Will do brotha!

BTW Just saw on another thread the old American Express Chris Cat (D Boat) considering running Class 3, itd be way cool to see Bull on the Beah and American Express duke it out!! Ahh memories lol

Wow, those old Chris Cat's were a challenge to drive! I'd drive one if in the T-mans seat was either A.) Tres Martin, B.) Jason Saris, C.) Johnny T, D,) Ritchie Powers.

It was copied and pasted from the most current rule book posted on the opa website.

Here's the link: http://oparacing.org/uploads/OPA_Rule_Book.pdf

As you saw I posted the page #'s for everyone's ease of search

The power we had to run that weekend it was propped for 107 MPH. I guess we will just have to see what happens this year now we both have the same hull. 103 MPH you guys might as well stay home and mow your lawn. !!!!!!!!!

we need to get some rules written down or this is going to get out of hand, Don took his blower off to go from class 4 to 5, now boats run with blowers in 5, Boats grandfathered with #4's now have bravos, conference call years ago elected 500hp for class 6 now look at it, their needs to be some written parameters so people can build boats for the class not the other way around

Holds more BEER

Eddie what you purpose on a couple of things could be handled real easy .
IE drive lets say class 5 or 6 Bravo or TRS there is no advantage to a TRS no speedies done simple and your not cutting boats out that are here now.
Power wise you are going to have a problem because the only way to regulate that is dyno and seal people dont have the money for that and that can be fudged .
Blowers - limit the size to say a b-m 250 or even merc 420 for class 5 and really there is no advantage to a blower if you make huge tq the bravo is not going to like it and the TRS even less.
Just some food for thought.

Some additional food for thought:

I don't think it is OPA's responsibility to make every boat competitive. There are currently 6 bracket classes that cover most types of hulls & power. Most boats have a class to race in, however, it is up to the teams to make their boat fit a class, not the other way around.

This is true i think what edie would like to see more of the unwritten rules put down in black and white there are a few gray areas that should be firm and it really would not change things IE trs in class -6 for a example that has been bounced around a quite a bit.

I was propped for 95 mph and i ran 103 mph and climbing oops just imagine how fast i would have ran if i ran the right prop oh my.