Best prize you won!!

[kampkurz]

Merrimac Bottom Smack

At the final Haverhill marathon I received a 30 inch log that one of the patrol boat drivers had found. What made it special is that my bottom fin was entirely embedded into the log. During the race , I couldn't figure out why I was struggling around the corners. It's lost a lot of weight but still a favorite.

[ottawamercguy]

Great Prizes in Region 1

The region 1 prizes are really useful. When did you last use that trophy
from three years ago? Whether we are talking about Shawn's edible
trophies or Steve's tools they have all come in handy. Give medals and
trophies to the J drivers to inspire them.

[Hunter]

for unusual prizes, nothing will outclass the early 1000 Islands Marathon prizes. My father won an aluminum boat which we tortured for years after. Prizes also included outboard motors,boat trailers, and one year a snow plow from the Frink company which was nearby in Clayton. This was a major plow for highway use, not something to stick on the front of a pickup truck. Needless to say, that race was a very big deal for several years.

[joejohn44]

1977 APBA Eastern Divisionals Rolex Submariner

[Jeff Akers]

Prize

The look of absolute pride in my fathers eyes and his words of admiration after winning my first divisional title in Formula E Hydro...

Best prize ever!

[1100-one]

Prize

Jeff,
I was looking for the like button on your reply!!!!!


Todd

[dwilderacer]

The Paper

My greatest pride came from a piece of paper that said "World Record". I didn't get it till I was forty (30+ years into racing), but it was the thing APBA ever sent me!

[trapper]

I won three interesting ones.
a beer mug for 1st place at the huron ohio 50 mile marathon!!!
a bronze plaque that was to be on a trophy at the Sandusky marathon. I know that fred Schwartz screwed his on a tree!!.
an last but not least ,this awesome solid redwood cocktail table for winning the most points at the rumson marathon Nat'l.tom nuccio won the chair.
don v.

[rumleyfips]

One year i went to the Region 2 banquet. Not my kind of thing but I was a director that year. John Stone was giving awards and I was surprised when he said I was 1-N for runabouts. I had a CE number and I don't think I was really elegable.

Then John said " we don't have a trophy for you because someone didn't return it and we don't know where it is".

[Redneckerson]

Prize

The greatest prize from boat racing was after I broke the 15SSH 1-1/4 mile course record at Lake Lawrance in 1985, I named the boat after my dad who taught me so much, "Hods Rod." I gave him a photo from the race and the record certificate in frames and he hung them on his wall in his office. Years later when I went to his funeral, I walked in his office and it was still hanging there.

[pops67g]

The First Check......

I have a few accomplishments over the years that I feel good about, but I remember the first as much as any of the others. This would be the first time I finished in the money. It was 1960. I was 15 years old and a rookie. Took 5th overall in D alky hydro and got a big check for $4. Even with 30 cent a gallon gas that didn't quite come close to covering the cost to get to the race.

[Team Main Racing]

Trophy

Coolest trophy I ever saw was one my father received at a race in Doverpoint N.H. after nosing in his BSH and being launched over 100ft threw the air. Biggest trophy he ever got. It had to be 3 or4 feet tall it was taller then I was in 1962 and I was only 2yrs old

[DiGia54D]

Best one was Last year. I got aEnvelope with a Check in it for finishing 7th at the Depue Nationals
That beat the classic knife and fork set I won in Mays Landing when I first started racing..lol

[raceright]

Best prize was Checkered Flag Award for winning my first USTS race in 500 Hydro ,and the letter from Ed Thirlby Sr that came with it. A real Honor.

[Herb Lanphear]

rumyflips post

That is pretty funny because I had both high point trophies for 1 N the year before and could not attend the meeting/banquet and was later informed that both my father and I were directors as well when it came out in the Propeller from Shirley.