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...Finding the airstrip (in Biafra), that's a problem sometimes," McGuire says. Biafra's sole airstrip is a hard-top road slightly widened by cutting away at the jungle on both sides. It is lit by two rows of lights, none of them very strong. The outboard engines of the four-engine Constellations hang out over the brush, which, if it fouls the engines, means an abrupt end to the flight...
...week's 500, the race ended elsewhere. Driving rain drenched the crews, and visibility was down to zero as fierce squalls kicked up 5-ft. swells. Florida's John Heinrich was only 30 miles out of Freeport when waves ripped the deck off his 26-ft. Alim outboard. Between Chub Cay and Nassau, the 24-ft. Nova inboard of Miamian Allan Brown ran out of gas, then wallowed helplessly in the wash for more than four hours while rescue planes searched...
...most sports typical American reasoning holds that if one is good, then two are better, and three or four or even five are like zoom, man! Take, for instance, last week's Outboard World Championships at Lake Havasu, Ariz. To landlubbers, outboard-motor-boat racing may seem pretty put-put, and indeed, the rules at Havasu limited boats strictly to "stock" models - except that there was no limit on how many engines anyone could stack. California's Bob Ogle turned up with a 17-ft. catamaran powered by five 85-h.p. McCulloch engines, capable of doing 102 m.p.h...
...Mike Reagan, 22, hardly figured to stand much of a chance. Son of California Governor Ronald Reagan, he had a fast boat: a 20-ft. Rayson Craft with three 125-h.p. Mercury engines. In Bill Cooper and Rudy Ramos, he had veteran teammates. But Mike had never raced an outboard before...
...Outboard racers call Lake Havasu's four-mile course "the toughest in the U.S.," and last week's eight-hour race was a battle for survival. Within two hours, 26 boats were out of action, including Ogle's catamaran. Craig Breed-love's U-707 flipped and catapulted him out of the cockpit. With Teammates Cooper and Ramos handling the wheel, Reagan's Rayson Craft opened up a 6-mi. lead; then, with an hour and a half to go, Mike took over. It was eventful: the boat's dashboard collapsed, and Reagan...