IMBPA D12 Points Race #3, Queenstown, MD

[properchopper]

Sounds like some good racing coming up Good luck to all, boil that water & take some pictures

[Chilli]

Thanks for the well wishes guys.

Everyone drive safe. I'm leaving right after John gets off school. We should be there very late afternoon.

[carlcisneros]

have fun guys.

hope the weather holds out for you as well.

[HOTWATER]

Sounds like some good racing coming up Good luck to all, boil that water & take some pictures

Thanks Tony! I think it's cool that you follow what's going on with us East coast guys....we'll let you know what happens!

have fun guys.

hope the weather holds out for you as well.

Thanks Carl! Well be watching out for the pop-up T-storms...

See you in a couple weeks!

-Kent

[Chilli]

Congrats on your daughters graduation Carl. See you next weekend!

[Chilli]

District 12 race #3 is a wrap. We had a great time. It was hotter than heck but the thunder and rain missed us all weekend so I'm not going to complain. We met two guys from OSE who came out to watch us run. I love to see new faces at the race! John "spicedcrab" dropped by to visit us. He had the Delmarva people thinking someone ordered 15 bushels of crabs. LOL. If you ever decide to race with us John, you'll fit right in!!! Pete "Maryland FE" hung out with us all weekend and I think we sunk a hook in him. He's waiting to get his ML tunnel so he can come out and join the fun. I also put Pete to work changing a motor for me while I was pitting for other people. Thanks Pete!!!

And speaking of helping out. That was story of the weekend. I leant Kent a fin for his mono. He leant my one for my JAE. Don Ferette, helped Kent replace a servo in his Rico. Dick Loeb saved the day for John's VS1 when the Motor/shaft collet stripped out. I got a chance to repay Dick back when he broke a brass cooling nipple on his rudder. Everyone did what ever they could to keep everyone running and that was awesome!! I'm proud to be a member of this bunch.

As for the racing, there was frustration early for a few of us but it all got worked out and just about everyone took home some wood. We had some great competition with the combined nitro/FE classes. Dick edged out a nitro racer in B/P Mono for first place. Kent had some control issues due to a bad rudder servo and his Rico now shows great potential. That thing is a rocket. My Insane Sport Hydro was edged out by a nitro rigger in B/P-Spec hydro. I took one first and three seconds in four heats with that boat. John took third with my old JAE. I cant remember how the FE tunnel boats did. John ran his VS1 for the first time and loved it. After all the problems I had with the Woodstuff, the VS1 has restored my enthusiasm in tunnel boats. We had a pair of one heat FE Mono and FE Hydro shootouts. Dick took the Mono shootout with the Cyberstorm and John made Papa proud taking the Hydro shootout with the JAE. In other news, the Loebs took home a box of awards in FE, nitro and gas classes. Thats a new district first! Dicks Jersey Skiff was rock'n I finally got some balls in stock gas and put my nose in lane one at the start. I ended up with a wire to wire victory for my first gas heat win (without the entire field DNF'ing) . No one could touch the Sniper in clean water. Mono guru Steve Sutton did take the victory in the class for the weekend. I also ran Open Offshore for fun and the Sniper could just not handle the sloppy water. I DNF'ed every heat. It was still fun!!! Lastly I want to thank Don for sponsoring the awards for the Shootout!! We appreciate your support Don!!! Now get a FE boat ready to race!!!

Thats it for now. Sorry if I missed anything. Next race in just two weeks in my home pond in Northern, VA.

[HOTWATER]

Man, I had a great time this weekend. It was great seeing everybody and meeting a couple of the guys from the OSE board!!! Pete, thanks for hanging out and helping out with things this weekend! You are a good guy! Would be great to see some pics you took with that awesome camera!!

I had a bit of a rough start this weekend, especially with the Rico, but Don Ferrette jumped on board to give me a hand and pointed out that my servo was the problem! He gave me one of his servos and I dremeled out a new spot for it and Don fit the new servo in place...problem solved! I am now a happy camper...Thanks Don for being there for me!!!

Wish I could've placed better in the classes I was in, but was more interested in getting my boats dialed in better...lots of learning experiences this weekend......I left the Delmarva race today feeling much more confident about the progress I had made with my tunnel and Mono.

Chilli, I had a great time with you and John this weekend...you guys are my boyz! Thanks for Q'in up the burgers and dogs yesterday (that hit the spot!) and for stoping at Dunkin' Donuts each morning on the way to the drivers meetings...I needs me coffee fix in the morning...lol!

Boy, Dick and Carol Loeb sure did clean up pretty good this weekend...they were given a box to put all of their trophies in...congrats guys!!


Next up....The Centreville race!!!

[moonlighter112]

Had a great time this weekend,my skiff was a blast WOOOW!!!what a hoot.Still getting my Nitro 295 dialed in last heat it was rockin cool to see a nitro boat second stage its gonna be a super fast lil tunnel,F/E tunnel ran great still a little tweeking left, Cyberstorm ran great had alot of fun with this boat(Chilli an Kent are coming after me hard, John you are lookin great young gun pickin on us OLE guys) Chilli thanks for lettin Carol dig into my wallet you know what I mean now I need to get my 20 Sport Hyro going for her.The cookie Lady had a great weekend also we had 9 trophys between both of us. Thanks great fun Dick an Carol

[properchopper]

Congrat's to all. Does my heart good to hear of the sportsmanship going on; the way everyone shares and helps out is just as memorable as the trophy dashes

[Maryland FE]

Kent and Mike,

It was great to finally put a face to a name. Glad that I could help you guys out. Mike the hook did get sunk in, DEEP!! Mike, it was great to meet your son, John. I was glad to see he had a good weekend with both his boats. I was like a sponge around you guys, learning and observing everything I could. Glad to see everyone got trophies, I'll get mine next year.

Another plus was meeting Dick and Carol Loeb , and finally getting to see the ML PS295 and NS295 close up and in action. You know that made my weekend.

"You're all good people" I look forward to seeing you all at the next round in Centerville, VA in a couple weeks.

I'll post pic's in the very near future.

Pete

[Maryland FE]

Kent "Hotwater" in action....

[Maryland FE]

Chilli "Nautiboyz" and son, John in action.....

[Maryland FE]

Dick "Moonlighter112" and Carol in action.....

[Doug Smock]

Looks and sounds like you fellas, and lady "did it like it ought to be done" congrats!!!!

Thanks for the pics Pete.
Doug

[Chilli]

Nice pics' Pete. Thanks for posting. Bring the camera to the Capitol Race. You'll be closer to the water and level with the pond.