Jason Barr is KGUN-TV's sports director and anchor, and he appears regularly on KGUN newscasts.
From above, they look and sound like speed boats. And, they are, that is, remote control speed boats.At Christopher Columbus Park's Archer Lake, as many of twenty two members of the Tucson Model Boat Club put their two-foot boats in the water, grab their transistors, and test their skills.Karl Morse has been a member for the Tucson Model Boat Club for fifty years, and is the club's president.'Just the thrill of it,' said Morse. 'It just gives you adrenaline.
'On this day, Morse and his club members are practicing. The course is an oval around buoys on the lake. A race is six laps long, or a mile. The faster boats top seventy miles an hour in this mental sport.'It's not as easy as you think when you are standing over there and the boat is around the corner,' said Morse.So, I decided to test my skill at remote control boat racing. I started slowly and made a turn.
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