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    Offshore Boat Racing Discussion

    The economic situation we are all in right now is not helping. But really, 3 or 4 race sanction bodies all with different variations of the same rules confuse spectators. They, (any sanction body) should bring back the Factory 1 and Factory 2 class definitions. The largest fleets we ever had...
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    Will PRA move the 1000 Islands Poker Run out of Kingston?

    We'll I tell you what, if Kingston does the wrong thing here and decides to "carbon tax" or have the event cancelled for the following years I'd be willing to bet there could be 2 or 3 Canadian Great Lakes Municipalities that would offer their waterfronts and Marinas as another home. Nope, it...
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    old Velocity's

    Funny you mention "Hells Fire" It was owned by a buddy of mine and his Dad from Buffalo NY till a few years ago. Your right, #2 Speedmaster and a BB Chevy with a Hi Rise manifold, over the transom headers, center steering and lots of other little tricky bits. Quite nasty when it wanted to be...
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    Bobthebuilder's next adventure - Key West to Havana, Cuba

    Bob, the Go Pro camera (if like the ones a Royal Distributing) are a pretty good unit. We use them as Helmet cams for off-road motorcycle riding and the have proven to be qood units with nice wide photo angles so it doesn't get all tunnel vision when you view finished product. Good luck with...
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    Mercury PWC

    Agreed! in 1975 thru 1979 if you were racing stock D sled class, you were either racing a Merc Sno-Twister and winning or you were following one on your Arctic Cat or Ski-Doo. The original Twisters with the free-air Kohler engines were really fast right out of the box. The later years when they...
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    Boats.com story on "Whatever Happened to Offshore Powerboat Racing?"

    I have been a fan of Offshore Racing since the mid 80's. Just about the time the cat boats (gentry, cougar, skater 24's) came to being. I think we (they) the sanction bodies made a mistake when they did away with Factory 1 and Factory 2 classes. I know the fleets were huge and maybe too big to...
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    Question - how do we get boats under 30ft to participate in poker runs?

    I'll agree with Alec, nobody wants to beat the crap out equipment anymore unless somebody else is paying for it. That being said, and you have big enough water, I like to 55mph and slower boats leading and having the faster group go second. Nothing like runing 45 to 55 mph and have somebody go...
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