Don't be asking me questions as if I were a Rocket Scientist...I taught Elementary school for ten years, then Junior High for 28 years...Having said that....and I''ll add, I enjoyed everyday of it, even when Nicole Simpson Brown was my Star Student...
My dad rounded the tips of our cleavers to INCREASE the RPM, as he felt the tips were holding the motor back..My OLD MAN was a lot like O.F. Christener...If he saw something, he'd grind on it and see what happened... Ruinied a few props along the way... It is like when we drilled holes in our ski boat's prop...Monday night, we drilled three 1/8 holes in the prop..Tuesday, she pulled skiers better than the day before...Tuesday night, we drilled the 1/8 holes to 1/4...Man on Wednesday she pulled skiers like "Jack the Bear"...Wednesday night we couldn't find a 3/8 drill but we could find a 1/2 drill....Hell, if a 1/4 is good, a half inch would be KILLER...
Anyway, with 1/2 holes in the prop, she wouldn't pull a skier no matter what...She blew out so badly, we had to take the prop home and weld up the prop and re drill it with 1/4 holes...Point is: You never know anything until someone tries it...Knd a like when Capnzee had me reverse the battery at Applevalley Marine....I know, next time, not to reverse the battery, to try to reverse the motor...unless I want to see a battery blow up.
As far as an "ARC" goes..seems when I was teaching arithmetic, that we learned that a straight line and a 2 degree line were basically the same...(Hell, I may have made that up)....But for a kilo, if you went corner to opposite corner, your time are basically the same...and anyone who has ever run a runabout without a fin, realizes that the damn thing goes fast corner wise... I would imagine, and no one could see the kilos at Modesto, but I'd bet when I ran 86 plus MPH with a DeSilva runabout, konig powered, (Or any runabout) that I ran an ARC too...as the mother pulled your damn arm off...
If you lined up straight and let her eat, she'd walk across the channel...You'd tug on the wheel trying to keep her in the midddle, but a FREIGHT TRAIN goes where it whats too...and a 80-90 MPH runabout/hydro will go where it wants to..also...the "ARC" may have been whoever was driving just trying to get through a KILO..
Hell, when you're going those speeds, you aim the mother and hope a tree doesn't get in your way....Basically, if you are running near kilo record speeds the boat is OUT OF CONTROL and you are hoping you don't go "SPLAT"....
I mean, you start the kilo with youur hand on the wheel at12 o'clock and you exit it with your hand at 7, and you have just been turning the wheel clockwise as you go....
Probably, if the facts were really known, kilos are the most dangerous form of racing and you are running by yourself...
Am I making sense??? I'm saying that getting through a kilo, at speed, ain't easy and doing it in an arc, ain't planned. I just happens...
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