Ron Hill
12-19-2022, 04:15 PM
There was a time, when you could go and buy several outboard motors, built your own boat or buy a DeSilva, Champion or Speedliner and go race.
Southern California had Hanen Dam, Puddingstone Reservoir, Carlsbad Lagoon, The Puddle, Long Beach Marine Stadium, an Diego Flood Control Channel, Hart Part in Bakersfield, Mission Bay in San Diego, Blythe, Yuma and Needles on the Colorado River and Lake Mead in Boulder City to race on. Lake Weist, Brawley came in 1956 and we can still race there if we had any boats.
Now only mission Bay allows us to race with the H1 Hydros and it is always too rough to race, so no one goes.
In the 1950's all motors being raced could be bought with little or no trouble.
Southern California had Hanen Dam, Puddingstone Reservoir, Carlsbad Lagoon, The Puddle, Long Beach Marine Stadium, an Diego Flood Control Channel, Hart Part in Bakersfield, Mission Bay in San Diego, Blythe, Yuma and Needles on the Colorado River and Lake Mead in Boulder City to race on. Lake Weist, Brawley came in 1956 and we can still race there if we had any boats.
Now only mission Bay allows us to race with the H1 Hydros and it is always too rough to race, so no one goes.
In the 1950's all motors being raced could be bought with little or no trouble.