My son and I participated in the Powellapalooza Puker Run yesterday at Lake Powell. I know how rough certain parts of the lake can get with a lot boat traffic so I made sure we were up front at the start. We were in the company of several blown Fountains, a Nortech, Eliminator, two DCB cats and several other HP boats mixed in the pack. We were definitely the little guys in the front since they suggested that the fast boats go first, and rest to follow. I'm sure they thought we didn't seem to fit in but my son and I were prepared to run our boat and have fun. When the horn blew we were off with the lead group. Two of the Fountains and the Eliminator pulled on us pretty quick but we kept them in our sights and held the rest behind to the first stop. Man we were flyin, through some crazy water but managed to stay above 70, 75 for one section. We were fourth at the first card stop; one little 22 with two guys in life vests surrounded by 40' boats. On to the next stop we ended up in third since some of the guys sat back at the first stop. The Nortech finally came up on us and two of the Fountains stayed in front; but we we're still there and having fun.. We kept this up through the remaining stops ending up third into the last stop. Sure, all the guys up front had way more boat then we did and could have left us behind but I don't think any of them figured a little 22 could hang up front with them like we did. We talked to one of the 42' Fountain (T700's w/#6's) owners after the event who was laughing, commenting that we were out of the water most of the time. They had a helicopter following us all, filming video for Powellapalooza for most of the run but no still pictures from what I understand. Hopefully they'll post the video at some point. We wanted to take pictures but we we're too busy hanging on.
I need some fellow Donzi support next time.
Thanks to Donzi for building a Bad A$$ factory hot rod boat and Mercury Racing for building a motor that can run +5,000 RPM for 40-miles.