Originally Posted by
astrohog
Ironically, I’ve built an 1/8 scale (Miller American) to 90% complete, but sold it before I ever ran it, and have kicked myself ever since.
One of my good buddies from Eastern Washington ran scale unlimiteds for awhile (I’m sure you probably know him) until he bought an actual 5 liter boat that he raced and then went on to crew chief for a couple of the unlimited teams. I was over visiting with him this weekend and he kinda got me fired up about hydros again. I am actually considering building another boat, but I’m not up on all of the new classes you guys run.
Are you gonna be at the event this weekend? I’m considering stopping by and checking it out. I’ve got my camper on the truck, is there camping at the event?
Astro
Yes, I'll be there though I don't know if I'm going to run or not. Kind of depends on what happens on Friday when three of us start working on my boat. If we can get some speed out of it, I may run but, if not, I'll just be helping out
NO, the park and county won't let us camp in the lot. There are three options that I know of:
- There is a campground at Wenberg State Park, a ways out to the west of the race site
- Tulallip Casino has a parking area behind the casino for RVs
- Cabela's has a truck and RV parking area on the south(left) side of the store
As far as classes go, we run six
- 1/10 scale electric
- 1/8 scale electric
- 1/8 scale nitro
- 1/7 scale electric
- 1/6.7 scale gas
- gas thunderboat
The three electric classes vary by hull size and drive train restrictions
1/8 nitro is limited to an 11cc/.67 engine with direct drive. Both 1/8 scale classes are built to 1.5"/foot plus a variance on the basic sizes
Gas scale in limited to no more than 31cc engines and is built to 1.8"/foot plus a variance
Gas thunderboats are basically round nosed boats that are similar in size to the gas scales and limited to one size engine, a 25.6cc IIRC