1976 Columbia Cup - Tri-Cities, WA 

I love any footage that includes my favorite boat of all time. The old Pay N Pak

I’ve told people how I remember the details of this race. Arriving at the river on the Pasco side that day in my grandparents late 1960s blue International truck. It was the first race I went to and I remember all the bright colors of the boats and the veil of blue smoke hanging just above the course from the old WW2 aircraft engines. That big barge at 2:24 that sat in the middle of the track with a large crane on it for pulling a boat up on deck if they needed to save it from sinking. It was the only boat race I went to where it rained most of the day and was relatively cool. That was an incredible day witnessing my first ‘flying circus’ on water. I turned four years old the next week, and now I’m on the brink of 51. Seems strange that most of the people that were on the river that day, including my grandparents and probably all of the drivers, are now gone. Maybe one day I’ll get to see another race just like this one in heaven with my grandparents and everyone else that was there. That would be something. Kid memories 😁👍

Dreams of memories respecting Rolls-Royce "Griffons and Merlins" and Others, of course. This is the day of real powerboat racing. Thank you kindly.

Bill Muncey great champion underappreciated! Great video thank you

It's strange to see no houses in the background. I grew up there and my family was always big fans of the Columbia cup.

Again thank you for all the great footage!

Enjoyed!!! 🏁🏁

Back in the days when a few guys a pile of plywood and asmall bag of cash got you racing.

Wow. That's... um... a lot of middle fingers. Bet that didn't make it to broadcast. :)

To bad the big piston eng are gone. The turbins are boring if there on tv i don't set the dvr 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