I received an offer to race in the 1979 UIM OD World Championships to be held on the Danube River in Linz, Austria. Debbie was still working on her master's degree at TWU so she couldn't go. I talked to Deiter on August 13 and he said he would build us a new "D" Konig with 48mm carbs. We would use my Butts Aerowing "TEX" we had shipped over the previous year along with the Leavendusky tower, our Konig lower unit, pipes, etc. that we had left. I replied to Motor Yacht Club Nibelungen Linz that we accepted their offer and would be coming from Berlin with some of those guys. My notes state that I was coming along with the South Africans, but we would find transportation. Dieter was going to let Hans Krage know. Apparently, Tom Jones and Rheinhardt Schultz also had made previous arrangements with Hans.
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