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Posted by: messix Jan 1 2010, 08:50 PM
this is what the real men do!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29vbm3p2j4M&NR=1
Posted by: messix Jan 1 2010, 09:02 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL58hUAGQu8
Posted by: 6freak Jan 1 2010, 09:08 PM
this is what the real men do!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29vbm3p2j4M&NR=1
or maybe for guys that cant swim
Posted by: messix Jan 1 2010, 09:17 PM
i gotta see this! albany Or. st john wa and marsing idaho.
Posted by: NORD Jan 1 2010, 09:43 PM
This sounds like a 914 road trip. We need thier schedule
Posted by: 6freak Jan 1 2010, 09:44 PM
i gotta see this! albany Or. st john wa and marsing idaho.
let me know when you go Troy will go together ..Ive been wanting to see that for awhile now.....O wait! i cant watch that, its not racing
..no Bernie no Michael no TIRES no F1 no checkered flag ...IT CANT BE RACING 
....OK so its got chit with big motors and thats fast as hell 
....I`M IN 
Posted by: messix Jan 1 2010, 09:45 PM
This sounds like a 914 road trip. We need thier schedule
http://www.ussbaracing.com/Schedule/index.html
Posted by: 6freak Jan 1 2010, 09:48 PM
August 28 ......Hot weather = bikinis 
Posted by: Vacca Rabite Jan 1 2010, 10:40 PM
Is this videos of Slew Racing?
Yep. When they crash it is spectacular. This was somehting that I did not know even existed 4 months ago.
Zach
Posted by: drgchapman Jan 2 2010, 12:59 AM
It's called Sprint Boat racing. Think of a Rally/autocross mix, navigator/driver teams. Boats with roll bars, who'd a thunk it? The sport was started in New Zealand, spread to Australia and has been running around these parts for about 4 years now in different incarnations and venues. They are running in Albany, I know, saw them spraying away from I-5 as I drove by last summer. We saw them in Woodland, WA about three years ago. Great fun, loud big blocks, 14 foot aluminum boats with roll bars, thrust by Hamilton three stage pumps. Let off on the gas and you are not turning any more..........
Posted by: DNHunt Jan 2 2010, 07:07 AM
You guys remember racing up the Sammamish slew between Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish? It was nowhere as tight as that but, it was class racing so,there could be a bunch of boats in there together. It was run what you brung and there was a class with boats towing water skiers. They used very long tow ropes so the skier had to worry about fouling the rope in the brush on the inside of turns.
One of the guys I used to race with put his boat right into a concrete bridge pillar at about 50. It is still the scariest accident I ever saw in person. The boat just disappeared. He was thrown clear and fine.
They ran that race for years. The old timers would tell the first time runners there was a bathtub sunk on the inside of a right hand turn near the end at Lake Sammamish. The new guys would take the corner wide and the old timers would have the inside on any new guys ahead of them.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940415&slug=1905602
Dave
Posted by: messix Jan 2 2010, 01:21 PM
You guys remember racing up the Sammamish slew between Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish? It was nowhere as tight as that but, it was class racing so,there could be a bunch of boats in there together. It was run what you brung and there was a class with boats towing water skiers. They used very long tow ropes so the skier had to worry about fouling the rope in the brush on the inside of turns.
One of the guys I used to race with put his boat right into a concrete bridge pillar at about 50. It is still the scariest accident I ever saw in person. The boat just disappeared. He was thrown clear and fine.
They ran that race for years. The old timers would tell the first time runners there was a bathtub sunk on the inside of a right hand turn near the end at Lake Sammamish. The new guys would take the corner wide and the old timers would have the inside on any new guys ahead of them.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940415&slug=1905602
Dave
yea i remember that. i think i went to the last race before the slew was straightened out and ruined. those boats went insanely fast for what they were racing in.
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