I'm posting some of my misc pictures from the race... Please add what you have!!!
Thanks to everyone that made this race happen, and congrats to all teams for a safe race!!!
I'm posting some of my misc pictures from the race... Please add what you have!!!
Thanks to everyone that made this race happen, and congrats to all teams for a safe race!!!
(1) This is as clean as the boat will look for the rest of the weekend...
(2) Mixing fuel...
(3) Ready for the start...
(4) I'm sure the 918 boat is catching the 48 boat here... Hmmm... Maybe not...
(1-4) 918 boat running...
(1) The 312 boat... Not sure who that is...
(2) The crew, without whom this wouldn't have been possible...
(3) Third in Div V!!! When the battery blew out 9 1/2 laps into the race and we lost all that time getting towed back I never would have believed it!!! Thanks to the crew, we turned it into a 15 minute pit stop (plus towing time...) and got back in there...
(4) Grandpa with my boy!!!
here are some pictures that I took thoughout the day...
7X Pat Bowman- took 6th place in div. 4
Chad HIll took 4th overall and 1st for div 3/4
ya gotta love them Mercs! Even an old in-line 6 Merc (Tower Of Power) on the #500 boat......that's kewl!
what's up with the lightweight grey top cowl and belly pan on the 7X red boat with the 2.4/2.5 Merc? Is that a repro?
Daren Goehring
63-R
DSH, 500ccmh, 750ccmh
Duct Tape should be our title sponsor...
That cowling of the 7X was camouflage as we thought if no duck hunters could see us, maybe we could make more laps...
Truth is MERC GUY....It ain't easy to rig two boats and generally get ready for a 300 mile race...plus race Bakerfield, San Diego....So, we got Pat's cowling out of the tracsh at the shop nexst to where I MAY get you a three bange Tohasu (Out of the trash).... She is a 2.5 EFI 260 blok with 40 CC heads and the box was set at 106. We ran regular gas a quater to five...Lane Curry fixed the gas, and Pat ran well....Lucky we had some duct tape or the transom may have fallen out with Pat's seat!!!!
Top two pictures are Tony Scarlata showing his bandages...Maybe, that isn't tru, as Tony never mentioned the burns...and I saw him working on The Body Snatcher, and I can't help but think he was in pain...
Third picture is Capnzee taking the Body Snatcher for a test lap.....(Yes, he busted it in the race...He's OK with an OUTDOOR but put him in an INDOOR and busts it every time!!!)...
Last picture...and I am the world's worst photographer...John Stoker, wearing a John's Custom Marine T shirt, watching Al go out for the first time, in more than 20 year....I always see stuff that might or might not be there, but Al at 50 year old, seemed to be like the 17 year old I put in a C Runabout,more than 33 years ago....
Hell, John Stoker even treated me like we were friends.....Welcome back Stokers...the SPORT OF BOAT RACING has MISSED YOU!!!! Some people watch things happen. Some people make things happen. Some people say, "What happened." The Stokers always MADE things happen....
Truth is, the Stokers have been good friends for close to 40 years!!!!
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