WOW....Banks Lake ...Smokin!

[CircleJerk]

Results: 1st place Nostalgic Inboards,SS27,Robbie Hampton, 7/8 runner bottom Sanger drag hull! 2nd,Mike{flipper} Devore in SS83 Lavey Craft! 3rd, Bill Silverthrone 1965 Wickens 427 FORD!
I will be hoarse for a while after this one! Robbie ran hard all weekend in his newly refurbished, former George Nordling, Sanger. We had 12 HARD running boats that reflect the work that went on this Winter. Quantity was down, but quality was up.
I have never seen this close of racing, EVER. The new points system, lumped everyone together for the first time and may have produced some of the photo finishes. George Nordling had the most spectacular dual with Justin Davis, Bezer vs Hondo, and the finish was nothing short of UNBELIEVABLE! The kid won this one by inches, after reviewing two different video tapes.
Even third and fourth places had deck to deck dog fights.
Bad news: there was a sinking but no injuries, A beautiful Hondo took on water at the dock for no apparent reason. King RaysonKidd performed the underwater miracle. bringing the hull to the surface with compressed air and all available hands worked to lift it onto its trailer. We cant thank Jeff and his helper enough! Thanks RK! you're the best.
Another dog fight was Robbie and new driver Don in his flaming 'B' boat. Don won most improved driver along with Mike Devore for winning their respective heats. Big crowd, great weather,and all the VIPs made Northwest history. TiredJeRk sleeping
[ June 15, 2003, 11:44 PM: Message edited by: CircleJerk ]

[RaysonKid]

Hey Jerk,
Thanks again for the hospitality.
I am glad I made the trip. What a great weekend.
I am glad I could get the Hondo back to the surface. It looked really funny sitting down there in the murk and mud. Not to mention the nice coating of oil I got...
I took several great photos while sitting out on the rescue boat.
Will try to post some tomorrow night.
Again thanks, And see you in September.

[FlatRat]

What a show!!
I want to thank the JoIk for inviting us over.I shot some great racing action on tape.Pm me if you want a copy.It was great meeting everyone.What a super bunch of racers.We will definitly be back next year,and we won't be a boatless Rats.
[ June 16, 2003, 06:06 AM: Message edited by: FlatRat ]

[CircleJerk]

Good Job Rat and Rayson, Hey, I am here at JD's place and we just fired up the sunken 427 Hondo treasure that was mired under the deep blue. The thick gooey mud is everywhere but that saved the boats recovery damage to just a few scrapes and dings. The big ding occured when it sunk next to the dock and is only superficial.
The super-stock like BBC fired up after replacing the HEI with the SS83's mag and boiled the H2O to steam. The drive lines u-joints flung water into the JeRks face! Healthy, is an understatement for the headers sound. This was such a relief!
It is so sad to see such a great piece damaged even a little bit by a stupid mistake. Here's what I was told happened: The driver pulled into the pits after dueling with the former Champion in their third matchup heat with water coming in. Pulling up to the full dock, he had to stop near the end. With no place to go they had to sit there and watch the Hondo go down after boat wakes swamped it. Even with empty side tanks and bow floatation, she slowly submerged in 10 feet of water and thick mud. I couldnt even see it from above. That's when King Raysonkidd and lovely Mrs. C arrived after a frantic call and devised a plan to inject air into its bowels. Hero Jeff then dove to save the formerly fast Sprint boat. After what seemed like an eternity, the flamed deck started to rise and upon the surface we heard the mournful cry of the leaking bow eye. It was loose, and spewing its life safing puffs of air. With no tow truck in position, she was going down slowly once more! Finally, the attached life line tugged gently and the hondo was moving toward the life saving shore.
Then more tragidy. The tow line snapped! Two men helping were knocked off their feet. Helplessly the yellow deck was sinking again to everyones moans. That's when some JeRk jumped into the water and hollered for help. Volunteers came to the rescue, and we hand carried the boat to the trailer.
Our Hero diver Jeff, RaysonKidd and his lovely wife {who is also a certified diver} saved, in my opinion, the fastest circle Hondo around. If not for them, JD would have had a huge salvage-wrecker bill to pay and their two boat team would be hurt to say the least. Again and again the JeRk and JD, say thankss to all those who helped! FlatRat was also involved and was slightly injured while helping. Speedy recover Dick, I'd tell them it was a barefooting skiing accident if I was you! Thanks for the ride in the "GoldenRod".
You all missed an Unbelievable Race, the likes off which I havent seen anywhere! Even in video form. This is the Jerk smile_sp NewsNetwork

[GN117 Big Dawg]

Jerking-in-Circles,
Slow down there Hot Rod, let me catch my breath! Sounds like you guy's were busyier than a "one legged man in aan ass kicking contest!"
Congrats on what sounds like a good safe race. You guy's have accomplished all of your objectives, a safe race that everyone enjoyed, and will come to participate in and watch again and again. Good job, now is the time to start your ground work for nextyears event.
CYA Gary

[RaysonKid]

Jerk,
Its good to hear that the damage is minimal.
Great that its running again. How is the prop? They said it was dinged or scratched?
Also want to appoligize to those I didnt meet.
Was boatguy there?
And Flatrat I may have snubbed.
It was all the isolation I was experiancing out on the rescue craft.
So can I come to another event???

