Mike Phillips
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2013 Stuart Sailfish Regatta Powerboat Races
Stacy and I went to the 2013 Stuart Sailfish Regatta Powerboat Races yesterday with VIP passes provided by my new Uncle-in-Law Rusty Sedlack from Armstrong Nautical and it was too windy and the ocean was too rough to do much racing.
Here's just one picture I took yesterday showing how rough the water was...
We're heading back over right now, the weather is better so we're hoping to get some great shots of boats racing. There's a few boats in the pit that are they same type I raced, I'm really hoping to see these have a chance to race today...
I took pictures of these first three boats in the pits yesterday, these are called V-Drive Drag Boats. They have Big Block engines that turn a driveline to a gear box called a v-drive and then out of the v-drive is a prop shaft that exits out the bottom and back of the boat.
They are very fast and accelerate very hard and fast. These three are set up to circle race instead of run the 1/4 mile.
This is the Sanger Drag boat I owned for 20 years, it's a National Title holder when it ran 122 mph in 9 seconds in the 1/4 mile. That was when Rick Baker, the original owner built and raced it. I bought the hull and put my own 402 BBC engine in it and here's how it looked after my engine install. I also had the custom high-back bucket seats build just for this boat, to this day I've never seen a set-up like this with the tall seats and tall hood scoop.
In the picture below ran 111 mph in 11 seconds. I was 23 in this picture and this was the first time I raced this boat.
My co-worker Ray let me borrow his camera with a telephoto lens so I hope the boats get to race today and if they do I'll do my best to get more pictures.
Stacy and I went to the 2013 Stuart Sailfish Regatta Powerboat Races yesterday with VIP passes provided by my new Uncle-in-Law Rusty Sedlack from Armstrong Nautical and it was too windy and the ocean was too rough to do much racing.
Here's just one picture I took yesterday showing how rough the water was...
We're heading back over right now, the weather is better so we're hoping to get some great shots of boats racing. There's a few boats in the pit that are they same type I raced, I'm really hoping to see these have a chance to race today...
I took pictures of these first three boats in the pits yesterday, these are called V-Drive Drag Boats. They have Big Block engines that turn a driveline to a gear box called a v-drive and then out of the v-drive is a prop shaft that exits out the bottom and back of the boat.
They are very fast and accelerate very hard and fast. These three are set up to circle race instead of run the 1/4 mile.
This is the Sanger Drag boat I owned for 20 years, it's a National Title holder when it ran 122 mph in 9 seconds in the 1/4 mile. That was when Rick Baker, the original owner built and raced it. I bought the hull and put my own 402 BBC engine in it and here's how it looked after my engine install. I also had the custom high-back bucket seats build just for this boat, to this day I've never seen a set-up like this with the tall seats and tall hood scoop.
In the picture below ran 111 mph in 11 seconds. I was 23 in this picture and this was the first time I raced this boat.
My co-worker Ray let me borrow his camera with a telephoto lens so I hope the boats get to race today and if they do I'll do my best to get more pictures.
