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Hello

Since you all have your boats ready to race and have hauled them this far, why not drive them East to Port Huron, MI and race. Put your differences aside and run them. Another river race so the water should be fine, but it does get a little choppy.

So there is no confusion. The racers were suited up and in their boat ready to be led out on the course when the word came down that they were calling the race.

Two reasons :

1. Safety boats, turn boats, turn buoys were struggling to stay on station and would possibly be ineffective if there was an incident.

2: Three children had been reported missing and feared drowned on the beach adjacent to the course. (Helicopters and adults frantically searching for children). We had no business racing on a course where their could be a struggling child,parent of a child in our path. period (imagine being a parent of that child as we were racing).

As disappointed as the racers and fans were .... It was the right decision considering the information being disseminated to organizers at the time.

Looks like this old dude knows how to perdict the weather huh!

Too bad the weather sucked. Down in Hammond waves were 3 to 4 rollers. Good water to run in.

I did kind of miss being the pace boat again.

Mark:whistle:

Ha. You got it right, can't deny that. The NOAA forecast I looked at was wrong, imagine that. The lake been pretty flat all summer, we were due for some BIG water. Too bad you guys didn't make it down. The partynwas still fun. :thankyouthankyou:

Scotty well said pretty much says it all...

Not dissing anyone for cancelling a race due to the conditions on the Lake. We had a person drown in Lake Huron on Sunday in Port Huron, the second this year at the beaches. All I was asking was since all the teams traveled so far to a race site, I thought it would be nice to see everyone stick around and still race a week later on the other side of Michigan. We can only hope that one day all differences are put aside and both organizations will join, and everyone can be at the same race sites. There really is a loyal following of people that support both organizations because, in the end, we are all fans of offshore, no matter what the organization is that is putting on a race at a location near us.

No one said you were dissing anyone.
You keep saying that one day all differances can be put aside, I dont think anyone has an isssue those days are long gone you need to let that go.
The issue is like Doc said ppl have schedules and Job they cant just take another weekend off because it close to where they are. With the economy the way it is most of the teams this yr have enough issues just trying to do the schedule they have set, so adding races mid stream isnt going to work. Time off work today is almost as bad an issue as the money part of it. Most of the teams or atleast 90% are home already and doing what they need to do and getting ready for NY in three weeks. There is no line in the sand acept maybe in your mind there are ALOT of teams that run all the organizations they can when they can if that was there schedule ... you make it sound like some racial thing ... I guess if you dont get the boat you want it is a good excuse to blame the line in the sand to make you feel better. No different then KW , do you not think if ever team could afford to spend that kind of money they wouldnt be in KW, forget different organizations they come from all over the world.

So please be part of the solution not part of the problem and stop beating the old racial drum. Everyone knows where the race is next week and if they can make it they will and if it wasnt in there schedule or plan and they cant they wont its that simple.

Well stated Scotty... you are 100% on the mark...
Calling the race while dissapointing, was the correct call...
JR Noble