| Team: Owner/Throttleman: Johnny "Offshore" Harrison Aylett, VA Johnny Harrison has been boating most of his life. In 1995 he bought his first boat.
From 1995 to 1999 he had bought and sold several performance boats. His dream was to go offshore boat racing like his neighbor from Mechanicsville, VA, Jim Arvis.
In 1999 Johnny had bought a 24’ Baja Outlaw SST. He took it to Jim’s shop, Arvis Marine in Mechanicsville, VA to have it serviced. Jim, at that time was running “A” Class and “F1” Class in APBA. After hanging around Jim’s shop and smelling CAM2, it didn’t take long for Johnny to get the itch to pursue his desire to offshore boat race.
During the fall of 1999, Johnny and his friend Jeff Bruce got together, along with the of help from Jimmy and his shop, and starting rigging Johnny’s Baja for the up coming APBA Offshore racing season.
Johnny and Jeff went offshore boat racing in APBA Offshore Series Class 5 in 2000. They raced for Team Baja, under the name “Team Baja/Full Throttle” P5-69. Their first race out, they finished 3rd. The boat and themselves took a beating in the Gulf of Mexico just off the coast of Ft Myers, FL.
Late in 2000, Johnny knew the Baja, once a pleasure boat, could not withstand the beating of offshore boat racing anymore and decided to sell it and purchase a professionally built offshore race boat.
We finally sold the Baja in late 2001 and bought the 1995 Hydra Powerboats 30’ “Spirit” Race Boat from Charlie Benton in 2002.
Soon after we bought the race boat, we had our first baby. So we put offshore racing on hold for a bit. Now our daughter is 4 & our son is 2. We are done having kids and its time to get back into offshore boat racing!
| | The Showman/Driver:  Thomas "Crowd Pleaser" Carneal Tappahannock, VA Thomas Carneal started drag racing in 1966, 2 years before he got his drivers license in his 1967 Chevy Camaro, which had a 327 motor with a Muncie Rock Crusher 4spd. He drag raced all over the Mid-Atlantic. He drag raced off and on for about 15 years. He won numerous races and several king of the track titles.
He soon started training speed event horses in 1975 (i.e. barrel racing, pole bending, quarter horses, and such). Not long into training horses he started racing them. He raced quarter horses and thoroughbred horses during 1978. He won countless races and also won a Virginia State Championship.
All the while during horse training and racing, he would find time for his true love, power boating. Living in the boating community of Tappahannock, its hard not to have the itch to go boating. His boat at the time was a 1977 Sanger 19’ V-Drive that ran over a 100mph.
Before long he got tired of horse racing and wanted to do something more thrilling and faster. So he started dirt track racing. He did it for about 1 year, in 1979 at Virginia Motor Speedway. Thomas ran Super Street in his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle. He won many races and came in 2nd in Super Street Championship in his first and only year. His momma strongly encouraged him to get out of dirt track racing and find something safer to get his fix of octane and competition.
In 1980 he began pulling in truck and tractor pulls, locally in Virginia. He won countless races and several track championships. He pulled for himself over a course of 5 year, building a new truck each season. He caught the eye of several potential sponsors and soon went Pro, pulling for TNT Motor Sports in 1986. He won loads of pulls and became back to back World National Point Champion, 1988 & 1989.
Thomas retired in 1989 as World National Point Champion from TNT Motor Sports but made an occasional expedition pull for show through 1990 for them. He wanted to be home in Virginia to spend more time with his daughter.
So, he came off the national circuit and started putting together a bean field racing/sand drag truck locally. He made a few shake down runs locally in 1990 in bean field racing/sand drag. He won tons of races in his own truck that he built and soon got hired to run in his biggest competitors truck as a hired gun for Maxxi Broaddus and Broaddus Farms. He bean field raced/sand drag for 10 years.
Thomas stopped competing in motor sports and made time to get back into boating. He bought a 2000 Wellcraft 22’ Scarab. He became tired of the stock 454 and replaced it with a Bill Mitchell 540 drag motor and ran the Scarab the upper 80’s. Like most of us, Thomas want to go bigger, better, and faster. So he sold his Scarab and ordered a new Fountain 29 Fever, per his specs (525 EFI, K-Planes, Ext steering, etc). He got tired of running the mid 70’s, so he pulled the stock 525 and put in a Tyler Crocket 540 Whipple Rocket! This earned him the title of "World’s Fastest Single Engine Fountain".
| | Crew Chief: Chris "Rackster" Dann Dunnsville, VA Chris Dann started working on boats full-time in 1993.
In 1994, Chris started his own boat repair business in Tappahannock, VA. It was called Shoreline Marine.
During 1996 Chris took over operations at June Parker Marina while still running his own boat repair business from that location. Chris organized the first ever Poker Run on the Rappahannock River to Gwynn's Island during this time. He has also helped to organize several Radar Shoots.
In 2003, Chris closed his business to seek an opportunity to work for Haynes Outdoors, which was just getting on its feet. Haynes Outdoors was the Greater Richmond Area’s premier performance dealer. Chris set up and established their service department. At that time, Haynes Outdoors was a Fountain and Donzi dealership. This gave him an opening to do what he loved, working with performance boats, more specifically “Fountains”.
Chris left Haynes in 2005, to take a customer service position at Fountain Powerboats factory in Washington, NC. While there, he got to see and experience many aspects of racing and rigging offshore race boats.
Early part of 2006 he moved back home to Tappahannock, VA. He has maintained several offshore boats during the past few years. Most of them being poker run and performance/pleasure boats.
2007 he help to start a new offshore race team, AQUA-HOLIC Racing. He is the crew chief and he rigs and maintains the race boat. | |