Fast Boats Inc boat club in D12

[John Crouch]

Ok, we had our meeting tonight and worked out the details for the 2009 season. We will be holding club races thru the season. We will start in March (weather permitting) and run thru October at 1 race per month. That will be a total of 8 races. At the end there will be trophys given out for the top 3 in each class. We will require that there be at least 3 boats in a class for it to be eligible. Final points will be decided by the best 5 out of 8 finishes. Racing fees will be $8 for the first boat and $3 for each boat after that. IMPBA cards will be checked at each race. Our pond is in Princess Anne, MD on the eastern shore behind the MD state police barracks. Some time this weekend I will post the dates after checking the D12 schedule so that there are no conflicts. Any questions can be sent to me thru here by either PM or email.Our pond is located in Princess Anne, MD on the eastern shore Just behind the Md State Police barracks there. It is just off of Rt 13 South.

These are the dates for the 2009 "Jail Break" race series (our pond is near a MD State Prison)

March 15th

April 5th

May 3rd

June 14th

July 12th

August 9th

Sept 13th

Oct 18th.

All races will be on Sunday.

Races will start at 12 noon.

We will offer both gas and nitro classes, there will be a 3 boat min to make a class. Hopefully we will see some of our friends from other clubs attending as well. We are hoping to get some new people interested in this great hobby by doing this. There will be flyers in the Aeromarine hobby store hopefully will get some the RTR guys and gals interested in coming out as well. Wish us luck on this first year of trying this..

John Crouch, Vice-president Fast Boats Inc model boat club

 

[carlnoki]

John;

can you provide an address for the place so we can mapquest?

thanks

not to worry, still havent forgot about your lower unit and pipe for the outboard project.

i also found a couple of spare flex shafts.

carl

 

[John Crouch]

Here is the address for the state police barracks. there is a dirt road right next to it that takes you back to the pond.

30581 Perry Road Princess Anne, Maryland 21853

that should be enough information to google it. if you use the google earth program, you will see the pond is HUGE!!!! No problems with shallow water at all there.

John Crouch

 

[Aaron Johnson]

John, looks like you all came up with a really good idea in D12. Sounds like somethin that could have success all over it and not to mention alot of fun. All the luck to D12 in trying this.

 

[John Crouch]

thanks for the positive coments. We have 5 District points races here durring the season. The club in Va Beach (odmba) has a series of club races that they do for there own members. I enjoy the points races a lot, however I think that this will bring model boaters out to try racing without quite so much travel involved. We are hoping to get a lot of the people that buy RTR's and stock engine boats to show up and learn what racing is about and hopefully get them hooked on it. I know that my first real year of model boat racing I ran almost every club race that old dominion had and only 1 district race (theres) and that got me hooked for sure.

john crouch

 

[Don Ferrette]

thanks for the positive coments. We have 5 District points races here durring the season. The club in Va Beach (odmba) has a series of club races that they do for there own members. I enjoy the points races a lot, however I think that this will bring model boaters out to try racing without quite so much travel involved. We are hoping to get a lot of the people that buy RTR's and stock engine boats to show up and learn what racing is about and hopefully get them hooked on it. I know that my first real year of model boat racing I ran almost every club race that old dominion had and only 1 district race (theres) and that got me hooked for sure.
john crouch

John it looks like you guys are really gearing to up to have a good year at the new site, should be alot of fun. Have you and your fellow FBI members given any thought to Saturday club races? It gives those who are a little farther away the option to possibly attend and still have a day to "recover" before trudging off to work on Monday. Just throwin' that out there for you all to chew on.

 

[John Crouch]

Don,

We did discuss it at the meeting. A lot of us have to works Saturdays and for us it just wont work. I know that sometimes the guys are out there running boats on Saturdays So we might be able to do some dates eventually on Saturdays. Thanks for the input, any and all is much appreciated.

John Crouch