A huge Thank You to the organizers, sponsors and racers who attended this event. Great fun, great racing.
Hopefully we will repeat this next year!
Sincerely,
The members of West Florida Model Boat Club
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A huge Thank You to the organizers, sponsors and racers who attended this event. Great fun, great racing.
Hopefully we will repeat this next year!
Sincerely,
The members of West Florida Model Boat Club
Saw come video from this on FB. Looked like a killer site.
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Posting results are important and I want to do it properly. Pictures worth a thousand words. Downloading some bad photography (my fault) well (check your zipper) and opening my car and trailer to unpack I have a days work ahead. If anyone has a P limited mono awards photo please post or send as that one I don't have.
Mic
I will get all the pics and results soon,
Yes killer site with a monster alligator who showed up during the raffle drawings. This gator was estimated to be at least 12ft long...it was a monster. I have some small ones in my pond in my backyard and I’m not afraid to go in as I like the feel of being in the cool water, it if this one was in it I wouldn’t even think about getting in or just being at the edge. But, the races were awesome. I’m trying to find the video of Luis’s, of OSE, boat submarine a couple of times. Once right in front of the stands and it was under for a good 5-8 seconds before it popped up. . . some good races to watchQuote:
Originally Posted by T.S.Davis
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These are the heat sheets at the end of the day. The 4th round was scored only for the top 6 boats after round 3.
Mic
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Mic Halbrehder and Jeff Maturo put on an incredible show for what appears to a new annual Florida event.
Pictures from:
-P-Ltd
-P-Ltd Cat
-P-Mono / Cat
-Q-Mono / Cat
-P-Hydro
Podium for the P/Ltd Tunnels who ran a Lemans beach start
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1st place Jeff Maturo 1000 points
2nd place Jeff Westbrook 850 points
3rd place Pete Forcier 775 points
(note Jeff Maturo locked it up in 3 and didn't run the final) (he was busy running the event)
P Cat-Mono (combined)
1st Jerry Crowther 1600 points
2nd Ken Haines 1225 points
3rd Ronald Farkas 1125 points
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(note 1st place in center red ribbon 2nd Blue ribbon 3rd white ribbon)
Open FE no photo
!st Ken Haines 800
2nd Jay Halbrehder 25
(Ken won the 1st heat and Jay DQ'd in the second , neither wanted to further damage equipment)
Q Cat-Mono (combined)
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!st Ken Haines 1069 points
2nd Richard Templeman 1025 points
3rd Luis Oquendo 850 points
P/Ltd Catamaran
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1st - Ken Haines 1500 points
2nd Jay Halbrehder 1125 points
3rd John Turk 1025 points
P/lmtd Mono
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1st Geoff Bishop 1400 points
2nd Ken Haines 1175 points
3rd Isaac Lathrop 925 points
P - Hydro
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1st Ken Haines 1600 points
2nd Ray Ranki 1225 points
3rd Luis Oquendo 694 points
Thanks, Mic. You did a great job. I had a great time.
Ron
Once again my son Fede and I would like to thank Mic, Jeff, and Linda for such
a great job hosting and putting on this event. The racing, pace, and camaraderie
were terrific. We met a bunch of new racers and many old friends. Support from a
widespread list of sponsors was terrific to hear as well. Many interesting conversations
for continued Fast Electric growth and future racing here in the District and in Florida
were exciting to talk about. Hopefully this is an annual staple event for many future years.
In total Fede and I ran a total of 31 heats....we were sure exhausted by the end of that
Sunday, my apologies if I had some moments where there just was no time to chat with
people.....I know there was an hour or 2 that some equipment problems and the racing
frenzy itself made it almost impossible for me to do anything else but wrench and race.
Before I forget......One of the highlights of my weekend was to Congratulate Geoff Bishop
for winning the P-Ltd Mono class. Geoff is one of our Wave Blasters club members. I had
to persuade Geoff to attend knowing I needed his experienced Pit-man help. The amazing
part is that Geoff entered his "revolt" and old club race boat that we all thought was obsolete.
With his steady consistent driving he carved up the field and ended up on top.
Very, Very impressive feat......Congrats Geoff !!
Attached are some pictures of Geoff after he humbled me :bounce:
Ken you did an amazing job running that many classes! It was fun and we are looking forward to next year! Congrats!
I was there as a spectator this year and it was fun! I will be racing next year for sure! Congrats!
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Thanks for the work and sacrifice! You guys put on an awesome event. Looking forward to the next one.
What is the on line RC boating magazine site that was being promoted?
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Originally Posted by IGGY_357
Wow....found out something new today.
Ray posted a video link that appears unsuported here,
so I copied and pasted the link from the main What's New ? page.
-Type: https://
-Then: vimeo.com
-Then: /297370349
When it open up I saw Jeff Maturo's
"RC BOATING TODAY" site on Vimeo
Very cool and very well done on every video
that I had time to view this morning.
Guys, sites like these are what can really fuel
our hobby!
Great work Jeff and Thx for all the diligent work :bounce:
Everyone should really take a look for yourself