23-24 June 2012 John Hall/Gene Taylor Memorial Race
Well the ice cream man
could have made a killing at this year’s Gene Taylor/Gene Hall Memorial
race! We had record temperatures with the highs right at 100 degrees!
But no matter to us hard core boat races as we had a very good turn out
and based on all the comments we heard one and all had a good time!
The open water Friday was a
bit windy so the lake kicked it up some, but it was still good water for
the bigger boats.
The lake gave us some very light winds on race day
so the water was like glass most of the time. The tunnel hulls put on a
show for how to stuff 3 boats into the same corner and nearly at the
same time! Wow they can really cut in close to those buoys! What I found
to be strange is we had 8 B Mono’s! Go figure that one, well at least we
had the full range of boats. The gas Cats have REALLY kicked it up and
had some good race speeds, in fact they could hold their own in the open
hydro class! As always the twins put on a great show with some barn
burners, the sound along will bring people over to watch!
The heat may have pushed
the people to the limit but the radios/motors had to deal with the heat
also and some weaker links did pop up. I recall in a Thunder Boat heat
all boats flipped/crashed or died all in about 10 second window! No they
did not hit each other either!
A BIG THANKS TO Mr. CD
David Hall, he did a great job keeping his cool and pushing us forward
to finish 5 rounds and be off the lake by 3PM on Sunday.
Many thanks for the hard work: Mark Bullard, Kim Grim, Bill Zuber, John
Equi, Jon T., Larry Wood, Doc Turner.