[blondie#1]

CircleJerk:
Results: 1st place Nostalgic Inboards,SS27,Robbie Hampton, 7/8 runner bottom Sanger drag hull! 2nd,Mike{flipper} Devore in SS83 Lavey Craft! 3rd, Bill Silverthrone 1965 Wickens 427 FORD!
I will be hoarse for a while after this one! Robbie ran hard all weekend in his newly refurbished, former George Nordling, Sanger. We had 12 HARD running boats that reflect the work that went on this Winter. Quantity was down, but quality was up.
Well here I go again correcting the circlejerk. So here it goes. 1st place went to Robbie Hampton, 2nd place went to Bill Silverthorne and 3rd place went to Justin Davis. Boy! I wish he'd get this straight. Actually he asked me to put the correct info. on the forum
I have never seen this close of racing, EVER. The new points system, lumped everyone together for the first time and may have produced some of the photo finishes. George Nordling had the most spectacular dual with Justin Davis, Bezer vs Hondo, and the finish was nothing short of UNBELIEVABLE! The kid won this one by inches, after reviewing two different video tapes.
Even third and fourth places had deck to deck dog fights.
Bad news: there was a sinking but no injuries, A beautiful Hondo took on water at the dock for no apparent reason. King RaysonKidd performed the underwater miracle. bringing the hull to the surface with compressed air and all available hands worked to lift it onto its trailer. We cant thank Jeff and his helper enough! Thanks RK! you're the best.
Another dog fight was Robbie and new driver Don in his flaming 'B' boat. Don won most improved driver along with Mike Devore for winning their respective heats. Big crowd, great weather,and all the VIPs made Northwest history. TiredJeRk sleeping

[blondie#1]

CircleJerk:
Good Job Rat and Rayson, Hey, I am here at JD's place and we just fired up the sunken 427 Hondo treasure that was mired under the deep blue. The thick gooey mud is everywhere but that saved the boats recovery damage to just a few scrapes and dings. The big ding occured when it sunk next to the dock and is only superficial.
The super-stock like BBC fired up after replacing the HEI with the SS83's mag and boiled the H2O to steam. The drive lines u-joints flung water into the JeRks face! Healthy, is an understatement for the headers sound. This was such a relief!
It is so sad to see such a great piece damaged even a little bit by a stupid mistake. Here's what I was told happened: The driver pulled into the pits after dueling with the former Champion in their third matchup heat with water coming in. Pulling up to the full dock, he had to stop near the end. With no place to go they had to sit there and watch the Hondo go down after boat wakes swamped it. Even with empty side tanks and bow floatation, she slowly submerged in 10 feet of water and thick mud. I couldnt even see it from above. That's when King Raysonkidd and lovely Mrs. C arrived after a frantic call and devised a plan to inject air into its bowels. Hero Jeff then dove to save the formerly fast Sprint boat. After what seemed like an eternity, the flamed deck started to rise and upon the surface we heard the mournful cry of the leaking bow eye. It was loose, and spewing its life safing puffs of air. With no tow truck in position, she was going down slowly once more! Finally, the attached life line tugged gently and the hondo was moving toward the life saving shore.
Then more tragidy. The tow line snapped! Two men helping were knocked off their feet. Helplessly the yellow deck was sinking again to everyones moans. That's when some JeRk jumped into the water and hollered for help. Volunteers came to the rescue, and we hand carried the boat to the trailer.
Our Hero diver Jeff, RaysonKidd and his lovely wife {who is also a certified diver} saved, in my opinion, the fastest circle Hondo around. If not for them, JD would have had a huge salvage-wrecker bill to pay and their two boat team would be hurt to say the least. Again and again the JeRk and JD, say thankss to all those who helped! FlatRat was also involved and was slightly injured while helping. Speedy recover Dick, I'd tell them it was a barefooting skiing accident if I was you! Thanks for the ride in the "GoldenRod".
You all missed an Unbelievable Race, the likes off which I havent seen anywhere! Even in video form. This is the Jerk smile_sp NewsNetwork Again I get to correct him. He was announcing when this boat went under. I was in my boat right infront of him. what happened was, the driver came into the dock and was asked if he needed his trailer. He said he didn't think so. The next group went out. They started to pull the hondo around the corner of the dock, (Bill and George & I were still waiting our turn,) when the driver got out of the boat and all of a sudden the boat sank. It happened real fast. No one had left the dock at that time, so he didn't get swamped. It was real weird to watch that boat go down and everyone was in shock. Everyone had been very carefull to not swamp anyone when they left the dock. Everyone Idled out. When my group went out to race the boat had already sunk. We still idled past it though. By the way ask CJ why it sunk? He went and helped and they all found out why? It wasn't the racers is all I'm going to say! :( cry :rolleyes:
[ June 16, 2003, 09:03 PM: Message edited by: blondebombshell ]

