By RON NEWBERRY
Whidbey News-Times Staff Reporter
Placing 1-year-old Nicholas Sandall into the cockpit of a slick-looking racing boat was the easy part.
Getting him out was another story.
“He likes cars and boats,” said his mother, Adrienne Sandall of Oak Harbor. “He didn’t want to get out of the boat.”
Little Nicholas joined older kids and many adults whose child-like curiousity came out at the sight of several racing boats and hydroplanes on display in front of Flyers Restaurant & Brewery in Oak Harbor Saturday.
The boats came to Oak Harbor as part of a “Show & Shine Boat Show,” which was intended to give local residents a preview of the sort of boats that will be buzzing across the harbor during the Oak Harbor Hydro Races Aug. 16-17.
