Final day for the boat race....

We were supposed to finish the races today, but by 9AM it was torential downpour time... We thought it would be delayed a day...  But by noon the clouds parted and the rain stopped...

They wasted no time getting things underway....  The Pro Am class was run in the misty aftermath of the storm.....

It took them a while to get the extreme cockpit fellows in the water, and they had their exhibition lap to get lined up....  And then they were off....  One boat was again overwhelmingly faster than the rest...  It had jumped out ahead by the time they reached our place about two miles into the first lap...

The boat never looked back.... and about 4 laps in, they passed the slowest boat still on his previous lap.  Somewhere around the eighth lap the dark maroon boat lapped the second place boat....

But on the ninth lap, the fast boat didn't come by for his tenth and final lap.....  I though he might have broken down.... But then all of a sudden here he came, still in the lead but barely..  He went on to win...

On the radio, they said he had lost count of the laps and thought he was done and pulled into the dock where they waved him on to go finish his last lap....  He was so far ahead though that he won anyway....

Later this evening, I went thru town and the maroon boat was still along the street..   It had four mercury outboards on it, each labeled 300 hp..   I wouldn't imagine that they were stock so even if they were putting out 350, that would be 1400hp....

The boat had a completely different sound to it when it passed, and looking on the internet shows that the 300s are 2cycle..  They were wound a lot tighter and were really high pitched in their noise....  The boat just flew...  of course they won't say how fast they were going, but one of the drivers said they were going into the corners after they slowed down at 150....

So in the straight away they had to be over 160....   That is really fast for being on the water....!!

Retired Rod