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Joined: 23 Nov 2003
Posts: 392
My Real Name: Bertel Schmitt
Team Name: Typhoon, White Trash
Location: Quogue, NY
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 8:22 am Post subject: OSS announces founding Board of Directors

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The Offshore Super Series Powerboat Racing Association today named their founding Board of Directors that will lead the association into its first year of operation. The not for profit organization dedicated to the further development and growth of offshore powerboat racing is moving forward with positive momentum as it establishes its 2004 Race Schedule and its operating procedures. A minimum of two board members will represent the owners in their respective categories.

Director positions for the new organization will be elected annually by the membership, usually during the World Championships in November. The founding board who collectively have more than a century of powerboat and corporate business experience, will establish the direction and policies on behalf of the membership.

Founding Board of Directors are:

Tom Abrams, President, Reliable Carriers
Northville, Michigan
Owner / Driver: Reliable Carriers

Gerry Chastelet, Retired Executive
St. Charles, Missouri
Co-Driver: Dirty Duck

Ben Hedrick, Project Manager & Engineer, G&T Conveyor Company
Cape Coral, Florida
Driver: Hedrick Motorsports


William Mauff, CEO, WHM Plumbing
Setauket, Long Island, New York
Owner / Driver: WHM Motorsports

Jim Richardson, Sales & Marketing Executive, Ettore
Danville, California
Owner / Driver: Ettore Squeegee/Mercury Racing

Bertel Schmitt, Chairman of the Board, GBB Advertising,
Quogue, New York
Owner: Typhoon

Bob Teague, President, Teague Custom Marine Inc.
Technical Editor, Powerboat Magazine
Valencia, California.
Co-Owner / Throttleman: Liquid Metal

Todd Welling, President, Quesco Cabinets
San Carlos, California
Owner / Driver: Spiderman

Paul Whittier, Investor
Kirkland, Washington
Owner / Throttleman: P1 Motorsports


The Offshore Super Series (OSS) expects to make further organizational announcements in the next few days.
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"CDR Solo" Jersey Boyz Crew, Long Island Chapter. Black Nutz
:o :rolleyes: :eek:

Nice Job Bretel


Mike

With 392 posts in 8 days on Wetpits (49 per day), I don't know how he has gotten anything else done.:D

Just kidding......calm down.

I guess that explains why Bertel threw me off the Pits. "Heeeden ayendas? I ain't gawt no heeden ayendas."

From newbie to board member of the boycotters!!! Now Bertel, one must ask if you intend to rename the sham website of yours to the OSS site? I am certain that with your high moral and ethical standards you would not dream of being the webmaster of a site that solicits ideas and input from racers of other organizations to make the sport better while serving as a director of a competing organization, now would you???

OK, racers, study these guys and ask yourselves some basic questions like?

Who are they?

How many of them have been racers for more than one year?

What have they done for the sport?

Do any of them have new boats coming that might fit within their new rules but perhaps not APBA's??? In other words, do they have an interest in seeing the rules evolve a certain way?

Do any of them make a living off, from or around the sport??

Any conflicts of interest here?

Do any of these guys actually own raceboats and if so, how many?

Now are they a sanctioning body or not???

Can the sport support 3 sanctioning bodies?

Does it need 3?

Do you want 3?

Think people. 88 ENTRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!! in St. Pete. Great racing. Fair racing. Level playing field. Excellent rules enforcement. Great staff of people. Great television. 100 years of history. And why the boycott again? Because I was a nasty, meany who some people did not like taking orders from?

OK, so shortly I am gone from the sport except as a fan and maybe a racer. So now ask yourselves the question - Why are these guys doing this again?? Then go back and ask yourselves the questions posed above. Then think, think, think, think. Then act...fast.

Mike

Can you elaborate on what you mean here? In the beginning of the paragraph
Thanks Mike
Scott

Scott

That at this point it is the $250,000 question. I asked Mike on another thread and all I got was a response from Scotty Applegate stating that we would find out in time. I hope they come thru on their promise of a schedule being released on Jan 4th. Gino and Gordo need to know where they will be racing this season and soon. (sorry guys had a shot and took it, but I still love ya'll hehe)

One other question I have to anyone is, is that 88 boats keeps being stated for St Pete, is that registered boats or total boat count. I know about 15-20 raced in the P classes and then raced on Sunday in their normal class. So that tells me that only 68-72 boats were actually there. I am not trying to be technical but I also dont like buying bridges either.

