1968 Bamahas 500 Video

[Bigshrimpin]

http://www.vimeo.com/5671455

[rockdoc]

awesome video! Thanks for the link!

Steve

[BigLew]

Thanks Tim. that is really pretty good.

Was his boat #49 a seacraft? I didn't think so. I did see one stern quarter shot in the fim that appeared to have the seacraft "decal", but I never definitely saw any boat number so that I could track it through the video.

Do you, or anyone else know any of the boats shown in the video?

[seafari25]

Kind of looked like a Seafari cruising by at 15:30.

Thanks for the link Tim

[thehermit]

Cool...that was fun to watch. Was this after SeaCraft was taking 1st 2nd and 3rd all the time?

[Bigshrimpin]

Bahamas 500

1968:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841354,00.html



Seacrafts were in the outboard division. In the video you can see a Seacraft #28 Sea Saw is an I/O which is interesting.

around 26:52 in the video they mention John Steinbeck won the Outboard Division. They don't mention it, but he was driving a seacraft.

Some of the seacrafts in this video were:

#123 Seen at 8:02
Starr 1 Seen at 8:15
SeaSaw Seen at 8:52
#505 Seen at 13:23




Year Before the Video:
1967:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840909,00.html

1967 Finishes in Bahamas 500
CLASS COUNTRY BOAT NAME DRIVER CREW HULL H.P. TYPE TIME SPEED POS
hr.min (mph) Class(OA)
OP I USA MONA LOU III O.LEWIS MARITIME 900 M 12.36 39.7 1[1]
USA MAGNUM LIGHTNING C.STRICKLAND J.HARKIN M 15.01 33.3 2[3]
OP I BAH UFO W.MEYERS FORMULA 900 M 15.07 33.1 3[4]
OP I USA MASTER MOPPIE P.RITTMASTER BERTRAM 1050 M 15.11 32.9 4[5]
OP I USA DREADNOUGHT B.COHEN DONZI 1000 M 15.14 32.8 5[6]
OP I USA RONDA LEE J.BAKOS MAGNUM 900 M 15.34 32.1 6[7]
C I USA CRYSTAL ISLE H.OAKES BERTRAM 600 M 29.36 16.9 1[13]
C I USA THE GOOD GUYS G.JACOBY R.JACOBY THUNDERBIRD`DRIFT-R-CRUZ` 650 HB 35.15 14.2 2[16]
C I USA THE TORTOISE J.MARTENHOFF THUNDERBIRD`DRIFT-R-CRUZ 650 HB FIN
OP II USA MALTESE MAGNUM D.ARONOW K.HOUSE MAGNUM 330 M 14.15 35.1 1[2]
OP II USA G.WAGNER SEA CRAFT 220 M 16.45 29.8 2[8]
[bold]OP II USA MY FLYING MACHINE C.MOESLY SEA CRAFT 220 M 18.07 27.5 3[9] [/bold]
OP II USA YELLOW BIRD B.TUPPEN FORMULA 200 M 25.39 19.5 4[10]
OP II USA ANDREA R.MAGOON B.CORDINGLY CUSTOM 200 M 26.48 18.6 5[11]
OP II USA G.PERONI OMC 230 M 29.33 16.9 6[12]
OP II USA S.SIROIS SEA CRAFT 220 M 31.51 15.7 7[14]
C II DEN CORONET O.BOTVED BOTVED 550 M 34.30 14.5 1[15]

1968

[3rdday]

Awesome! Thank you for sharing. The gold colored boat I believe is a seacraft 21, I have an old picture of it here at Lake X.