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Class / Boat Name | Race # | Crew | Length | Builder / Designer | Colour | Engine (s) | HP |
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True Blue | 2-32 | Graeme Petrie Steven Fraser Jack Lynch | 12.00m | Sunseeker / Buzzi | White / Red / Blue | 2 x Yanmar | 880 |
Team Imol | 2-468 | James Winkworth Dave Sheldon Gary Tolman | 9.75m | Spectre / Baker | White / White | 2 x Mercury | 800 |
Atlas Mr Noisy | E-7 | Alan Goodwin Lee Smith Will Bryan | 30' | Velocity / Stepp | Blue / Blue | 2 x Chevrolet | 1000 |
Mango Crazy | E-8 | Peter Hall Terry Parsons | 28' | Hunton / Hunton | Red / White | 2 x Mercruiser | 600 |
Jenny B | E-12 | Rich Truscott Paul Barham | 24' | Pascoe / Mannerfelt | Black / Black | 1 x Volvo | 320 |
Life Racing Team 25 | E-25 | Craig Fletcher Duncan Good | 24' | Pascoe / Mannerfelt | White / Blue | 1 x Volvo | |
Top Banana | E-28 | Richard Jackson Colin Gibson | 28' | Phantom / Baker | Yellow / Yellow | 2 x Mercury | 600 |
Thunderstreak | E-400 | Hugo Peel Richard Jessel Adrian de Ferranti | 31' | Bertram / Hunt | Blue / White | 2 x Mercruiser | 870 |
Renegade 2 | D-28 | Andy Foster Charles Morris | 28' | Cougar / Curtis | Orange / Blue | 1 x Mercury | 400 |
Madcrab | D-51 | Rob Lister Nick Crouch | 7.48m | Misscat / Plasse | Black / Black | 1 x Mercury | 200 |
KMO | D-123 | Jason Field Tom Trotman | 28' | Cougar / Curtis | Blue / Silver | 1 x Yamaha | 330 |
Moku Racing | C-7 | Darryn Harrison Berti Munro | 6m | Phantom / Baker | Black / Black | 1 x Tohatsu | 140 |
Mid-Life | C-13 | Simon Matthews Tim Hunter | 22' | Backdraft / Mannerfelt / Little | Orange / Grey | 1 x Mercury | 200 |
Bubblin’ Hot | C-76 | Rod Hawkins Darren Elliott | 6.7m | Backdraft / Mannerfelt / Little | White / White | 1 x Mercury | 200 |
Kohaku | C-88 | Gary Aldington Tom Gardner | 21' | Phantom / Baker | White / Red | 1 x Mercury | 200 |
Hell’s Angels II | C-130 | Brian Peedell Dave Salter | 22' | Mannerfelt | Orange / Black / Orange | 1 x Mercury | 200 |
Teamworx | B-30 | Clive Prestige Scott Weldon | 21' | B-19 Batboat / Mannerfelt | White / Black | 1 x Mercury | 115 |
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Cowes-Torquay-Cowes - KAM III - racing in the 70's - Photo credit - Christian Toll
23 Aug 2024 1:07 PM
Bank Holiday action on the water
The 63rd running of the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes powerboat race takes place on Saturday, August 24 and for the first time since 2017, the boats are scheduled to re-fuel in Torquay.
The fleet will leave the start line in the Solent at 9.30am for the 100-mile race to Torbay. The teams will moor up alongside Haldon Pier, Torquay for approximately 90 minutes before racing back to Cowes.
The race is the highlight of the Cowes Powerboat Festival organised by the newly formed partnership between the British Powerboat Racing Club and Powerboat P1 with support from their new sponsor, Experience Kissimmee, the world-famous tourism destination in Central Florida.
Spectators will be able to watch the action unfold from Haldon Pier and view the boats moored up in the wet pits.
The CTC is the world’s most famous powerboat race and attracts an international entry. The top boats will reach speeds in excess of 100mph as they race across Lyme Bay. Depending on conditions, the lead boats should arrive in Torbay from 10.30am.
Starting as favourites for the win are Exeter based businessmen, Drew Langdon and Miles Jennings. They have won the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race for the last five years in their boat, “Silverline” - an American produced Outerlimits hull powered by two Mercury engines developing 1,800hp.
Both men have been racing powerboats all over the world for many years with considerable success.
Chasing them for the win will be the Anglo-American crew in “Good Boy Vodka” – British racers Robert Lockyer and Scott Younger with American Alex Pratt. The two boats had a close battle during the race to Torquay last year, however, GBV – another Outerlimits hull - was forced into retirement - they will be looking for revenge this year.
