Originally Posted by
Mac McQuinn
As a 10 year back in the mid 60's, I used to go to the nearby river on Saturdays and watch the small Hydros race, it seemed like most of the time the boat was actually barely touching the water. Very exciting to watch, coming out of the corners with a great rooster tail.
Mac
After grad school, moved to downtown Detroit. Our apt complex backed up on the Detroit River. Get up at 5 am on race days to stake a claim with a blanket, right at river's edge - on the front straight, halfway between the Roostertail turn and the MacArthur Bridge turn. Multiple classes of races over the long weekend
That first year, all unlimited class boats were still running WW-II Merlin and Griffin engines, 50 yards off shore. The sound was bone-rattling and mesmerizing as they headed down the straight.
The next year, Miss Bud showed up with the first turbine engine. and cockpit forward. The rest fell in line in the next 2 years. The end of an era.
But that group of Spitfire engines blasting past - have never heard anything remotely like that ever again.
When I started woodworking, I didn't know squat. I have progressed in 30 years - now I do know squat.
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