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Originally Posted by dar636
We must have been neighbors Jeff... I grew up in Lake Hills (Boeing dad), once we started hearing the hydros starting to qualify during Seafair we'd furiously start making plywood hydros to tow behind our stingrays. Cards in the spokes, etc.
Spent time watching the Green Lake races and Sammamish Slough races too. Best time was Seafair though, from the shore or by boat.
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Hah, yes, I grew up in Lake Hills. Just southeast of the old Crossroads shopping mall, near the Unity Church on 164th and 4th. And yes, the day we heard the hydros on Lake Washington, we would start pleading with our dad to go. From about 12 years old on, I had permission to ride over on Saturday and Sunday with the "big kids" of the neighborhood. Admission was free in those days.
I actually ran the Sammamish Slough race one year in a friend's kneel-down hydro. It had a McCullough chainsaw motor grafted onto some trolling motor lower unit. I think I was maybe 13-14 years old. They banned the race a year or so after that.
I hear it is back now. I might have to go check it out.
