Division I

[Ron Hill]

2007 Division I "SLEEPER"... The Blue Water Resort and Casino 300 Enduro, October 2007.

[tthibodaux]

Who's ride is that??

[capnzee]

The pictures are pretty lousy but the ride is good. The boat is Lee Buchanan out of Bellvue, Iowa. He is running a 2.0 Liter Merc on a Mod VP hull. His best speed so far, 67 mph. (I was there!) He was doing quite well in last years Parker 300, then lost the high end of his stator which brought him to the end of the road. The bottom line in the enduro, is you gotta finish to win! Rod PS: If you want a better picture of this boat, it is one of the feature boats on the 2007 poster. Click on the main thread to the left (under forums), then go down the menu til you hit 2007 Parker Enduro Poster. Be sure you go past the first poster picture, (it was a bad post) and you will get a great picture of 10 of the boats running in the upcoming race. The jet boats are also Division I boats. Tim, you and John will have your hands full!

[capnzee]

What happened to the great pictures you had on here Tim? I purposely didn't post over you so people could see them. you can't believe the interest those tri-hulls are generating--get those pics back up! Rod

[tthibodaux]

I had a couple adult beverages last night and hit the wrong button. deleted my own post.

Division I. Super Stock Tri-Hull.

#10 is Mr. Jerry Rinker. #22 is that kid from Texas can't remember his name.

Had to show this pic of Jerry, as you can see he's always so serious about whats going on.

[Ron Hill]

Tinker Collinge wants to know which Glastron Tri Hull is the best one for this class??? 156 was a 15 footer....

[tthibodaux]

Hey Capnzee, thanks for the posters! I put one in my shop and my son had to have one in his room.

Thank you!!

[DKL]

You want the 16 footer Ron, It's the 166. I hear the 15 footer is a little squirelly in the turns with all that power.

I would like to see us start a class for the cvx type boat V hull and run a plain jane 70 on the back, another exciting affordable class for beginners.

Doug

[capnzee]

I'm really tired of guys talking about new classes!!!! We have a race where nearly anything you can put on the water will qualify and we can't get 35 entries. YOU GUYS keep talking but never do any walking! It doesn't take a whole lot to put together a boat for the Parker 300 but all I hear is talk of new classes. Hell, you wouldn't show up if we gave you a boat and just said pay the entry fee and run it! We had several D'Cucci boats that were up for grabs. They were grabbed all right, with a promise to run the Parker Enduro. We haven't heard from them since. Is this the kind of boat racers we have today? Wasn't that way when I raced. We would have 150 boats at a single race. Of course we weren't a bunch of couch potatoes either. We ran hard and we played hard. We weren't afraid to win and we wern't afraid to lose, trying to win! We didn't cry about the rules, we simply built a boat to run within the rules. After 11 months of trying to get this thing off the ground, I am really dismayed with the response. Tim, have you sent your entry in--we wrote special rules for your class and there is local interest in seeing your boat run. Rod