Sunny Isles OSS Race Info

[Ryan Beckley]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Brad Schoenwald 954.560.9080 bcschoe@msn.com

Larry Goldman 305.947.3278



www.SIBOFFSHORE.com



Second Annual Sunny Isles Beach Offshore Challenge June 11th-14th, 2009



Sunny Isles Beach, Fl, January 15th 2009 – Offshore Super Series returns to Sunny Isle Beach, Florida for the 2nd Annual, “Sunny Isles Beach Offshore Challenge", June 11th-14th 2009.

The overwhelming success of last year’s event sets the stage for this year to be bigger and better than the inaugural event. This three day event will start on Friday morning when at least 50 boats are expected to make this year’s Bimini Ocean race. The Bimini Memorial Ocean Race allows for a great variety of boats to race “Old School”, to Bimini and Back. Gino Gargiulo will return with his Mercedes MTI Catamaran to defend the record time covering the 106 statue mile course in 1 hour and 44 seconds. Saturday brings a full day of activity to Haulover Park where the boats will stage from. The “ThunderBoat” Poker run will leave from Haulover Park at noon while the Offshore Super Series boats run Practice laps in the Atlantic Ocean. New for this year, Pro/Am Racing will be part of this year’s Offshore Challenge. Pro/Am Racing allows local boats that can meet the OSS rules to race in a safe and controlled environment. On Sunday the action starts at noon with Offshore Super Series racing in all classes. Viewing is excellent anywhere along the Sunny Isles Beach to the north end of the Haulover Inlet.

Offshore Events will host the entire Offshore Challenge Weekend with support from Offshore Super Series, The City of Sunny Isles Beach, and Miami Dade County.

For more information about racing in the event, being a volunteer or sponsorship opportunities, go to www.SIBOffshore.com and www.Offshoresuperseries.com

This event will benefit the Take Stock in Children Foundation

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[BRAD SCHOENWALD]

Ryan,

Thanks for all the support!

[catmando]

It was the Aronow Memorial Race last year, now it's the "Bimini" Memorial Race??
Surely you're joking...

[BRAD SCHOENWALD]

Yes, Event structure is exactly the same and the foundational personel remain excatly the same.
The commitment to the sport, boat racers, manufacturers, industry, fans and participants remains EXACTLY the same!

[Top Banana]

It was the Aronow Memorial Race last year, now it's the "Bimini" Memorial Race??
Surely you're joking...

HORBA is not involved with this race this year. Only HORBA has the right to use the Aronow name in our race promotions, that is why the name is changed on this race this year.

Listen, we are doing our own thing this year, but this is still a great open ocean race and not many opportunities are out there to try this kind of racing.

This is the kind of thing the sport was built on and may bring new people into the sport or some old ones back....if you have any desire to do it, don't hold back because HORBA is not involved, as I said, we are doing our own thing and will announce in the very near future.