By Garth Meyer
Whitman County Gazette
Dangerous Curves debuts at Webb's Slough
Local boat racing team to run at Aug. 28 event
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August 12, 2021
Mike Thomas | Submitted
Dangerous Curves waits on a trailer for a test run.
WEBB'S SLOUGH - A debut is in the making for the next sprint boat races in St. John on Aug. 28.
Dangerous Curves is a team of locals, Mike Thomas and Clint O'Keefe, who formed last year and waited out the pandemic-canceled 2020 season.
Then the night before the opening race at Webb's Slough in June, they put the boat in the water for a test run and it did not go as they hoped.
"Catastrophic failure," said Thomas.
The boat sucked in water, ruined two push-rods, and bent a valve.
No racing for them and their debut was delayed.
Since then, Thomas and O'Keefe took the engine out of the boat an...
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