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If you are fortunate enough to attend any of the many Nitro races around our country you will quickly learn there is abundance of help and knowledge to gain from your fellow racer's at these events.
I recently attended and raced at the 75th IMPBA nationals hosted by the Huntsville AL RC boat club. This was my second nationals I've attended at Huntsville and it was just as rewarding as the first. This race is unique because it is a week long event including SAW, Oval, heat racing and a chance to be US 1 in your class. One of the attendees at this race was a racer named Doug Twaits who many of you have raced with and are aware of his racing skills and wining boats. I first met Doug at a Charleston race around 2015/2016 when he asked me to launch one of his gas boats. I quickly learned that Doug was very meticulous about prepping his boat and the information he wanted while I was calling for him. Fast fwd to this years event and the E Hydro SAW event where you get the whole lake to yourself to make clocked speed passes for 5 minutes. For this event I was able to achieve a third place trophy with a speed of 76 MPH with my CMB 67 Road Runner. At the end of of this event Doug approached me and said I want to help you with your boat set-up, bring me your boat and I will get to it when I can. Later that day or the next day Doug came to my pit area handed me a piece of paper with the #s he found and said your #s look good but I found a better setting for the strut. He asked what prop I was running ,2519 I responded, that's alot of prop 2517 would be better. Several days later I competed against Doug and several other's in the E hydro heat racing event , after 5 rounds with another trophy for 2nd place overall. Thank you Doug!!
There couldn't be a better example for all you RC boaters to find time to attend any of the many awesome boat races around our country. I would be remiss not to mention Mark Bullard and Bob Londress for providing me with a place to pit and store my boats between races for the last several years.
I recently attended and raced at the 75th IMPBA nationals hosted by the Huntsville AL RC boat club. This was my second nationals I've attended at Huntsville and it was just as rewarding as the first. This race is unique because it is a week long event including SAW, Oval, heat racing and a chance to be US 1 in your class. One of the attendees at this race was a racer named Doug Twaits who many of you have raced with and are aware of his racing skills and wining boats. I first met Doug at a Charleston race around 2015/2016 when he asked me to launch one of his gas boats. I quickly learned that Doug was very meticulous about prepping his boat and the information he wanted while I was calling for him. Fast fwd to this years event and the E Hydro SAW event where you get the whole lake to yourself to make clocked speed passes for 5 minutes. For this event I was able to achieve a third place trophy with a speed of 76 MPH with my CMB 67 Road Runner. At the end of of this event Doug approached me and said I want to help you with your boat set-up, bring me your boat and I will get to it when I can. Later that day or the next day Doug came to my pit area handed me a piece of paper with the #s he found and said your #s look good but I found a better setting for the strut. He asked what prop I was running ,2519 I responded, that's alot of prop 2517 would be better. Several days later I competed against Doug and several other's in the E hydro heat racing event , after 5 rounds with another trophy for 2nd place overall. Thank you Doug!!
There couldn't be a better example for all you RC boaters to find time to attend any of the many awesome boat races around our country. I would be remiss not to mention Mark Bullard and Bob Londress for providing me with a place to pit and store my boats between races for the last several years.
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