Offshore Racing’s Elephant In The Room

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03-07-2018, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by speicher lane

Personally, IMHO, at least you can see racing in its current form. Anything truly offshore would be covered like Tyson's runs or Nigel Hooks run to Cuba wherein you are watching a GPS blip on a screen for progress or a text update. Until the disappointing news of Stihl pulling out of sponsorship - at least people could see the better part of 3 hours of racing from NBCsports.

That said, I'm sure Apache Powerboats would LOVE racing to go way offshore - bring back their heyday!

Agreed - OPA makes it a spectator sport - the closer to the shore, the more exciting for the fans

03-07-2018, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by hallj

Didn't bash anything. It's just a case of mislabeling.
i didn't say it was bad. It isn't. It's fun.

Ask Bob Sheer. Getting knocked around in a boat
doesn't mean it's offshore. It can definitely be part of it though. That's some nice video.

Jeff

Bob Sheer is a very, very close family friend and the first person to put my father (our throttleman) in a raceboat. He absolutely respects what we do and does absolutely consider it offshore. Try another. Anyway, back to Matt's article...

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