Location: Green Lake - Seattle WA 1971
Class: 7 Liter
Boat Name: The Tool Crib
Driver: Bill Allan
Hull: Jones
Engine/Builder (if known): Chrysler - Keith Black
Comment: Fast and unbeatable on this day
Note - nice tribute webpage to Bill at link: http://www.gvmps.org/inductees/bill_allan.htm

Location: Green Lake - Seattle WA 1971 and Spanaway Lake
Class: 7 Liter
Boat Name: Miss Merion Bluegrass
Driver: Earl Wham - Spokane WA
Hull: 
Engine/Builder (if known): Chevrolet - Wham/Rogers
Comment: Plenty of horsepower but couldn't corner as well as the new Jones pickleforks

Location: Potholes Reservoir
Class: 266
Boat Name: Li'l Miss Spokane (always called Li'l Miss)
Driver: Jim Douty - Spokane WA
Hull: Lauterbach
Engine/Builder (if known): Chevrolet - Wham/Rogers
Comment: Very fast 266 (when running), blew the doors off all 266's on Green Lake ~ 1969

Location: Green Lake - Seattle WA 1970?
Class: 280
Boat Name: Calypso II
Driver: Frank Schneider
Hull: ?
Engine/Builder (if known): Precision Engine Specialists
Comment: Very Competitive Boat

Location: Potholes Reservoir
Class: 280
Boat Name: The Godfather
Driver: Ed Kupers - Spokane
Hull: Karlesen
Engine/Builder (if known): Plymouth - Mel Eastlick
Comment: Good Boat, Solid Driver

Location: Green Lake, Seattle WA
Class: 280
Boat Name: Colonel Bogey
Driver: Pat Berryman -Seattle
Hull: Jones
Engine/Builder (if known): Plymouth - Orville Rupe
Comment: 1st Place in 1971

Location: Lake Sammamish, Seattle WA
Class: K 
Boat Name: K-Motion
Driver: Don Whatmore -Renton
Hull: Marlin
Engine/Builder (if known): Chevrolet - John Garrison
Comment: Don built the Marlin Brand Boats and knew how to drive them

Location: Green Lake- Seattle WA ~ 1970
Class: K
Boat Name: Liberty
Driver: Gordon Jennings - Harbor City California
Hull: Sanger
Engine/Builder (if known): Chevrolet - Paul Pfaff
Comment: Very fast till Julian Pettengill (Coldfire) showed up the next year

Location: Green Lake- Seattle WA ~ 1971
Class: K
Boat Name: Coldfire
Driver: Julian Pettengill - Scottsdale AZ
Hull: Biesemeyer
Engine/Builder (if known): Chevrolet - Bubby Wilton
Comment: No competition - the fastest boat on the course in 1971

Location: Lake Sammamish - Seattle WA 1971
Class: K
Boat Name: K-115  (I don't think he ever named it)
Driver: Chuck Wirth- Tacoma WA
Hull: ?
Engine/Builder (if known): Chevrolet - John Garrison
Comment: Very Fast Injected K Boat

Location: Green Lake - Seattle WA and Spanaway Lake
Class: SS
Boat Name: Krazy Kanaka
Driver: Don Due - Seattle WA
Hull: ?
Engine/Builder (if known): Chevrolet - John Garrison
Comment: Don Due was one of the best flatbottom drivers ever - won the Nationals that year.

© Ronald Tschetter

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