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MasterKey89
07-27-2009, 01:17 PM
This weekend was the Abaco summer festival and powerboat race held every year here in Treasure Cay, Abaco, Bahamas. Last year we went out just as spectators and got hooked. Toward the end of the summer we found a nice 22 classic donzi here in Abaco, picked it up and since than I've been working my ass off to have the nicest looking boat at that boat race! There were three different classes, Class "A" which was 25 ft + inboard boats, Class "B" which was 25 ft + Open fishers with outboards, and than there was Class "C" whihch was under 25 ft. We entered the Donzi under the codename "Freeport Smasha" to promote the rivalry among the islands here because the majority of powerboats were from the neighboring island Grand Bahama where the main city is Freeport. It rained most of the day but around 6 o clock it slowed up and te water was glass calm. The race was 7 miles long with 5 turns and 5 laps. Out of the start we pulled ahead quick leaving behind the other boats in our class. The boat ahead of us in this picture had to cheat to keep up by cutting the bouys short that's why they are ahead of us, but even after cheating we were able to catch them up several times and pass them. We were doing about 65 so we figured they were doing 60 - 63 we were pretty evenly matched in speed, but the great handling donzi had the little boat beat in the turns and going over the larger wakes.

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After 5 laps we had lapped some of the open fisher class and left the other boats in our class in the dust! Here we are Crossing the finish line in 1st place.

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And here we are accepting the 1st place trophy from the Prime Minister of the Bahamas the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham.

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Ghost
07-27-2009, 01:33 PM
Congrats on your win!

mrfixxall
07-27-2009, 01:41 PM
Congrats!!! so that makes three - one that was turned into a io 22 classics with eggeaters :)

VetteLT193
07-27-2009, 02:37 PM
Is it the same time every year? Maybe we can plan the Donzi Bahamas run that week and see it next year.