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...

Count us in...raced Sandusky back in 96......i'm sure Reliable and Talkin trash would come to my backyard....it would be a cool SUPERCAT showdown...keep us informed...Sean maybe Guy would entertain racing together there....

if that race happens, we will be there. :drink:

It's on like white on rice....well sorta. I'm sure details will be coming out in the next few days. :ernaehrung004:

Looks like an awesome race site! Congratulations to Port Clinton for hosting racing on the Great Lakes.

Port Clinton
Harrison Twp
St Clair
Michigan City
Detroit

Hopefully more next year :ernaehrung004:

Toss in the area Poker Runs and events and we'll have on fun summer! :cool-smiley-027:

Lodging - Port Clinton Races Sept
 

What great news, I will be working at our Resort - http://www.portclintonresort.com - We will do all we can to help - 600 feet of Beachfront, Huge deck - check out our website

Greg Olsen -

Greg,
Send her an email, I don't think she is on OSO frequently since it was her 1st post. [email protected].

Yes - shot an email this afternoon too, I just got a call from her while walking the dog - Will call back and keep everyone posted -

Let us know what she says.

Hi everyone:

I just posted this over on IslandPirates.net, so I might as well post it here too! I really appreciate all of your interest and support! And, by the way, I do get on here quite frequently - just don't have much time to read anything but this post right now (see below).

Janie


Hi everyone:

Thank you so much for your interest in the inaugural Lake Erie Boat Week.

I am really interested in what you say, and want to answer as many questions as possible, but I hope you'll understand when I say that - at this point - my time should be spent on making this a successful event, so I may not post very often...as I'm kinda busy!

I would love to spend all day on the message boards chatting with everyone (really, that's true - I'm a message board junkie), however, that would not be very productive for someone putting together a national event with only about seven months to go, would it?

Please be patient with the amount of information being released. There are very specific reasons why things are being done in the order they are being done. But know that just because you are not hearing a lot of details right now, does NOT mean that they are not being addressed or accomplished.

Every day I'm getting significant items crossed off of my list, and I'm getting a LOT of support from every single entity that needs to be behind this event in order to make it FANTASTIC for everyone.

You'll hear all of the juicy details as soon as I feel they should be publicly known (hopefully sooner rather than later).

But again, I'll reassure you that this event is real and it is happening on Labor Day week this year.

As for transient dockage, public ramps, etc., I'll be putting together a type of "spectator guide" to this race that will answer all of your questions in plenty of time to make travel arrangements.

Official website should be up in two weeks or less at www.LakeErieBoatWeek.com.

Keep posting your questions and comments, and I promise to check in here as often as I can. But, just like the rest of the Internet, don't believe everything you read. This event is well under way, and a lot of positive things will be able to be released in the next month.

Thanks for your patience in me, and support of this event!

Janie Vogel
Event Director, Lake Erie Boat Week

Any further developments on this possible race site???

Just trying to plan out the year for racing.

Tony,

Put Ohio on your schedule AND Harrison Township! We missed u last year and your fans want u there! Both of them. :drink:

I heard it was looking good.

hasn't it been changed to an OPA race?

Janie has said there is an up coming press release.

if it's an OPA race, I am available to work it. Knowing that particular bit of water, it has a tendency to get really washing machine lumpy, should make for an interesting race.

Mr Eds, a lively little bar is located in the commadore perry hotel and could be a definite look into as far as a place to stay..

Stay tuned...good news coming soon.