Starting in 2010, Irvine Lake in Orange County, California Hosted Some of the Wildest V-Drive Regattas on the Planet!
For 363 days a year, Irvine Lake, located in the rolling hills of eastern Orange County, California is a quiet, calm and serene reservoir where the loudest audible sound might come from a bird chirping or a fish jumping for its morning breakfast.
In fact, for anglers, Irvine Lake is considered one of the prime hunting grounds for trophy trout, catfish and bass thanks to a mega-stocking policy that routinely yields full stringers of keepers.
However, if you’re a hook, line, sinker and bait type of person, you might want to look elsewhere on Father’s Day weekend each year since Irvine Lake plays host to one of the most outrageous V-Drive Regattas in the entire country. The only thing that they can’t always count is water. The Santiago Flats area where the V-Drive Regatta is held is notoriously shallow and sometimes goes bone-dry thanks to a Southern California near rainless winter.
What normally makes the Irvine event so attractive is that it offers both land and water access plus a K-Boat Challenge race that has top competitors preparing a year in advance to win the much coveted bragging rights as king of the lake.
In 2010, Rick King of Speed Engineering in his blown Chevy powered Daytona flatty did exactly that, crowned king-of-the-lake over a classy field of more than a dozen hard-charging K-Boats, a bigger turn-out than at virtually any sanctioned race of the year. And along with the unofficial Irvine title comes a considerable cash award that puts some serious icing on the cake.
Over the years, the Irvine V-Drive Regatta has grown to well in excess of one-hundred boats, 75 of which are pre-registered and given lake launch and drive-it-like-you-stole-it privileges for the weekend. Take a look at some of the action and equipment and you be the judge, it was great while it lasted.
If you want to check out more, visit Jerry Griffin’s Facebook page at V-Drive Video Productions.
For 363 days a year, Irvine Lake, located in the rolling hills of eastern Orange County, California is a quiet, calm and serene reservoir where the loudest audible sound might come from a bird chirping or a fish jumping for its morning breakfast.
In fact, for anglers, Irvine Lake is considered one of the prime hunting grounds for trophy trout, catfish and bass thanks to a mega-stocking policy that routinely yields full stringers of keepers.
However, if you’re a hook, line, sinker and bait type of person, you might want to look elsewhere on Father’s Day weekend each year since Irvine Lake plays host to one of the most outrageous V-Drive Regattas in the entire country. The only thing that they can’t always count is water. The Santiago Flats area where the V-Drive Regatta is held is notoriously shallow and sometimes goes bone-dry thanks to a Southern California near rainless winter.
What normally makes the Irvine event so attractive is that it offers both land and water access plus a K-Boat Challenge race that has top competitors preparing a year in advance to win the much coveted bragging rights as king of the lake.
In 2010, Rick King of Speed Engineering in his blown Chevy powered Daytona flatty did exactly that, crowned king-of-the-lake over a classy field of more than a dozen hard-charging K-Boats, a bigger turn-out than at virtually any sanctioned race of the year. And along with the unofficial Irvine title comes a considerable cash award that puts some serious icing on the cake.
Over the years, the Irvine V-Drive Regatta has grown to well in excess of one-hundred boats, 75 of which are pre-registered and given lake launch and drive-it-like-you-stole-it privileges for the weekend. Take a look at some of the action and equipment and you be the judge, it was great while it lasted.
If you want to check out more, visit Jerry Griffin’s Facebook page at V-Drive Video Productions.
