Wave Blasters of Florida 1st Invitational Race

[ronratoff]

Ken - You are doing a great job setting up for this race. You have a PM, check it out when you have time.

Ron Ratoff

Namba District 3 Director

[email protected]

 

[Ken Haines]

We now have 25 racers and 60 boats !!!

See Waveblasters.org click the links tab and select the race registration sheet for racers and classes.

Latest weather Report:

Saturday March 14th- 81 degrees Partly Sunny

Sunday March 15th- 80 degrees Partly Sunny

Can't get much better !!

Ken

 

[Grimracer]

Good luck to all the competitors at this years, “Florida Wave Blasters” event!

Grimracer

 

[Ken Haines]

Good luck to all the competitors at this years, “Florida Wave Blasters” event!
Grimracer

Thanks Mike,

There certainly will be a lot of your boats there.

The very latest is 26 racers / 61 boats

a total of 21 SV27's

and 14 entries in LSH, the majority of them are UL-1's

Thanks for your patient help on the phone.

Take Care,

Ken

 

[Ken Haines]

The Wave Blasters would like to sincerely thank the following people and companies for voluntarily stepping up to the plate with very appreciated door prizes to help offset some of the costs of our very first big race. None of them were solicited for this help. They all read about our race on the forums and gave us or Don Wollard a call wanting to know if they could help. What great gestures, this says a lot about the state of our current FE community, especially considering the economy.

Below is a list in alphabetical order;

Astec Models and Electronics: Thanks to Allan Shillitto

Flight Power / Marine Power: Thanks to Steve Rogers

Kintec Racing.com: Thanks to Jan Kinley

Offshore Electrics: Thanks to Steven Vaccaro

Rum Runner Hobbies: Thanks to Doug Twaits

Rum Runner Racing: Thanks to Don Wollard

South River RC: Thanks to Jim Williams

 

The club would be remise if we did not thank the company’s that helped us have a successful picnic this past fall.

Castle Creations: Thanks to Joe Ford

RC Lipos: Thanks to Pat

 

Things are really going well as we ready for this event and the weather looks phenomenal. Hopefully everyone is getting their boats tuned and ready as well !!

More updates to follow.

Ken

 

[Ken Haines]

Originally Posted by Ken Haines

The Wave Blasters would like to sincerely thank the following people and companies for voluntarily stepping up to the plate with very appreciated door prizes to help offset some of the costs of our very first big race. None of them were solicited for this help. They all read about our race on the forums and gave us or Don Wollard a call wanting to know if they could help. What great gestures, this says a lot about the state of our current FE community, especially considering the economy.

Below is a list in alphabetical order;

Astec Models and Electronics: Thanks to Allan Shillitto

Flight Power / Marine Power: Thanks to Steve Rogers

Kintec Racing.com: Thanks to Jan Kinley

Mini Cat Racing USA: Thanks Jim Slaughter

Offshore Electrics: Thanks to Steven Vaccaro

Rum Runner Hobbies: Thanks to Doug Twaits

Rum Runner Racing: Thanks to Don Wollard

South River RC: Thanks to Jim Williams

The club would be remise if we did not thank the company’s that helped us have a successful picnic this past fall.

Castle Creations: Thanks to Joe Ford

RC Lipos: Thanks to Pat

 

Things are really going well as we ready for this event and the weather looks phenomenal. Hopefully everyone is getting their boats tuned and ready as well !!

More updates to follow.

Ken

 

[Ken Haines]

Hey Guys,

Today Mike Pags PM'd me that Remy at Aeromarine is donating a 29" Titan to help support our race. We will have quite the raffle which really helps our club. Remy thank you so much. Again as with the other sponsors this support was unsolicited. I can not express enough how impressed and thankful our club is for help in making this a super successful 1st big club race.

By the way we are now up to 28 Racers and 70 boats with another entry this evening.

Hopefully we can set the heats Saturday and get ready ahead of time for a day of great racing.

Mike Martin has lined up a food vendor to be there for the majority of the day Sunday.

Sign-ins will begin at 8am Sunday, Drivers meeting at 9:00. with a target start time of 9:30.

We have been requested by the County no to start the generators till 9am. We definetely need to honor that request.

Practice on Saturday will start at 10am and last till 5 ish.

Get em ready, more to follow.

Thanks, Ken

 

[Ken Haines]

Sunday – March 15th, 2009

Here is the latest from the WAVE BLASTERS of FLORIDA

Fast Electric News – SPECIAL RACE NEWS EDITION - The first Wave Blasters Invitational Race was held this weekend at our regular pond site under fantastic weather conditions and a super turnout with 26 boaters competing in 7 classes with 67 boats.

 

Most of Saturday was spent on last minute details of site preparation, registering boaters, and lots of practice runs and fine tuning. Sunday morning started bright and early with final registration and the drivers meeting. Racing began approximately 9:30 AM, a break for lunch after the first round and then two more rounds of racing ending at 5:30 PM. A long and busy day but everybody seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves.

