Long distance racing?
02-01-2008 | 04:14 PM
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I've been thinking about this for some time now. When we do our little Catalina or Santa Barbara runs its all informal. Just a bunch of guys getting together to run our boats. But of course everyone runs hard and a few are running as fast as they can. I guess we do that in poker runs too. I remember running with a certain 28 Pantara in the SCOPE run and I don't know about the Pantara but we were running as fast as we could! So is that racing? I guess if we were in cars on the street it would be. So I guess if we call everyone and say we're meeting at Channel Islands Harbor for a "race" to SB then we could potentially be held liable if someone as trouble. But if we just say we're running to SB then what is our exposure (like Charlie's RI deal)?
Heres an old school idea: Instead of Fountain and Outerlimits going for kilo or top speed records, they set up an "endurance run", say Miami to Bimini? Any boat they want to bring with any power, any drivers. No BS, you brake, you lose. Run what ya brung!
Heres an old school idea: Instead of Fountain and Outerlimits going for kilo or top speed records, they set up an "endurance run", say Miami to Bimini? Any boat they want to bring with any power, any drivers. No BS, you brake, you lose. Run what ya brung!
02-01-2008 | 04:15 PM
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I don't think the guys in the Pantera were racing... Because you guys were faster than us... er, I mean faster than those guys in that Pantera! 
Ha! You know I put a new motor in the boat a week later right?! And, I've actually already had that one out! Damn, yup I definately wasn't racing!
Ha! You know I put a new motor in the boat a week later right?! And, I've actually already had that one out! Damn, yup I definately wasn't racing!
02-01-2008 | 05:40 PM
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Hey Sean,
I saw that you had the old motor for sale. What happened to the new one?
Talking to a roofing company out of Nor Cal that want to hire me (commercial roof sales). They are opening a So Cal office out of Mission Viejo and asked if I wanted to run that office. They are flying into Vegas next week to talk to me so I might be back over there soon (Only if I can find anything resembling reasonable housing prices in the OC)!
I saw that you had the old motor for sale. What happened to the new one?
Talking to a roofing company out of Nor Cal that want to hire me (commercial roof sales). They are opening a So Cal office out of Mission Viejo and asked if I wanted to run that office. They are flying into Vegas next week to talk to me so I might be back over there soon (Only if I can find anything resembling reasonable housing prices in the OC)!
02-01-2008 | 06:11 PM
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Hey that's awesome news! Well, now's the right time to look with the market in the crapper. Hope you were renting in Vegas!
Can't wait to have someone else to "non-race" with!
Finally sold the old motor about a month ago. The new motor had some substance abuse problems and went into rehab!
Oh, and I was obviously kidding in my last post... We ran that little Pantera like we were running for the world championship! That day is on a short list of best days I've ever had. I know that boat wouldn't run any faster than we ran it that day.
Can't wait to have someone else to "non-race" with!
Finally sold the old motor about a month ago. The new motor had some substance abuse problems and went into rehab!
Oh, and I was obviously kidding in my last post... We ran that little Pantera like we were running for the world championship! That day is on a short list of best days I've ever had. I know that boat wouldn't run any faster than we ran it that day.
02-01-2008 | 07:34 PM
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Hey that's awesome news! Well, now's the right time to look with the market in the crapper. Hope you were renting in Vegas!
Can't wait to have someone else to "non-race" with!
Finally sold the old motor about a month ago. The new motor had some substance abuse problems and went into rehab!
Oh, and I was obviously kidding in my last post... We ran that little Pantera like we were running for the world championship! That day is on a short list of best days I've ever had. I know that boat wouldn't run any faster than we ran it that day.
Can't wait to have someone else to "non-race" with!
Finally sold the old motor about a month ago. The new motor had some substance abuse problems and went into rehab!
Oh, and I was obviously kidding in my last post... We ran that little Pantera like we were running for the world championship! That day is on a short list of best days I've ever had. I know that boat wouldn't run any faster than we ran it that day.
02-01-2008 | 07:38 PM
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See, this is what I'm saying here. Bunch of guys, running the boats, no rules or regulations because we all know what to do and have the experience to not do anything dumb. Just running hard and working the sticks. Come on out any time, Joe!
02-01-2008 | 07:54 PM
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Baja, your perfect day makes me cry!!!!
My one perfect day was back in 1985, my wife and I had a 24 Monza then with our old AMT 7.3L diesel in it. We ran out through Stiltsville and up to Lauderdale that afternoon about 50-55 mph, not a breathe of air, flat water, drinking beverages from dark green bottles and the engine just hummed along. I felt that was what boating was all about - I live that day over and over, don't know why, but it did make everything to get to that point worth while.
My one perfect day was back in 1985, my wife and I had a 24 Monza then with our old AMT 7.3L diesel in it. We ran out through Stiltsville and up to Lauderdale that afternoon about 50-55 mph, not a breathe of air, flat water, drinking beverages from dark green bottles and the engine just hummed along. I felt that was what boating was all about - I live that day over and over, don't know why, but it did make everything to get to that point worth while.
02-01-2008 | 08:07 PM
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After the Poker Run last year, I had a big blister in the palm of my throttle hand and another across my lower back. I'd get in the shower every day for the week after and the one on my back would burn like hell! And everytime, I'd smile a big satisfied smile and hear the motor in my head all over again!
