Thanks David. It seems from one year to the next the records really came up. But even though we ran mostly on 1 1/4 mile courses, none of them were surveyed. The two primary surveyed courses of Lakeland and Yelm were both 1 2/3. While ours was the first outboard to break 80 on a 1 1/4 mile course it didn't go into the books because Jerry Kirts broke it shortly after that in Alexandria.
Speaking of Yelm I found another tidbit of lost information. Since I lost my notes I don't really know what happened exactly at Yelm in 1976. But today I came across an old "Shaft" that my Dad used to publish that said the "other motors broke a driveshaft and a prop shaft while we were just under the records." That would have been the C and D. Don't know which broke what. But we turned a 98 mph average on the last lap of 1100 hydro.
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