Big Boat Race
 

Big Boat Race This Weekend! Lotta people gonna be in St. Clair. OPA and The Jersey Boyz are coming to town and we are gonna raise hell... or something like that!

See you there Godfather.

We are coming this Sunday...early AM!!! See you there, godfather! We need to get a picture together, brother!!!

Chris K

Going to be one fun weekend!

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Some onboard footage from Early Detection Racing/Reindl Powerboats during Thursday testing in St. Clair!

Well our favorite race of the year is over... and now its a busy week of editing photo and putting them up on our website so stay tuned for much more video and photos. Also, we will be in Michigan City, Indiana this next weekend for the Super Boat International​ Great Lakes Grand Prix​, before heading to our hometown of Port Huron, Michigan for the Port Huron Offshore Powerboat Race​ and then off to Fall River, Massachusetts​ for more OPA Racing​! So please be patient our plate will be full for the next few weeks! Over the past four days, we have taken over 10,000 photos that need to be sorted out and edited. So until then here are a few to hold you over...

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Thanks everyone who put this great event on!

Another great weekend of racing, great race site and fans. Thanks to BWORA, OPA, all the volunteers and all the Race Teams for come down and putting on a great show for the fans.

OPA put on a great show this weekend. The entire city of St. clair really went all out. I had an absolute blast, and am paying for it today........ While Sunday was a pretty long day, with the 2hr delay between race 1 & 2, we had still had a ton of fun patrolling turn 3. Unfortunately we ended up towing in the Viking single o/b cat at the end of race two (hope it's something simple to fix). I will be back next year for sure!

Brad!

Great to see you and your crew there, got a few pictures of you guys and will send them to you when I get a chance to get to it. Andy

A few more pictures...

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... and a couple of videos from the Reindl Powerboats team...

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I was really impressed with how this little single ob cat ran. It was a bummer they ended up breaking on the last lap. We ended up towing them back to the launch. Cool little boat. It would be really cool to see a class full of these boats.

That little Uka was pretty awesome. Even with a Mercury 200XS it wasn't too far behind Tyler's 900 horsepower Joker. Hopefully, Rick and Gary can dial that thing in and it will be a very winning boat here in stateside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUTIUfwwOw Ultimate Racing Experience/Reindl Powerboats battling it out with Specialized in class 5 action during the 2015 OPA St. Clair River Classic.

Thanks much for the tow! At first we had no idea what was going on, but once back to the ramp we found a fuel Injector was stuck open flooding the motor. Not sure if it was Mercury guardian mode or what, but it limited us to 4000rpm (or around that) for the last lap, than I shut it off to restart it and nothing...

But I really need to figure out how to turn that boat. We would go wide, than sharp.. sharp in and wide out, sharp in and sharp out.. we had one really good turn, I just don't remember that the hell we did. :poopoo:

It was no problem towing you in. Hope you got it on the trailer without issue. Sorry we had to leave you at the end of the dock, but it was pretty tight in there and they seemed to be having issues getting the boat on the trailer in front of us. Otherwise I would have brought you in a bit farther.

It looks like a fun boat, and I have become partial to Outboards since jumping from my Velocity 260 over to my OB powered CC. Your boat looked like it turned good, at least from an onlooker.... I am curious what effect the strong current had in the corners on that cat....... If your racing Port Huron, hopefully you will have better luck with the motor.

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Here is a few more... I have about 500 photos done so far, but there are still thousands to go through. I will try to get most of them done this weekend, between Michigan City and Port Huron. Hope to see everyone in Port Huron.

Bob, thanks. See you in Port Huron

who won this weekend

There was not an OPA race this weekend. Next OPA race is Port Huron this upcoming week. Michigan City was a SBI race. You can probably find results on their web page.

Hi Brad!

Are you going up to watch the Port Huron/Sarnia International Powerboat Race this weekend? I always go by car and sit at the mouth of the Black River.

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Still have a lot more to go through (a couple thousand or so), I have uploaded a bunch from the pits and etc, but check the site often I am trying to upload them as often as possible.

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See everyone in Port Huron this weekend.

Robert

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thank you

Thanks. They all look great...especially RUFSTR!