Henry Knab’s Big Bwana E-83
(Ron Jones hull)
 

Here are three photos of the Gun Shy F-90. 
The first and second are different shots of the boat headed to the start-finish line. 

 
 

The third is the boat coming to the finish line minus the left sponson. 
A few years later, the aluminum bottom of the boat would come back to haunt several boats. 
We finally found the sheet of aluminum sticking straight up in the mud. 
As each boat went by, the water pressure would cause the aluminum to stand up. 
Several boats were damaged before we found the old piece of the Gun Shy. 
(Ron Jones hull)

Lancer J-89
Built by Ron Jones for Nip (Frank) Thomas and was delivered in 1973. 
Then, owned by Fred Shearer.
 

Jersey Speed Skiff  JS-65 Egg Beater
Owner/driver Connie Cottrell
 

JS-69 Bumps & Grinds
owner/driver Bob Franson
 
 

Start of a Jersey Speed Skiff heat.
 

The Topper L-91
Bob Tucker of St. Petersburg
 

N-8 Country Boy
Lauterbach hull driven by Jim Kropfield
 
 

N-8 Country Boy and N-129 Tiger battle it out
(Both Lauterbach’s)
 
 

S-124 Expediter
(Ron Jones hull)
 
 

S-145 Willard Wilson in Lil Lectron
(Ron Jones hull)
 
 

S-79
Don’t know anything about this boat
 
 

Y-15
(Colcock hull)
 
 

850cc Lauterbach hydro Lip Ship III, Y-269
driven by Tom “Butch” Kropfield
 
 

Y-68 Jim Appley of St. Petersburg in his 
Ron Jones 850cc hydro Super J Too.
 
 

Y-93  Dick Baynard in his 850cc Super J. 
(Colcock hull)
 
 

Y-9  Steve Jones takes the checkers.
 

All of the photos were taken by a photographer from the City News Bureau, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Many thanks to Brent McLean for this providing us with this program, all the scanning work, 
 photo captions, and his patience with me to get this page finally uploaded!
If you can help identify some of the boats without information, please let me know.

S-160 goes for a ride.
A series of shots Brent McLean took using a Nikon FM with a motor drive.







 
 

This is a driver who stopped his boat and went to the aid of his fellow driver.
Note the other driver in the water.
 

The rescue team is removing the driver of from the lake.  (He was not seriously injured).