Chris, I have no idea what your connections are to Port Townsend, but this infomercial on both sections of your Sept. 11, 2019 edition is so very out of touch with the very essence of what this peninsula is all about. Please think about this disgusting article. All those I’ve talked to are sincerely repulsed. The below has been sent around. I take The Leader but this is very disappointing.

Dear fellow residents of Jefferson County, this rather scary article about “Sprint Boat Racing” was plastered on the front page of The Leader and again on the front page of the this week section. The article reads similar to an infomercial promoting this big buff motor, noisy, polluting, so-called “Man Sport.” It is the very antithesis of what our lovely peninsula is all about. Sort of a NASCAR racing on artificial water race courses. Please, let’s nip this one in the bud and let this out-of-touch clueless newspaper know we’re not going to be a Las Vegasville cheap thrills arcade.

Don’t fall for the pitch that this will draw more business for our local merchants. Our locals are doing well because this stuff is not here!

Let the Leader know how you feel!

What happens when you slap a giant engine in the back of a little boat, set it free in a criss-crossing course where the driver must make hairpin turns at 80 to 90 miles per hour?

“Now, the American Sprint Boat Association, co-owned by Dan Morrison and Doug Hendrickson, wants to build a track in Jefferson County.” [Leader, Sept. 11]

Sprint Boat Racing.

This is not us!

Scott Matthews
Port Townsend