Joe and Sam Race Their Riverboat in the Yukon 800
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2018
- The Yukon 800 Mile Marathon dates back 47 years and is a 2-day high speed riverboat race. The run on the Tanana and Yukon Rivers travels through hundreds of miles of vast Alaskan wilderness. It is billed as the longest, roughest and toughest speed boat race in the world.
This video is the Yukon 800 as seen from the village of Tanana. 800 miles of physically taxing and dangerous running at speeds between 50 and over 70 miles per hour. Many racers live in or have ties to the villages along the race route. These men and women put their heart and souls and often their last dime into getting the boats and motors ready to race each year.
Tanana's Joey Zuray and Samantha Wright have their boat entered and are Tanana's favorite this year. Just finishing is considered an accomplishment with many years half or more of the boats entering not finishing. This was filmed on the first day of the race. The second day after having his lower unit almost fall off and lashing and wiring it back on Joe Zuray came in 1 hour and in 3rd place behind 1st place Floyd Huntington the 2018 winner. It was a good day. Stan Zuray
Also "Carry On: Stan Zuray's Journey from Boston Greaser to Alaskan Homesteader" is now available on Amazon in paperback, eBook, and audiobook. Amazon reviews always appreciated. www.amazon.com/dp/1521098891
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Soooo awesome, interesting looking long boats, great weather for the race and what a proud dad🤗🖤👍
As a Smokejumper from Missoula Montana I had the privilege of seeing and staying in places I know I'll never see again, unless I para chute in like I did. I flew from Palmer to Galina, & what SIGHT my eyes got to see. Thanks for making these videos!
Thank you Stan. Great to be able to keep up with our favorite Yukon families...
Thank you for the video on the race Stan. Much respect for those that take the time and money to do these kind of races. It's a testament to the lifestyle and hard working attitude almost all northerners have for their communities. It's heart warming to see Joe and Sam take part in the race. I'm sure they had an interesting time with the breakdown, if not for that they may have been in first place. Thanks again for all you do to bring us your videos on the life style you have and so graciously share. Great production man hope to see more soon. Take care and keep smiling sir!
Stan that is so cool. Looks like a lot of fun and the weather looks beautiful. It was also nice to see Charlie. Looks like he lost some weight. Looks good! Take care, and all the best!!
Wow! Thanks for showing us this!!👍👍👍
I love these new vids stan keep them coming they just get better!!! Looks like plenty of fun the weather is gorgeous you folks are really living it up.
I Love the Diversity. All walks of life enjoying each other. Awesome stuff Stan.
Thanks Stan for sharing a event that I'm sure not to many know about down here in the low 48.
Great vid stan Kathleen looks fantastic with her hair natural what a great event you s have, them boats are fast
Congratulations Joe. 3rd is very respectable in this race. I'll be watching for the next race.
This is so cool. I appreciate you sharing these videos and keeping the fans involved in Tanana life.
THANK YOU STAN FOR SHARING! AMAZING BOATS AND CREW
Thank you Stan, Keep the Great Video's Coming!!! the discovery channel, can go discover it's self, their loss!!!!
Very cool!! Thanks for another great video, Stan!
thanks Stan! love the video.
can't wait for the next one☺
Thanks for sharing, nice to see Charlie go joe and Sam . Looks like fun. 👍😎
Great video Stan. Keep them coming. Thanks
Those boats are so cool. They look like surfboards with engines.
Just about that actually
That was awesome and nice to see Charlie not in a re run lol
I'm so happy to see you and your son Joe here! I've missed you guys so much on TV! I've set my notifications to see your new stuff as well. Glad to have you back!
Great video Stan . Thank You .
nice to see what is going on in Tanana good to see Charlie as well. pretty high speeds for a long distance.thanx for the video stan.
Good Luck Joe! Thanks Stan always good to see your Video's. Hope to see more soon. Be sure to let us know how the Race went. I hope Joe and his Crew Win and all have a safe ride.
Got some race info in the video description you may like. Joe came in 3rd, 1hour behind 1st and was very happy.
Alright! Good to hear they made it in good time. Thanks Stan and keep your video's coming when you can.
Spirit be with you all and a good Hunting season ahead.
Great video. Nice to see everyone together and having a great time. Can’t wait to see the finish. Good luck Joe and his partner.
I didn't get the finish sorry.
It’s cool that I’ve seen most of those people on their tv show!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What’s up Stan?? And joe!!! Y’all are my favorite family on the show!! Y’all seem like really great people! God bless you and your family
Love your videos 👍👍 waiting for a new episod of the old "life story" with you Stan. Keep the Good work up! //Sweden
Great team, great support!
Thanks Stan buddy. It looks like a great time. You couldn't have asked for a better day for it really.
