IMPBA D1 - Northern Lights MBC - 2014 "THE CAN AM" July 26 & 27

[Terry Keeley]

Great job today by our NLMBC Crew, we're ready! :)

[Chilli]

Beautiful site. Sorry I'm gonna miss it this year. Good luck this weekend!!

[jaike5]

We spread things out pretty good so no FE heats are back to back, you'll have time!

Well don't know about that.... P-hydro , 1 heat break P-limited cat, 2heat break, Q-hydro, Open mono, P-sport hydro, one after the other, no worries though FE can do it . Just had to crap out on some retrieve boat duties while batteries were charging. Awesome pit chick helped out large !!

Cheers, Jay.

[Terry Keeley]

What a great weekend!

Thanks again to our NLMBC guys and gals for working their tails off to provide a first class event for our guests.

The site improvements made by the park made it easy to get in & out. Even though the wind picked up both days the racing surface stayed flat. A big group had fun at "The Landing" restaurant Saturday night putting their discount coupons to good use.

Tim Kish's brainchild, the "Twin Engine Hydro Challenge", was very popular. As they say on TV "the crowd went wild"! We're looking forward to this class growing in the future.

Randy's "Can-Am Challenge" was another fun twist to the event pitting 10 randomly chosen contestants from the US and Canada against each other. Team Canada nudged out Team USA this year by only 969 points of a possible 20,000 total.

IMPBA D2 racer Jason Green cleaned up not only winning the Oneida Cup with perfect scores in LSG Mono & LSG Rigger but he also won the 50-50 on Sunday and a RTR Aquacraft Motley Crew! Hope you come back to defend the cup next year Jason, we'll be looking to get it back in D1! :P







Thanks RCRacingevents!



Photo courtesy Paul Charles:

[Terry Keeley]

[Chilli]

Looks like everyone had a great time Terry. Congratulations!!

Guess what I got in the mail on Thursday.. I'll be ready next year. Hopefully we can get better FE attendance also. Don't know if the NAMBA FE Nats hurt you all this year.

Say hi on 127.42 next time you are headed south. Ask for Chilli.

[Terry Keeley]

Looks like everyone had a great time Terry. Congratulations!!

Guess what I got in the mail on Thursday.. I'll be ready next year. Hopefully we can get better FE attendance also. Don't know if the NAMBA FE Nats hurt you all this year.

Say hi on 127.42 next time you are headed south. Ask for Chilli.

Bummer, you, Howard & Pags missed a good one. Maybe next year.

Going west next month but will certainly ask for you next time I'm through "Worshington".

[Chilli]

Okay Terry. Don't see you guys too much this time of year but you take over the joint in the winter LOL.

Be safe!

[J-Luc White]

I would like to say a big thank you to the guys and you know who you are for the big help so I could get my butt down there.
Great event guys a lot of good feedback Great racing great friends and weather all in all one of the best events in D1 make me proud to be your D1D.

Here's a few pic's over the weekend.

http://s37.photobucket.com/user/loco3939/slideshow/

[ray schrauwen]

First off, thank you NLMBC members that worked their butts off to get this organized, setup and done with little or no hiccups.

Next, Pags, you made the right choice via the wife. Although it was a great fun event, your body needs serious TLC after seeing how much pain you were in after Michigan. The hill that was at this venue would have done you (your Knees, etc) in unless you pitted right in front of the drivers stand.

The pond is an excellent place to run, lots of lanes, few if any weeds, great conditions sheltered from any heavy winds but, most times just the right amount of ripple to go real fast.

Next, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Bob Steiner. Without your trusty little 800watt genny I would have been unable to charge the whole weekend. You don't even run electric boats but, you had just enough for me to run 3 boats for 2 days. Like I said Bob, I OWE you one BIG time!

I purposely only brought 3 boats because I knew even with power that I would only have "X" amount of time between rounds to charge. Charging at a low level because of the smaller genny (not complaining!) still left me lots of time to socialize but, that's partly because I can not do boat retrieval duty as a NLMBC member because of my disability, sorry.

I know Jay was somewhat overwhelmed by having to do retrieval duty and trying to run 5 or so boats, not easy but, between rounds there was a good hour or more I'm sure to charge batts, not sure why you had time issues but, I'll try to figure that out another time. I know you had back to back heats and maybe that was a bit over the top, not sure. I do know you are always going to be great competition for me, you are no slouch nor are your boats.

