BSH Wakefield?

[KevM]

For the record Ed....

I lost my leg because my prop, (which I made, nobody else to blame), was paper thin and folded back two blades. I broke loose after it folded, causing me to barrel roll. It just so happened that the 15 motor was on my A boat at the time. I had raced that rig many times without incident. Would I have flipped on the bigger boat? Who knows. Would Kevlar have protected me more than the shorts I was wearing? Probably! Either way, **** happens if you put yourself in the boat. A better example of the poor choice to run the 15 on the A boat at Wakefield would be Mike Kench. How many times did he have 15 hydro in the bag until the last turn? He got cut at least once that I remember and was pissed many more times than that about not having enough boat to bring it home. Unless something changed, Wakefield is not a huge glass smooth course, that second turn gets snotty.
-Kevin

[Bill Huson]

Eek!

Kevin is right - turn 2 is snotty at best. ASH boat isn't enough boat. My son ran his A boat (the legendary Microwave) with a 15 and it was faster than stink but tended to go wild when the water got a bit lumpy. After his 3rd crash I was ordered by SWMBO to built him a bigger boat. I did. Kid sez cool, and when we got to wakefield he clamped a 20 c.i. Hot Rod on it! Kids - sheesh ...

Get a bigger boat, Earl. Or try this trick - you could screw a piece of angle aluminum, say 1/2" or 3/4", crossways on the bottom just behind the leading edge of the hull to kill the ASH mega-lift. That might keep the boat somewheres near the water and all you'd have to do is figure out how to keep that wild thang pointed in the right direction