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Smith Mountain Lake State Park is a 1,148-acre (4.65 km 2) state park along the shores of Smith Mountain Lake in Bedford County, Virginia near Huddleston.Primarily a recreational area, it offers water-related activities (with a swimming area, occasional boat tours as well as rental boats, kayaks and tubes) as well as camping, picnicking, and hiking facilities. [1]
The most common form of inshore powerboat racing involves a race around a two pin (buoy) or multi-pin circuit of approximately 1.5 – 2 km in length. Each pin marks a turn in the course. Races will vary in duration, normally no more than 45 minutes, but endurance category races can last much longer, such as the "24 Hours of Rouen".
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Stock Outboard Racing uses both hydroplane and runabout or monoplane hulls with racing engines that use a service outboard powerhead and a racing lower unit with a direct drive (i.e. start in gear, no gear reduction). Racing in this form ranges from classes designated as follows: A Class, B Class, C Class and D Class.
The lake reached its normal water level in March 1966. The lake covers 20,600 acres (83 km 2) and has over 500 miles (800 km) of shoreline. The north shore of the lake lies entirely in Bedford County. Located along the lake shore at Wirtz, Virginia is the Gwin Dudley Home Site, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [4]
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The match racing took place in the Soling after selection races in fleet race format also in the Soling. This discipline was continued for the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. A new event for 2012 was the Women’s Keelboat Match Racing, using the Elliott 6m. The World Match Racing Tour is the world's pre-eminent monohull match racing series.
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