Wasp, driven by Bob Reriti from Napier, about to pass under the railway bridge over the Waimakariri on the first stage of the BP New Zealand jet boat marathon yesterday. Wasp is a Kwik-Kraft tunnel-hulled boat powered by a 383cu in Chrysler with a Berkeley jet unit. Reriti is eleventh in the B class of the marathon. He finished tenth on the upstream run but lost a place after the downstream section of the marathon. Wasp is twenty-second over all. Racing continues on the Waitaki River today. —Photograph by DAVID ALEXANDER
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Press, 20 October 1987, Page 48
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91Wasp, driven by Bob Reriti from Napier, about to pass under the railway bridge over the Waimakariri on the first stage of the BP New Zealand jet boat marathon yesterday. Wasp is a Kwik-Kraft tunnel-hulled boat powered by a 383cu in Chrysler with a Berkeley jet unit. Reriti is eleventh in the B class of the marathon. He finished tenth on the upstream run but lost a place after the downstream section of the marathon. Wasp is twenty-second over all. Racing continues on the Waitaki River today. —Photograph by DAVID ALEXANDER Press, 20 October 1987, Page 48
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