It was grandfather in no new class 6 blower boats..

I think blower motor are a good thing for the simple reason, it will last the whole race season, low compression and smaller cam profile, less wear and tear on motor. Blowers should be legal in all classes.

So why take the largest Class in OPA ( Class 5) and make it even bigger with boats that wont be competitive? Not all of them, some will run well...but...some wont. Why screw people over like that? You say it like its easy.."Just Upgrade"...you gonna pay for it?

Class was designed to be "entry level", nothing entry level about it.. 70 or 75mph will cost the same to run.

In the long run that's what everyone is after, Bigger and less class and 5 and 6 are an easy merge seeing as they are so close already.

Seems "Bigger Boat count" & "Less Classes" is the normal battle cry but no one want to step up and take that first hit.

I disagree. 70 and 75 will not cost the same to run. Cotner, Lockd Up...squeexzng another 5 mph out of those boats to run 75 in race trim wont be cheap. Everyone in class 5 was thrilled with the turnout this year, we never had a lack of boats. There will be more, but the new ones should be real class 5 boats.

That's 2 boats out of a fleet of what?

So we are making classes for boats is what your saying? That's what we were trying to avoid, wasn't it?

I'm not saying I'm right I'm just saying I have a valid argument lol

If class 6 was truly entry level we should encourage more weekend warriors to race buy making 6 a trophy only class and cut the boat registration/entry down to a couple hundred bucks and even loan out GPS boxes to the newbies.

Now That's entry level.

This I agree with, If anything is keeping people out of racing its the grand for the gps..but theres no avoiding it. Im not saying build classes for boats, Im saying respect the boats that are already there...
and hey,,,its racing...noone is ever right

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