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29-08-2006, 03:40 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: West Sussex
Occupation: MD
Interests: boats
Boat make: new boat on way
Cruising area: uk
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New Class Of Racing
HI ALL! HANDS UP ALL OF YOU THAT MIGHT LIKE TO GO RACING IN A NEW CLASS IN 2007........
THE NEW CLASS WILL BE MINIMUM BOAT LENGTH OF 23 FEET MAXIMUM POWER 500HP INBOARDS OR OUTBOARDS SINGLE OR TWIN RIGS MONO OR CAT THEIR WILL ALSO BE A MINIMUM WEIGHT RESTRICTION YET TO BE CONFIRMED.
RACING WILL BE HELD AT 5 EVENTS EACH EVENT CONSISTING OF 2 RACES WITH A MINIMUM RACE DISTANCE OF 70NM. THE COURSE WILL BE RUN AS CLOSE TO THE SHORE AS POSSIBLE TO GRAB THE PUBLIC'S INTREST.
THIS WILL BE EQIVERLANT TO OCR FOR THE BIG BOYS!!!!
I AM INTRESTED TO FIND OUT HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD BE INTRESTED IN THIS TYPE OF RACING.....AND IF THERE IS ENOUGH OF YOU OUT THERE I WILL TRY AND TAKE THIS FORWARD
YOUR RESPONCES WILL BE GREATFULLY RECIEVED
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29-08-2006, 03:45 PM
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Member
Country: uk
Location: brighton
Occupation: derivatives trader
Interests: powerboating & ice hockey
Boat name: marex for this year
Boat make: wonky shed cowdron
Engines: twin merc 250 opti xs
Cruising area: southcoast & europe
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: brighton
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I'm in
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29-08-2006, 03:54 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Reading
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Cruising area: South Coast
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Garry what Club is going to run it?
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29-08-2006, 06:08 PM
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BananaShark Member
Country: UK
Location: Salcombe South Devon
Occupation: Racer and builder
Interests: Winning races
Boat name: BananaShark
Boat make: BananaShark 34' Race
Engines: Twin Yanmar BY 260's
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Location: Salcombe South Devon
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Canopies? maximum speed limits? TV coverage? very very big PR budget?
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29-08-2006, 06:22 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: West Sussex
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Yes to canopies if it is 508 No to speed limits as this is racing not plesasure navigation and as much PR as i can get as this is what the sport needs.
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29-08-2006, 06:47 PM
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Large member
Country: England
Location: On the farm
Occupation: General Trouble Causer Salterns Boatyard
Interests: Official smartass
Boat name: Seahorse.org
Boat make: a V24 and a SLOW unstable ICE Bladerunner
Engines: 2x300 promax, 320 Volvo
Cruising area: England/France & Med
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Hmmmmmmnnn.
may be interested. I was thinking of not racing next year, but this may be fun. Like P1 but without the silly rules?
What would help is a website, with one or two photographers taking several hundred shots during the event, and then listing these on the website for free use. The photographers dont have to be professional, just good. The V24 guys got good coverage two years ago by writing the actual race reports and having loads of free photographs. You could have two or three versions of the same race report, and newspapers, mags etc just cut n paste your report into their publication.
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29-08-2006, 07:31 PM
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Senior Member
Country: England
Location: Warsash
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: sport
Boat name: Santana
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Location: Warsash
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Could be interested - something along the lines I was suggesting in a previous thread a few months ago!
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29-08-2006, 07:34 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: West Sussex
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Yes you have got it Tricky and yes we will have a website with full race reports and pics teams profile etc i want uk racing to move up a gear good PR good racing and good fun and yes we will have rules but we will all no what there are in plane English so you will all no were you stand from day 1
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29-08-2006, 07:47 PM
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Registered User
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Interests: finish the race
Cruising area: ww
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anything about location?
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29-08-2006, 08:13 PM
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Registered User
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Location: West Sussex
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The plan is to run 5 events within the UK.
Prefereable as high profile as we can find
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29-08-2006, 08:19 PM
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Registered User
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good luck lots of intrest
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29-08-2006, 08:36 PM
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yes would be very interested, 500hp include single or twin diesel? what sort of top speeds we talking about?
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29-08-2006, 08:44 PM
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Registered User
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Yes diesels fine max 500hp top speed how fast can you make it go
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29-08-2006, 09:24 PM
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Mmm. That excludes most twin engine V8 boats.
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29-08-2006, 09:36 PM
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Senior Member
Country: UK
Location: Devon
Occupation: Garage Proprietor
Interests: PowerBoat Racing
Boat name: If Only
Boat make: Bernico F3 OCR, Bernico Prototype Inboard, and some Ribs
Engines: Yamaha Pro V 115
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Surely the decline in Powerboat Racing is down to having too many classes !!
Why yet another OCR style class !! We all know this was the most successful style of Racing so why not get realistic & compete in OCR (The original & still the best OCR style Racing) .
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29-08-2006, 09:38 PM
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Registered User
Country: England
Location: Birmingham
Occupation: Scratching
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Boat name: Never Enough
Boat make: Seaquel 600xs
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Whats the specs on the class details for OCR?
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29-08-2006, 09:44 PM
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good idea just extend the OCA course and make is another class
in OCR for bigger boat
longer course and bigger boats with bigger engines
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29-08-2006, 09:50 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: Devon
Occupation: Garage Proprietor
Interests: PowerBoat Racing
Boat name: If Only
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Quote:
Originally posted by MrRob
Whats the specs on the class details for OCR?
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C Class 14ft 1000cc 2 stroke 1300c 4 stroke
B Class 16ft 1350 cc 2 stroke 1600cc 4 Stroke
A Class 18ft 1850 cc 2 stroke 2200cc 4 stroke
1 1/2 mile multi lap course average 8 turns per lap !!
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If Only
National Outboard Immersed Propeller Mono Record 103mph
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29-08-2006, 10:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Matt
Mmm. That excludes most twin engine V8 boats.
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And most twin outboard engined boats !
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29-08-2006, 10:15 PM
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Large member
Country: England
Location: On the farm
Occupation: General Trouble Causer Salterns Boatyard
Interests: Official smartass
Boat name: Seahorse.org
Boat make: a V24 and a SLOW unstable ICE Bladerunner
Engines: 2x300 promax, 320 Volvo
Cruising area: England/France & Med
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250hp twins is the max for the class then...
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