It was a week or so later after the race that we got the rebuilt motor properly timed. Mark got everything ready and we launched the Mustang on a good cool day with water conditions just right. We wanted to make absolutely sure after the new crank, new pistons, bored out and with some slight modifications, the motor was good for all out running.

We inserted the pitot tube into it's bracket, I got in the back to monitor the Keller and tattle tell while Mark throttled up to take us to a long straight toward the dam. Still too cold to ski, there was no one one the water but whatever fishermen there were, and they were idling along the banks, or anchored.

Pulling out of Baldy's cove at Pernitas Point, we just had to make a right, cruise through the first race course we ever entered, pass by those pits, get some speed up as we went through a section below a cliff where Baldy had a temporary address a little over a year later, make a slight bend to the right and then ease into full throttle.

We were concerned about our timing, and whether that could cause problems so Mark kept looking back at me as we got up to the high sixties where the trouble always started to show up. All was good. He went to full throttle. We hit 70 with no loss of water, and we were still gaining on the Keller. Mark kept the throttle down and we reached a top speed of 73 miles per hour before we had to turn around when we approached the bouys beyond which boats were not allowed.