OSS in Port Clinton in September ?
 

Copied from the local newspaper.

This Could Be the Start of Something Big
Wednesday, 04 February 2009 10:17 John Schaffner
Imagine, Labor Day Weekend in Port Clinton, Waterworks Park simply full of locals and visitors looking at exhibits, the Portage River Shoreline packed with 48’ Offshore Racing Power Boats, and a noise like you can’t believe coming from their exhausts. It could happen!
Local leaders heard on Monday about the potential of the Offshore Super Series (OSS) Powerboat Racing Association making Port Clinton, Ohio their home for a week as the central focus of what is being billed as Lake Erie Boat Week. The Event Coordinator, Janie Vogel, had been holding preliminary discussions with Larry Fletcher of the Ottawa County Visitor’s Bureau about the possibility of holding a portion of the event in Port Clinton. Up until last weekend, the bulk of the event was to have been hosted by Lyman Harbor in Sandusky. However, when they pulled out of consideration, the entire event now appears to have landed in Port Clinton.
The event is planned for September 2-6 and will consist of on and off-shore events surrounding the OSS Powerboat Race scheduled for Sunday, September 6. This event, yet to be named, will become part of the 2009 OSS National Schedule, which will include eight other events from Missouri to Alabama to Louisiana to the Florida Keys.
Aside from the OSS Race, the Lake Erie Boat Week event will consist of a Powerboat Regatta with on-water powerboat competitions, on-shore activities and parties, as well as the “Fastest Boat on Lake Erie competition planned for Thursday, September 3. Event Director, Janie Vogel, believes that this event alone will draw over 150,000 people to Ottawa County with an economic impact of better than $5-Million! Vogel indicates that the event should be complementary to the annual Green Island Sailboat Race hosted over Labor Day Weekend every year by Port Clinton Yacht Club.
One of the primary reasons Vogel asked the local community leaders to attend Monday’s meeting was the need for volunteer help and local logistical assistance. The only problem foreseeable, according to Vogel, would be the inability to gain the sponsorship critical to making an event like this happen. “We have a long way to go with the logistics of such a huge undertaking,” said Port Clinton Mayor Debbie Hymore-Tester on Tuesday afternoon. “Right now things are looking very positive, and we’re going to try to work with the organizers to make it happen.”
So, imagine, the biggest boating event on Lake Erie, maybe in the Great Lakes, focused on Port Clinton, Ohio. It could happen.

Good find Denis............ Hope it happens.
Jr.

Would love to see that happen up here.

What Newspaper is that?

The article was in The beacon...

Hi Everyone:

I am Janie Vogel, the Event Director for Lake Erie Boat Week, a new offshore powerboat racing event and boating festival taking place on Lake Erie this coming Labor Day week, 2009 (Sept. 1-6, 2009).

I'll be posting more news in the coming weeks on the event, but know that it is real and it's happening in Port Clinton, Ohio.

If you are interested in being a sponsor, boat volunteer, personal volunteer, or vendor, please contact me directly at [email protected].

Otherwise, I'm looking forward to forming a good line of communication with all of you in the coming year in order to make this the best boating event on Lake Erie ever! I'll be checking in often (or please feel free to contact me directly with your thoughts and ideas).

Thanks so much!

Janie Vogel
Event Director, Lake Erie Boat Week
[email protected]

I don't see this on there schedule of events for 2009, They have a race in Florida scheduled for sept.

you might want to double check whatever you are looking at, OSS doesn't race in florida in september.

Sean I stand corrected the race is in your area LOTO.

Would be awesome...