasure Craft class of APBA, was that a lot of guys came from that class...me, T2X, etc as we did marathon races and liked the long races and the navigation that came with offshore races.

 

[Sean Stinson]

Here's a quick link that I found for you!!!!

www.biggerhammer.net/offshorepage/apba/news.html

 

[Sean Stinson]

APBA was around forever. In the 70's they had two major classes of offshore racing. Open and Production. The Open class consisted of Open 1 and Open 2. Twin engine up to 1,000 cu in and single engine 500 cu inches.

Remember, and yes Charlie you're very correct, that until 1989 and the advent of OPT that the APBA was the only game concerning National Racing under the UIM......Yes Nordskog had POPBRA as it was first known but it was more or less a divisional series!!!! Again I am not the authority here so some of the older structures and politics you will have to go to the ICON's for!!!!

 

[Sean Stinson]

The link above was a 1995 bulletin but you get the jist of it!!!!!

 

[Sean Stinson]

The NPBA is still active although he only does the NYC poker run and something else!!!!

 

[H2O Full Throttle]

So who runs APBA now as doesnt Mark Webber run APBA out of Detroit but Carbonell own or run APBA Offshore. Can someone enlighten me about this part as I knew Bob Bull owned some part of it before then sold it on to JC.

Thanks

Ned

 

[Pete B]

One of the finer history lessons on offshore

 

[Offshore Ginger]

Hey guys i think my all time favorite class was Modified .:sifone:

 

[Coach]

Wow!

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Thanks Rich.
I was lucky enough to have met Gene and was racing in 98 when Mike took the reigns. I must say I believed in him at first and 98 ,99 were great years to race. 2000 and '01 were still good, but problems were growing. Soon after the reshuffle began again.

 

[Sean Stinson]

Amen to that...Notice the phrase...A single source of wonderment!!!!!!! Unification across the Nation

 

[Pop]

Thanks Rich for the great reminders.

Pop

 

[Sean Stinson]

Thanks Rich for the great reminders.

Pop

How's your Mom, Pop???

 

[T2x]

Thanks Rich for the great reminders.

Pop

Thanks to you for all the good you've done... the injuries you have helped prevent...and the lives you've saved.

T2x

 

[Wardey]

Hey Pop !!! Hope all is well. Dave

 

[THEJOKER]

Gene Whip was the very 1st person I met in APBA Offshore and I'll never forget spending time with him at his dealership in Sarasota. That guy was a class act and was one serious racer! RIP Gene.