Open Ocean Racing in 2010

[Top Banana]

In addition to our HORBA Miami to Key West race and the Around Long Island Race here in the USA.....here is another one to whet your long distance appetite....


Too all Offshore Racers:

The Round Ireland Offshore Powerboat Race 2010 and the Powerboat Ireland Festival is set to take place in June 2010.

We formally extend an invite to all our American friends and Offshore Racers to come and join us for the 800 mile Offshore marathon which will test even the thoughest competitors.

This will be a week long festival of Powerboat Racing including inshore circuit racing, long distanve offshore racing, and jet Ski racing. We have over 100 entrants to date from all over Europe. We need to have some Americans on board.

Racing, Music, fun and Festival based in Galway, Ireland.

See our website and register for more information and regular updates. Huge prizes will attract the best the world has to offer.

get together and come for the fun, bring some boats, and see how we do it in Europe.

See: www.roundireland.org

See you all there.

Regards,

Justin Mc Inerney.
Round Ireland 2010.

 

[Sean Stinson]

Charlie are you back in FL yet?????

 

[Top Banana]

Charlie are you back in FL yet?????

No Sean...I was a guest and just did the Fairhaven Mass poker run this past weekend, in a beautiful 47 foot restored Apache with Sterlings.....SWEET.

 

[Team Tsunami]

Sean you would have loved that boat Charlie was on!! Boat was incredible!

 

[Sean Stinson]

That is the one that Chris from OP had for sale isn't it???? Beautiful piece!!!! How did it run gentlemen????

 

[Team Tsunami]

Yes it is Sean. Boat seemed like it ran fantastic. Charlie would be better suited to answer that since he was in it! I was running around in Sutphen race boats all weekend!

 

[nthdegree]

BIG machine!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeboLAeP6Ic

 

[Sean Stinson]

Yes it is Sean. Boat seemed like it ran fantastic. Charlie would be better suited to answer that since he was in it! I was running around in Sutphen race boats all weekend!

There isn't anything wrong with Sutphen raceboats especially ones with custom bolts machined specifically for particular applications!!! :sifone::sifone::sifone::sifone::sifone:

Charlie what kind of speeds did you see with the staggered set-up and what was the difference in acceleration between a triple and the staggered application????

 

[Top Banana]

There isn't anything wrong with Sutphen raceboats especially ones with custom bolts machined specifically for particular applications!!! :sifone::sifone::sifone::sifone::sifone:

Charlie what kind of speeds did you see with the staggered set-up and what was the difference in acceleration between a triple and the staggered application????

We ran out of Fairhaven towards Cuttyhunk across Buzzards Bay....now for those who know the area up here....364 days of the year, the water is great Apache water...but on Saturday, it wasn't.

But we still ran up front with a 46 Skater with turbines and a couple of other Skaters....all looking for a turn boat that wasn't there.....Now that brought back some real racing memories. We were all running in the low hundreds for MPH.

The difference between twin Sterlings and triple Keith Eickert's on the other 47 I throttled wasn't very noticeable...Yellow boat below.

This twin is a very strong boat and even with the semi flat water, ran anywhere it wanted to with just about anyone out there. I'm sure the turbine boat had a much bigger top end but if we had the Apache back there on Sunday....(they had to go home Saturday night).....Sunday had 6 footers down by Cuttyhunk, it would have been a beautiful sight for all to see.