on the web site in requirments it says apba approved or coast guard???????

Go For it Scott




MIke

It all sounds very interesting...
I am looking into it myself.
BG XO

they call themselves the offshore racing organzation, is that the new name for abpa llc??????

then why would they refer to abpa approved? difficult scam,that much money i sure as hell would check it out in full before putting any money up. stayed tuned

outer42,

The LLC's new name will be ORL (Offshore Race League).

I am smelling a skunk......

close,very close i stand corrected

Here is some info about their Domain registration for the web page:

miami-newyork2004.com

Registrant:
Offshore Racing Organisation (VQOSXLJQPD)
780 NW LeJuene Rd
Suite 156
Miami, FL 33126
Some internet info about the web page:

Domain Name: MIAMI-NEWYORK2004.COM

Administrative Contact:
Fretel, Philippe (35952338P) [email protected]
Offshore Racig Organisation
780 NW LeJuene Rd
Suite 156
Miami, FL 33126
US
305-859-2223
Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, Inc. (HOST-ORG) [email protected]
21355 Ridgetop Circle
Dulles, VA 20166
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620

On the page they spell Organization with a Z, but on the domain registration, its with an S. More of the European spelling. European sounding name too, not that that means much.......This is sounding a bit funky.
I only have a 22' boat, so i guess i cant play. Damn.

all this is totally and utterly unrealistic. 300 boats... crazy entry fees... crazy prize money... i wish somebody used his energy to come up with something realistic and credible. Just relaunching this route as a nice, well organized race with say 30 boats and enough prize money to cover the winner's costs in each category would be a damn good start. The most important thing is to make sure that this gets extensive media coverage and this will attract more racers than crazy amounts of prize money nobody believes in anyway. Secondly, what is this stage-race deal? If I want to run a marathon, I don't want to do it by running 3 miles each day, I want to do it all at once. This is about endurance and I'm sorry but 200 miles is not an endurance run. Given nice weather, some guys will get that done in well under 3 hours so what's the point. It's not an adventure and then you may as well go to a poker run and have just as much fun for less money. People might say that one doesn't have the chance of winning that much money in a poker run but just you wait. When it becomes obvious that there won't be 300 boats and when and if everything comes down to earth a little bit, when the organizers do their cost accounting seriously, 10 mil. will be long forgotten. And unfortunately, this wonderful race route will also be forgotten for another ten years because the proposition just isn't serious enough. I mean, the acid test is to take someone who has all the prerequisites required to participate in this. I have a boat which is pretty well suited for this job and I have three friends who can share the costs and I can even come up with a private sponsor. And I am still not even convinced enough to pick up the phone and ask for more info. Think about it: if you saw an ad promising something like a factory boat with standard HP525 power running 200 mph, would you even bother considering it? And unfortunately, 300 boats and millions and millions of prize money is just as crazy. If somebody has a realistic idea to set this race up like in the old days, contact me, count me in, I'm up for it and willing to help out in the organization process. But if we're gonna dream all day, forget it!