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2008 News Articles
W.C.R.A. Race in Brandon
September 7, 2008
by Tampa Model Boat Club
WCRA
race was completed on a very hot day situated in between two
hurricanes. The water was smooth, the sun hot and bright, and drivers
were busy racing, flipping, and sinking their boats The Tampa Model
Boaters Club did a very nice job of keeping things going smoothly and
quickly. Even BMBI's rescue boat, newly refurbished, was quick to
respond and retrieve/save the numerous errant model boats.
A good turnout of RACERS occurred and some very exciting racing took place. Some east coast and central Florida boat clubs were represented and as always, brought strong competition with them. It was also interesting, to this writer, how most of the races had "good clean starts" with the Start-Camera watching. Improvements to the monitor system have been done to make the captured start image more clearly viewable.
Editor
8.08.08
A good turnout of RACERS occurred and some very exciting racing took place. Some east coast and central Florida boat clubs were represented and as always, brought strong competition with them. It was also interesting, to this writer, how most of the races had "good clean starts" with the Start-Camera watching. Improvements to the monitor system have been done to make the captured start image more clearly viewable.
Editor
8.08.08
Announcement
The W.C.R.A. website information, i.e., scoring records, has been moved to this site. As most already know, the photo gallery and activity reports/articles were already located on this site. In the future, unless things change again, all WCRA articles, activity announcements, and scoring will be reported on this BMBI web site. The gallery will be maintained as before. This has been done to better support WCRA with more up to date information.
WCRA is still very much a joint effort of West Coast model boat clubs. All participants are welcome.
Editor
7.12.2008 Update
WCRA Race #4 was to be run 7/08 but, it was CANCELLED Due to lack of entries.
Editor
6.23.2008
WCRA Race #3 was completed (June 1, 2008 - Dover Pond).
It was hosted by the Tampa Model Boaters who are still having a problem with their home pond, too many vegetables growing in it. The activity was very well run and moved along nicely. The Start-Camera continues to do a great job of policing the starts and keeping the race starts fair.
There was a very good turnout with approximately 61 boats entered. As is typical, there was some HOT N HEAVY competition as well as lots of just plain fun and laughter between drivers/competitors. Not too many crashes to photograph, come on guys and gals, let's rock at the next one. Hank forgot to bring his charcol grill, and he is such a good cook, and Rod forgot the burgers so all worked out well.
There are some good shots, especially of the "driver's stand" loaded with drivers, what else? There was one very near miss with the Navy but both boats escaped unscathed and the race continued. W.C.R.A Race #3 photographs have been posted. See the GALLERY on the BMBI site.
Editor
6.05.2008
May 4th W.C.R.A. Race, Update
Race #2 was completed. There was a very good turnout and participation. Pictures were taken of much of the event, see GALLERY on BMBI site. There were 33 drivers registered with 68 boats entered in 39 heats. AND, Herb Stewart's ELECTRIC tunnel finished a heat. Cool!!! Herb.....
Steve Bell showed up with a pot of home made wild pork barbecue that was a smash hit with those lucky enough to partake of it. Unfortunately, I had "corner judge duty" and missed it. Oh well. I wonder where he got that piggie. It wasn't roadkill, was it Steve?
One note about the Start-Line monitoring camera. There were a few "jump starts" but fewer, percentage wise, than at the last District III race in March. A couple of weak protests about the CD's call of the jumper's line violations were quickly settled and agreed to by the errant race drivers and activities resumed nicely. Operation and use of the camera as a CD backup went very smoothly as a second time use in a race.
Editor
5.07.08
WCRA Fun_Run -
Picnic
February 10, 2008
SEASON OPENER: The new racing year for Tampa Bay was kicked off with a West Coast Racing Association sponsored Fun Run. WCRA held this gathering at the Dover Park pond, BMBI's racing location. Numerous participants from other than the BMBI membership were there to enjoy the opening model boating activities. Very nice turn-out!
The Fun Run was a family activity with many youngsters (young and not-so-young) more that willing to have a great barbecue and informal non-points open-water race meet. A very capable and partially willing chef, Hank Schneider, presided over the HOT grill and kept the barbecue moving along nicely. Volunteerism isn't very catching, right Hank? The food was good!
Awards for the race year 2007 WCRA High Points were handed out by Tommy Cardoso. It was interesting to see the wide range of people receiving the awards, "young and not-so-young". Rod Hendricks was the recipient of the over-all high-point winner. Nice trophy!! Well done, Rod.
Don Riek manned the PA system and orchestrated the procedures, so he had to receive his three (3) plaques after all was done.
Photos of the gathering are posted in the GALLERY area of this site. I hope they bring back some memories worth bringing back.
Editor
02.22.08February 10, 2008
SEASON OPENER: The new racing year for Tampa Bay was kicked off with a West Coast Racing Association sponsored Fun Run. WCRA held this gathering at the Dover Park pond, BMBI's racing location. Numerous participants from other than the BMBI membership were there to enjoy the opening model boating activities. Very nice turn-out!
The Fun Run was a family activity with many youngsters (young and not-so-young) more that willing to have a great barbecue and informal non-points open-water race meet. A very capable and partially willing chef, Hank Schneider, presided over the HOT grill and kept the barbecue moving along nicely. Volunteerism isn't very catching, right Hank? The food was good!
Awards for the race year 2007 WCRA High Points were handed out by Tommy Cardoso. It was interesting to see the wide range of people receiving the awards, "young and not-so-young". Rod Hendricks was the recipient of the over-all high-point winner. Nice trophy!! Well done, Rod.
Don Riek manned the PA system and orchestrated the procedures, so he had to receive his three (3) plaques after all was done.
Photos of the gathering are posted in the GALLERY area of this site. I hope they bring back some memories worth bringing back.
Editor
Complete 2007 race results are posted.
- Grand Total tally
- Individual's race results
- Race # 6 was cancelled
Last 2007 WCRA Race
On December 16, the West Coast Racing Association (WCRA) held its final race of the year. WCRA is a group of west coast and central Florida R/C model boat clubs that have joined together to create an annual series of one day races and it does adhere to the NAMBA rules and safety regulations. On this particular day of racing, Florida presented a very challenging weather environment with some of the highest winds of the year. For the light weight and extremely fast model boats, it became a day of driver patience and expertise to not "turtle" the little speedsters and win by actually completing each race.
It was a day of SURVIVOR = WINNER, more often than preferred.
Fun_Run
Fun Run was just a gathering of boaters at which time there was running of boats and maybe some pickup races during the day. There will also be food supplied and awards for 2007 will be given out. See WCRA Schecule.
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