HPBCANADA.COM

Yes very cool. I had no idea either about the race history either. Very cool skater for sure!

Here is a little video of the Skater we raced. This footage was taken at the 1990 Worlds in Key West.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYF50q7mCkU

did that hurt right away??

Holy Shit.

It looked fun until the stuff.

Ya..seriously...that had to be a ride. I've had those moments when you have just enough time to realize how bad this is going to go lol "ahhh fu...BANG"...

The stuff did not hurt us or the boat. We were warned when we started racing about the windscreen collapsing when a Skater stuffs. We reinforced the underside of the windscreen so the water just deflected over us.The issue we had was hundreds of gallons of saltwater inside the boat. The fuel pumps and batteries were under water. The hull was sitting so low in the water that we were taking waves over the transom.

WoW That is surprising that you guys didn't get hurt… Crazy cool vid

The truth is that we were running just fine until the helicopter came over us. My father pushed the throttles down and trimmed it up a little too much trying to make a better showing. Little did we know that we would make the highlight reel.

I think Rick Sr. said something along the lines of "you'll try to kill yourselves just to get a good picture" at our run last fall...We all have those "look at me" moments lol.