Texasmark
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Kenny,<br /><br />Want to apologize for my behavior. I don't know what happens to the brain as you get older, but you think you know more about everything and actually the opposite is true. I have probably forgetten more than I ever knew.<br /><br /><br />My hot dog racing activities were lots of years ago and technology has certainly progressed since then. We didn't read about it or see it on tv-no tv-, we just went to the river and had fun.<br /><br />Also the boats we ran then were small and light and nothing to compare to the mils run today. The little Quicksilver racing lowers and 2 bladed brass props were top of the line then. We had nothing like jack plates, power trim and all that.....but I do recall seeing a 2 cyl OMC with "mumps" on it for higher speed. Don't remember the particulars.<br /><br />Otherwise, I was pretty content with pretty good performance on my fishing boats and never had/took the time, nor had the money, to fine tune them all that much.<br /><br />As I said earlier, I've had 10 years away from boating and that's 10 years of forgetting and 10 years of technology advances.<br /><br />Sounds like "you're the man" and speak from a world of experience and associations.<br /><br />I guess what got me off on the wrong foot was your "logo" comment about your rude running away from everything and I just figured you were a smarty pants.<br /><br />Again, my apologies.<br /><br />Now, with all that said, I was brousing yesterday on an old Merc -'50's vintage- site and saw a pic of a 3 pt hydro, Merc driven, side cowling removed and the caption included the name of the driver......Kenny. You?<br /><br />Mark
