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Mercury Vintage Racing DVD
Has anyone seen this DVD?
http://www.screamandfly.com/home/pro...ercury_dvd.htm The DVD supposedly covers the 1968 Bahama's 500 - seacraft boats placed 1st and 2nd in the twin outboard division. http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/...LotImg9869.jpg The DVD, titled “Vintage Films, Volume 2, presented by the Mercury Film Archives” features almost two hours of transferred 16mm film footage with the original commentary from Lake X testing, races, marathon runs, and over twenty commercials – most presented in their original color. The collection is divided into seven chapters which contain the following: “50,000 Miles by Outboard” – Mercury’s Mark 75 Lake X endurance marathon.| “Seine Insanity” – Hundreds of outboard engine powerboats compete in Paris, France at the Seine River Marathon. "World’s Fastest Outboard” – Carl Kiekhaefer receives the “Man of the Year” award after the Mercury Mark 75 sets a new outboard speed record in 1958. “Racing Champions Afloat” – Inboard hydroplanes compete feverishly for the Silver Cup at Detroit’s Yacht Club. “Winnebagoland Outboard Marathon” – 285 outboards competing in one race at Riverside Park in Neehah, Wisconsin. “The Bahamas 500” – In 1968, offshore race champion Odell Lewis takes you on a tour of the boats, the engines, and the strategy that makes champions at the Bahamas 500 Offshore Race. “Vintage Commercials” – Twenty vintage Mercury commercials from the 1950’s to the 1970’s. |
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Not yet, but I sure will! :D
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Just a reminder how bad ass these Seacraft boats are . . .
The Bahamas 500 is the granddaddy of all powerboat races—a 589-mile suicide circle around the islands starting and ending at Freeport Grand Bahama. For most of the 37 boats in last week's 500, the race ended elsewhere. Driving rain drenched the crews, and visibility was down to zero as fierce squalls kicked up 5-ft. swells. Florida's John Heinrich was only 30 miles out of Freeport when waves ripped the deck off his 26-ft. Alim outboard. Between Chub Cay and Nassau, the 24-ft. Nova inboard of Miamian Allan Brown ran out of gas, then wallowed helplessly in the wash for more than four hours while rescue planes searched for it. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841354,00.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840909,00.html |
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I just ordered the DVD . . . hopefully there's some seacraft footage on it.
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I had no idea they still ran these races! I have some research to do on that subject and the DVD looks like a purchase in the near future.
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Looks like a 23 ??
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RE: Bigshrimpin The photo of the SeaCraft race boat #31 with 2 Mercury motors is a SeaCraft 21' "My Flying Machine" Driven by Carl Moesly. Co-driver is Frank Brown.
The photo of the SeaCraft race boat #31 with 3 Mercury motors is a 23' SeaCraft driven by Carl Moesly with Co-driver Frank Brown. The 1st Bahama 500 race had 92 boats entered and only 16 boats finished the race. Three of them were SeaCrafts. They took the 'small boat award'. |
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Welcome JMoesly,
Is there a relation between you and the God Father Carl?? If there is, we are honored!! See ya, Ken |
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Thanks Jmosley for the info. Hey . . . Are you driving in this picture???
http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/...07/6_23_62.jpg You may have already seen this thread "Life at Lake X in the 60's" . . . it's somewhat on topic. I think PXHY'y might like it. . . . there is mention of SeaCraft a few times and mention of a good look'in daughter too. :D http://forums.screamandfly.com/forum...ad.php?t=76051 |
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Carl has been called a lot of things but yours is a new one.Thanks for the warm welcome. Jeanne
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Jeanne-Great to have you on the CSC. Mrs. Carl Moesly? By the way, we here at CSC will respectfully call him whatever HE wants :D.
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I'm bowing to the Godfather right now! :D
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From I've heard Jeanne was pretty good behind the wheel racing those seacrafts too.
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I bow to to the Godmother too!!! :D
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You guys are just too much...
I've always been one to get into trouble, so here I go again.... Yep, JMoesly was a real challenge behind the wheel of a racing machine....SeaCraft's naturally!!! http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...r/DSC00247.jpg In this one, you can easily recognize her by her long blonde hair blowing in the breeze.... http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...r/DSC00253.jpg |
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Now thats cool!!! :cool:
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DITTO.
I think we should change her tag of stranger to something more appropriate. Maybe put that picture as the avatar. Good stuff, great pics. |
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wow . . . That's a great photo.
Jmosley - There's a guy on screamandfly.com under the name Lilabner who's wife Treasure used to race with you in those powercats. |
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Thanks for all the nice comments. Yes I am driving the #21 race boat and I think Treasure is with me. I would like very much to be in touch with her after these many many years.
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Talk about a reunion!! Make it happen BigShrimpin, you seem to know what's going on.
My question is what happened to all the Moesly hulls? Why have we only seen one of those 21's around? All the other boats are late 60's bow riders. What happened to all the other ones? How many were made? |
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Jeanne - I sent a PM to Lilabner and included a link to this page. He's usually fairly quick to respond . . . I only know Lilabner through a few posts on that forum. His public profile says that he's owned a porsche repair shop for 30 years and he lives in Ft. lauderdale.
His shop is: . . Butch Stokes Automotive, Inc., 2530 SW 30th Ave., Pembroke Park, Florida 33009, 954-458-0044 Email: butchbsa@bellsouth.net This is the link to the seacraft thread on screamandfly.com http://forums.screamandfly.com/forum...light=Seacraft ************************************************** *** It also dawned on me that you might have thought I was refering to Carl when I said PHXY'y . . . Just in case there was some confusion . . . PHXY is another fellow on this site who doesn't know how much he likes Mercury outboards . . . YET!! ************************************************** *** Good Luck . . . I'll PM you anything I hear. PS - You are welcome to borrow my seacraft(s) anytime!! |
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As you probably knew, 65Bowrider is a mischievous daughter.
