2014 AZ WW X February 21st-23rd

[D. Newland]

Oh, I'd make room! May have to sell my wife's van to make more garage space, but I'd make room.

[T.S.Davis]

Dave, have him send em greyhound. Then claim........never got here.

[photohoward1]

I am so missing the big races this year. My youngest is a senior and I promised I would not miss on Show Choir event. I have missed it 3 years running and I can't this year.
The Plus side is next year they are all out of the house!

Can't go to the Nat's either. 25th Anniversary with both my wife and my 50th b-days. Going to Europe for them. (I wish they were all different dates but hey I am from Cleveland and our motto is: "There is always next year!")

[DPeterson]

Were going to miss ya Howard at both races. The Europe trip is a very good reason to miss along with your families things.

Send us one of those life size pictures of yourself. We will take it with us every where we go. Actually - you better send us a few copies. No telling how they may be treated. :)

Doug

[T.S.Davis]

"There is always next year!")

Until Lebron comes through and rips your hearts out.

[T.S.Davis]

Dave, what's a good budget $ for shipping my crap.......er...boats?

[photohoward1]

$400 round trip. Ups ground. Check the website so when you make A box it fits their perimeters.

[PatrickM]

Here's the race flier.....

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[T.S.Davis]

Shipping is more than air fair.

[longballlumber]

Shipping is more than air fair.

What Airline and dates are you flying? I could never find anything that cheap when I was shopping last year!

Later
Mike

[T.S.Davis]

idk Fred found a rate of 252

[longballlumber]

That's crazy, I found one for $211 this morning... I could only wish to make this happen this year. I wish "normal" was in my vocabulary!

Later,
Mike

[T.S.Davis]

Trying to put together a total budget with air, car, room, shipping, all that rot.

We figured get there Thursday and fly home Monday.

[madmikepags]

yup thats what I'm doin, maybe we share a car bteween the 3 of us terry?

[T.S.Davis]

Have to be a big freak'n car. I think I may smuggle Fred in a carry on. Have to fold him twice but he's under the weight limit I think.

What about gear on site? We cant just leave it out there so I'm thinking boats jammed in every square inch of space to and from the hotel.

[PatrickM]

U-Haul may have a solution......

[D. Newland]

When I fly, here's what it looks like.

I made 2 crates with 36" X 11" X 12" that meet Southwest Airlines checking measurements (free). Boat hulls, Tx, misc crap like tape, towels and tools go in them.

I ground ship chargers, batteries, motors, ESC's.

It's a pain, but once you have your routine down, whatever it may be, it's rather simple. Any gear that you ship gets sent to me. It's waiting for you at your hotel when you fly in.

[Ken Haines]

Or....
You could drive yourself and all of your
gear to the race using an enclosed trailer.
Near the end of the event simply set it on fire and leave it.
Hopefully a bunch of do gooders will not run to the rescue
and put out the flames......hmmm

[ron1950]

lol now that's funny ken

[madmikepags]

Terry we'll rent a minivan, and there shouldn't be that much stuff? a P-mono a Plim mono a small rigger and a small sport hydro? small box of tools and about a dozen batt packs and 2 chargers. I can fit all of that in 1 48x12x24 box and my shipping rates are about 60-70 bucks each way for that size box and 80 lbs.

[T.S.Davis]

I need to take a closet look at what I'm actually trying to run.

That would be 4 dudes worth of the same crap.

[T.S.Davis]

Not sure it will save your rig Ken but I'll use my extensive background in fire protection engineering to help out.................by urinating on it.

Pretty sure long island iced tea puts out a lipo fire?

[properchopper]

Dave,

SoCal FE Tim has graciously stepped up and will sponsor TWO classes [of your choice] to be attributed to TLandauer/SoCal FE in addition to the other class sponsored by SoCal FE. Paypal to the address previously used?

I'll soon be knocking on the usual sponsor doors as well as the possibility of some new ones

[D. Newland]

Right on, T. Thank you! Same PayPal address.

[ron1950]

hey tony will you guys run the skiffs this year? we have plenty of em in fla for the spring race lol

[properchopper]

hey tony will you guys run the skiffs this year? we have plenty of em in fla for the spring race lol

Ron, My poor little heart is broken ; I can't get anyone to build a skiff - what a shame - they're SO MUCH FUN !! Just Me & Pat here out West

[T.S.Davis]

Just booked our room here

http://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress...sr/hoteldetail

[T.S.Davis]

- You will want to fly into Phoenix Sky Harbor.

Okay, I give. Expedia doesn't know what this is. Can you guys tell me where to fly into?

[PatrickM]

Sky Harbor Airport.... PHX. It's about 10 minutes from the pond and your hotel.

[D. Newland]

Right on, Davis!