HORBA Thunderboat Rally
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HORBA Thunderboat Rally
With our new HORBA Thunderboat Rally series, we had scheduled one RALLY for the Miami / Ft Lauderdale area for next Saturday, January 30, 2016. We are cancelling that event due to lack of response from boat owners.
We are finding out that we also need to raise the qualification year for boats from 25 years old or older..... to any high performance boat built before the year 2000. So any 1999 year or older boat now qualifies to run with us.
Also the date we had for the Sarasota March Thunderboat Rally, March 19th was conflicting with the Mount Dora historic boat gathering, so we are moving our Sarasota date up to Saturday March 12, 2016.
We have had a lot of positive response, but find that most people need more lead time to get those old boats up and running and tested. So this year will be trial and error, until we find the right locations and dates so that we can make these annual events.
We are finding out that we also need to raise the qualification year for boats from 25 years old or older..... to any high performance boat built before the year 2000. So any 1999 year or older boat now qualifies to run with us.
Also the date we had for the Sarasota March Thunderboat Rally, March 19th was conflicting with the Mount Dora historic boat gathering, so we are moving our Sarasota date up to Saturday March 12, 2016.
We have had a lot of positive response, but find that most people need more lead time to get those old boats up and running and tested. So this year will be trial and error, until we find the right locations and dates so that we can make these annual events.
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Where are you getting the responses, or how are you gauging interest? I thought you had planned one for Lake Erie, but some of us are unclear on how to voice our interest....
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We planned two events for Florida to try to work out the bugs. We do intend to attend the Lake Erie gathering, but we should have more solid response by then.
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We have a lot of interest for Sarasota. I have at least 5 period correct boats here in my shop ready for the run. Please let's firm up Sarasota and make this happen!
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me three . . . . we have plenty of vintage stuff in the stable
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http://www.chesapeakebayacbs.org/ <<<< That's my chapter
http://acbs.org/ <<<<< US and Canada
https://acbs.org/chapters/ << should be a chapter out of 56 that covers any place that you all want to go.
You should contact the chapters individually. The main office is still a little head shy about glass. The chapters know they need glass to survive and most have moved toward it a lot (not to mention my glass is older then a lot of their wood boats). I'm sure they come across as old fuddy duddys but my chapter is far from it and welcomed me and my friends with open arms. The first boat I ever entered in a show was the Nova 24 race boat and won ACBS best race boat and it's glass. And that's if you and your members want to join and enter their shows. If you just want to hook up with the show and do something I'm sure they wont care what you bring. Like last year there was a Jersey skiff feature group that did that. Half of them were built in the last 10 years.
I can PM you a email contact for our chapter and maybe he will have contact for the other areas you wanted to go.
http://acbs.org/ <<<<< US and Canada
https://acbs.org/chapters/ << should be a chapter out of 56 that covers any place that you all want to go.
You should contact the chapters individually. The main office is still a little head shy about glass. The chapters know they need glass to survive and most have moved toward it a lot (not to mention my glass is older then a lot of their wood boats). I'm sure they come across as old fuddy duddys but my chapter is far from it and welcomed me and my friends with open arms. The first boat I ever entered in a show was the Nova 24 race boat and won ACBS best race boat and it's glass. And that's if you and your members want to join and enter their shows. If you just want to hook up with the show and do something I'm sure they wont care what you bring. Like last year there was a Jersey skiff feature group that did that. Half of them were built in the last 10 years.
I can PM you a email contact for our chapter and maybe he will have contact for the other areas you wanted to go.
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We have moved the March date from the 19th up to the 12th, which is also a Saturday.
March 19th was the date that the Mount Dora historic boat show goes on, so we didn't want to conflict.
Also please note that boats that can run can be from 1999 build date back.
Thanks