Just ordered your book from amazon. Can’t wait to read it. Cindy O’Brien
Thank you, Stan
Their like a bass boat/canoe/raceboat/paddle board!!! Awesome never seen these before!
Tht awesome good job love seeing you all
Thanks Stan never heard of the race till now . Hope Joe And Stan do well.
Stay safe.
The video description has some info on race. Joe and Sam (Samantha) came in 3rd which is great
Super Video viellen Dank Stan 👍
Great video Stan. If you and/or joey ever make it to Florida your always welcome on my boat
Thanks for sharing
Can't wait to see the outcome thank you very interesting .
The video description has some info on race. Joe came in 3rd which is great. There is a Yukon 800 website.
Loads of fun
Thumbs up
Enjoyed!!
Awesome stuff...gr8 community.
Looks like a blast !!!!
Hi Charlie
Pretty cool Stan. Takes me back to my youth on the Great Lakes ... not 800 miles but wave busting all day. Good crowd, cute women. Best
I just love your vidos.It really makes want to vist .My mother has a friend who is from your town.I always want to go see were she was from.She would tell us great stories from when she was growing up.
What was the family name and when. Been there since 1973
I love your lifestyle stan
Parabéns vcs são d+++++++++++++++👍👏
I love the fact the river is essentially Main Street!!
Hey that's Sean, the dog kennel guy work for me Moore.
That looks like fun! Hope Joe does good.
The video description has some info on race. Joe came in 3rd which is great.
That really IS good. 800 mile race would be a grueling race. Congrats Joe!
Hey Stan they're trolling too fast can hardly keep your lure in the water. Haha.
What a blast, 6000 rpm is really pushing a stock motor for sure. Must be expensive to run wide open for 800 miles
Very expensive for mostly low budget racers but they love doing it. Not like pro car racing expenses though. Many rebuild the engines themselves and scrounge parts.
Always enjoy your videos, which I find to be very informative and interesting. I especially like learning about the customs & lore of the area; but had difficulty hearing Kathleen’s narrative due to my old ears and the background noise. Please keep the videos coming.
I increased the volume on that part also but know what you mean.
Hi Stan.Was this taken in the morning?Was wondering if your town is dry?Didn`t see any beer or the like.
I'm an Alaskan refugee, our family fled back in '73 to "retire", but we had too many brands in the fire, Dad finally said no more in 1990 with the 3 weeks of 60 below freezing temps in Anchorage, but I loved watching this race more than the Iditarod.
Back when, the hulls were aluminum or fiberglass with aluminum reinforcement, but I don't know if they're using carbon composite now or not. And these outboards, from the size, I wouldn't say much more than 35 horse, but how much wrenching/$$$ goes into them? Are we talking tuned ports for intake and exhaust, ground heads, domed ground pistons vs cast iron, are they running premium or 110 low-lead avgas? Custom carb/jets for intake?
I'm not sure what you meant by chopper prop, I'm guessing at around 8 minutes that looks like a pretty steep bite for an outboard, close to if not 45 degree overall, but if you hold half of a prop out of the water, it's losing 50% of it's thrust. The lower half of the outboard being submerged would make sense, but not half of the prop itself.
Sorry for the late post, it's been even longer for me with this sport. Btw, anyone know where I can score pint jars of fireweed jelly? I've got lower 48er's begging for it.
My son Joe is really into his race boat. He had to get race committee okay to race his first Yukon 800 as he was under 18. Youngest captain of a boat to ever race in the 800. Boats are all plywood and screws and nails and wood glue. Pretty primitive in this day of high tech epoxies and carbon fibers. Motors are all stock blocks (required) and limited to 50 hp at the prop so the old 50 Mercury at the driveshaft is not allowed. Props do run out of the water and the lower unit is all redone and the water intake is on the underside of the front of the gear case. It's a love to these guys that race and they often spend all their disposable (and more) for a year on their race.
What make and horsepower motor does he have on his boat
Great video to watch! So was this filmed at a "pit stop" of sorts to refuel? I'm a little confused (nothing new)....
It was a pit stop to gas up. Mandatory time at checkpoint. Next stop Galena (400 mile point) and spend night.
cant believe so many people watch and don't give a thumbs up
Guess we'll just be happy they watch. Many are in a hurry I'm sure. Media worlds like that - so much going on.. I know there are so many things I don't do also. I see chat and notifications and private mesages and I feel bad I can't respond. Got my own little limited world just keeping up with reading/liking peoples posts and commenting on questions asked - and the occasional video or pictures on Facebook etc. .
Are these “stock” boats, or do the participants have to build the boats themselves. Perhaps a future video could have joey explaining the boat, as I could not tell what you meant by “Upper & Lower” unit, I saw only one propeller.
