Tavares Spring Thunder Regatta, March 21-23 2014

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The past will come alive as the vintage and classic race boats of bygone eras return to Wooten Park in Tavares, Florida for our next annual Tavares Spring Thunder Regatta. Tavares is a major stop on the CRA Winter Vintage Circuit, and this spring's regatta expands to 3 full days, with over 75 beautifully restored vintage and classis race boats running demonstration laps on a 1 mile oval course on beautiful Lake Dora. In addition to seeing and hearing these unique and beautiful boats run, spectators are invited to view them close-up in the pit area at Wooten Park on both Saturday and Sunday.

And joining the local fleet of vintage race boats during the winter months when the northern summer vintage events are in hibernation, the northern snow birds are increasingly hauling their beautifully restored vintage and classic race boats down to Florida to enjoy the sunny and warm Florida weather and to participate on our fast growing Florida CRA Winter Vintage Circuit. With the flat water on the small inland Florida lakes, these regattas are attracting large boat counts with well over 75 vintage and classic race boats at the last several events, along with huge crowds. The regatta participants have fun running their beautifully restored vintage race boats at speed on a race course in the warm Florida sun, and the public gets a chance to see, hear and experience the rich history of powerboat racing.

The sights and sounds are just magnificent, come join us for our next event !!!

With the local CRA group providing the support and volunteer base, Tavares is well known for running on a tight, published regatta heat schedule, running vintage heats every half hour for two full days. All the vintage race boats are run at least twice a day, so if you wanna see lots of vintage race boats running some pretty hot laps, you just gotta come to Tavares.

We will be running large heats of all vintage classes, including outboards, small hydros, mid-hydros, large hydros, runabouts, flatbottoms, skiffs, speedsters, gold cuppers, and large triple cockpit runabouts. The Invitation/Registration Packets will be mailed in January to all past participants at Tavares and we will be posting each registered entry as received and assigned to a vintage heat.

If you have not participated at Tavares but want to join all the fun, please contact Bill John at John1948@metrocast.net

http://www.classicraceboatassoc.com/...atta-2014.html

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So, who's going to be there? I know Rich Luhrs is taking over a couple boats. Anyone else?

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