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[trigger]

I’m glad I’m not the only person that see’s an amp daddy don post and I read it just as it’s spoken, takes me three times as long to read Dons posts..... great posts though.......

Erm....... I’d better stay on topic.....erm........ yeah limited motors.........rules.......

[Doug Smock]

I’m glad I’m not the only person that see’s an amp daddy don post and I read it just as it’s spoken, takes me three times as long to read Dons posts..... great posts though.......

Erm....... I’d better stay on topic.....erm........ yeah limited motors.........rules.......

[Doug Smock]

Not even that one time at boat camp Doug?

He was still in control of himself. I know that because he was still talking to me like I wasn't one of " his sons".

[raptor347]

Hey!!! What happens at boat camp, stays at boat camp!!!

[Doug Smock]

I think we're doing it wrong. We should have two days of boat camp with a little racing in the afternoon before dinner.

[donhuff]

OH GOOD GRIEF

[T.S.Davis]

I think we're doing it wrong. We should have two days of boat camp with a little racing in the afternoon before dinner.

One heat of each class but they all run together. 260 some odd boats. One heat. Anybody who finishes gets a real nice ribbon.

I always say we screwed up the NAMBA limited set back in 2008/9 but I got to thinking about that some. I wrote this in an email to someone recently. Thought I would share.

FE has been arguing about "limited" since 2009. Very true but IMO that's because we fowled it up in the first place. Impossible to be sure but I think that a size limit would have made the format last forever. In our defense......there was very little secondary market availability. No TP motors, no leopard motors, SSS motors weren't even a thought. Most secondary market motors available were better than the RTR motors and 3 times the price. We didn't want them in the class. We really did want rtr boats to be in the mix.

Back then we thought that opening it up more would allow someone to buy wins. At least that would be the perception of some. This is ridiculous of course. Real racers know it doesn't work that way. It works the way Don described. Creative guys are still creative guys. A better fin. Half a degree of strut. Shift that CG a 1/2". Guys that spend time at the pond figuring them out. That's what makes the fast guys fast. It aint magic or spending.

With the motors though, the secondary market is much better now than in 2009. Catering to the RTR market was clearly a mistake but our intentions were pure.

[raptor347]

I think we're doing it wrong. We should have two days of boat camp with a little racing in the afternoon before dinner.

We have an event like that every spring. 3 days-2 days of camping, test/tune, seaplanes and great camp food both nights, race on Sunday. It's one of my few "don't miss" events of the season.

[Doug Smock]

We have an event like that every spring. 3 days-2 days of camping, test/tune, seaplanes and great camp food both nights, race on Sunday. It's one of my few "don't miss" events of the season.

That's what I'm talking about! Way cool!

[donhuff]

How far away is Oregon Doug???

[Doug Smock]

How far away is Oregon Doug???

You're going to have fly us Don! No crazy in flight maneuvers please!! I don't want to be the first to poop in your plane!

Approx. 3,600 miles by car...

[T.S.Davis]

First time they traveled to a Michigan Cup together, Doug called his wife to say goodby.

[Doug Smock]

First time they traveled to a Michigan Cup together, Doug called his wife to say goodby.

^^^^True story!^^^^

[donhuff]

That's only because I had my first ever pair of real eye glasses on, and I was enjoying being able to see and dodge "some" of the pot holes on one of yawls dirt roads while headed to the motel after a day of racing. But I was going about 70 mph, in the dark, and the rain. Yeah, I would have been skeered too.

[rayzerdesigns]

The proposal for 37x60 passed with the amendment of adding in any bearing protrusion included in length..off to BOD for approval then hopefully a vote soon to the membership