When a private forum for racers was suggested, I thought it was a great idea. When wetpits was started, I still thought it was a great idea.
A friend and well respected member of OSO once told me that the reason he was against "wetpits" was because it had "hidden Agenda" written all over it.
I disagreed.
I was wrong, and I now stand corrected.
For those of you not allowed as wetpits members, (Actually, I think everyone was allowed...), it has rapidly become the message board for the new "OSS boaters association".
The saddest part of this is this; A team that I have the utmost respect for, two very talented World Champion racers, were given a LOT of TV time, recognition and exposure by APBA Offshore. Now it seems their team owner and spokesperson has endulged in his own personal campaign against the very sanctioning body that has been so good to this team, and is aligning that team with the very group that has inflicted potentially catastrophic damage to not only the same sanctioning body, but to all of us racers who have supported each other, helped each other and raced with each other knowing that we were ALL part of the Big Show.
Sad.

On the surface it looks like a pretty strong board. Aside from the successes they've all enjoyed in business there is project management, sales & marketing, advertising, technical and investment people. Everything you need to run a business. If they can all play together this is going to be a very strong team.

I think having Bertel in OSS will only make their destruction even quicker , good for him. There are some positive things happening in APBA Offshore and a new leader will be announced soon. Be patient , take it easy on the BS and we will certainly weather these obstacles. BH

Gordo sums it up very well.

Everyone please read his post twice and think about it.

This is the exact thing that happened in the 1980s that got things as screwed up as they are now. I guess we will never learn.
Those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.

That's RIGHT !!!!!! Here we go again !?!

Dig up an old Powerboat magazine dated February 1993.
The article is titled, "Offshore Racing- On course or off?"
Excerpt from article- At the onset of the year (1992), there were four circuits all saying, "We're the One". Now there are basically two national circuits. One is APBA and the other is a joint venture betwenn Super Boat Racing Inc. (SBR) and the U.S. Offshore Racing Association....................................... ..............
The last sentence of the article reads, "You just never know what will happen next year," says Gary Pearson, president of (the now defunct) U.S. Offshore Racing Association.

Funny how Bertel was bashing me when I was asking the tough questions about the LLC. He was telling me that I need to stand behind them etc etc etc. Now look...he starts his board for racers past present and future, I am denied access and now he is on this board. Hey Bertel, you lied when you said there where no hidden agendas, you lied when you said your board was for racers past present and future and now after you bashed me for asking questions that would divulge the TRUTH you do this. :( :( :(

SHane

It doesn`t say PAST RACES . It says WETPITS.com ,A PRIVATE FORUM FOR ACTIVE RACERS.

(Didn`t Nicky drop you about 7 yrs ago)

So Grow Up and stop crying

Mike,

You just don't get it do you?

I JUST HOPE THAT MORE TIME IS SPENT TO MAKE THE P/CLASSES BETTER. WIRE TIES TO SEAL G/P/S BOXES. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!:rolleyes:

USE A SEAL THAT IS NOT AVALIABLE EVERYWHERE, LIKE A HP500 ENGINE SEAL. IT WOULD BE EASY TO MAKE SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND PUT APBA OFFSHORE ON IT. THEN THERE WOULD BE DISCUSSION EXCEPT IF THE GPS FAILED. THERE SHOULD BE RULES IN THE RULE BOOK IF THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE IT IS A ISSUE. IT WOULD KEEP EVERY THING FAIR AND SQUARE. JUST MY 2 CENTS. ON A LIGHTER NOTE I ENJOYED RACING A I WILL RACE THE OLD 32 UNTIL SOMETHING BETTER COMES ALONG. WHEN THAT HAPPENS LOOK OUT!! SEE YA

ALSO DOESNT THE APBA RULEBOOK STATE THAT A PX BOAT HAS TO HAVE A ENCLOSED CANOPY UNLESS YOU SUBMIT A EXEMPTION TO APBA, POPEYES PX BOAT IS NOT TOTALLY ENCLOSED AND IT RACED PX IN ORANGE BEACH. WERE THE RULES BENT THERE TO FILL THE SHOW BECAUSE OF THE SUPER CAT SITUATION?? JUST CURIOUS. THEY RAN HARD AND DID A GREAT JOB, JUST GIVE OTHER ROOKIE RACERS A CHANCE TO SHOW THERE STUFF AGAINST THE OTHER BIG BOYS. YOU MIGHT BE SUPRISED WHAT COULD HAPPEN:)

Merlin I think it is way cool that the agitator boat still runs so great. I remember seeing it run when new, back in the 80s as Dirty Laundry. The 32' outboard hull High Risk still runs very very well. I guess skater knew what they were doing.
How about twist ties?:D

BREAD TWISTIES????? THATS FUNNY. :D :D

YOU GUYS NEED TO GO TO THE YOUNG BLOOD HOUNDS FORUM IF YOU WANT TO KEEP DIGGING UP DIRT.

