Key Figures · Racer

Billy Womack

Inducted in 2008 as the first member of the PWCOFFSHORE offshore racing hall of fame, and listed second in Pro/am Open Class at the 2006 Long Beach to Catalina race on the site's results page.

1. The early years, in print, 1981 to 1993
2. The makers and their machines, 1985 to 2005 (this page's records)
3. Noise, safety and federal rules, 1996 to 2002
4. The rule book years, 2002 to 2018 (this page's records)
5. Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

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Results

2006 · Likely

PWCOFFSHORE's results page of January 2008 lists him second, number 33, in Pro/am Open Class at the 2006 Long Beach to Catalina race, run on 9 July 2006 as the APBA offshore national championship.

Sources: Offshore results page 2008

1996 · Likely

Group K's report on the 1996 IJSBA Region 1 offshore season names him, printed with Yamaha-Bellflower Yam, among four Yamaha riders who made up the early lead pack of nearly every Region 1 event, starting the season on a stock Raider hull and moving to a Venture.

Sources: Group K offshore racing 1996

Recognition

Confirmed

The PWCOFFSHORE hall's page of August 2008 names him its first and only member, inducted on 20 July 2008, and the rosters of 2019 and 2026 still list him first.

Sources: Offshore hall of fame 2008; Offshore hall of fame 2019; Offshore hall of fame 2026

Likely

The hall's citation credits him with four Long Beach to Catalina and Back offshore national championships and says he was the first to use GPS to cross the channel; a photo caption on the same page dates that to the 1997 race. These are the hall's words, and no other held document says so (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-05).

Sources: Offshore hall of fame 2008

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: Endurance and offshore, by the rule book
• Event: Long Beach to Catalina and Back (LB2CAT)
• Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
• Era: The makers and their machines
• Era: The rule book years

What the archive has not read (1)

• No result sheet for any Long Beach to Catalina race before 2006 is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache for Womack and the race's results, 2026-10-05), so the four championships the hall's citation credits are not listed as titles.

Documents cited on this page

• Offshore hall of fame 2008 (web.archive.org): PWCOFFSHORE Hall of Fame (pwcoffshore.com, captured August 2008), pwcoffshore.com; editorial, high. The hall as of August 2008, with one member. High for its own roster on that date; its citation is the hall's tribute.
• Offshore results page 2008 (web.archive.org): Race results page on pwcoffshore.com, captured January 2008, pwcoffshore.com; editorial, medium. Winners lists for the Long Beach to Catalina and Mark Hahn races, the 2007 and 2006 Long Beach to Catalina results and the 2007 Sprint Nationals at Long Beach. Medium as a page restating results; a winners list on it is not a result sheet.
• Group K offshore racing 1996 (groupk.com): Offshore Racing 1996, The View from Region 1 (Group K, groupk.com), Group K, 1996; enthusiast media, medium. A tuning shop's report on the 1996 IJSBA Region 1 offshore and endurance season, written during that season ("as of this writing") and kept on the shop's site, naming the riders, their sponsors and their machines. Medium as a trade participant's period report: Group K sponsored one of the riders it describes. The shop's telephone number is removed from the held copy.
• Offshore hall of fame 2019 (web.archive.org): PWCOFFSHORE Endurance and Offshore Racing Hall of Fame (pwcoffshore.com, captured September 2019), pwcoffshore.com; editorial, high. The hall's own roster of six with a citation for each. High for who it inducted and when; its citations are the hall's retrospective tribute, and a page that repeats one says whose words they are.
• Offshore hall of fame 2026 (pwcoffshore.com): Pwcoffshore Racing Hall of Fame (pwcoffshore.com, live page read October 2026), pwcoffshore.com; editorial, high. The hall's roster of eight with induction years, adding the two inductees of 23 November 2019 that the September 2019 capture predates, and the text of each citation, among them an induction speech. High for who it inducted and when; the citations are the hall's retrospective tribute, and a page that repeats one says whose words they are.

Changes to this page

• 2026-10-09: Removed the Long Beach to Catalina and Back wins of 1997, 1999 and 2001 and the 2005 Mark Hahn win, which rested on the site's winners lists rather than a result sheet; the significance now gives his 2006 placing.

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