2nd Annual Invitational Race

[Ken Haines]

Wave Blasters of Florida 2nd Annual Invitational Race

The Wave Blasters of Florida announce their 2nd Annual Invitational Race - March 28th - This second Wave Blasters Invitational Race will be held at the WB pond on March 28th beginning at 8 AM. Racing Classes will be - SuperVee Stock - SuperVee Modified - Limited Sport Hydro (LSH) - P-Limited OPC - P-Limited Hydro - N Mono - P-Mono - (P ? Q)-Offshore. (see www.WaveBlasters.org for SV & LSH rules)

The entry fee will be $10 and $5 for each additional class. All Non-NAMBA members will pay a 1 day member fee of $10 additional which goes directly to NAMBA. Plaques will be awarded for 3 places in each class. A minimum of 4 boats required to have a class. Last year we had 27 racers and 77 boats for this event.

Those wishing to participate should e-mail the the information below to WaveBlasters@comcast.net, send to Wave Blasters of Florida, Attn: Bud Johansen, 4521 S.W. Long Bay Drive, Palm City, FL 34990, or Fax to 772-419-8640. A registration list will be posted through the Wave Blasters website and updated daily. Please list your intended classes so that we can determine the number of boats and classes to be run. The lake will be open to practice on Saturday March 27th from noon till 5pm.

Also on the 27th beginning at 10:00 AM, the Wave Blasters will also being having their annual club picnic. Come early and enjoy the free food and fun. There will be a powder puff race as well as our large Scale division showing their spectacular hand-crafted boats for all to see in a mini regatta.

Any other questions about the event can also be answered by a PM to Terry Cowger (TC) or Ken Haines on this forum. This should be as much fun as last year, most likely a small event, but we have a really nice pond site and this should give our club another good practice run at hosting the 2011 FE Nationals. Definetely check out our web-site for more details and pond location - www.WaveBlasters.org

Please submit the following info for race entry:
Name _______________________________
Street Address ______________________
City, State, Zip _____________________
Telephone __________________________
Cell _______________________________
E-mail Address ______________________
NAMBA No. _________________________

Race Classes to Enter (Indicate all that apply)
SuperVee Stock _____
SuperVee Modified _____
P-Limited Sport Hydro (LSH) _____
P-Limited OPC _____
P-Limited Hydro_____
N- Mono _____
P-Mono _____
P ? Q-Offshore _____
(We may run it as a P-Offshore with no hull length limitations)
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Wave Blasters of Florida
Ken Haines - Club Secretary / Treasurer

[line6]

This race was a blast last year. I will be attending. anyone in the area should come out its a race you dont wana miss.

Jason Sims

[hebner]

I will be there

[sailr]

I will be there! Gonna try to make it early to admire the scale stuff.

[RayR]

Ken,

Have you considered using RcRacingEvents.com to do the registration for you? I don't know them, but they make it incredibly easy for everyone to sign-up and it is relatively inexpensive. A small increase in your already modest entry fee would more than cover the cost and relieve you of the hassle.

Just a thought,

Ray

[Ken Haines]

37 Boats, 10 racers and growing !

Hey Guys here are the race latest updates.
First off I'm happy to announce that that George and Jennifer Santiago have volunteered to help run our upcoming race. For those that do not know them, they are the Father Daughter team from the Orlando Culvert Dodgers club that greatly contributed to such a good race at the Orlando Winter Nationals. George seemed to be everywhere running the pits and making sure everyone was ready prior to each heat. (The Pit Boss). Jennifer did an incredible job as one of the CD's at the event. In most of the FE crowd's opinion, she was the very best of the CD's that ran the event. This should make our race even better than last year.

We are also accepting class sponsors at $25 per class and we are still in need of an event sponsor at $100. Our club feels that just like the entry fees we will try to keep the sponsorships as reasonable as possible in these tuff financial times. Please contact me (Ken Haines) or Bud Johansen if anyone is interested in class or event sponsorships.

Sponsors to date:
Jim Slaughter at mini-cat racing is sponsoring - LSH class
Don Wollard at Rum-Runner Racing is sponsoring 2-classes to be announced
Thanks, Jim and Don

Racers please sign up as soon as possible so that we can continue planning with a better idea of how many racers that we will have.
Thanks, Ken

[Ken Haines]

41 Boats, 11 racers and growing !

Hey Guys here are the race latest updates.
First off I'm happy to announce that that George and Jennifer Santiago have volunteered to help run our upcoming race. For those that do not know them, they are the Father Daughter team from the Orlando Culvert Dodgers club that greatly contributed to such a good race at the Orlando Winter Nationals. George seemed to be everywhere running the pits and making sure everyone was ready prior to each heat. (The Pit Boss). Jennifer did an incredible job as one of the CD's at the event. In most of the FE crowd's opinion, she was the very best of the CD's that ran the event. This should make our race even better than last year.

We are also accepting class sponsors at $25 per class and we are still in need of an event sponsor at $100. Our club feels that just like the entry fees we will try to keep the sponsorships as reasonable as possible in these tuff financial times. Please contact me (Ken Haines) or Bud Johansen if anyone is interested in class or event sponsorships.

Sponsors to date:
Jim Slaughter at mini-cat racing is sponsoring - LSH class
Don Wollard at Rum-Runner Racing is sponsoring - P-Limited Hydro
Don Wollard at Rum Runner Racing is sponsoring - P-Mono
Thanks, Jim and Don

Racers please sign up as soon as possible so that we can continue planning with a better idea of how many racers that we will have.
Thanks, Ken

[Ken Haines]

Are there any additional sponsor interested in supporting
the upcoming 2nd Annual Wave Blaster's Invitational Race ?

