"Tim" wrote in message
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On Nov 24, 10:18 am, "JT" wrote:
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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Probably posted before, but it's new to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJH24Y3_Y9c

Pretty interesting.

My Dad has owned a C stock hydro for several years, has a driver. I've
driven it a few times (however I'm too big to drive the hydro
competitively), what amazed me about the video was that none of the
drivers
were wearing helmets. That's just crazy!

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

JT

25+ years ago when I lived at vincennes Indian the local boat club
invited the Hydro guys to come in and race. it was interesting with
the high revving outboards with the cut down props. cut so hard that
they couldn't take off by themselves and had to be pushed to get
rolling.

In leu of the big events at Evansville's "Thunder on the Ohio" the
small race at Vincennes was apropraitely called "Farts on the Wabash"

It was a blast to watch , but unfortunately it was too costly to put
on the event so it delapidated after about 5 years.


Back when my buddy and I were about 18, we almost bought a Crackerbox hydro.
Maintenance costs were what stopped us.