The State of r/c boating

[Ray Sametz]

My pics were courtesy of Phil T gallery. Just saying.

 

[Jerry Dunlap]

The other photo was taken at a Custom Car and Boat Show in Seattle. I think I purchased that snazzy sport coat at a K-Mart blue light special.

yes, nice jacket

Was that a Dumas Sk Daddle you were holding?

The boat was an original 36" ski boat and I think it had an OPS 60.

JD

 

[Roger Hooks Jr.]

You can just look at my profile pic for that. Holding my first boat. A modified Skdaddle my dad turned into a vee hull powered by a Super Tigre .40. All hardware was custom made by my dad. I'm surprised he kept letting me race because as I remember it it seemed my boat was up on the shore more often than it was out on the course... And I was only going 10 mph. LOL!

 

[Ray Sametz]

My first hobby was Model Airplanes. That one Baaad hat.

 

[P THOMAS]

The 90 Unlimited race pic.

Pretty sure that is me next to Wyatt on the left, I broke intothe top 10 couple times i think, that was a good deal with over 100 boats to race against.

The guy kneeling could be Gary Ekberg from ILL that raced with us. Davet is next to Dick Jones One of the Barr bros on right, John?.

Dick Tyndall had the info too.

The Indy 1990 picture is throwing us all a few curves! Standing from left is Wyatt York, Phil Thomas ?, Don't know the next person but it isn't Rich Moore, Andy Brown, Mark Grannis, Dick Jones, Gerald Davet, And John Barr on the end. NOBODY has guessed who the girl is kneeling next to Joe Ingrao, but I know! She is Lisa Butler. She and her boyfriend at the time, Paul Whitaker came to a few races back in the 90's. I have pictures of them at the Atlanta Spring Nats back in 1992.

Dick Tyndall

 

[Chris Wood]

The tall guy in the middle of the Indy club race was Pete Peterson

Wow some memories. And to thin I am 39 and remember them faces lol!!

Andy it member the TOO FUEL eagle. That was the first race we met. Goo boat until it blew off and the wing ripped off lol.

Do u Remember dad making a alum wing for them boats on the wire edm machine?

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[Andy Brown]

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Andy-Here is a picture of me and my daughter in I think 1979. This thread brings back good times for me. I started building in 1976 and raced until 2001 and to me the early days were the golden years for model boating. If I remember correctly the IMPBA had 2500+ members and most races had over 100 boats. The Internats had 100+ drivers and several hundred boats and everyone was friendly and willing to help. I found something I was pretty good at and I loved it. I still miss running boats today and unfortunately I cannot see well enough to recognize most of the great people in the pictures that have been posted but I still enjoy looking at boats and racing and record setting and etc.. The issues I read about on this forum makes me wonder if model boating will survive but I think it will. Just have to get rid of the trouble makers and get back to what made boating fun.

Hey Tommy! Great picture! You and your girl look just the way I remember you both.

 

[FloridaScaleBoater]

Thanks for posting pictures and writing history that is what will make this a POSITIVE subject!

This picture was 1991. I was 34.

Note the Indy Unlimited T-shirt.

The boat on it was an OPS 80 powered 80 Mongoose built by Don Bilsky of the Indy model boat club.

Don did a build up article on the boat for 'Flying Models" magazine. Maybe in 1988.

The paint job was a red and white Coca-Cola scheme. Cool looking boat!

I will look for some older pics to post also.

And if my "bearings" are correct, that picture was taken at the old Palm Beach club lake at the back of Okeheelee park (SP of Okeheelee??)

 

[Andy Brown]

Thanks for posting pictures and writing history that is what will make this a POSITIVE subject!

This picture was 1991. I was 34.

Note the Indy Unlimited T-shirt.

The boat on it was an OPS 80 powered 80 Mongoose built by Don Bilsky of the Indy model boat club.

Don did a build up article on the boat for 'Flying Models" magazine. Maybe in 1988.

The paint job was a red and white Coca-Cola scheme. Cool looking boat!

I will look for some older pics to post also.

And if my "bearings" are correct, that picture was taken at the old Palm Beach club lake at the back of Okeheelee park (SP of Okeheelee??)

Correct! We had some great races there! The Palm Beach club was very active at that time.

 

[RonShaw]

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Andy-Here is a picture of me and my daughter in I think 1979. This thread brings back good times for me. I started building in 1976 and raced until 2001 and to me the early days were the golden years for model boating. If I remember correctly the IMPBA had 2500+ members and most races had over 100 boats. The Internats had 100+ drivers and several hundred boats and everyone was friendly and willing to help. I found something I was pretty good at and I loved it. I still miss running boats today and unfortunately I cannot see well enough to recognize most of the great people in the pictures that have been posted but I still enjoy looking at boats and racing and record setting and etc.. The issues I read about on this forum makes me wonder if model boating will survive but I think it will. Just have to get rid of the trouble makers and get back to what made boating fun.

