NEW Florida Fast Electric Club

[RCKong]

It would be nice if we called ourselves, the club something...They have wave blasters - I came up with West Coast SEA KINGS or...Tridents - just throwing stuff out there

[hebner]

We do have a nickname it is the "Aquamaniac's", a web site to.

http://www.minicatracingusa.com/WFMBCHOME.html

[ron1950]

wow didnt know u all had a name and a website...what happened to the sailboats? everytime i have been there they would have been fun to run lol

[RCKong]

yea or wind surfing

[Skullcracken]

Florida FE club

We are starting a new FE club in Florida. We have the lake, etc. secured. If you are interested in joining our new club, please send me a message. We are located in Land O' Lakes, just north of Tampa.

I'd like to come check out one of the dates you guys gather. I live in Winter Haven and would like to get an idea of the commute and the atmosphere. How can I find out a future date to go out and watch?

[hebner]

I live in North Lakeland and it takes me 1 hour 20 minutes to get to Ackerman Park in Sarasota, I jump on I-4 at exit 32 and go west to I-75, then South on I-75 to exit 210, turn left go to 2nd light and turn right to the lake just past the public library. We normally test n tune on the 2nd Sunday of the month and race on the 4th Sunday. Just keep checking this forum for updates. No need to just watch bring your boats and run.

[sailr]

All of our communication takes place on this forum for the most part. Yep.... AQUAMANIACS. I have been thinking about club T-shirts. Would anyone be interested? We would need to get a decent order together for them to be a decent price. It would be nice for our guys going to the nats to be wearing something from our club!

[bill34207]

All of our communication takes place on this forum for the most part. Yep.... AQUAMANIACS. I have been thinking about club T-shirts. Would anyone be interested? We would need to get a decent order together for them to be a decent price. It would be nice for our guys going to the nats to be wearing something from our club!

I'd be interested in club t's but at this time think it's a little too late to have them done in time for the fe nats.

[bill34207]

On the subject of club series races.... (make myself un popular here). I really have no intererest in dropping a $20 entry fee per race per class and think it would probably stir up more lack of participation than what we currently have.

Right now we're more or less a run for the fun group and everyone seems to get along well. Once you start tacking a dollar sign onto it, it becomes a lot like the clubs initiation fee that we just FINALLY got rid of. Tempers are more likely to flare with cash on the line as well. It's a good idea but a bad idea at the same time.
Just my .02

[hebner]

Just throwing this out there, I don't think we were talking about $20 per class, but per race date, could be even less say $10.00 for the day for all classes entered or $3.00 for 1st boat plus $2 additional boat not to exceed $10 per race date for just the classes you are racing. We could pick just some of the classes for a 6 race series that would have an entry fee.

[RCKong]

$20 a head for all classes you want to run is what we talked about last sunday. If we wanted we could probably do $5 a class, but $20 a person, for whatever they want to run, will be alot easier to manage. Also to do a 6 race series would take 6 mos. Thats too long maybe a 4 race series, or 6 races in 4mos (every 3 weeks)? Alot of us dont like the lake in the summer because of the heat, so 1 series a year? naaaa... with a 4mos setup we could do 2 series a year. With a 4 race series you must have points in 3 of them. That might work out too. keeping in mind Larry would want to race too, and leaves in April. . Starting in Oct - Jan and Feb - May.
Also some shirts made up will be nice. I'm sure we can put this together. If this sounds good we can start to put a series schedule together.

RCK

[sailr]

Lots of truth in your post Bill! When $$ start talkin, tempers can flare. May not be worth it?

On the subject of club series races.... (make myself un popular here). I really have no intererest in dropping a $20 entry fee per race per class and think it would probably stir up more lack of participation than what we currently have.

Right now we're more or less a run for the fun group and everyone seems to get along well. Once you start tacking a dollar sign onto it, it becomes a lot like the clubs initiation fee that we just FINALLY got rid of. Tempers are more likely to flare with cash on the line as well. It's a good idea but a bad idea at the same time.
Just my .02

[sailr]

Still plenty of time. I'll do a mockup and post here.

I'd be interested in club t's but at this time think it's a little too late to have them done in time for the fe nats.

[RCKong]

The whole idea is to make it more fun and generate money for the club. $20.00 per class is not what we talked about last sunday.

[sailr]

I'll let you guys duke it out. YOU come up with the plan. I'll play.