Morehead in October?, Yep!! Englewood Beach OPA Worlds Moved

[Speed on the Water]

The axe falls, but organizers expect the event to come back bigger and better next year, https://www.speedonthewater.com/engl...hips-scrubbed/

[Speed on the Water]

Story Update


Approximately 15 minutes after this story went live, Nick Smith, the vice president of the Offshore Powerboat Association, posted the following on the organization’s Facebook page:


“The longstanding world championship venue, Englewood Beach Waterfest, has been forced to cancel the 2020 event. We are all deeply saddened by the news, as the venue has served as OPA’s finale for a long time.


“With that being said, we are pleased to announce Jeff McCann confirmed today that they will be beginning plans to host the world championships in November in lieu of Englewood. Having raced in Morehead City, N.C., this past weekend. The operation is still fresh in everyone's mind. OPA is confident that we will be able to capture lightning in bottle for the second time this season at the Crystal Coast. Running a race twice in one season is unprecedented in offshore racing, but drastic times call for drastic measures.


The official date of the race is unknown at this current time, but will be in November, and made official later this week. Please bear with us as we work through this, we are more than excited to have the opportunity. We will be updating the details of this regularly in the coming weeks and look forward to returning to Morehead City.”

[john acosta]

november in n. c. .............bbbbrrrrrrrr

hope it goes well anyway

[Ratickle]

A little cold never hurt anyone......

[john acosta]

No .unless youre in the open boat out there running lol

[Ratickle]

According to the Carteret News Times

Last weekend, McCann hosted the first and only OPA race of the season – the association normally hosts 12 races in a campaign.

The World Championships would be held Oct. 23-25.

https://www.carolinacoastonline.com/...c4c3c4162.html

[Bobcat]

Sounds better than after the Election

[Ratickle]

We shall see......

[Bobcat]

I hope They do it like Englewood...Back to back Racing Days....Not Friday and Sunday.

[Ratickle]

Not a lot of time to make decisions. Jeff said the hotels were already mostly sold out. And he doesn't even have a permit yet.....

[Ratickle]

[john acosta]

will this be a repeat of the previous race ?

will it include the cat class ,and unlimited ?

[Ratickle]

Trying to find out. They will email me as soon as they know I believe.

I'm sure Jeff is busy so I don't want to bug him. As far as I know, he still has to get Coast Guard approval.

[Ratickle]

A lot of the guys are waiting to see how bad they break in LOTO.

I will also check tomorrow to see if Jeff got the Coast Guard permit.

[Ratickle]

Yes, Jeff texted me a copy of his Coast Guard permit!!!!

Game on!!!!!

[Ratickle]

[Bobcat]

Stoked.

[Ratickle]

We have to figure out what the course is really gonna be.