First Squash Boat built-Record set!

List,
    Joe Goetze's "smaller squash" 798.4lb. first place Big-E Fair winner 
becomes first Squash Boat. Joe had a larger 896.2lb first place Topsfield 
winner Squash, ON THE SAME PLANT!  Grown from Chris Anderson's 815lb seed. 
Both pol. with Jim Kuhn's 631lb that grew Joe's 2nd place 1998 Topsfield 
winner 917.2Lb pumpkin last year. The 917.2 was very white. Both his squash 
were very green this year. Joe is obviously doing something right.
     Anyway, I swapped Joe one of my Reynolds Lifting Tarps for his 798.4 
Squash. On Sat. of last week I entered it in a Regatta north of Topsfield Ma. 
A local AG grower held the Regatta to raise money for Parkinson's research. I 
believe he raised several thousand dollars as there was about 100 people on 
the beach at Stiles Pond in  Boxford Ma. Pictures were in the Boston Globe 
yesterday, Sunday page B4 or 5. 
     I was hoping to set the water speed record in a vegetable. It did not 
happen, I was sponsored by Atlantic Marine Outboards in Westbrook Ct. They 
gave me a brand new 3.2 HP Johnson motor. It was a short shaft motor, it 
needed to be a long shaft motor. The two other Electric powered Pumpkins were 
to fast and beat me badly. They were also several hundred lbs lighter than my 
boat. Still no respect for Squash! I'm getting a long shaft motor this week 
and will attempt the water speed record this week in a local lake in Guilford 
Ct. The police said they would try a radar gun on me to make the speed 
official. Will keep you posted- Green is Beautiful!

   Capt. of the Goetze's Missile 
        Alan R.

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