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Moesly's - You girls must have some awesome family pictures and stories about the boats. Care to share any?
CSC - What did happen to that 21 hull we saw here a while back anyway??? |
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fear not, that ol' 21 is in the warehouse right next to my 20 seafari, should start hammering on that old brute any day now
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Ben-That 21 was one of the boats that raced right?
JMoesly and 65bowrider, I appreciate you sharing your rich history. Very cool. |
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Snookered, it took me a while but here's the old pic's of Ben's boat in all it's glory. There's an old thread called "free seacraft and trailer".
Ben, have you gotten any more history on it? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Handel/MO2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Handel/MO4.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Handel/MO3.jpg |
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Hey Ben - There was some talk in that same seacraft thread as to whether that Johnson and Kirby w/ the Homelite's was the first outboard four stroke race boat ever. I've got no idea if he's right, but you might want do a little research before putting it under the knife and converting it to a fishin boat center console.
FInster - http://forums.screamandfly.com/forum...light=Seacraft From Cliff Root: Thank you very much for your inquiry about the SeaCraft. This is one of the first SeaCrafts built. Later designs eliminated the high freeboard and flare at the bow and reduced the angle of the deep-V. Seacrafts, including this one, were originally built in Princeton, FL which is part of the Miami suburbs and is located about fifteen miles SW of downtown Miami on US-1. Their production warehouse is still there. The boat was purchased new by Johnson and Kirby who had one of the more popular marine store, boat maintenance and engine sales and maintenance operations in Miami by the same name located on US-1 in South Miami. They passed away, the store was closed, the property was sold and the lot bulldozed. The early pictures show the boat (open console) as Johnson and Kirby set it up for racing to Bimini and Nassau. In the late 1950's the Bertram Glass Mopie by Ray Hunt was the first deep-V design and revolutized boat racing and boat design. It shattered the existing record by several hours in a race were many boats turned back and a few disinagrated and sank due to the very rought water. Everyone quickly started building deep-V hulls. This SeaCraft was built in 1962. I remember the Homelites and I am sure that the Homelites were 55 HP. Johnson and Kirby raced the boat for publicity to advertise their store and for fun. I know nothing about their racing success, if any. At this time my father was working at Johnson and Kirby. He bought the boat from Johnson and Kirby. Soon after, he replaced the Homelites with two 100 HP Evinrudes and converted the boat back to the factory design by removing the center console, reinstalling the windshield, forward steering and bimini top as shown in the later pictures. When I gave the boat away, it still had the original Seminole trailer as shown in the pictures and the original boat production paint colors as shown in the small owner's manual - white hull, black stripe under the gunnel and sky-blue deck. About 1970, my father bought a 50 ft houseboat and gave me the SeaCraft. I ran it until the motors reached the point that the Johnson and Kirby mechanics refused to work on the motors unless I had them completely rebuilt. I had two daughters in college at the time and could no longer afford two new motors so the boat sat in the backyard and the wood rotted out. Hurricane Andrew tore off and shattered the windshield. I kept the boat because I though it was a great boat, great design, great ride, high freeboard for offhsore, etc. and I had hoped to someday eventually restore the boat. However the boat was becoming an eyesore in the backyard and my wife wanted me to get rid of it. She started calling the towing companies to have them haul the boat and trailer to the county trash dump. However the county dump will not take boats unless you first take a chainsaw and cut the boat into pieces. Which is probably why you see so many old boats abondoned along the roadside. I refused to destroy the boat and started looking on the Internet for alternatives. Fortunely I found the SeaCraft collectors' website. A fellow from Palm Beach picked up the boat and trailer, title, pictures, and small owner's manual. If you have any additional information I would greatly appreciate knowing the current status and seeing some current pictures. You are welcome to post any of this information on the SeaCraft website. |
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Jeanne - Check your PM's . . . Butch sent you his home number.
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Finster-
Nice find on that old thread ;). It is amazing what we've got stored here on CSC! Bigshrimpin-We need to talk Ben into restoring to the race boat days layout :D |
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My mom still does the shows with our Customcraft Stingrays. She came in first for her category this year with the boat Otto brought down. :cool: I wish I had some current pic's. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ustomcraft.jpg |
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I think Frank Brown sold my Dad our first SeaCraft in 1973. A 20' fisherman in West Palm Beach (Haulpner & Brown) I think Frank is now in the Keys and is known as the Mercury Guru? |
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To add a little more guilt here. Rebuilt Homelites Bearcat 55hp's from Ed Ewing Economy 4 Cycle Marine of Redding, CA are less than 2K each.
http://www.4cyclemarine.com/ I'm sure if you told him that you wanted them for a collectible he'd try to match the originals. If Ben didn't want to give up his project . . . maybe we could start a CSC pool to restore one of these oldies and donate it to a museum. Would be incredible if Florida would preserve part of LakeX or Miami for a Powerboat Racing museum. |
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Ben,
I agree. Don't chop up that old 21, it appears to be the only one left. You should really try to restore it back to it's original form, or give it to someone that is willing to |
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I feel very special with my new tag (which I share with Carl). Many thanks to all of you guys. We look forward to meeting you in person one of these days. And again thanks Bigshrimpin for putting me in touch with Treasure.
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http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/...mosley_002.jpg Jeanne - I'm really happy that worked out. Hey - Ask Carl if he'll tell us what happened here?? |
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Too late Big, from one of his previous posts Ben's already gutted it. :(
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