Needles 2014

Just spent another beautiful February weekend in Needles, CA for the Route 66 Hotboat and Hotrod Show put on by the City and many great sponsors. There was sensational support again as usual from the entire hotboating community from CA, AZ, WA, OR and ID. Many folks come from all over the country to bring their boats and cars to show everyone their works.

So lets get with the pics... We met up with our friends Wil and Wendi from Hot Boat.com and the Outlaw Racing Group guy (Jeff) that was displaying the 51' Outerlimits Cat that ran the San Francisco to Long Beach sea trial for a worlds record. Jeff invited us all to ride with him for the parade in the big rig. What an awesome boat this is and a nice rig for hauling it too!

The "Outlaw Crew" for a day.... Me, Wil, Wendi, Scott, Jeff, Mike

More on this later....

Heres some shots from the parade on Friday night

Here are some of the show day shots from Saturday down at Jack Murphy Park

The K-711 race crowd  was present and getting their boat ready for racing. Chris and Candace are ready to go racing again and we wish them the best of luck with Mr. Eason!!!   Pat Eason for PRESIDENT!!!

RT99 and I had the opportunity to stay in the marina with Fred Romani (and old school dragboat racer) and his wife Evonne and had a great time with them reminiscing about the 60's dragboat scene. Thank you both very much.

It was really nice to hang with many of the v-drive crowd that frequent the boards on PB and HB and even RDP. Met a few new folks to finally put a name with a face. You didn't know who you would run into around that place but it was a great time.

Thank You Billy B!

Birth-Day on the Delta 11-09-13

Well another year has come and gone - its another anniversary of the passing of my birthYEAR.... and it was a great day to go out and play on the water with a few friends from the DLB group. We headed out of Orwood and the water was just amazing!!!!  Scott (RT99) got some great shots, as he always does of the boat and I wanted to share them here, since he doesn't tend to show off his great work too much!

Nice shots Scott!

Thank You !

Flatties on the Delta #2

The group of folks from the DLB (Delta Lunch Bunch) own and enjoy some of their hot rod boats as much as their bigger pleasure crafts. So D21 put together a day for us all to get together and go have some fun like the old days in our hot rod flatties. Somewhere close to 40 boats signed up to show and go around a few of the joints that would accept us into their space and listen to the sounds of music we brought along. It was a great day at Orwoods, then to Union Point and then we all just ended up at Ski Beach to enjoy!

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Some folks traveled from far and wide to get here for the festivities; So Cal, Idaho, Tahoe, Arizona, this was a national event!!!! here in our little boating back yard. 

My boat blew a prop shaft coupler and I had to be pulled back, but all in all it was a GREAT DAY!