not exactly fishing

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this weekend April 17-18th is the 26th annual Salmon River Jet Boat race. IT takes place in Riggin's Idaho. This is an amazing race i have been going for the past few years. The city of Riggins puts on an amazing party and then there are the boats.
This is a short video put together by one of the race crews to explain the sport
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i2Q0Zzwg...re=related)

I do have an interest in this race as well. My uncles team 163 tuff-n-uff will be racing and defending there title. trying to make it three in a row.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmmVUYzMN...re=related (their the first boat to go by)

From what i am hearing all the race classes will be represented from unlimited (any motor any mods this includes a boat with a jet engine powering the pump ) A class (367-400 ci) B class (310-266 ci) BBFX (Chevy 502 or ford/dodge equivalent) SBFX(chevy zz4 or ford/dodge equivalent) and sport jet (stock Mercury v6 )

the U A and B boats all can break 100mph while the bbfx does about 90-95mph the sbfx does 80ish and the sport jets do about 65.

I can't post the link to thee web site because it has a forum but google jetboatracing and you'll find it.
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[STEELHEADKID]

I'll be rooting for team HCM out of lewiston!
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[thebug]

http://www.ravenracingvideo.com/

these guys do a great job putting together videos of each race and season check them out
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[Mojo1]

[quote STEELHEADKID]I'll be rooting for team HCM out of lewiston![/quote]

Suck-up. []
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[drowning_flys]

Still haven't made it up to one of these yet but sure would like to [frown] maybe next year. if possible take tons of pics and post them []
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[thebug]

unfortunatly due to work and school conflicts i was unable to go (d!@#$ you nursing school) but here is a link to one of the pro photographers that does a great job every year
http://klobetanz.smugmug.com/Sports/Salm...7098_YaCfc
as soon as the story is posted ill see what i can do about making a link there
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[thebug]

this was the field
UNLIMITED
#399 Dale Whiteside-Whitey
#357 Gord Humphries-Revelation

B CLASS
#163 Duane and Gary Labrum-Tuff N nuff

FXBB
#55 Duane Carmont-Revelation
#211 Terry O'Keefe-Rip Tear
#88 Norvin "Jude" Hostler-Unloco
#16 Jesse LaForest-Wocket

SPORT JET
#46 Ryan Rogers-Pure Insanity

And we have another boat from spokane that I can't remember there names. Nice looking boat from Burly Products. (i think).
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[thebug]

this is a post made by my uncle in the jet boat racing forum on another site
The winner of the Idaho Cup for 2010 was Gord Humphrey. Total time on course was 55:04 -a new course record.

Second place by 7 seconds (he made up a minute and 13 seconds from Saturday-and set a new one leg time of 5:09) was Dale Whiteside.

2 Unlimiteds on the course-first time in almost a decade that Unlimiteds have challenged the River of No Return.

Third place was Labrum's (B boat)@58:56
Fourth was Duane Carmont (BBFX)@ 59:05
Fifth Jude & Clarence Hostler (BBFX)@ 1:01:33
Sixth Jesse LaForest (SBFX) @1:07:18
Seventh Terry (BBFX)@1:08:39
Eighth was Ryan Rogers (SJ) @ 1:12:39
Ninth was Ross ?????(can't remeber his last name, sorry-Guy Anderson Navigated for him) in an LS3 powered Burly hull @ 1:21:07
It was Ross's first encounter with Jet River Racing-

We all "voted" at the driver's meeting and ran OPEN (run what you brung and lump it all together)class-leg money only


Maybe some interesting water stats from the Salmon

Friday morning at 12:01am the river was flow was at 5260 cfs and had a gauge height of 13.3 ft
Friday evening about 6pm the river had risen about an INCH

Saturday at 12:01am the flow had gone up to 5950 cfs and had risen 3”
Saturday at 10am race time the flow was at 6500cfs and had risen 3 more inches
Saturday when the legs were over the flow was at 7000cfs and had gone up 3” more. Total rise on Saturday was 9” and the flow had gone up by 1500cfs.

Sunday at race time (10am) the river had risen 9” from Saturday’s height and the flow was at 8830cfs. By the time we finished a little after noon the flow had gone up another 1” and flow was at 9000cfs.

Monday morning at about 8am the river has gone up another 8” overnight and was flowing at 10,500 cfs.

In about 72 hours the river has risen about 27” and the flow has more than doubled......
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[thebug]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G5TUnxb8...eature=sub

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5oqc56_WWE

some cool videos
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