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Two heavy weight in boat racing world ..

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Bob Latham on the right .. Bob has built high performance steering’s for the very  best for 35-40 years .. Really nice polished stainless steel stuff.
To the left is my friend Ben Robertson .. probably the best boat racing driver of all time.
Drove F1 V8 like no other and have driven many Fountain Offshore rigs to victory.
Ben  drove Cat-Killer to the world record for the V-bottom boats a few years ago.
Well .. Ben was also all the girls favorite at the races back then..He was/is a  fun and charming gentleman who lives in South Carolina ..
We have been visiting him there many times.
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A fun lunch with John Schubert and other well known boat racers…

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… at Sailors Return in Stuart, Florida

First.. congratulations to John Schubert just inducted into the APBA Honor Squadron 2014.

Here is a picture of the hardware..

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Well..Jackie Wilson of UK was as always in a great mood telling stories we never heard before.
His son Mark is little more soft spoken than dad and I really enjoy hearing Marks side of his bad F1-V8  accident in Casale, Italy  1983..
I was there racing but did not know exactly what happen that early Sunday morning.

Everywhere I go  Bert Serra is there. Thanks Bert for putting up with us.

After four hours it was time for my wife Carina and I to leave..but John and Bert
was still in the bar talking about Merc in line six horse power..Schubert was pretty sure an Evinrude V-4 Super Strangler had more dyno horses..

Thanks again for accepting this lost Swede in to the old boys boat racing history
I was close to write old outboard racing history..but “inboard Jackie Wilson”
maybe feel a little bit on the outside if I do….!!

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