View Poll Results: Which style course is better for the sport?
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10-07-2009 06:46 PMOffshore Racing wasn´t designed to be a spectator sport, it's for people or companies with's lots of money to push the envelope of endurance technology and hopefully put a trophy on a mantle. It's man vs the elements, not like boats with like engines running in circles.
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10-07-2009 07:22 PM
I think the mixed course would be awesome but for many of our current site it wouldn't work because of course control and Coast Guard permitting. In Harrison, St Clair, Patchogue, NY city, Cambridge, LOTO, and Cumberland there are too many pleasure boaters to have to control. So we would need new sites or hundreds of new patrol volunteers. You also need more helios and medical staff which adds to the event cost.
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10-07-2009 09:01 PMOk,,,i have to buy a troling motor now !! LOL
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10-07-2009 09:02 PMWho has the current race corse from KW on a chart ???
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10-07-2009 09:09 PM
I think the course should be set based upon the spectator/community layout. Every site is different....
For a scenario with a chance for a big gate income, run it out and straight back in toward the spectator area. (St Pete 1999)
For a scenario of huge community support, run along the beach. This allows the racers to secure lodging sponsorship - we always had good luck with hotels along the race course. (Daytona 2001 - 4 rms. x 4 nts. x $225 = $3,600 savings)
For the teams that don't participate in every race, make them run a "figure 8" course for the worlds......I'd rather be on the boat with a drink on the rocks, than in the drink with my boat on the rocks.
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10-07-2009 09:49 PMFor the teams that don't participate in every race, make them run a "figure 8" course for the worlds......[/QUOTE]
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10-08-2009 10:37 AM
I'm trying to figure out all of this breakout stuff. Shouldn't a boat with legal equipment be allowed to go as fast as it can? If you go to a longer offshore course, there is no need for any of this. Open water and longer courses are the great equalizers.
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10-08-2009 10:46 AMGPS racing is a good thing currently. What it allows, is someone to race a pleasure boat against others where the boats are no way close to identical.
You could have a twin outboard cat run against a twin large bigblock Vee against a single smaller bigblock Vee etc. The equalizer, none of you can go over 85 mph max.
It then comes down to driver, throttleman, setup, consistency, etc.Last edited by MOBILEMERCMAN; 10-08-2009 at 11:12 AM.
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