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John, All due respect, but Ron was referring to the 60's before I left racing and then came back as an old man many years later. In the 60's, I dominated runabout classes for half the decade, beating the likes of Maloof, McCabe, Giles, Downing, McPeek, Hammond, Strasser, Boone, Christy, Kitching and whoever else was around at the time. I went almost 2 1/2 years without being beat by anything but a few mechanical breakdowns and was put into the Gulf Hall of Fame during that stretch. I won the John & Flora Blank award for two consective years with around 10,000 points in AU each year and was national high point for 4 straight years (interrupted 1 year for military service). I'm sure your dad will remember. You probably were not born then, so you only saw me run the second time when I really never cared much about racing because it had changed too much from the old days.
Bill Rosado
PS In those days, Chuckles McCabe was 47B and I was 1111B, then 111B when they made the 4digits illegal, 1B and 1US. I had the 7B during my last couple of years and McCabe got the number after I quit back then. I got 7B again in Mod when I came back almost 20 years later. Also, I never lost to Chuck McCabe during that stretch in the 60's. I also have a newspaper article from the Boston Globe in which Clark Maloof is quoted as referring to me as a "superdriver" for driving one of his boats that he and McCabe could not. I will scan and post it if you'd like.
Bill Rosado
PS In those days, Chuckles McCabe was 47B and I was 1111B, then 111B when they made the 4digits illegal, 1B and 1US. I had the 7B during my last couple of years and McCabe got the number after I quit back then. I got 7B again in Mod when I came back almost 20 years later. Also, I never lost to Chuck McCabe during that stretch in the 60's. I also have a newspaper article from the Boston Globe in which Clark Maloof is quoted as referring to me as a "superdriver" for driving one of his boats that he and McCabe could not. I will scan and post it if you'd like.
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