1963 NOA Championships Lake Spivey

[jjboat05]

Hello,
I am looking for my father (Jim Schoch) of a copy of the CBS sports spectacular airing of the Sept 5-9 1963 NOA championships at Lake Spivey. There was a great thread on this site that has the newspaper artical http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forums/showthread.php?17829-1963-N-O-A-World-Championship-part-1 .
My Dad was wondering if there is a copy out

[crewman060]

Ralph Donald would know if anyone.Also if search youtube long enough it may come up.but the quailty of picture will be bad.thanks to this virius,been watching boat and motorcycle stuff on youtube.some 500cc road racing vids from the early '90,s are very grainy.

[DeanFHobart]

Hello,
I am looking for my father (Jim Schoch) of a copy of the CBS sports spectacular airing of the Sept 5-9 1963 NOA championships at Lake Spivey. There was a great thread on this site that has the newspaper artical http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forums/showthread.php?17829-1963-N-O-A-World-Championship-part-1 .
My Dad was wondering if there is a copy out

Hello,

Just a suggestion... possibly try ‘You Tube’... or also contact CBS Sports directly. Speaking of 1963, I watched your dad race at the APBA Alky Nationals at Moses Lake Washington in 1963. He won several of the runabout classes. Painted on the side of the Quincy trailer was the word ‘NOTHING’, and that was all.

Possibly contact your local CBS Sports Station, sports department and they could do the research.

Best Regards, Dean Hobart.......

[25XS]

I'm pretty sure the Lake Spivey Civic Association may also be a good place to start. They have these vintage videos on YouTube showing the waterski shows and the (former) amusement park.

https://youtu.be/glig2T36ub4 ( 1963 Waterski footage from CBS and shows raceboat in introduction No. V-11 runabout )

https://youtu.be/wZfmwryHSxM

https://youtu.be/22aeuUtpWms

https://youtu.be/r_9zb0nXiOY

https://youtu.be/vL2XQ52GaV4

[jjboat05]

Thank you for the great suggestions :)

[Donald]

I have a video of the CBS 250 runabout and the 500 hydro at Lake Spivey in 1964. I was told by Clyde Queen that he had a CBS film of some classes in 1963. I don't know what happened to Clyde's collection after he died.

[jjboat05]

Would it be possible to purchase a copy of you 1964 video?

[Donald]

Would it be possible to purchase a copy of you 1964 video?
I will see about making a copy and get back to you.

[John Schubert T*A*R*T]

I have a video of the CBS 250 runabout and the 500 hydro at Lake Spivey in 1964. I was told by Clyde Queen that he had a CBS film of some classes in 1963. I don't know what happened to Clyde's collection after he died.
Ralph,

I believe that they went to Dale Hoffert.

[jjboat05]

Awesome, Thank you !

[Donald]

I tried to attach the video with no success. I guess I need some advice.

[25XS]

Here's another clue: Halfway down this Kokomo Indiana newspaper article is a the 1964 Lake Spivey race information.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28690912/ed-sullivan-feb-9-1964/

[racingfan1]

Ralph,

I believe that they went to Dale Hoffert.

John , most of what I received was Clyde's stuff that pertained to DePue. The family kept a lot of the other stuff.

[Donald]

The video of "Lake Spivey 1964" is now on youtube.

[25XS]

Here is the video link: https://youtu.be/1dr7M5J3CXc

Thanks so much, Ralph!!

[Master Oil Racing Team]

There were four reasons I got into boat racing and watching that race on TV when I was a sophomore in high school was the biggest reason. Whenever the black & white Bardahl ad came on TV, I would stop what I was doing to watch Ron Musson speeding down the lake with a sky high roostertail trailing Miss Bardahl. That was one of the four. Another was the ad in Popular Mechanics and some other magazines with a picture of Gerry Walin when he set the outboard speed record at 122. My Dad and his partner bought a marine dealership in Corpus Christi and they became Evinrude dealers, so I was glad that Evinrude was the motor on that Starflite Jones hydro. Right up there with the Lake Spivey race being on TV was a 10 foot John boat owned by a neighbor at the lake we were on. After our Mom died he and his wife did a lot with us to help my Dad out while going through all that trauma. Mr. Valentine told me to take his little boat for a spin. I had never experienced any sensation of speed like that close to the water before. He had a small Merc on it, but the boat was so light it just skimmed very fast along the water. And it would slide in the turns. I went round and round and round and round with it, getting better in the turns with each lap. I found an ad in Popular Mechanics for an 8 foot runabout called Minimost. My brother Mark and I started working on it after school and on weekends in 1964. We got to the deck and found out the plans were wrong, and we didn't know how to go any further so we quit. Then we heard about a race on our lake which was going to be almost in front of our pier, so we finally figured out a way to finish the boat and tried to get it built in time. We didn't, but we each raced one heat in B runabout with a 12 foot Nomad and a stock 20 hp Merc. But it was the boat race televised from Lake Spivey, the two ads, and a small fishing boat that got me started in boat racing in 1965.

ADD: Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think as I was watching these races on TV, that I would race with and become friends of everyone mentioned in this CBS Sports spectacular except for Tommy Christopher and the Canadians. Tommy quit right before I started. If Hebert is related to Armand, then I did race with one of his relatives. It is quite remarkable to think that I was able to do something that I really yearned to do at that young age.