for Endurance Racing.  This past summer, at the Nashville National Tour Race you were on a Yamaha, and I noticed at the World Championships you were on a Sea-Doo.  What happened during that time for you to switch ski’s?

KR:   Our rig was parked for a while in Houston, Texas awaiting the tour stop in Baytown, and all of our equipment including our two Yamaha race boats were there as well.  I had a ’98 Sea-Doo XP that I used to race

in the Limited class that was just sitting and collecting cobwebs, so we decided to throw some gas in it and go race a local Bullett event.  I have a lot of history on that particular hull; we actually bought one of the first ones that rolled off the truck in 1998.  I ended up winning the Pro Superstock class against Region 1’s best that weekend.  The boat felt so good that I knew if it had some more horsepower, I would be able to win a World Championship on it.  During the tour, we collected all the pieces we would need to build a fast Superstock, and when the tour was over, it took my mechanic Steve Stricklin a little over a month to make our strong Limited