[RaysonKid]

All I know is its really weird to being going under and having that boat sitting on the bottom.
Then trying to float over it while not hurting anything, and trying to get the scuba tank positioned under the bow.
Then going around the back and checking for the plugs.
Seeing that bow raising in the murky water was awesome. Again, just glad we got it out with all the great help.
I am going to figure out some kind of lift bag to hook on the cavitation plate hardware.
Would make it alot easier.

[jim davis]

Hey Rayson Kid , Jimmy D. here and I can't begin to thank you and your lovely wife for getting the 535 Hondo out of the muck. There is a battle scar on the dock side but has nothing to do with the recovery effort. She (boat) will be at the next race . As Boyd stated above we got it fired and everything is all right accept a hole in the bottom where we did a repair job . We had to move the shaft log forward to get the proper shaft angle and V-drive placement when we bought the boat 3 years ago. With several laps on the race coarse the repair gave way and I could actually see the prop shaft with out getting under the craft. The boat didn't get swamped as I had thought but sank from water coming in the repair job. "Hondo's pace the race" Jimmy D.

[CircleJerk]

i stand corrected.........but still have that greasey kid hair style! whats left that is. sorry jeff, i didnt think your gear would be greased also. let us know if there is any other expense, and we will reinburse you!
you are invited next year to be sure, but you may want to enjoy the free spectator side instead of working! jimmy says its the lucas oil additive, the steam cleaner hardly dissolved it.
i just watched the video and it is the best racing action for 12 boats ever! i like to call them the 'dirty dozen', not because of the spilled oil or the mud bath, but because they went out to war and all returned safe and victorious in putting on one ---- of a show! i also am sorry you couldnt have spent more time socializing, both flatrats are great! smile_sp

[RaysonKid]

Hey, Jim.
You are very welcome. Glad its back to life.
But hey,Hondos are tough boats.Also, Is the bow- eye fixable? I noticed it was loose. There was a lot of pulling going on...
Jerk,
The dive gear is fine. Soaking it in the tub right now. I loved working. Hell, I had one of the best seats in the house.
Give me a shout anytime.
Getting started on my Rayson Craft this weekend..

[77468sleekcraft]

DAMN THAT SUCKS I MISSED THAT EVENT IVE GOT PROPERTY ON BLUE LAKE JUST BEFORE BANKS LAKE AND I WOULD OF LOVED TO HAVE BEEN THERE OH WELL I AM GOING TO BE ON BLUE LAKE ON THE 4TH AND WOULD LOVE TO GET SOME MORE HOT BOATS OUT THERE CAUSE I AM REALLY GETTING BORED OF WOOPEN EVERYONE THERE.SO ANY CHALLENGES JUST LET ME KNOW AND I WILL TELL YOU WHERE IM AT....PS IT WILL BE A GOOD PARTY.... :D

[RaysonKid]

Hmmm, I was thinking that area would be great for some Northwest ***boat action. The water on banks was awesome all weekend long. Maybe a ***boat BBQ or something. Heck,The guys down South are making it work.

[V-DRIVE VIDEO]

Davis Racing, say it aint so!!! How did this happen!!! :confused: Im gonna have to get more details about this entire event. JD, Circle Jerk, I will be ringing the "Bat Phone" this weekend!!!

[jim davis]

V-Drive video dude, yup it did happen to ol' Yellow. We have pulled motor and got the grime out and are ready to do a proper job of repair. Your sister ship held it's own on the race course before the drowning . We awakened a sleeping Giant with the John Avery Carb and a little more timeing. There is a picture of the Hondo's tail going down the back side post as Bank Lake Pictures. Glad to hear from the great one from the smog state. Jimmy D. Hondo's Pace the Race

[V-DRIVE VIDEO]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jim davis:
We awakened a sleeping Giant with the John Avery Carb and a little more timeing.
Jd, lets keep our speed secrets off the forums!! wink :) :)

[Sand Dawg]

Hot Boat Action would be better on Lake Roosevelt, loud and fast is welcome there, oh and party central on the 4th, from Keller to the Casino just pic a spot and is happening...my .02