Scott Lockwood Barefoot Race

Man that was an great video. Hats off to you guys 1,2,3 pulled by a classic BFN. Fires me up and makes me wanna hit the slalom ski extra hard tomorrow! Oh, and that 454 sounded sweet !

tullfooter wrote: Next time we get the boats together for a play date I'll show you the whole race. Lefty

ewww what kind of play dates do you guys have in mind

Tull,

The tunes on the video clip, did your son add those to the video when putting it online? Or were they jamming from the radio in the boat while you were footing?

Johnny
here is a link to the discription of the Rapid Transition.
At the bottom of the page, there is a link to a video of the manuever.

            http://www.barefootcentral.com/Racing_Rapid_Transition101.htm

Don't know if I did this right
Lefty

tullfooter wrote: Our longest run was about 6-7 minutes. But there are guys out there running for longer. Rumor has it the Steady Eddie Johnson can run the boat out of gas.

Tull,

We footed with Eddie at Reid's place, never seen anything like it. Cool vids on the footin, congrats to you and your team on the solid finish!

Our longest run was about 6-7 minutes. But there are guys out there running for longer.
Rumor has it, Steady Eddie Johnson can run the boat out of gas.

Johnny
The transitions are made quicker using a barefoot line with a handle on each end. The line goes through a pulley attached to the skylon. 50' before your at the fallen footer, the next footer jumps in, holding his handle. The other handle is pulled up to the pulley. The footer in the water sees the handle heading towards the pulley and times his set up. When the handle hits the pulley, the drivers goes. No need for "hit it".
There's a video of it on Barefoot Central' it's called the Rapid Transition. I think they invented the system. In their video, the time from when the footer falls and the next one is starting is about 25 seconds.
Lefty

8 person bridge flyer is up on youtube, check it out


8 Man Bridge Flyer

Way togo guys, sounds like you had a really good time. Tull do they have that race every year?? That's sweet BFN's first through third.

tullfooter wrote: ReidP ... At the Ohio race, with smooth water, we ran 38 miles close to WOT for just over an hour. ... Lefty

I believe our time was actually 58 minutes so that would place it at just under an hour

So Lefty, how long then, at a stretch are you forced to run your engine at WOT? Or do you not have to run quite full throttle? That looks incredibly neat regardless. I'm still hoping we/CCFan can have some type of remotely similar event at GL 2008 or other reunions in the future. And whoever gets to pull Pete's and boatdr's combined 250lbs is sure to win.     

Hollywood wrote: Pete if you're calling out the 'doc I'm calling you out too! You and 'doc are small enough you only need to do 36 it ain't that fast!

Hell, Quinner could pull both of us behind a row boat!!

Pete if you're calling out the 'doc I'm calling you out too! You and 'doc are small enough you only need to do 36 it ain't that fast!

Cool videos congrats on the 3rd place finish, that is a big step. How many miles is the race? Is it a 2 man the whole way?

Brendan
Good job getting the video link up. When you get time away from studying, put up the video of the 7-man bridge flyer.

I was very proud of these guys coming in third place. Trust me, it was a huge step for us. The water was smooth at the start, and smooth at the end, but it turned to mush in the middle. Huge waves allowed for the BFN's to shine. It's like running an ice breaker. It was very cool to cross the finish line and seeing the first and second place boats being Barefoot Nautiques also.
It was a very cool weekend.
Lefty