Oregon daily emerald., June 02, 1983, Page 8, Image 7

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Despite showing a lot of guts and skill,
the defending champion couldn’t finish the
white water course down the fatally
dangerous Rogue River Monday in the Boat
nik White Water Race.
Joel Shepherd would have to be crazy to
be racing again after his escapades two
years ago when he lost control of his
hydroplane in the Hellgate Canyon riffles
and took the big toe off of a picture
snapping spectator standing too close to
the river.
But Shepherd came back and won in
‘82, denying he’s crazy, just in control and
racing for the “green stuff” — the $1,500 to
the champion. And always feeling a little
scared in the bargain.
"You’re scared all the time. Your
adrenaline is pumping so bad you can’t even
breathe when you get to Hellgate,”
Shepherd said.
He was on the brink of taking the title
again Monday until his engine quit after
three-fourths of the 60-mile race that begins
in the mild waters of Grants Pass’ Riverside
Park and passes through the dreaded Dunn
Riffle before looping down river to Galice
and returning to the starting line.
Young Neut Grant — a kid compared to
the other drivers — took the lead from
Shepherd and kept it until the end.
When he coasted to the shore Grant rip
ped off his helmet, enjoyed the welcome
from his fan club and told news people his
secret — a new stainless steel prop that
bends in the center according to the river
level.
“The wind wasn’t a problem” Grant said
breathlessly. “There was a lot of debris go
ing down and steering was a problem."
The racers r.eeded skill more than
speed because the water level was up a foot
and a half for the 25-year-old Boatnik white
water race, "by far the best” in the Northern
California-Oregon circuit.
The boats themselves are made of air
craft mahogany. A kill strap is attached to
the throttle and the life jacket so the engine
will die if the driver is thrown out.
The 13 hydroplanes reached speeds of
70 to 80 mph in the calm waters of the Rogue
but slowed down to half that pace in the
white water danger zones up river.
Shepherd, who used to be just another
Grants Pass spectator on the river bank until
his father encouraged him to start racing,
wasn’t the only one disappointed.
And there are plenty of dangers.
In his 22 year career as a white water
racer, Zane Grant remembers a disaster that
taught him to constantly watch for foreign
objects in the river.
“I had a paper cup caught on the shield
in front of the prop and I couldn’t go
anywhere."
Grant, from Grants Pass, said his racing
goal is “staying in the river right side up.”
The Boatnik race is part of a weekend of
events the 18 men in the Active Club spon
sor each year to raise money for fire victims,
the Special Olympics and organizations that
help children.
The charity benefits and the 5,000 or
6,000 tourists the Chamber of Commerce
said came to the city are not enough to con
vince the Department of Environmental
Quality (DEQ) — almost a dirty word in the
hydroplane racing language — to discard
the new engine requirements that will take
the thrill of the loud noise away from the
races.
"There are so many damn more Califor
nians moving in,” Shepherd said. “The few
who are complaining ruin it for everybody.”
Although complaints come from
homeowners who live along the Rogue in the
designated practice zone at Griffin Park,
Blanchard said the Active Club will lobby if
necessary to keep the races going.
The noise level is one of the race's at
tractions for the crowd standing along the
bank, he said. "It gets the adrenaline going.”
Oblivious to the motors that sound like
giant bees swarming toward the kill, the park
ducks continue to swim with an air of
hospitality.
The noise is part of the thrill for the
drivers too, who, as one racer from Gold
Beach put it, need with a little knowledge, a
little skill and a little goofiness to do
anything as crazy as tackle the Hogue River.
Story by Melissa Martin
Photo courtesy of Ross Martin