The Pacific Nort West - Oregon & Washinton States - Region 10

[John (Taylor) Gabrowski]

The Pacific North West or Region 10 as many know it was always a hotbed of various kinds of boat racing. To many when Region 10 is brought up many think of the Kilo straightaway runs and 5 miles of competition runs at D Lake, Oregon or Laurence Lake, Washington in particular. The following pictures are from approximately 1965 to 1976 as taken by Jim Hallum of British Anzani fame. When he was not spinning a wrench at the moment Jim was triggering his favourite movie camera and these were still captured from Jim's efforts for historical posting on this website.

Enjoy these pictures, who knows one of them might be you?

[John (Taylor) Gabrowski]

Enjoy these old photos from the 1960s into the 1970s

[John (Taylor) Gabrowski]

Are some readers identifying themselves or anyone else that comes to mind?

Concerned about the graininess of the pictures? You have to consider how old they are and the quality of the cameras and films of the day and then I am sure you will understand this is the face of today's digital technologies.

[John (Taylor) Gabrowski]

Another batch of long distance photos of power boat racing in Region 10. Have any readers seen themselves or recognize anyone else?

Please feel free to add your Region 10 - Oregon & Washington states power boat racing and related pictures to this thread.

[John (Taylor) Gabrowski]

Here are a couple of pictures of a real flying Switzer Wing at the kilo trials. This raceboat was seen to be flying right off the water with only each prop and skeg from each of the 2 Merc engines being the only things in the water. Recorded speeds somewhere in the 100 mph ranges?? Anyone?

[Jerry Combs]

Great photos John! Wish I could identify the people.

Jerry

[John (Taylor) Gabrowski]

One thing about Region 10 was the kinship they spread and shared with racers from Montana and Idaho. Similarly all four north western states had quite a kinship going with Western Canada in particularly Alberta and British Columbia. You would find people at race sites talking about the lower mainland (BC) or that they were from Flathead Lake country, cowtown (Calgary) or Dallas North (Edmonton) or from Seattle and so on. We could not get used to the idea of using liters of fuel up here and they still had the gallon down there. When I asked how far Kalispel, Montana was from Chestermere Lake I got an answer in kilometers instead of the miles away I expected. The camaradery was thick with a blur where it didn't matter if you were a stock outboard, Pro, Inboard or OPC team or driver, you were a racer and you were family with their families and that was all that mattered. You see all that in the various pictures in the Anzani threads and elsewhere. Racers at that period in history were pretty much the same all over and there were a lot more of them on both sides of the border.