New Motorboat!! speed record
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:29 am
We set a new speed record on Motorboat!! this saturday on a race across lake Pontchartrain of 15.5 knots! We don't have wind instruments but a j-35 near us clocked wind speeds above 30 kts. We had the 1.5 oz chute up and full main. The cockpit drains got plugged up and we were taking water over the deck, filling the cockpit full of water (even caught a fish!) After that, we decided to drop the chute before we lost the rig. Heck of a ride!