Wow that is a big race distance you don’t do things by half up there in Alaska Stan.!
I thought I recognized that voice!
Great view of the river and town! Everyone has come out for the race! Does the village put on a dinner for everyone on this day? Stan what would the gas prices be up there ?
Gas around 5.50 lately. Was almost $7 one time. Racers are fed but no town dinner as they just stop for gas and food.
Looks so nice there! I live 10 min. From work ,but that is still to far for me!!!! 4 stop signs or 1 stop sign and 1 light depending on what way you want to go ! I drove back from Quebec to southern Ontario 2 weeks ago and I have never seen so much traffic!!! I said to my wife there is something wrong with this lifestyle!!! I am sure you don't miss that!!! You said in the show you came from the big city!!! NewYork maybe!!! So quite there! Except for the boats that day!!
Hello Stan. Really enjoying the videos. Hey it is difficult to hear your vids sometimes, I couldn’t hear your wife well, and was interested in what she had to say. Do you have microphones or planned on getting some? Just a small thing, but love the videos none the less.
I know and that video it was a mistake but did not want to not put it on. Sometimes a computer is much more loud than a phone but not sure what you're using. Some of my old videos are degraded VCR ones but again the options were no video as I have already increased sound during the editing. To just get better at doing it is the secret.
Hey Stan..Thanks for another great video...Just wondering..What length boat and what horsepower engine do they use ?..Must be hell trying to keep them cool..
Limit is 50 hp at the prop shaft. Said to be the fastest boats per horsepower in the world. That lightness is what makes them so physically hard to handle especially for 400 miles 2 days in a row. Any small water roughness transmits to a situation in which a mellow comfortable ride is not to be had. That and dodging logs.
Thanks Stan.....I didn't even think of the logs floating....Insane !!! Joe is quite the daredevil.....Be safe..
I enjoy your videos so much. Its was very hard to understand Kathleen due to background noise.
Is Joey's team in the lead?
I know - was disappointed in that audio - should have had it closer but lots going on. Better on a computer. Joe was not in lead that day.
Thank you for the video, 3 person crew?
Yes 3 people for safety
@@stanzuray ..thanks
Thinking out loud here... Some videos of hunting and trapping this winter would be awesome. Now that Tanana is loved by millions you don't need a TV channel to keep the "Yukon People" story out there. One of those chest-mounted GoPro cameras might come in handy. Example: Before Joey goes hunting or trapping strap the chest-mount camera on him. When he gets back he gives you the camera and you edit down to maybe 10-15 minutes of prime video. Do the same with Charlie and others...
PS: Where can I buy one of those Tanana Fire Department t-shirts? I would also like to buy a fur hat and mittens made by the Tanana ladies. The Tanana/Zuray online store could be very helpful to other villagers.
Nobody is making the Tanana Fire shirts anymore. I never did it. Last person was one of the cameramen on the show but he sold all his equipment. Go to Courtney's Facebook page for fur products etc.
No other boat hull design does more mph than horespwer!
Yes I have always heard that too.
dang it is 93 today saying all week will be like this
Thought I might see a suped-up long tail motor like the Asians use...some of them are blistering fast!
Re watching...the series seasons 123 once again..question? I’m gonna buy 4567 .. love to make sure the money goes to the cast.
We were paid for the initial filming and that is all. Reruns are not in our contract. The TV industry rarely does that especially with small scale cast people like us.
Fuck if I’m pissed. Those greedy shits. I want my money to go to u. U all work so hard and I need to figure out how to bye the seasons but get the money to u
Rich man sport
Joe was haling ass lol
When do all start to get cold up there ? I am in ohio.
Be in the 30's at night real soon. Freezing weather by end of Sept.
47 years, damn I think Nixon was pres. you been there that long. Massachusetts hasn’t left you man. Incidentally, I’m Sorry to hear about those gas leaks what the hells going on there in Mass?
Davis Fred I live about 30 minutes from Lawrence/N.Andover....I said the same thing!! For as long as he’s been away from Mass he really has kept a thick Massachusetts accent!!
As far as the gas leak....what a mess!
I thought it was terrorism, thankfully not!
CHARLIE AND SAM
I wish i could have heard Kathleen.
I've never seen leading boat design tech overcome mph/horsepower, without whity stealing it! Wtf!
Believe these boats are an extention of the long flat bottom boats used with low horsepower outboards all up and down the Yukon years back. It was not that long ago so that history is hardly ancient or contested. The race is still firmly in the hands of the native community from what I see although other ethnic race people are involved and welcomed. As with the dog teams that raced it was originally people gathereing and tuning their boats and dogs up to see could be the fastest after a hard season of fishing or trapping.
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Don't envy it too much - nobody's life is perfect . Take care.