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v20 boats
For any of you guys interested in the history of the V20 I recently read a book entitled The fish is red. Its about the CIA involvement in Cuba. Lots of info about the pre Wellcraft V20s used for clandestine raids into Cuba. Seems that the early hulls were powered by twin 100 hp gray marines.
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07-24-2006, 01:14 PM
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Re: v20 boats
http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/...ay_of_pigs_001
Here's a photo of those boats. *BS posted this.
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07-24-2006, 02:02 PM
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Re: v20 boats
Throwback - thanks for the post!! I'll have to pick that book up.
The other boat that was used during the invasion was the powercat . . . it's sits side by side with the v20 in that picture.
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07-24-2006, 03:23 PM
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Thanks, throwback...I'd like to read that...who is author?...
Too bad they couldn't tie Castro off to the bow of that V-20 and them RAM the cat broadsides!!...now that Florida's gettin' full-up, we oughtta take the old fart out and make Cuba the 51st state...it'd be an instant sportsman's destination ;) 8) ...
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07-24-2006, 05:03 PM
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07-24-2006, 11:05 PM
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07-25-2006, 04:41 AM
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Re: v20 boats
The author of The Fish is Red is Warren Hinkle and William Turner. Published by Harper and Row 1981
Aside from the v20s use lots of info about the CIAs war on Cuba and Kennedys role as well as the way the CIA used organized crime to do its bidding.
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07-25-2006, 04:54 AM
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Thanks Throwback - I just ordered the book from Amazon.
Should be here in a few days. If next weekends Temps in Sacramento cool down to below 100 degrees . . . I'll be reading the book on my boat.
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07-25-2006, 11:43 AM
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Hey Pipe and phester...let's start sending letters to Washington proposin' 51st state of Cuba ;) ;D ;D ;D
I got some old photos from a trip my mother and girlfriend of hers made to Cuba while Batista was still in power and I know my dad used to regularly go to Havana w/ his friends for gamblin' and nightlife...under new mgmt that place could be a reel "Getaway Destination"...Touristas Americanos would cover it up and leave behind a FLOOD of $$$$$ ;) 8) 8)... they could leave Gitmo in tact and use for ''drunk-tank'' :o ;D
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07-25-2006, 12:18 PM
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Re: v20 boats
The company I work for has a facility in Venezuela that I am in contact with
on a regular basis. So I keep up on the news from there. Here is an interesting article concerning Cuba, that came from one of the Venezuela newspapers. http://www.eluniversal.com/2006/07/2...2A749451.shtml
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