.... and why free Kreimeier? Klaus is alive and well in Germany (there we go again....) where he writes: "Bankers, stock market analysts and secret services anxiously observe the close connections of terrorism with the international financial system. Everything is interwoven in this world, the good as well as the evil. This is not new. The movie theaters of the 20s of the past century showed the monster Mabuse as a spider in the net of a worldwide plutocracy. This predecessor of Bin Laden manipulated bull markets and bear markets and drew the strength for his crimes – and the bread that he needed – from the stock market crash and inflation."

My post was deleted. You are kidding right?

Anyone can find out that information on any domain here www.whois.com It isn't exactly rocket science, although the site would not reveal Hoffa's whereabouts and the never seen before JFK photos were a little blurry.

I stand by my original post of public information. For those that didn't see it before it was zapped, feel free to PM me.

http://www.4shires.co.uk/images/hound%20kids.jpg
Young bloodhounds running for office


There ya go: http://www.yourpurebredpuppy.com/rev...oodhounds.html

DREDGEKING YOU NEED TO DECIDE TO MODERATE HERE OR THERE,THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH PHATOMS POST,FACTS OR FACTS. IT'S NOT DIRT ITS FACTS. THERE IS A NEW LEADER AT APBA. WE NEED TO GET BEHIND HIM AND JOHNC AND MAKE THIS SPORT BETTER. WE DON'T NEED A THIRD BODY,TWO IS ENOUGH.
PECONIC IS THE ONE WITH THE HIDDEN AGENDA AND HIS OWN SITE.

Hold the presses!

Lake Murray Wind Reports! (In Real-Time!)

Woof woof:doggy: :doggy:

WTF ? Are you planning on sailing Solo !! Again

IF HE WAS A BLOWBOATER,THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING.

Scoop: Randy Schleuss bought by Applegate! (But did A. ever pay?)

(Allegedly, he did. )

READ THE TOPIC OF THIS THREAD AND TELL ME HOW P0STING ALL THE "WHOIS" INFO RELATES. BOTH SIDES GOT WAY OFF TRACK. FACTS ARE FINE. THE BLOOD HOUND GANG IS LOOKING FOR A FEW NEW MEMBERS. BOTH SIDES OF THE ARGUMENT WERE DELETED.

I guess that is Bert's way of saying that he "knows where I live".

I must have hit a nerve earlier today........

PECONIC I DID PAY ASK BODYSHOT 500 CASH. KNOW YOUR FACTS ASK RANDY. HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE COURTESY TO CALL OR P.M THANKS. THAT SHOWS HIS CHARACTER AND YOURS,

GUESS NO RESPONSE,YOU CALL YOUR BOY TOY AND FIND OUT THE FACTS.

ITS FUNNY THING WERE CIVIL HERE,MY THREAD HAD NUMEROUS EXCELLENT REPLIES. PECONIC COMES ON HERE AND STIRS THE POT.
YOU HAVE YOUR OWN SITE STIR IT OVER THERE!!!!!!
IS THE OSS GONNA RACE APBA, NOW ALLWEIS IS GONE? THAT WAS ONE OF THERE MAJOR GRIPS.

Posts 4, 8, 9 and 16 all insinuate that there is a "hidden agenda" and that Bertel started Wetpits with full knowledge of the OSSPRA plans. My previous (now deleted) post just pointed out public information that I believed would be of interest to those questioning the "hidden agenda". I cut and pasted the public information and did not "sling any mud". The information posted certainly would lead reasonable people to believe that OSSPRA and Wetpits are in bed together.

My post was factual and based upon public knowledge - no rumors - no name calling. It was very applicable to this thread. I am sorry that you were convinced otherwise.

DREDGEKING IS TRYING TO MAKE UP FOR HIS VACATION.

Dredge should not be moderating both boards. Definite conflict of interest here. Pick one and resign from the other.

THERE IS NOTHING TO RESIGN FROM. FOLLOW THE RULES. HOW IS BEING A HALL MONITOR AT 2 DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOLS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST?