Don Aronow Around LI race back on!!!

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Well, here we go again. I arrived home from the gym a little while ago and opened an e-mail from Billy that said…”The number of entrants has increased and the race is on!!”

So, I called him and found out that Billy has had a habit over the years of running his poker runs with a late entry attitude. He allowed people to just show up on the morning of the run and they entered and ran. When word got out that the race was postponed, he got a lot of calls from people that intended to enter but had never bothered to let him know…they were just going to show up on the morning and enter.

I don’t know how many total boats, I don’t know what kind of boats other than, the only brand that the owners seems to feel confident to run in open water is Outerlimits.

When offshore racing was in it’s prime, the manufacturer’s of both boats and engines were the bulk of the fields. The private teams would buy last year’s race boat from the factory and then race along with the crowd. That just doesn’t happen anymore.

When HORBA was founded we only had two goals.
1..To save the old race boats before they are gone forever.
2 To have venues to show them.

Billy Frenz was the very first guy to offer us a venue. His NYC poker run allowed the great old race boat Dry Martini to be seen by the public after many years off the scene.

If he decides to go ahead next year with the race, I am advising him to run it the British way….Anyone interested puts up a non refundable deposit by a certain date. If there are not enough deposits, the race is off.

This year he had an entry fee of $600 by a certain date and a $1,000 entry fee for anytime after that. That didn’t work very well as we all know.

So the race is on….for those who have said they were going to enter, now is your chance, call Billy and let him know.

New race date is one day later now, it will be on....Sunday 25th of September