2015 West Florida Model boat club, Sarasota, FL

[osprey21]

The landlords representative for that industrial park is Carl Wise (Preferred Commercial, Inc) - maybe he/they can be of help. 941-366-6060

[bill34207]

Hey there other Chris. Good to see you poking your head in once in a while.
Hope life is treating you well.

[flraptor07]

I don't want to rain on any plans for what I think would be a good thing for the club, but...
You may be fighting an uphill battle trying to set course markers unless the wind lays down a bit. http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/laun...=KSRQ&state=FL

Brian, when we vacated Ackerman the lock went with us. Chris should have both of them. The trick will be getting it looped back into the gate chain. It may be a case of having to use the back entrance until someone can get a chance to talk to the SRQ commissioner(s).

If we do it we'll just cut one link on the chain and put our lock on. But I'd rather try to find another place there's got to be some place out there that we can get in without the BS and where we can run events and do what we want.

[RayR]

The landlords representative for that industrial park is Carl Wise (Preferred Commercial, Inc) - maybe he/they can be of help. 941-366-6060

Hey Chris! Nice to hear from you, hope all is well.

[RayR]

I don't want to rain on any plans for what I think would be a good thing for the club, but...
You may be fighting an uphill battle trying to set course markers unless the wind lays down a bit. http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/laun...=KSRQ&state=FL

Brian, when we vacated Ackerman the lock went with us. Chris should have both of them. The trick will be getting it looped back into the gate chain. It may be a case of having to use the back entrance until someone can get a chance to talk to the SRQ commissioner(s).

Drove out to Ackerman this morning. Bill is correct, it would be impossible to set pins with the wind as it is. Typicall ackerman whitecaps.

[HRC]

The landlords representative for that industrial park is Carl Wise (Preferred Commercial, Inc) - maybe he/they can be of help. 941-366-6060

WHO IS THIS GUY !!! .....LOL...Good to see you pop in Chris. Hope all is well your way.

[RCKong]

If we do it we'll just cut one link on the chain and put our lock on. But I'd rather try to find another place there's got to be some place out there that we can get in without the BS and where we can run events and do what we want.

Well IMO Ackerman will do for now. What BS ? I'm not worried about running events, lets just get back to running some boats...

[Impulse31]

If we did not have to deal with liability insurance BS , which IMHO is worthless and throws money away, we would not need anyone's permission to run our boats in any lake in Sarasota and Manatee counties. There are no lake POLICE out there stopping anyone? Again just my $0.02 on the issue that has been driving me knuts

[RayR]

If we did not have to deal with liability insurance BS , which IMHO is worthless and throws money away, we would not need anyone's permission to run our boats in any lake in Sarasota and Manatee counties. There are no lake POLICE out there stopping anyone? Again just my $0.02 on the issue that has been driving me knuts

ahhh, but there you are incorrect. There are plenty of "lake police" out there. A simple cell phone call from someone who doesn,t like you running in a location, promptly invokes the local sherriff "lake police".

[Impulse31]

Has this happened to anyone recently?

Why all the "no" "no no" "no not my lake" answers from all that have one:
You mention racing and liability to anyone that owns a lake. The first thing they are going to do is say no because of "potential" complications it might cause them "God forbid" someone gets hurt and sues them. Could our club enter a no-sue clause with them that holds them completely harmless and we take full responsibility for any issues? Might cause the "Lake Police" to leave us be? You thoughts???

[RCKong]

All of us are insured through NAMBA, and don't we have NAMBA'S club liability insurance ?

[RayR]

It has happened to me personally at least twice. Dozens of times in district 3, and hundreds of times accross the country.

[RayR]

All of us are insured through NAMBA, and don't we have NAMBA'S club liability insurance ?

only if we follow namba safety rules, which we have done exactly once in my recollection.

Here's what I worry about. Ackerman is a perfect example. More often than not, there are 4,6 or 8 folks watching our antics from the two shelters at the entrance to the pond. They are in a direct line from the backstretch of our course. 12lb 60 mph missles headed straight at them.

[RCKong]

only if we follow namba safety rules, which we have done exactly once in my recollection.

Well if anyone asks we have it. We have ran at Ackerman for years with good luck. If the wind lays down, we need to get over there and fix it up.

[RayR]

Who is up for a Road Trip!? Even if we had pins up at Ackerman, the wind this weekend is going to make it nasty to run on. Many of you don't know it, but Brian and Rich have a wonderful, protected course setup in Cape Coral. I am going to go down on Sunday, anybody want to follow along?

The course is directly behind the Publix at Pine Island and Burnt Store Roads.