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One of the closest races at Friendship was between LYNN MARIE and LITTLE GIRLS.
VATION up against WILD WILD WEST for the second day in a row. When the fl ag dropped it looked as though MOTIVATION jumped into the lead. However as soon as the smoke cleared from WILD WILD WEST’s stack she gained speed and quickly had the lead with the two fi nishing one–two. Third went to BLUE EYED GIRL. In the Novi Boat race Travis Carter’s
CANADIAN MIST showed her stern to the other two competitors all the way down the course.
Next up was the Wooden Boat race and
this was easily won by MERGANSER, who bettered his best speed being clocked at 31.1 mph.
THUNDERBOLT and LYNN MARIE
were on the line for the Gasoline Free-for- All. When the fl ag dropped both engines screamed to life and headed for the fi nish. As they neared the fi nish LYNN MARIE had a boat length lead and took the win with a speed of 55.5 mph. In the Diesel Free-for-All WILD WILD
WEST got fi rst with MOTIVATION sec- ond..
The last race of the day, Fastest Lobster
Boat Afl oat, had the top three boats in the Diesel Free-for-All on the line again with the same results.
Eight races down, two to go.
LONG ISLAND – The fi nal weekend of the lobster boat racing season was upon us. The
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Andrew Taylor's BLUE EYED GIRL and Gary Genthner’s LISA MARIE racing at Friendship.
fi rst race was out at Long Island. Racers signed up in a steady stream and
at the end we had 51 boats registered with 16 in the Skiff Races, four in the Gasoline Classes and 31 in the Diesel Classes. The big news was Ed Torosian’s MS.
ROSE, which had struck an unknown sub- merged object and suff ered severe damage to her drive train on her way up to Portland on Friday. She was towed into Saco, placed on a trailer and taken back to her home in New Hampshire where she will be repaired by Ed.
There are fi ve classes in the Gasoline
Classes, but there were no entrants in Class A or Class E. There was one entrant in Class B, Mark Davis’ WHISKEY GIRL and one in Class C, Randy Durkee’s BLACK DIA- MOND and they were sent down together, each winning their respective classes. There were two racers in Class D, and this was easily won by LYNN MARIE with a speed of 58.1 mph. In the fi rst Diesel Race, Class A there
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was just one entrant, Cody Stewart’s YANK N’BANK so he down with the only entrant in Class B, Tim Flynn’s DOTTIE MAE, each winning there class. Two boats were on the line for Class C and it was David Dugas’ GRASSHOPPER showing Jake Dugas’ PREMONITION the way to the fi nish. The battle in Class D was maybe the funniest race of the year. Many times racers do not know where the fi nish line is and before they cross it they veer off , but usually they are not in the lead. All the way from Scituate, MA, Jeff Patterson’s SIMPLE MAN had a com- fortable lead, but about a 100 yards from the fi nish he turned and headed into the spectator fl eet. People instantly got on the VHF and told him he had not fi nished and quickly he
rounded one of the spectator boats and got back on the course, but not before Justin Papkee’s PULL N’PRAY slipped by for the win. There was just one entrant in Class E, Jonathan Norton’s ISLA DAWN, so she ran down with Class F. Without MS. ROSE, who would be the top boat? Right from the start Harold Stewart’s DONNA ELAINE and Craig Stewart’s CARL & CO battled for the top spot, which went to DONNA ELAINE by half a boat length. There were no entrants in Class G, but three were on the line for Class H. With the drop of the fl ag Nick Martinez’ PRETTY WOMAN jumped right into the lead and never looked back. Second went to John Shusta’s SPECIAL J. Over the years Chris Smith’s MISTY and Scott Woods’ WILD ONE have gone head to head in Class I. Today was MISTY’s day as she got the win by a boat length. Carl Anderson’s DANICA HAILEY got the win in Class J with Alan Dugas’ DELUSIONAL second. For the past couple of years Jeff Ea- ton’s LA BELLA VITA was the boat to beat in Class K, but since Andrew Taylor got his new BLUE EYED GIRL, she has been the top boat and today was no diff erent as they fi nished one and two. On the line for Class L was MISS KARLEE, MOTIVATION and WILD WILD WEST. First over the line was WILD WILD WEST, followed by MOTIVATION and MISS KARLEE. Next up was Class M(A) and the winner was Chris Pope’s OLD SCHOOL with second going to Alan Knowlton’s SEA URCHIN. There was a close fi nish between the two competitors in Class M(B), but it was Scott Dugas’ SAND DOLLARS III just slipping by Lee MacVane’s DOMINATOR for the win. In Class N Keith Jordan and his BAI- LEY & BELLA came to the for the fi rst time
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