1976 Olympia Beer U-74

 

  Boat Statistics

Boat Name:

 

Year:

Designation#:

 

Olypia Beer

1976

 

U-74

Owner/Driver:

 

Year Model Built:

 

Dan Clark

 

2010

Builder:

 

Construction:

 

 

Jeff Campbell/Beatty

 

Carbon Fiber

Motor:

 

Speed Controller:

 

Plettenberg Brushless

 

Etti

Prop:

 

Paint Colors:

 

 

Octura

 

White yellow and gold

Type of Graphics:

 Radio:

 

 

Vinyl

 

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The model:  Mark had bought this hull from Jeff Campbell a few years back and never finished it.  He decided to modify the sponsons a bit and paint it up as the Oly.  Mark raced it for a while in 2010 before selling it to Dan.  Dan was behind the wheel of the boat for the first time at the 2010 Gold Cup.

The real boat:  This boat was formerly the Valu-Mart and Weisfields before being sponsored by Olympia Beer.  Billy Schumacher drove the very successful boat and had a realistic shot at the Gold Cup Championship and season title in 76 until the boat lost a sponson during the Gold Cup and missed two races.  Instead they were left running a leased backup boat and watching Tom D'Eath win his first Gold Cup and Bill Muncey's Atlas Van Lines walk away with the season championship.