Wendy and I had a great time. I really wish other FE guys that were able to come from the general area could have maybe put down some of their differences in personality or ego or whatever the case was and just come out and run some boats. The more that would have come out the easier retrieval duty gets.

With 3 boats and only 1 set of packs per boat and limited to approx. 500watts to charge from I had much free time in between rounds, like I said about a good hour to socialize and if I were able bodied I could have done a good 1/2 hour of retrieval duty in between rounds. Maybe the retrieval duties could have been scheduled better/differently for electric guys to be able to still get all charging done for those that run more than 3 classes like myself, I'm not sure but, we can look back and see what we can tweak to maybe make it easier yet for the FE guys to run lots of classes and still have time to charge and if you are a member of NLMBC still help with boat retrieval so it works out nice and smoothly, I dunno but, we have to data to go over and try to make improvements where possible.

We need every possible racer to come out to these events otherwise our numbers will fall.

O.k. sorry for the soap box crap...

Many thanks to all the able bodied people that helped me up and down the drivers stand and back up the hill. You guys deserve a medal or something but, all I can say is MUCHOS GRACIAS!!! and I'll try to drop some weight again too...

One of my favorite parts of the weekend was getting to know the guys that came from Quebec. These guys really know their stuff and build some of the most beautiful sport hydros I've seen. You guys may think I'm superman fast but, heck, you were giving me a great run for the money with 1P setups that frankly are very efficiently done, my hats off to all of you guys, Mike Parent and Co. Thank you for coming out, sorry I can't make Ottawa this year because of other obligations but, next year I plan to put it on the list of places to go. That P-Sport PTSS with a Leopard 3674-2200kv motor is a great fit in that hull and it makes me think why the heck do I need 2P for??? More speed, yeah but, hell, that's one extremely efficient boat setup. I do need to think about the future of FE racing open classes and is 2P really needed??? much to think about.

Luc White, you're a blast to have around, always pumping everyone up and putting smiles on everyone's faces, you make a great District Director, thank you for coming out!

The last race of the day was awesome. I forget the class but, they were big fuel Hydros and what a run off between these two guys, the crowd watching was totally blown away with that race that ended in a big round of applause, so it should have.

Thanks again to guys like Terry Keeley, Randy Rapedius, Tim Kish, Al .... (sorry forget yer last name) and all the rest in NLMBC etc that worked very hard to create a great fun weekend of racing at a great place.

I know there were people that could not make it for one reason or another but, you missed a really great get together and I hope you decide to come out next time.

I had the luxury of being able to sleep most of the day yesterday, I was pooped.

My Apologies for things I forget, I'm bad that way.

Cheers, Peace out!

[Doby]

Was Jay the only one doing retrieval boat duties? You make it sound that way Ray.

[Randy Rapedius]

IMPBA D1 - Northern Lights MBC - 2014 "THE CAN AM" July 26 & 27

Great post Ray. It was a pleasure having you participate and being part of the winning "Team Canada". It was unfortunate more FE racers didn't participate. For those who did ... Thank you.

Jay was asked to run the retrieve boat for 5 heats out of 24. (Approximately 40 min per round).

[Doby]

5 heats out of 24 sounds fair. Hope Jay is still alive after that

[jaike5]

John Bon Doby ..... picture this if you can

Ran p-hydro skip 3 heats, run P limited cat, skip 2heats, run Q sport hydro, open mono, p limited hydro back to back charge Batteries for all those classes safely, you know keeping an eye on them. while doing retrieve boat duties. Even the D-1 director was shaking his head in disbelief. No worries though Olly had my back while I checked and changed batteries. Oh by the way where were you Mr. JBD a big race like this 40 min. away and you don't show up. WTF. get over yourself and come and race. We all Know FE gets a bum rap. Deal with it. Come and race and fill on lookers with knowledge, they were impressed with the speed and stealth of the FE boats!!

Cheers, Jay.

[Doby]

Glad you are still alive Jay. Sounds like you were busier than a one armed wallpaper hanger!

The Mrs. and I had plans this weekend. Her opinion is that I used up my "race days" quota for this year in Michigan