Images from Ocean City this weekend. <Picture thread>
 

First off what a great show in town this weekend. I was glad to see the races brought back last year and was excited when I heard you guys would return this year. What an awesome weekend, one of my favorites living in town. Just a note to say it was nice to meet some crews on Saturday; peeps from On the Chip (thanks for the shirts you guys are OFF the hook :evilb: ), Reliable crew for letting me get shots of the engine bays, The silver cat Ansel? crew and family (mom, pops, son, daughter), and the rockstars who gave us beer.

A special thanks to miss Geico crew, what a great sponsor for the event........you all had it hooked up right! John (with turbine marine) and the Assistant crew cheif (Brandon?) were great. I heard much about the Geico, it's recent Baltimore-Annapolis record and wanted to check out the boat up close. No problem with these guys, class act.

What happened to the Wicked Performance Cat? We saw it pull up to the beach.........like a beached whale to the amazement of everyone. I saw trooper 4 (medivac) flying but didn't land so I hope no one was hurt. It was pretty wild to see a boat charge the beach like that.

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Thankfully, No One was hurt...

The hull delaminated taking on water. They beached the boat so it wouldn't sink. A crane will come in to lift it out of the water and place on the trailer. then a tractor will tow the trailer to the street

Not an easy task, considering access to the beach is limited.

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I figured it was sinking, good to know no injuries. In one of my pics it looks like the front right cat on the inside? Hard to tell though.


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I have many more of the actual races today which I will post later. If anyone else has some pics please share too, thanks.

Just get busy and post more!! Thanks for sharing:D

A few from the actual race. On a side note the Wicked boat definately has a damaged hull. Wonder if it's a stress fracture or caused from a collision with something?

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.....more to follow :)

Damn...I see a picture of Super Cat Wicked...That it has long crack....It makes me wonder if Super Cat Wicked will race again this year?

Thanks. I have a Canon 30D, the race shots are with a 100-400L.The close-ups are with a Tokina 12-24, a CP filter was used with all images.

Another of the miss GEICO. I really really like this boat :D

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My wife took some pics that are posted in the general discussion section if you want to see them.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...d.php?t=161155

When we got the boat up on the beach we actually got to see how bad it really was and when Stan told me when they would go off a wave he was getting wet for two laps then the boat finally hooked to the right is when they decided to put it on the beach:( the boat is hurt but will race again is what Jay said.

That is crazy that the right side split like that Iknow for sure that morning my wife and I saw some one doing some grinding on that side of the boat on the inside of the sponson probably not related to their problem with the hull but just a thought

This happened in 2003 St Pete race! in the first turn
there was plenty of carnage!

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Just got home about an hour ago. Got the pics on the puter just need to upload. So give me about an hour or so. OC was a great race!!!!!

I'll be back with the link

jay looked great in testing on saturday...had a great start on sunday...jay was very optimistic and upbeat...hes a great competitor..he'll have the boat fixed..he has a talented NEW rig shop of his own...cant wait to see him again
Nice seeing u Jay
Tony

I remember St Pete all to well Jay will have it back in no time it was a blast to race with him again.What a great race site and congrads to the winner Byrider !!

BIG CONGRATS to Tony & Mark.....

Nice Pics! Please share more, looks like you had great seats :D

Bo,

Outstanding shots! :drink:
I too shoot with a Canon but it is the Rebel with the same L-Series 100-400 lens. I wanted to try to get the filter before I left but the Camera store opened too late. :(
I see the difference now with and without. Really nice shots.

I am just finishing getting the images off the cards. Still a ton of work to get them uploaded online though. They will be posted soon!

Dee,
Glad to see you got to the infield! :drink:
Let me know when the link is up and I will add it to http://www.SharkeyMarine.com

Thanks! I'd be lying if I didn't say the images were shot in RAW so a little post processing goes into each :D A good quality CP helps a lot too. Photography is a hobby I enjoy like you guys enjoy racing boats.

Going through my pics I noticed a lot were blurry. I was trying to pan to get motion blur, they looked OK on the tiny LCD in the sun but not so much on the computer. Oh well, a few motion shots are salvageable.

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Great shots. You must have had some big glass to get that close from shore.

Here's all I got.

The end of a long day for Jay. Thankfully it was very calm or this would have been much worst.

Finally get them uploaded. Almost done with the second race

CLICK HERE for photos of the Pits and the 1st Race

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OK, finally got them all uploaded
CLICK HERE for photos of the Pits and the 1st Race
CLICK HERE for photos of the 2nd Race and the Awards

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You found the blurry images too huh?
I am really dissappointed with so many of my shots. They look great on "Preview" on the PC, but blown up to full image it's not looking so good. :mad:
I think the heat and distance we were trying to shoot had alot to due with today's pics. I burned up 2 batteries at one point and the 400 hundred lens was pretty hot to hold.
I just may need to start shooting in RAW format myself. ;)