Please reply or contact me via PM if interested.
Thanks, Ken

[Ken Haines]

Offshore Electrics / Steve Vaccaro has graciously step forward to become the host sponsor of our
2nd Annual Wave Blasters Invitational Race.

The Wave Blasters would like to formally thank Steve for his support.

The additional Class sponsors are as follows:
LSH - Jim Slaughter / Mini-Cat Racing
P-Limited Hydro- Don Wollard / Rum Runner Racing
P-Mono - Don Wollard / Rum Runner Racing
P-Limited OPC - Doug Smock / Smock Racing

We still have 5 remaining class sponsorships remaining at $25 per.

Thanks Again for all of your support.
Ken

[Ken Haines]

Hotel Information

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Here is the Hotel recommendation and info.
We used this hotel last year and everyone was very happy with it.

Best Western Port ST. Lucie 7900 S. US 1 PSL FL. 34952
Call 772-878-7600
2 bed suite 85.00 night .
This about 4 miles away let them your here for the rc boat race.

More to follow,
Thanks, Ken

[Ken Haines]

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[Ken Haines]

(68 Boats and 20 Racers !!)

On behalf of the Wave Blasters I would like to that the following class and event sponsors.
Your support has truely helped make our race a success:

Event Sponsor - Offshore Electrics / Thanks, Steve Vaccaro

Class Sponsors

SuperVee Stock -- South Florida Hobbies / Thanks, Lucas Kusijanovic
N-Mono ----------- Jensen Beach Homesites / Ken Haines
P-Limited Hydro - Rum Runner Racing / Thanks Don Wollard
P - Mono ---------- Rum Runner Racing / Thanks Don Wollard
SV 27 Modified --- Mark of Excellence Awards / Thanks Chris Walczybock
P-Limited OPC --- Smock Racing / Thanks Doug Smock
P-Limited"LSH" -- Mini Cat Racing / Thanks Jim Slaughter
P & Q Offshore --- RC Lipos / Thanks Pat

We now have reached 20 racers and 66 boats. We may even reach the same amount of boats that we had last year, as there are still a few additional likely racers that have not signed up yet. Looks like a great race weekend shaping up. This again is one of the larger FE events in the country this year.

Our club is excited about the racing and look forward to seeing our old friends and also making
new ones. If there are any remaining questions feel free to send me a PM.
Thanks Again to all the participants and sponsors,
Ken

[Ken Haines]

"Wow what a great weekend of racing"
The weather held out and allowed us to get all 45 heats completed by 5:00.

On behalf of the Wave Blasters I have a lot of people to thank, I hope I don't miss anyone.
First off thanks to Offshore Electrics / Steve Vacarro the event sponsor.

Thanks to the following class sponsors:
South Florida Hobbies / Lucas Kusijanovic
Jensen Beach Homesites / Ken Haines
Rum Runner Racing / Don Wollard (2 classes)
Mark of Excellence Awards / Chris Walczybock
Smock Racing / Doug Smock
Mini Cat Racing / Jim Slaughter
RC Lipos / Pat

Also thanks to the following for helping with our raffle prizes;
South Florida Hobbies / Lucas Kusijanovic
Jensen Beach Homesites / Ken Haines
Rum Runner Racing / Don Wollard
Mini Cat Racing / Jim Slaughter
RC Lipos / Pat
Wave Blaster / Jeff Shipley
Wave Blaster / GB Robbins

A huge thank you to George and Jennifer Santiago for coming down from the Orlando Culverts Club helping to run our race. Thank you to Mike Martin who also stopped by and gave some welcomed CD relief in the afternoon.

Thanks to the whole Florida West Coast gang for coming to support our event once again. Ray Rankl, Jim Slaughter, Jeff Westbrook, Mike Harvey, Hugh Ebner, and Pete Forcier, you guys are the best. Great also to have the remainder of the Florida guys to our north also join us again, Thanks; Reed Eagle, Don Wollard, and Jason Sims, you guys made the race.

Special thanks to the Wave Blasters members who did another awesome job pulling off this event; Bud Johansen "All the computer scoring", Bill Plevik, and Mackey Rogers for assisting Bud with the race administration. Terry Cowger SR. for an excellent job of key decision making and presentations, Rick Workman for setting up the main canopy, safety barriers and being our overnight security guard. Carl Slater for a great job manning the rescue boat. Marty Ehrman thanks for the fantastic photos. On Saturday the really good food was courtesy of Phil Hale, Paul & Jeff Mainville, and Bob Meinhardt, great job we all enjoyed the picnic.
Additional thanks the the remainder of the Wave Blasters who also provided help where ever needed throughout the whole weekend;Terry Cowger Jr, Mark & Brandon Groothouse, Ron Desmond, Bill Tripp, Jeff Shipley, Bob Rahberg, and Bruce Childers. I apologize if I missed anyone.

Sorry to run on and on, but these events take a lot of help from many people.
It looks to me as though we are ready to host the "011 FE Nationals".
Unless things change it will be held sometime in May of 2011.
Hope everyone can make plans to attend.

OK, OK, OK here are the final results see:

www.WaveBlasters.org/news.php

Thanks Again to All,
Ken

[obrien]

Thanks again for hosting this race again Ken. We really appreciate all the hard work you guys put into hosting an event like this. I am looking forward to the nats next year.

[sailr]

To Ken and the gang at Waveblasters, you guys are the best! Incredibly well organized race. The Santiagos were FANTASTIC. Great time by all. Can't wait til next year!!

BTW, Reed Eagle is also a member of our West Florida Model Boat Club. Can't forget Grumpy Ole Reed! ;-}