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.
Click to view attachmentThey 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.
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