L-R: Jeff Bernard, N. Mark Evans, Jon Zimmerman, Kip Brown, Mike Webster, J. Michael Kelly, Kayleigh Perkins, Ken Muscatel, Duke Moscrip, Dave Villwock, Brian Perkins, Greg Hopp & JW Myers

Jon Zimmerman & JW Myers will help serve dinner tonight at Duke’s Chowder House at Southcenter tonight. Also joining him will be: Dave Villwock, Jeff Bernard, Mark Evans, J Michael Kelly, Greg Hopp, Brian or Kayleigh Perkins, Ken Muscatel, Kip Brown & Mike Webster. They will also be giving some of their customers hats, t-shirts, gift certificates and other prizes.

A portion of all revenue and tips will benefit the Driver’s Fund Charity which aids the families of drivers who are injured.  Dinner starts at 5:30 at Duke’s at Southcenter.

Reservations suggested – call 206-243-5200.

Duke Moscrip & the U-37 crew

We were honored to have Duke Moscrip on our boat at the Torchlight Parade Saturday night. Duke is the man that saved Seafair this year with a very generous donation that insured the races would take place.

Make sure to stop into any one of the Duke’s Chowder House locations and say “Thanks, Duke!”

Torchlight parade route

The U-37 Miss Peters & May will be one of several Unlimited and Unlimited Lights hydroplanes in the Alaska Airlines Seafair Torchlight Parade on July 31 in Seattle.

The Torchlight parade is an annual fixture of the Seafair celebration, and includes hundreds of entrants, from the Seattle Police Dept. motorcycle drill team to the Seafair Pirates.  This year is special, since most local hydroplane teams will be able to attend due to the free weekend between the Tri-Cities and Seattle races.

The parade begins at 7:30 pm and will go from the Seattle Center through downtown and end at the King Street Station (see map at left).  It will also be broadcast on KIRO-TV beginning at 7:30 pm.

We stopped by K&K Insurance headquarters in Fort Wayne, Indiana on our way to Detroit to display the U-37 Miss Peters & May. K&K is the world’s largest supplier of motorsports insurance.

U-37 at K&K Insurance	U-37 Miss Peters & May
We drew a crowd...	...with the boat display.
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JW at Boneyard Grill - Photo: Jim Simpson

MADISON, Ind. (June 28, 2010)—Several unlimited hydroplane drivers have agreed to trade in their driver’s suits and race helmets for a BoneYard Grill waiter’s uniform and service tray Thursday, July 1 to help raise money for the Lide White Memorial Boys & Girls Club in Madison, Ind.

The event schedule to begin at 6:00 pm at the BoneYard Grill, 513 Clifty Drive in Madison, Ind. will pit eight unlimited hydroplane drivers against each other to see who can raise the most tips throughout the evening. All tips will go directly to the Lide White Memorial Boys and Girls Club in Madison, Ind. The driver with the largest tip total will receive a trophy for the inaugural event the following night at Madison’s only sports themed restaurant.

Driver’s scheduled to appear include: U-3 Go3 Racing’s Jimmy King, U-5 Formulaboats.com’s Jeff Bernard, U-7 Graham Trucking’s J. Michael Kelly, U-13 Spirit of Detroit’s Cal Phipps, U-21 Albert Lee Appliances’ Brian Perkins, U-25 Superior Racing’s Jon Zimmerman, U-37 Miss Peters & May’s J.W. Myers, and hometown favorite, Steve David, driver of the Miss Madison race team’s U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto.

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Crew Chief Scott Raney has the U-37 set up for display at the 2010 Miami Boat Show for the week of Feb. 11-15th,  and will retrieve it for the long haul back to the Northwest when the show is over, completing a complete circumnavigation of the globe that started over 5 months ago. As evidenced by these shots from the show, the U-37 Peters & May is looking pretty good: 

U-37 Peters & May at the 2010 Miami Boat Show

U-37 Peters & May at the 2010 Miami Boat Show

Dave Holley of Peters and May sets up a flashy display

Photo: Chris Denslow NW Speedshots

David Holley, Managing Director of Peters & May USA has announced that Billy & Jane Schumacher’s U-37 will be featured in the Peters & May display area at the Miami Boat Show, February 11th -15th, giving show visitors a chance to get up close and personal with one of the World’s fastest race boats.

Peters & May sponsored the U-37 at the recent Oryx Cup UIM World Championsip in Doha, Qatar where Jean Theoret drove the boat to a strong fourth place finish. Holley explained, “The U-37 Miss Peters & May will be displayed at stand 3371 in the external display area outside the Miami Convention Center, and we will be proud to feature that boat that represented us so well in Qatar.”

Peters & May is also the marine logistics company that is bringing the unlimited fleet home from the middle East, and Holley added, “The display at the Miami Boat Show is dependent on us getting the boats back to the US in time. They are currently scheduled to arrive back in Jacksonville about the 29th of January, which is later than anticipated due to poor weather en route through the far East.”

There is more information on the Miami Boat Show at www.miamiboatshow.com