An Amazing Story: Part 2

[Master Oil Racing Team]

The wind was really blowing when we did the testing and I eased into it until I found out what the boat would do. Mostly I was afraid of stuffing. Once I found out that the design would keep the sponsons and nose above the water, I increased the speed. The sponson design was mushing in pretty good and it would have been a great rough water boat for most of the courses we run here. I would later discover though that I should have driven the mile and a half out to the main body of lake where in addition to wind blown waves there were rollers or swells to contend with. This was the difference between running in water roughed up by the wind in a cove, versus wind blowing down a larger body of water.

We got the testing done and two weeks later I came down when we boxed "TEX" up for shipping to Berlin two weeks after that. Often times my German caused a lot of laughter because of how I used the wrong words. So I guess I was close enough here because it did get to Berlin and it wasn't dropped or stabbed by forklift tines.