Back in the day we had a 60 mile long river race the boats were 10 ft aluminum with eather 20 hp mercury's or 25hp omc's you couldn't run any set back because of too much transom weight the prop shafts were even with the bottom of boat it was hard to pick up water with out low water pickup although there were some guy's that cut groves on the sides of there gear cases to channel the water to the water intakes the fastest boats ran in the upper 50's the slower boats ran in the mid to upper 40's the prizes were money and boats and motors. this was 35 years ago on the sabine river
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