Basic Idea For The "gadget"
I will take your suggestion Wayne, and post this info on the Technical Discussion section of Boat Racing Facts. I want to give this some thought for a few days first, and make sure that the initial post gives enough information about the premise of the device and the basic idea so as to allow enough disclosure to get someone started the right way if they are interested, but not so much as to just be telling exactly how to do it.
I have always wondered if certain people might have figured this out for sometime now, as there are some folks still running Konigs and doing really well with them, including National Championship's very recently, and the motors I am thinking of have that real drivability and almost instant acceleration out of the corner that leaves other competitors behind. Anyhow it should be interesting to see first of all if anyone is interested in following this line of investigation, and if so if they are able to make it work. That leaves the last piece of the puzzle, HOW WILL WE KNOW? I for one would continue to keep the secret if someone was successful and wanted to confide in me in return for the initial information.
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That was in interesting side trip....
.....now back to Hinton.
A couple of months ago Tim told me he didn't go to Hinton, but he did. He just forgot because he didn't race there. Tim and Ruth Butts, my Dad, and Johnny BZZZZ Bezecny stayed up at the lodge on top of the mountain. Jenny and Harry, Joe and Doris Rome and Debbie and myself stayed at some cabins at the bottom. It was almost an hour's drive down their by car from the top, but only 7 minutes by tram.
The first morning my Dad discovered a fine little country restaurant where we ate breakfast everyday after that. The owner and cook had a T shirt with a little frog on it that said "I'M HAPPIER THAN SH!T". The people there became fans of our and came down to the pits to watch us race.
On the left is Ruth, Brandy and Tim Butts talking to Bill Van Steenwyk.
We can always depend on Jeff....
....with that Eagle Eye to pick up on what the rest of us miss.:cool:
I was waiting to ask you who the Canadian was that pitted to our right when I get to the pit shots Jeff. Just hang on---it was one number off from Doug Thompson.
BTW---do you have a merit badge for that eye of yours?:D
I'll have to ask Tim Butts...
...but I'll bet that's where Tim told Joe he wouldn't race that boat at the nationals, because Tim came to Hinton without any intention to race anything.
Hey Roy, I missed your earlier post about the fish eye and I agree. But the way the motor would have looked hanging on that transom would have made it a moot point. I don't think anyone would step up to crank it.:eek: ;) :D
More to come to be sure......
.....remember I was still on my honeymoon & it wasn't Nyceas's godzilla juice to distract me but I always thought it was two 500's. Now thinking about that....it kind of makes me think Joe wanted to run that at Dayton rather than Tims' Ron Anderson Konig.:confused:
I need to call Tim & ask some questions. Thanks Denny. Joe had some comments about that today as well. Help us out as we try to piece this story together. If you can get Jim and/or Sean McKean to come on here it would be greaat.