2011 NAMBA {not FE} Nationals

**D. Newland** · 06-28-2011, 10:33 AM

B-Nice work with GX-1 Hydro! I think I know how that .2 seconds is sitting w/you, but you did good! Also congratulations on the Grim Reaper rigger (took 1st place in G-1 Hydro and 1st & 2nd in GX-1 Hydro). You and Grim put a ton of talent into that hull.

**raptor347** · 06-29-2011, 10:28 AM

Thanks Dave,
Not sitting badly. If you're going to lose a national championship, tied in points and .2 seconds difference isn't a bad way to do it. It's the closest finish anyone could remember.

The boat definitely works.

**LuckyDuc** · 06-29-2011, 10:39 AM

I'd like to see what your gas boats look like. Any pics?.

**Insaniac** · 06-29-2011, 12:03 PM

Originally posted by properchopper View Post

The FE heats were FE only.

Then why the problem with "gasser" water?

**Darin Jordan** · 06-29-2011, 12:15 PM

Originally posted by Insaniac View Post

Then why the problem with "gasser" water?

When an FE heat, follows a Gas heat, the water tends to be all "chopped up"... At certain lakes, it's worse than at others. At Legg, after a gas heat, the water doesn't calm down immediately. If the program is moving along, which I suspect it was at the Nats... the water for the FE heats was likely not ideal if these heats followed immediately after a Gas boat heat.

**properchopper** · 06-29-2011, 12:26 PM

Originally posted by Darin Jordan View Post

When an FE heat, follows a Gas heat, the water tends to be all "chopped up"... At certain lakes, it's worse than at others. At Legg, after a gas heat, the water doesn't calm down immediately. If the program is moving along, which I suspect it was at the Nats... the water for the FE heats was likely not ideal if these heats followed immediately after a Gas boat heat.

Exactly !! There's lots of invisible trecherous slop and whirlpools hanging out on the course after a gasser heat as well as rollers from the rescue boat that take forever to dissipate.. And yes, we launched seconds after the previous heat came in. In one heat of P-Mono I was cruising along secure in second place; first was way ahead and third was way back; on the back straight I was tooling along at partial throttle and my boat just mysteriously rolled over - the back straight is far enough away to make a good view of the water condition impossible to read. Even the gassers admit that the entry to turn two after a few laps into a heat has some kind of "Bermuda Triangle" effect where the intersection of wakes creates some kind of a hole which traps/trips/flips even the larger gassers.