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I don't think they would move it from Key West! That would be a bad move.

They can move the races but we'll still be shipping the boats to North Miami and boating to Key West every year. I've been doing it since 2005 because I enjoy boating down to KW and back up, as well as watching with races with friends and running with poker runners. We just don't have any where like that to boat on the left coast. I'm not giving that up to go sit on some beach and watch a race. We come to boat... So good luck with that Clear Water..

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Originally Posted by tim mccray (Post 4005051)

.....I'm not giving that up to go sit on some beach and watch a race. We come to boat... So good luck with that Clear Water..

Just an FYI, supposedly the Clearwater Race has the Largest Spectator Fleet in the whole circuit...so lots of great boating and you wouldn't be relegated to watching from the beaches.

However, even as a resident of the Tampa Bay area, I think the Worlds should stay in Key West...it wouldn't be right for it to be anywhere else...PLUS, it gives me the incentive to leave Tampa Bay and go to Key West!!!

Cheers,

Dave

It would be a colossal failure for SBI to move out of Key West (on the same weekend as the poker run). The two bodies (FPC / SBI) feed off each other to create arguably the largest performance boating destination and event weekend in the world. You take one of the two out of the equation, it will have noticable negative efffects on the weekend.

But lets just be frank, While FPC/Stu began his poker runs to Key West to watch and support the racing venue, over the past 5-10 years, racing has seen a huge decline in participation and fans. Many that have the means to race or have raced in the past have turned to poker running due to the fact it's cheaper, there's less drama and the totality of poker run event (what you get out of it) offers more. Thus, I'd wager the majority of people that travel to Key West that weekend are connected to the poker run or run their boat down there as if they were connected to the poker run and enjoy the party, poker run, event atmosphere that comes with poker running. Where once the racing was the draw, now has turned into the poker run and party weekend atmosphere that is the draw.

Huge mistake to mess with success.