Why are there 2 model boating organizations?

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  • OffShore_RC
    Member
    • Feb 2011
    • 80

    #1

    Why are there 2 model boating organizations?

    Being new to model boats, I was wondering why there are 2 model boating organizations (NAMBA & IMPBA)?

    Seems to me they have similar rules and goals for us RC boaters.
    My Fleet:
    Proboat Apache 24
    Formula 1 Style Tunnel Hull (In perpetual Delay )
  • Flyguy55
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2008
    • 216

    #2
    I don't know all the reasons , but I was at the IMPBA Nationals at San Diego in 1970 when it happened.
    IMPBA at that time was turning left , counter clockwise . The west coast racers wanted to turn right as we do now . I went to the annual meeting . It wa obvious something was up . All the east coast guys were sitting on one side of the room . The west coast guy were sitting on the otherside.
    It was my first Nationals as a racer. I had attended the 66 Nationals in San Francisco as a spectator .
    There was some pretty heated debate about other rules also. Mike Mehlbush had an Octura designed Wildfire lapstrake mono that won one or two mono classes . After some balsa " steps " were taped or glued on it also won hydro . If you look at the NAMBA rules even today its very clear a hull is either a Mono or a Hydro .
    I think the west coast guys had already contacted Ma Coad of the WAM ( Western Aero Modelers ? i think )
    because it didn't take long for NAMBA to be formed .
    The NAMBA Nationals this yr is the 40 th Annual NAMBA Nationals , to be held at Legg Lake near Los Angeles .
    There is also third organization . The APBA ( American Power Boat Association ) also has an RC division .
    The Organizations still disagree on many areas of the rules .
    That's my recollection of how and why there are more then one organization .

    Dick Roberts

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    • OffShore_RC
      Member
      • Feb 2011
      • 80

      #3
      Originally posted by Flyguy55
      There is also third organization . The APBA ( American Power Boat Association ) also has an RC division .

      Dick Roberts
      Thanks for the insight.

      I didn't know the APBA had an RC division too. I thought they only dealt with real powerboat racing.

      Oh well, you always learn something
      My Fleet:
      Proboat Apache 24
      Formula 1 Style Tunnel Hull (In perpetual Delay )

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      • Fluid
        Fast and Furious
        • Apr 2007
        • 8012

        #4
        In the PNW we broke from NAMBA in the early 1990s due to......disagreements in how the organization was being run, not the racing rules. APBA was starting their R/C Division so we joined them. We raced FE under the APBA organization through 1996. Then changes in both ABPA and NAMBA prompted us to return to NAMBA starting in 1997.


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        • Flyguy55
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2008
          • 216

          #5
          My info may not be current,the last I heard one of the clubs that race 1/8th and
          10th unlimited scale in the NW and a club in KS still belong to APBA .

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          • Fluid
            Fast and Furious
            • Apr 2007
            • 8012

            #6
            That could be right Dick, I never ran with the scale PNW club. The big FE clubs back then were the Northwest Fast Electrics and the Puget Sound Fast Electrics.


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