Tommy, those were the good ole days for sure. In the late 80's and early 90's even the Spring Nats in Atlanta would draw over 300 boats!!!! I had to post this other pic of you from the race out in Tennessee in the early 90's. You were always a fierce competetor and a gentleman.

 

[RonShaw]

Here is a pic from a few years ago in Charleston of a bunch of my tunnel racing buddies from back in the early 90's. Jimmie Shaver, Harry Harper, Martin Tidwell, Me, David Ashmore!!

 

[El Zorro]

Great picture, Ron! And great bunch of guys, too! Imagine the number of years all of you have been running model boats.................

Dick Tyndall

 

[RonShaw]

Great picture, Ron! And great bunch of guys, too! Imagine the number of years all of you have been running model boats.................

Dick Tyndall

Hey Dick. Yes, they are great guys for sure. Interesting part, all of us stopped cold in the mid to late 90's. Harry just stopped by to say hello that day. Jimmie and Dave started back around 2008, I didnt start back until around 2011 or 2012, and Martin had stopped by to hang out that weekend and just entered his first race back last year. Now if we could talk Harry into it LOL. I will be posting some more old pics, one of you on that flat bed trailer handing out awards after one of the Richmond races many years ago. Great times my friend.

 

[John Finch]

Mark,

I went to the same avionics school back in January 1969. I already had my first boat and visited the hobby shop there often to see if anyone else built model boats. We model boaters were scarce then.

John

 

[Bill Gibson]

I still get on here from time to time.....haven't so much as lit off a boat in about 3 years! Im still content with taking a brake from the hobby after some 30+ years of fiddling with the dang things! I do miss so many of the people that I got to know thru the years...several who really helped me to get better at the racing/setup part....this guy here is one of em....Tom Foley aka "GO FAST" (I NEVER got credit for the nickname I gave him!

) and i Raced together for a good number of years and had more good/great times than I could possibly remember...you couldn't ask for 2 more "opposites"(Felix and Oscar!

) than Tom and me, but for some reason, it really worked well! This is a pic of Tom and me at the 2005 Winternats....hard to believe that was 11 years ago! I have some paper pictures that go back to the early/mid 80s/90s, but I will have to get them scanned to download em.......times have changed, and yes, we are certainly getting older....and like it or not, the hobby is certainly gotten more sophisticated and expensive....I still remember way back in the day, the majority of racers showed up in cargo vans, pickup trucks, and/or station wagons.....now its 60,000 dollar dualies, mega RVs, and decked out enclosed trailers! I remember taking a pic of the people lining up to get into the 2011 Wnats early in the morning, and I do believe I was the only vehicle that didn't have a trailer hooked up to it! everything I had was in my 'lil ol GMC SAFARI!! But I RACED! and I did purty good too!

 

[Tommy Lee]

Thanks Andy-I saw joe ingrao's name mentioned in one of the pictures and it reminded me of a story. It was the year Rod Geraghty and I went to the Indy Unlimited. Joe ask me to call for him in a couple of heats-either E or F hydro. We made a good start and WOW!! Joe went bananas!! He started pacing around and jumping up and down, talking to his boat, sometimes yelling. It was all I could do to keep up with him, not to mention his really fast boat. But we finished. Don't remember what place but what great fun! I miss seeing him at the Huntsville record trials.

 

[Tommy Lee]

Ron-I remember that race in tenn. and also all those guys in both pictures. A few days ago I was wondering about Harry and how he was doing. I have raced with all these guys and really enjoyed it. I guess we all have our version of the golden years but the way things are today I am glad I am not racing. I still watch some racing on Y.T. and go to Huntsville occasionally, mostly to the record trials but I do not make a good spectator. When I get there I want that radio in my hands and want to tune that engine but I know that is not possible.

 

[John Beardslee]

Here's a pic from the first time I ran a model boat, summer 1970, at the Flint pond. Left to right me in the blue shirt with the transmitter (Kraft 2ch brick) then John Bridge pointing, Jerry Betke and Harold Tuttle. Harold was the person in Flint that headed up dealing with Flint officials to get the pond.

The second pic is my first model boat, K&B series 70, .40 pylon engine with a kool clamp. Hull was scaled down from my Enthrop 14'-6" full size outboard hydro.

 

[Andy Brown]

Here's a pic from the first time I ran a model boat, summer 1970, at the Flint pond. Left to right me in the blue shirt with the transmitter (Kraft 2ch brick) then John Bridge pointing, Jerry Betke and Harold Tuttle. Harold was the person in Flint that headed up dealing with Flint officials to get the pond.

The second pic is my first model boat, K&B series 70, .40 pylon engine with a kool clamp. Hull was scaled down from my Enthrop 14'-6" full size outboard hydro.

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All that Dark Hair! Love the .40 hydro John. My first boat was a similar style hydro. A Dragonfly .40 with Super Tigre X-40 ...also with a cool clamp. 1973.

 

[Jerry Dunlap]

One of my first electric powered model boats - probably 1956/57. 60 years later I'm still building electric powered model boats. Guess some guys never grow up.

JD