www.powerboatarchive2.co.uk has been created to maintain the history of modern day powerboat racing using various material from my archives.
I began an interest in the sport when embarking on a career in Naval Architecture at Vosper Ltd which at the time was building the 1962 Cowes - Torquay winner Tramontana One.
Having an interest in photography as well as keeping countless reports and result sheets has with the demise of the National Motorboat Museum, has given greater urgency to have an easy accessible means of referencing the Raceboat history of the last 50 years.
There are many moments which stand out over the last 50 years, such as 'Telstar' winning the Cowes - Torquay - Torquay in 1968, or the extremely rough Cowes - Torquay - Torquay of 1971, so hopefully this web site will recall many more memorable occasions for those who visit the site.
If you have any material you wish to contribute please contact me, there is still a lot missing from our racing past.
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You can't even spell his name right?
Bertram FTW!
wow
Such a wonderful year for Offshore Powerboating. Some of the great times in Offshore. The great Charles Burnett III. Sadly missed and R.I.P. Sarah Donahue, always the best!! Xxx
Stefano was a good-looking guy "whew" 👀
I do wish here In the USA the super boat or unlimited class had the variety of engine setups like in class 1. From big 8liter NA v12s, straight 6 turbo diesels, NA BBC v8s, Turbo H12 small displacement engines. Popeyes had 6 2.5 2stroke v6’s with 2 surface drives. And a lot of boats until the mid 90s had 4 NA or blown v8s with 2 surface drives or 4 outdrives. But no homegrown Diesels, no turbo engines at all. Mainly only NA BBC’s. Then in the mid 90s. Blower technology caught up with EFI and coolers so high compression NA motors were replaced with blown 1000-1500hp in the unlimited class. For years and years. 800ish was the most a single NA v8 could make reliably. The v12s too weren’t getting over 750/800. America didn’t believe in diesels since they were so heavy. The late 90s did bring an American to race a buzzi/fountain with a pair of 750/800hp seatek’s. But that only lasted a couple of years before the team moved into a big cat. But boy did he run a yell of a season or 2. Especially that first race for the boat down in key west at the end of the year. Really surprised the rest of the super vee unlimited boats. Firewater, muscle, instigator, fountain, Ohio steel, inxs. All those big power fountains, A scarab, a few apaches left. Got shown up by a boat with one less engine but the weight of not more then the 3 engine boats. Powering through the rough without issue. I can not for the life of me remember the name of the team Smh
Loved watching this and was surprised at the old course they used to run.
RIP Don Shead
Mi papá compitió en el 73, lancha 222. Qué joya!
Sadly passed away this week at 87. What a hero though! his work with Sunseeker was legendary.
Llegaban hasta Zihuatanejo, guerrero
Lucky Strike was a 47' Apache, not 45'. Apache made a 41' and a 47' and they were both rough water monsters.
Perfect conditions for CESA
Lady Aitken doesn't want it rough!! Wonder if any of those boats still exist? My ears pricked up when I heard one them had 4 Jag E Type engines! I bet not all of them were still running at the end!
luv it🤙❣️..( with a nice tune😁)
Tragic what happened to the two rivals
Amazing filming for the time, Great to watch again.
Che tempi, che anni❤
No sound? Which Seatek engine did he use for this run?
Fascinating history. Dad had a policy with FAM but fortunately never made a claim. Our family NHS GP knew Savundra personally and sometimes crewed his boats. I think I saw him in one scene.
Alan Burnard got the inspiration for his designs from Ray Hunt who originated the " deep Vee" concept for fast cruising boat hulls. Burnard had a lot of help from Ray Hunt initially. Ray Hunt's designs are still in production with a few updates.
Excellent film. Thanks for the memories.
Ken in the final,scene showing shades of Max Cady from Cape Fear.
His wife wasn’t very supportive, I wonder if they are still together?
My dad boat no. 325 at 8.35 ❤ Seahunter 11
These boats look gorgeous 😊
My dads was 235 ❤ at 13.08 Seahunter ❤
Whoever made this video and added the shit muic in place off roaring powerboat racing engines, shoud have been dragged behind the fastest boat all the way to Torquay and back in the 1977 race.
Dick..mounted the flag the wrong way. Not good omen.
Excellent video, thank you
Which episode is this?
Karma
Thank you so much for sharing this
Me tocó ver esa competencia era un mocoso o como dicen los calentamos un wuache soy de Coatzacoalcos Veracruz y me fui a tierra caliente siguiendo una chiquilla que me invitó a conocer por esos rumbos Altamirano Coyuca san Miguel Teloloapan Huetamo uf bellos recuerdos de mi infancia
great video, I grew up in New Brighton, my brother in law, John Wilkinson, raced powerboats in the 1960s thanks for posting.
* no steering link between between drives is odd ?! GOD Bless
I was Don Shead’s secretary he was a wonderful man to work for.
What ? Where a the engines? Where is the sound of the Cesa 1882? Why the stupid music?
11:50 the editor teases us with V12 music and then goes back to playing crap over it 😪
He basically killed his two teammates because he diest like bring second. Rot in he'll murderer
Really nice video, do you have more videos of the Grand Prix offshore world championship of 1992 in ostend? i bought a boat with a sticker of the grand prix in 1992 and i would love to see it in one of these videos! thanks again!
Woulda, shoulda, coulda...!
04:32, It's not a difficult question at all. The only way that would never have happened, would have been if he had never got in that boat; which he did. Didier was racer and it was what it was..
I was there
Good video cheesy music
The winning boat of this race- a Bertram, was many years later restored and won its class in the 2019 Cowes to Torquay race...when it was 58 years old!!
i remember when i was 10yrs old, i took the helm of the winning boat ASPRENZIELLA! my dad worked at R&W Clarks boatyard and the powerboat was having work completed after the race, and when it went out on trials, i was lucky enough to be allowed to go out on the boat and remember being allowed to steer the boat for a few minuets///1 never forget the excitement!
Yeah man!!! Thank you for the upload
Great year ‘76. The year I started my power boat showroom Thorpe Bay Marine.
From what year is this video?
Who cares how fast a boat goes? They're for relaxing.
All kinds of people post comments on KZread. Wow.
That’s an Ignorant comment cause that same logic would have to applied to cars too, those were originally intended for carrying passangers not evolving into f1, rally, sports cars, etc. Different mediums for different objectives. Humans natural instinct is to continue to build on things and push limits