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**Matt Dagostino** · 11-18-2010, 08:36 AM

Castagnato......................

Larry looked a tad like John Yale in that shot. I imagine the painful look on Rosado's face is due to the elbow Clark no doubt served up as the camera went off!!

Hope the ole 'Saddle' will be served up to some poor soul as it has been for 40 plus years!!

Matt

**TPLACE31** · 11-18-2010, 04:35 PM

Alan - Giles will not only be wearing the same sportcoat, he still has the same barber and will be getting his hair trimmed for the big event.

Kegs - the cameras will be clicking, not only for a repose of that photo, but of all of the former members.

Matt - Lot's of competition for the Saddle this year, could it be a newcomer or a repeat winner?

About that photo -

That group collectively had 30 National Championships, 56 national High Point Championships and 11 Gulf Marine hall of Fame and Hall of Champion inductions. Amazingly, almost 80% of those honors were attained after that photo was taken!! Who knew..........

**Graham** · 11-18-2010, 04:40 PM

Steve

Steve: I knew.

Don Graham

**TPLACE31** · 11-20-2010, 05:32 AM

Tonight is the BIG night, hope everyone is ready. RSVP's indicate that attendance will be almost double our original estimates! Looking forward to seeing the South Shore Outboard Alumni.

Pictures to follow.........

**bh/** · 11-20-2010, 08:02 AM

Originally posted by Fast Jack View Post

Giles, Racer and Larry , Does this mean Maloof will be at the banquet??

re: Maloof: -there is one of his early B runabouts for sale at the Lake Schipp AOMC meet this wekend.

**bronx Paulie** · 11-20-2010, 11:12 PM

Dont forget about Paulie

**TPLACE31** · 11-21-2010, 08:43 AM

Wow!!!

One of the best South Shore Outboard events in many, many years. The Alumni group was out in full force and most of them stayed awake until the end. Archived photo's and news articles filled the room along with priceless memories being relived.

Full recap coming soon along with the evenings photo's by Paul Luippold and Twisted Sista.

To see who was the big winner of the evening, go to the front page of the SSOA website www.southshoreoutboard.com

Csatagneto, Neely, Nichols, Molloy, Cote, Reynolds, Bianchini, Humphrey, Crowley, Babcock, Fitts (2), Girard, Bailey, Thompson, Fortier, Allen, Giles, McCabe, Hall, and probably a few we will remember in the recap post!

**Matt Dagostino** · 11-22-2010, 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by

To see who was the big winner of the evening, go to the front page of the SSOA website [url

www.southshoreoutboard.com[/url]

Steve
No banquet info? Went to the front page and didn't see anything about the banquet?

Matt

**B1PRORACER** · 11-22-2010, 01:07 PM

Matt- it was an awesome banquet..... you should have been there! I can't name all of the names! Rick Fortier AU, Bruce Nichols AU, BU, BSH & 25ssH, Rick Weinstien BU, Paul Girard ASH, BSH, CSH & DSH, Jack Glasses, Bill Allen Sr., Larry Castagnetto BU, CU, DU, BSH, CSH & DSH, John Biancini CSH & DSH, Chub Thompson CSH & DSH, Brad Snow ASH, CSSH, EMH... , Steve & Stan Fitts DU & 36R, Pete & Mike Babcock CU, EMR, DSH..., Doug Bailey JU, AU...everything! I know there are people that I have missed- then Bill Giles, Ken Hall, Charlie Gonyea, Tony Lester, The Thompsons, The Schmidt's, Billy Allen.... It was great to see all of these people again!!!! Maybe Steve could figure out the number of all of the National Championships, National High Point Championships, Records and APBA award winners that were in that room Saturday night! It would be staggering! It was a great time!
Thank you for all of your hard work Steve Noury!

**Matt Dagostino** · 11-22-2010, 01:48 PM

Lots of memories..........

