One cool thing about just going for the day..............I get to pop the cherry on FBC posting.
O.K. I raced about 9 or 10 times and could only pull off one victory.
Anybody that questions DNE's ability to build a motor, won't want to read this. I raced three DNE powered boats. First I picked on LVjetboy. We each had a passenger (Dan Herc's wife was doing the ride along with me) and jer had his wife Karen along. We ran em down river and he beat me without too much problem. I'd say he had be by 3 to 4 boat lengths after an estimated 1/8 to 1/4 mile. Hey jer where'd ya go? I ran up to the cove after I saw ya, and a bunch of folks were asking where ya went.
Next I found HBjet on our way out of party cove. We ran down river from the train bridge. Once again, I got my ass handed to me. He got me pretty good in some short chop. Never let it be said that Randy doesn't or won't race. This guy was running against anybody and everybody. If ya pull up alongside him, ya better be ready to stab some throttle, hit the button, crank up the diverter or what ever ya got.
Next not victim was Hackjob with his fresh BBF, also a DNE power plant. Holy crap he got me like 5 times from a rolling start. About the same spread as the other two races. I finally got him to slow down enough to convince him to go from a standing start (actually a rolling backwards start from the current). It's the only time I could pull him. If we'd run any more than an 1/8 mile, he'd have caught me on the big end.
Any way. I had an absolute blast and met some new people, burned up all my gas and a bottle of nitrous. Everybody was way cool and we couldn't have asked for a better day. 100 degrees with a light wind from the south. Calm waters (for the mostpart).
Thanks to Roostwear for putting the shindig on. Everything went nice n smooth.
Never had so much fun getting my ass kicked.
Special thanks to the Herc, Flatbroke and their better halves for helping me launch and recover my boat.
Oh yeah, my ride ran awesome all day long and the only casualty was my bilge pump which took up a nasty smoking habit, then went on a permanent vacation. If that's the worst that happened..........it was a good mechanical day, considering everything I did to it last week.