And amongst the fleet, as well as the latest race boat designs, there will be some classic boats too. One of those is Kiekhaefer Aeromarine III known as KAM III - a 36-foot Cigarette wide body hull, designed by Harry Schoell for Don Aronow at Cigarette Racing Team in 1971.
The hull design won multiple World Championships and with the Aeromarine engine package, dominated the sport in the 70s.
KAM III was raced by Miami based eye surgeon, Dr Robert Magoon and Fire Chief, Gene Lanham. This formidable crew and boat combination won a total of five United States Championships. In 1974 they also set a UIM world speed record of 83mph. The boat was then sold to British racer Charles Gill who competed in the 1975 and 1976 seasons.
In the 1976 CTC, Charles caused quite an upset by beating the latest creation from the Cigarette factory. The boat raced on during the late 70s with new owners Brian and Mike Bontoft, and they then chartered it to Frank Wyatt.
After all its success, by the early 80s the Bontoft’s had sold the boat and it was languishing in Norway with little prospect of it returning to racing - the hull and the engines had become separated.
However, finally, after many years, a Norwegian, Joern Amudsen, managed to re-unite both the hull and engines and he completed a full restoration. His target was to exceed 100mph in the boat. By 2015, he felt he could take the project no further.
The boat was then purchased by Christian Toll, a lifelong powerboat enthusiast, who undertook a full restoration with the assistance of his highly skilled team. Everything was blasted and sanded off back to the original gelcoat, a new transom was fitted, new fuel tanks were made and fitted and the engines were sent to America for a complete rebuild. With incredible attention to detail, even the graphics on the hull were hand painted as they would have been originally in the early 70s.
It will be wonderful to see this iconic powerboat racing again in this year’s CTC with Christian Toll, James Shepard and James McVrae at the controls. The project is being followed with much interest from America by Gene Lanham, now 93, who was on the throttles during its 70s Championship run, and Fred Kiekhaefer, the son of Carl, founder of Mercury Marine and Kiekhaefer Aeromarine engines.
Haldon Pier, Torquay is the place to be for some glamorous and high-speed action!
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Drew Langdon and Miles Jennings steered their Mercury powered Outerlimits hull Silverline to more Cowes Torquay Cowes success today.
The pair from the West Country in England have won the event in 2018, 2019, 2021 and today using the same boat and engine combination.
They also set the course record speed last year, however, Langdon and Jennings encountered far more challenging conditions today and averaged 67.72 mph.
Team 25 Dragon – Rob Lockyer and Scott Younger
Finishing over 30 minutes later than Silverline were Team 25 Dragon (above) crewed by Rob Lockyer and Scott Younger.
Third was the veteran Cigarette hull, Dry Martini.
Dry Martini – Nigel Hopcroft, Michael Peet and Mike Bontoft
Nigel Hopcroft, Michael Peet and the man that keeps this machine in tip-top condition, Mike Bontoft were 23 minutes slower than Lockyer and Younger.
Uno Embassy finished fourth overall with Fugitive just 3 minutes behind.
Uno Embassy – Phil Morris, Gordon McMath, Jennifer Marsh and Chris Wright
Uno’s crew of Phil Morris, Gordon McMath, Jennifer Marsh and Chris Wright were ecstatic to finally start and finish a race in a season beset with issues.
Fugitive – Stuart Cureton and Francis Whitley
Stuart Cureton and Francis Whitley have an enviable reliability rate in this race and took the Class 2 honors in Fugitive with Lee Ornsby, Ross Macgregor and Chris Drinkwater second in their Mercury powered Spectre hull.
Seventh overall, averaging 42.46 mph and the final finisher was the Belgium team of Biretta Due (Thomas Vandamme, Jean Pierre Neels and Marijke D’hondt).
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The racing fleet will assemble at Cowes Yacht Haven for scrutineering and safety inspection on Friday 23 August. The Cowes Torquay Cowes race will start at 9.30 the following morning (Saturday 24 August) followed immediately afterwards by the Cowes Poole Cowes race at 10.00am. Both races will start off the Squadron Line, Egypt Point, in the ...
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Based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, the British Powerboat Racing Club organizes the Cowes Torquay race which has been running since 1961. This was the first powerboat race outside the USA and is the longest running race in the world. Held every year over the August Bank Holiday weekend with international teams competing in different classes ...
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Silverline wins Cowes again. Frode Sundsdal on 28th August 2022. Drew Langdon and Miles Jennings steered their Mercury powered Outerlimits hull Silverline to more Cowes Torquay Cowes success today. The pair from the West Country in England have won the event in 2018, 2019, 2021 and today using the same boat and engine combination.