Originally posted by B1PRORACER View Post

Matt- it was an awesome banquet..... you should have been there! I can't name all of the names! Rick Fortier AU, Bruce Nichols AU, BU, BSH & 25ssH, Rick Weinstien BU, Paul Girard ASH, BSH, CSH & DSH, Jack Glasses, Bill Allen Sr., Larry Castagnetto BU, CU, DU, BSH, CSH & DSH, John Biancini CSH & DSH, Chub Thompson CSH & DSH, Brad Snow ASH, CSSH, EMH... , Steve & Stan Fitts DU & 36R, Pete & Mike Babcock CU, EMR, DSH..., Doug Bailey JU, AU...everything! I know there are people that I have missed- then Bill Giles, Ken Hall, Charlie Gonyea, Tony Lester, The Thompsons, The Schmidt's, Billy Allen.... It was great to see all of these people again!!!! Maybe Steve could figure out the number of all of the National Championships, National High Point Championships, Records and APBA award winners that were in that room Saturday night! It would be staggering! It was a great time!
Thank you for all of your hard work Steve Noury!

Peter
Sounds like a blast. I heard Clark Maloof was scheduled to give the keynote speech but backed out at the last minute!!

Great to see SSOA is rocking!!

matt d.

**BabcockBros38A** · 11-22-2010, 02:03 PM

The first thing I would say myself is, WOW! Steve did a fantastic job all evening at the podium, as well as all the work

involved in organizing the affair. Harriet Thompson is also thanked greatly for all of her work duing the evening AND for

all she does during the season, This was quite a gathering, The Hall was packed and yes, there were even a few wearing ties.

I think there was over 150 people.

Well, Matt, had you attended you could have been in the group photo for The Saddle winners as we all joined 2 year in a row

winner Mike W Schmidt !!! The orignal Saddle was present, but, as there's no room for signatures, the second one sits along

side for the future winners. The first winner, Larry Castegneto, as well as winners from the "pre Kevlar" generations were

all on stage for the presentation And Photos.

The awards were also very nice. All attendees recieved a nice 60th anniversary coffee mug. Dust33 had posted the pic in

earlier post. The throphy awards gang did seem to need glasses to read the names however, not sure if it was because of

lighting or eyesight? Biggest hardware winner of the evening was John Wlodarski, Did he need a trailer to haul them all

home?!

The program handed out was excellant, I would post it here when i get it scanned, unless someone else plans to? Anybody plan

to post it?

There were easels (made by Steve also), on which were many many newspaper clippings involving members from the "shore". Racer

Allen and fellow Hall of Fame member, Doug Bailey,(JSR,CSR,DSH,DSR.), provided their memoribilia from their championship

days.
As far as pics, well, Paul Luippold was quite busy with all of the action. AND Lulu was busy as well, they will post soon I

imagine. Will finish scanning the program, But will wait to see if anyone else was going to post it.

**TPLACE31** · 11-22-2010, 09:21 PM

and the WINNERS were.......

Capacity crowd included:

Nine (9) former SSOA Commodores
Three (3) APBA Honor Squadron members,
Eight (8) Gulf Marine Hall of Fame Inductions,
Eight (8) Hall of Champion Inductions,
Forty Two (42) National Championships,
Eighty (80) National High Point Championships,

We were honored to have SSOA Alumni members present the Hi Point Awards to this years Champions -

J Hydro - Jack Cavanaugh - presented by Doug Bailey
AXR - Johnny Wlodarski - presented by Steve Fitts
AXH - Johnny Wlodarski - Joel Crowley
ASR - Johnny wlodarski - presented by Bruce Nichols
ASH - Colleen Tweedy - presented by Carole Terry
CSR - Tim Noury - presented by Larry Castagneto
CSH - Bill Giles - presented by John Bianchini
DSH - Alex Poliakoff - presented by Jack Neely
20SSH - Billy Allen - presented by Racer Allen
25SSR - Jason Thompson - presented by Chuck McCabe
25SSH - Bob Howe - presented by Peter Babcock
OSY400 - Mike W. Schmidt - presented by Chubby Thompson
250CCH - Mike D. Schmidt - presented by Paul Girard

SSOA Rookie of the Year - Nick Nowak
Ken Rosado Award - Johnny Wlodarski
Bill Giles Award - Johnny Wlodarski
Joe FoFo Travers Award - Harriet Thompson
"The Saddle" - Mike W. Schmidt

Lot's of smiles and a lot of memories were rekindled. Pictures of one big happy family to follow in the next few days.

SSOA - Racing into the fruture from out of our past!