The go pro was flashing way over 60 minutes before I got to the out ramp.
John D need to not announce ever again. He's the reason we only got 10 minutes .

Thanks bob👍🏻

I may have been ahead of you on the rope.  don't recall.  I do know they were waiting an inordinate amount of time between runs, after the course was clear and water was fine. 
It is not John D's fault, and he does a good job.  It is someone else's responsibility to set the running order, time to start, etc.  It is also someone else's responsibility to inform the tower when a class needs to be called to the lanes so it can be announced, keeping boats in the staging lanes but not creating a line 2 miles long so engines are completely cold by the time you get launched.  same thing happened at the world finals, same "type" of thing happened in augusta and the lucas parker race last year.  which is why a couple of us brought it up to the powers that be after the drivers meeting in vegas.   At the WF's, Rick Carlson had announced Saturday at 6pm that we would start at 8am sunday morning, and that the order would be TE, QE, PM.  ok, so I get out there at 6:30, get everything ready and staged, warm up at 7:30, all ready to go.  then they call QE to the lanes first.  QE WASN'T ready.  so we stand there and watch QE boats straggle down to the staging lanes for the next 40 minutes.  didn't get anything going until almost 8:45am.  THEN they call PM, and finally TE.   There is no reason they cannot figure this stuff out on Saturday.  they already know how many boats are in each class.  continuously flip flopping the running order at the last minute makes it impossible for the announcer's to keep us informed in a timely manner, and it slows the program.
   

looking good tom, good to see it back!   

just to clarify, this boat was never rigged as an outboard.  the original title for the boat said it was built in 1973 by a company called "dominator", which i believe was some shortlived company in the bay area that splashed the tahiti.  it came with the bayjet and (as i figured out later) a 1968 325hp 396.  the boat lived at shasta for a few of it's early years, was pretty much beaten (and sunk at least once from wakes), and then a couple of business guys in eureka bought it to clean up and resell.  i bought it from them in 1978.   i still have the torker intake that was on it then, as well as the 850 holley (replaced 'em with an edelbrock intake and 750 holley).

i'd bet that it will work just fine with the sbc, as it's awfully small...

..  lot of memories in that boat..