A very big THANK YOU. We were losing faith in the offshore crowd for a while there, but all is well now.
We have had a great response to this race with more and more entries every day and we are vey happy to say that we feel that we have achieved our goal of producing a quality event that honors one of the sport's founders, Don Aronow
We have also attracted the top people from the many areas of offshore.
In addition to Miss Geico and Don's original race boat called the Cigarette, we now have entered Bill Pyburn from the poker run side, Bob Teague from the active racing side and boat builders like Randy Scism from MTI, who will be bringing his latest innovation. Lavey Craft and Pantera are in. Fountain also will be represented by two race boats.
There are a number of privately entered Cigarette's and we have about 1/2 dozen historic boats racing plus more on the land for display.
We are happy to see racers from other organizations beyond OSS coming to race. The Muscle crew is on board too.
And the best news of all........Michael Aronow is coming and will be signing the checkered flags of all the winners.
We are trying to make this as easy as possible for everyone to attend. If you want to pay by credit card, that is now all set, just contact us for instructions on how it will be handled.
The average weather during that time period calls for calm water, so watch the big cats set new records for this run. Everyone who races will actually be setting new records for their class, as we have professional record people on hand.
We have special patches that will only be given to the racers, in addition to the event patch that Brownie has made up. And a special personal Thank You certificate, from Michael Aronow to those racers that participate in this race to honor his dad.
Don't miss this. It is shaping up to be the biggest event of the year. We have over 60 of the old racers coming for the weekend and you can meet them at the big party at Gulfstream on Saturday night.
Live band at the Race Village right after the race and winner's boat parade on Friday, will be playing until 10PM.
Keep those entries coming we would like to see 50 boats !!!
We have about 25 boats and we are hearing from enough people that are just waiting for a weather report....if is is calm they will run...if it is rough they won't.
So if everyone shows up, maybe we could have a good old ocean race with 50 boats.
Just heard from Steve Stepp today and he is planing on bringing some Velocitys. He is an old open ocean racer and knows the water can change at anytime and the fastest boat is usually not the winner.
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