 

Photos will be added here but wanted to get the Race Results posted as soon as possible. Be sure and check back daily for new additions.

 

Below are the trophy winners in each class. Winner photos also to follow.

(see our web-site) Waveblasters.org

Bud Johansen

SV Stock

1st - Paul Mainville - Port St. Lucie, FL

2nd - Ken Haines - Stuart, FL

3rd - Phil Hale - Ft. Pierce, FL

SV Modified

1st - Ken Haines - Stuart, FL

2nd - Terry Cowger - Port St. Lucie, FL

3rd - Jason Sims - Daytona Beach, FL

LSH (Limited Sport Hydro)

1st - Doug Twaits - Dingsmans Ferry, PA

2nd - Mike Paganelli - Rye Brook, NY

3rd - Hugh Ebner - Lakeland, FL

P-Spec Hydro

1st - Doug Twaits - Dingsmans Ferry, PA

2nd - Mike Martin - Ft. Pierce, FL

3rd - Mike Paganelli - Rye Brook, NY

N-2 Mono

1st - Ken Haines - Stuart, FL

2nd - Doug Twaits - Dingsmans Ferry, PA

3rd - Ron Desmond - Ft. Pierce, FL

P-Mono

1st - Doug Twaits - Dingsmans Ferry, PA

2nd - Mike Harvey - Lutz, FL

3rd - Terry Cowger - Port St. Lucie, FL

Q-Offshore

1st - Mike Paganelli - Rye Brook, NY

2nd - Ken Haines - Stuart, FL

3rd - Mike Harvey - Lutz, FL

We are really glad to hear so many of you had a great time and are grateful for the replies people have written.

Thanks to everyone for coming and everyone's patience through-out the weekend.

Please also give us feedback on whether you think we could host the 2010 FE Nats. at the same pond site.

Thanks Again,

Ken

 

[sailr]

The Waveblasters put on a flawless event! You guys rock! The four of us from Central Florida that ran had a blast. Ken, please thank your wife for putting up with all of us on Saturday night!

 

[Ken Haines]

This is the Wave Blasters final "Thank You" to everyone that helped make our first big race so very successful. First a big thank you to all the sponsors that donated prizes for the raffle and in turn kept the race financially in the black. These sponsors all voluteered there support just by viewing these posts. What a really impressive show of support for FE. I will simply list all of them in alphabetical order:

Aeromarine boat hulls: Thanks to Remy Haynes

Astec Models and Electronics: Thanks to Allan Shillitto

Flight Power / Marine Power: Thanks to Steve Rogers

Kintec Racing.com: Thanks to Jan Kinley

Mini Cat Racing USA: Thanks Jim Slaughter

Offshore Electrics: Thanks to Steven Vaccaro

Rum Runner Hobbies: Thanks to Doug Twaits

Rum Runner Racing: Thanks to Don Wollard

South River RC: Thanks to Jim Williams

We would also like to thank all the racers who traveled to our race, without all these guys it would have been just another club race. A special thanks to Doug Twaits and Mike Paganelli who came all the way from Pennsylvania and New York.

Pete Forcier, Mike Harvey, Hugh Hebner, Mike Paganelli, Ray Rankl, Jason Sims, Jim Slaughter, Ray Rankl, Scott Tillotson, Doug Twaits, Jeff Westbrook, & Don Wollard

We would be remiss if we did not thank our own Wave Blasters club racers who did well competing in most cases in their very first non-club race.

Albert Cline, Terry Cowger, Ron Desmond, Ken Haines, Phil Hale, Glenn Howell, David Johnston, Jeff Mainville, Paul Mainville, Mike Martin, Richard Place, Robert Place, Carl Slater, Bill Tripp, Rick Workman.

We need to thank the following club members who did not race, but helped run this race.

Bud Johansen

GB Robbins

Al Cline Sr.

Marty Ehrman

Also special Thanks to Rick Workman for staying overnight as security for the pond site on Saturday night. We need to thank the whole club who did a phenominal job in the set-up and tear down off all the equipment at the pond.

 

Unfortunately I'm sure I inadvertantly missed someone, please do not think that all involved were not appreciated, they truly are.

We beleive this race went very well, we had almost no negative feedback. We hope this has gotten us ready to host the 2010 FE Nats. After talking to all who attended we are reconsidering using our regular pond. Initially we thought it was a little too small, but unless we heard wrong the racers from out of town felt it was just fine. Please let us know if anyone does think we need to find a larger pond for the Nats. There are some others available, but our regular site does have very good wind resistance, and seldom do we have too rough of water to have a good race.

Again, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You to all who helped and attended !!

We are going to list the full final results of all the entries on the web-site in the next couple of days.

See Waveblasters.org and go to the race results link on the updates tab. I'm always curious myself where I finished when I travel, especially if I did not place 1st,2nd or 3rd, so we thought we should make a full listing.

This post is already way too long, but I must add that hopefully we all support Terry Davis and the Michigan club at this years FE Nats in September. We hope to host in 2010 and would really like to have everyone travel to Florida !!

Thanks Again, Ken