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Old 15-04-2010, 11:17 PM   #1
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HORBA sad news

HORBA is very sorry to have to report the death of one of our Board members......John Crouse.

He was 79 years old and died of an injury from a fall at home.

Burial was private.

He was a true pioneer of offshore.....may he rest in peace.
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Old 16-04-2010, 03:18 AM   #2
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GOOD SPEED ..sorry to hear !!!!!

My prayers go out to the famaly !!!!
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OH NO!!!!!!! Another sad loss, Prayers go out to his soul and families.
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Old 16-04-2010, 08:27 AM   #4
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That is sad news - Searace is one of my treasured books.

I only met John once, Cowes in 1982 - he loved seeing the Yanks racing the Brits!
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Old 16-04-2010, 11:45 AM   #5
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That's very sad indeed!

He has sent me loads of copies of Searace over the years, some to the UK, and some via friends in FLA, and he has always taken the trouble to sign them for whoever they were destined. Really nice guy.

He's been talking for some time about a new book that he said would 'rock the powerboat world', I guess we won't see that now.

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Old 16-04-2010, 02:25 PM   #6
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Just to give you an idea of who John really was, here is the last story I have from his life.

I spoke with him by phone just a few days before his passing and I asked him where he had been as I had tried reaching him over the weekend and couldn't get through.

His answer...."I was in jail!"

What????

Yes, he said, it seems that one of my dogs kept breaking out of the yard and running away. In the town he lived in, Inverness, Florida, they have a very strict dog ordinance and John had recieved three "tickets" for his dogs bad behaviour. Three tickets that he somehow had forgotten to pay. (John suffered with a mild case of Alzheimers)

One night he hears a loud knock on the door and he opens it, to find three of Inverness's finest police officers there to "bring him in". John tells them as only John could do... what they could do with the tickets and the judge and any other authority figures in the county.

79 years old and giving them a ration of sh** like you would not believe. So, they arrested him and put him in jail over the weekend until Monday, when they had a hearing and he was ordered to pay the fines and an additional fine for the disturbance he caused.

John had four dogs and loved them deeply and would go to any length to protect them. He felt as strongly about many other things too, one of which was offshore racing. We were very blessed to have someone who could write the history of such a great sport in such a detailed way.

May his soul finally rest in peace.
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I suspect he wanted to tell more stories about the bad old day's of the '80s -

I have been told he got too close on occasions -

Maybe HORBA can print the stories?
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Ray Bulman who knew Crouse well has put this up :

http://www.mby.com/news/451053/passi...werboat-writer
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David Sewell from Raceboat International

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I was lucky enough to have a long chat with John a few years ago,he talked about the new book which was going to include lots of new material which he thought would probably make him a marked man ! his passion for true offshore racing was inspirational and searace is truly the offshore racing bible.Rest in peace John.
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