Joe Moore, The Hod Carrier

[Ron Hill]

I don't know if HOD is spelled right, but when I first met JOe, he was about 21 and strong as a BULL...He was a HOD Carrier, later he became a plastering contractor...

My brother did a GOOGLE search and we found Joe in San Marcos where he's been for the last 30 some years. He had a bunch of us down for dinner last Saturday night...I got his Ray McKean Boat Pictures and some great pictures of his....

This newspaper isn't Joe...but this is like Joe's luck was...usually..

[Ron Hill]

Joe Moore leads DU in his new Kean Craft Runabout. 252-C in second is Warren Litten. How about a Speedboat ride for fifty cents???

This is Hart Park, in Bakersfield, where we raced around an island.

[Ron Hill]

This is Joe's old boat...Bakerfield, 1954.

Look at the concentration... Look at that prop...Joe is "RACING"....

[Ron Hill]

I don't know where this race is, but do know it is DU, 1954 or 55.

Inside is 252-C Warren Litten
D-288-C is Charles "DUTCH" Job... His KG-( came from Carl Meyers, in this motor's picture is on the front of an old Boat Sports magazine, the one with two D Hydros, one is Jack Maypole...

424-C is Danny Morehouse

183-C is Everett Baggs from Dana Point

Joe Moor, is between Moorehouse and 22-C. 22-C is Jack Lowheed from Santa Ana, California.

D-464-C is Doc Scheffer, who also ran AU and BU. This is Major Red Thomas's old Speedliner, name Aqua Haulic.... Red and white..

UC ME GO is OGDEN SCOVILLE, he was a UCLAL man...I think he was related to Ken Scoville, and 290-C was Raven Craven, John Craven...John had been the MAN TO BEAT in DU until Litten came along. Then, when Job got the "ROPE START" KG-9, he became the man to beat...

How would you like to make a run to the first turn with this group???

Everyone's propshaft was about 3 inches below the bottom...52 MPH was probably top speed...competition was tight!

[Ron Hill]

San Diego Flood Control Channel: It never really sunk in, but we raced at the Flood Control Channle about twice a year for maybe 20 years...

444-C is Kenny Pyle. I could trun his boat into a guessing game, but I won't. It was a beautiful metalic green and built by none other than Art Carlson of Carlson and Glastron Carlson fame.

[Ron Hill]

Boat looks like a Champion hull from the rear, but I don't know if that is correct. Mark-40 painted blue...boat was light blue, too...Joe liked BLUE!

This truck and D Runabout was all Joe owned...but he was happy....and what else does a man need besides a boat and a truck??? (WELL!!!)

[Ron Hill]

Seems Joe had turned his boat over and then let it rust a little...then, he took it apart to see why it didn't run. Then, he brought it to my dad....

My dad fixed it better than new...Joe got his new (Ray) McKean Kean Craft DU and with the Mark 40 running pretty well, Joe started doing pretty well in DU....

[Ron Hill]

Joe's new DU was good, until someone turned into him at the Puddle...Joe can't recall wjho it was, but it was some guy that bought a new boat for his kid and the kid turned into him..........Seems in those days, dad's did buy boats for kids...Was this kid Bill Boyes I asked Joe...He said, "NO...but I remeber Bill..." Whee..I thought I'd make Bill mad again!!! After his wreck he renamed the boat Splinters...about that time...they had a baby....Jody was her name...life was changing for Joe Moore...