BigSilverCat

I don't know how much detail you want but I will do more detail and if you need more just ask.

we left the first card stop and stopped out a 1/4 mile from the card stop next to freedom and lick this they were talking and lick this were putting there helmets on. several other boats pulled up and after a little bit we all took off it took us a minuite because I went down in the cuddy looking for the last headset, everyone takes off we get going and start passing boats we get passed freedom and extreme exhibit and as we were pulling up on lick this we were around 100 yards behind and to his port and we were running a little over 130 mph. and he starts making a long starboard turn, we had no idea where we were going so we thought he had missed a marker and was going back so we turn with him as we head back there was a outerlimits that was the closest boat to us and they start turning around to pick up our line and then lick this starts slowing down more and turning starboard to head back the same direction he had been going, at that point freedom and a few more boats had caught up to the point we were at and they were all slowing down we motioned where do we go to freedom and a few other boats and freedom and lick this take off going at a little different direction, so we take off after them again we pass the boats that had not slowed down and we get next to lick this again we are running 120 mph at this point and we see the helicopter back there and us and lick this slow to around 80 mph some of the boats and the helicopter are starting to catch us and we see freedom on our starboard side comming up hard and extreme exhibit on our port side and they are closing fast I tell tim to wait for them and I did not tell him to get in it fast enough and when they get beside us they are both around 20' to each side of us running around 20 mph faster then us tim puts the throttles on the dash and both those boats pull around 2 boat lengths in front of us and they start closing together we start catching up with them and we got to around 5' behind them and they had closed together to within around 20' of each other I told tim to keep going and go right between them and he stayed in it we were even with the back of there boats and they kept closing together and the spray was going right next to us at over 120 mph and we were not getting wet yet because the front of our boat was far enough forward to block the spray then they start closing together more tim lets up just a little and we go back about 10' and when they got to close together that we could not have fit between them and we are all ducked down in the seats with roost going over our heads we finally slowed down because we could not see in front of us, we drop out of there spray then take off again and go around them to the port side of extreme exhibit and pass them and lick this, then lick this turns up the heat and passes us back and led us to the mangroves where gilberts was there was one boat tied up in there I think it was a cig and lick this was having trouble tieing up extreme exhibit was coming up then so we waited for them to tie up and get some other big boats tied up so we would not have a little boat tied up to the dock with bigger boats tied outside, now to have lunch and continue this in the next post.

BigSilverCat

Ok, after lunch stop we decided to go out to the point where the idle zone stops and wait for every boat to take off we shut the motors off and I took pics of every boat leaving gilberts we kept waiting there for the last boats which looked to be freedom and a smaller boat the first boats had already taken off and were probably 0-5 minuites ahead of us spread out, it looked like freedom was not going to come out so we take off right after we take off we see freedom comming so we slow down to around 60 and wait for him and see the mti that randy scism was driving so we stay beside that mti untill they take off we learned before not to wait too long to get in it so we take off freedom got to within around 50 yards behind us and was side by side with the mti and then we started pulling away from them we were comming up on the s turns around the markers and I figured with randy and Jim both being ex race drivers that we were going to get passed but we only dropped to around 110 mph going around the corners so they did not really make up much ground on us then we hit another straight away and took off passing boat after boat go through a mangrove then after we get going again passing boats we were comming up on an outerlimits and another nortech cat, they both seem to be running around 105-110 with rooster tail pretty high I look in front of them and tell tim there is no foam trail so they are the front two boats, when we are getting pretty close to them there rooster tails started dropping and they started running faster, we got passed the outerlimits which seemed to be running around 120 at that time and the other nortech was dropping back real slow so we kept trimming up till we were running high 130 s and kept pulling away from them till we had around 1/4 mile on them and we were headed out into a big open area of water we had no idea where the shallow spots were or where we were going, so after a few minuites we slow down and they all get to us and slow down too then some more boats start pulling up and extreme exhibit and randy from fastboats .com say we need to go on down farther so we run beside him at around 110 for awhile then we see the flag for the gas stop so we took off and went on in there. we did not need fuel but we pulled in there to wait and race everyone on the outside several boats leave but what we think would be the best competion are still in there so we go out by the bridge and wait for the outerlimits and the other cats, we are sitting out there and the outerlimits starts to take off to the bridge so we take off then see the outerlimits slow down and come off plane so we stop and make sure they are ok, the rest of the boats all took off, the outerlimits was fine and we all take off under the bridge we follow the outerlimits out and stay about 50 yards to the port side of them and around 50 yards back we both are continually increasing speed slowly to see how rough it is we get to around 115 and everything feels good so we figure they are pretty close to topped out so we take off and pull up beside them and start passing them we were running around 120, they stayed with us pretty good barely dropping back so we put alittle less trim in it and bummped it up to around 130 and start pulling away from them we had been passing all the boats we saw pull out and we see one way out in front of us so we stay in it trying to catch them and it ends up being brandon with a boat load of pirates, we go by them but then decide to turn around and run the rest of the way with them because it was not any fun running out infront by yourself and we knew brandon would know where he was going. we run around 80 the rest of the way to keywest, then friday we get up and run back up to the gas stop, several people told us that the people were not running hard was why we out ran them so this time I wanted to be sure they were going to run hard so we get there and get gas and wait around 30 min and the friday run shows up, I go around and ask everyone of them that is in a fast boat if they are going to run hard the rest of the way and not only did several of them tell me yes they are going to run as hard as they can but they said there is no way that we will be able to keep up with them, so we wait till several are taking off and we go out and wait by the bridge again several of them take off and we keep waiting for lube jobs but it does not look like he is coming yet so we take off after them, we pass all the ones we saw take off, by the way that blue cig was running pretty fast then we slow down and let several of them pass us again we stop and raise the hatches to make sure there is nothing in the sea strainers and while we are sitting there we see lube jobs comming up fast so we take off he gets around 100 yards in front of us and it took us a little while to catch him but we finally pass him and pull away around 1/4 mile ahead of him then slow back alittle then as we are comming in to key west we look over and lubejobs is cutting to the inside and he is right by shore so we take off after him so that he will not be able to be infront of us going into the harbor and we pass him right as we are going into the harbor and the coast guard pulls up and tells us not to run that fast into the harbor again.

so to answer your question, yes we were on the thursday run and the last part of the friday run.

Tyson Garvin
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WeaponX

Now that is a REPLY !! Good memory Tyson . Sounds like fun.

Spine Tingler

DAMN TYSON!! I can tell you weren't drinking. BTW are you ready to wire the mics for the MTI? Oh we might want to put some system in there as well!!!

BigSilverCat

how far along is your boat? you need to do a good stereo system, cameras and tv's.

JCPERF

Spine Tingler

It is in the mold so we have a little while. Just got back with MC from Wentzville and the new deck is looking great.