Another RC Boating Organization?

[Darin Jordan]

Any of you guys see this or know anything about it??

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_5350770/tm.htm

Looks like another Nitro/Gas org based around stock or RTR stuff...

[m4a1usr]

While I never saw this until you posted the link I will say that there are some very arguementive types posting with no stake in the merits of whats trying to be accomplished. Seems a consensus is trying to gel but its not there yet. I see some potential and maybe a spin off or some new group will form.

John

[AndyKunz]

Wait until they go looking for insurance...

Andy

[J Solinger]

Wait until they go looking for insurance...

Andy

That was my 1rst thought. More power to them.

[Hydrophobic]

Joe, I know a little about what is going on. Mostly it's a ploy to get the IMPBA to get some RTR boat classes going. Since there is only one RTR class in the rulebook, the ABS class that has never been used, Twisted Liquid Racing is trying to get something going but at the same time they want you to join there group but you'd also have to be an IMPBA member for insurance.
Right now there are some clubs running RTR boat classes, a lot of them based on the Proboat Miss Bud/Elam/LLumar and the Aquacraft Miss Vegas.
A better alterantive would be for clubs to hold a RTR only race covering all mass-produced boats. The biggest problem is that the Vegas will beat the Bud boats as there is only a .15 in them as opposed to the Vegas which has a hotter .18 . With them wanting to have a stock class with limited mods in the interest of safety, etc. and an unlimited class for those that want to trade up to hotter engines there is a lot of conflict.
What they have to look at is the bigger picture coming up as what other boats are coming out, whether it's nitro, gas or electric. Also, what constitutes a RTR boat. Should there be a minimum amount of boats manufactured to be considered a RTR boat? If so, how many?
Everybody is looking right now at the Big 2, ProBoat and Aquacraft yet there are a lot of other players that have RTR boats.

[Jay Turner]

I understand their frustration, but unfortunately they will not succeed in becoming a viable national organization - too ambitious IMO. But IMPBA has listened:

http://clubs.intlwaters.com/dallasrcthunderboats/RTR-RULES.pdf

BTW if anyone has watched the stock pull-start hydros run on the 1/6th mile course, it is a snooze. Most FE classes would run rings around them, but they make sense as an entry into fuel. The provision to run a partial course makes some sense...but if FE can run the full course..... :yeah:

asdr
BTW, if anyone has seen the

[Hydrophobic]

Jay, you're comparing apples to oranges especially when you added "most FE" in your reply. ROAR stock 6-cell classes are exciting?
As more electric RTR boats hit the market, they are going to want to race them so are the host clubs ready to accept them?
What has been proposed brings up more questions than answers. What constitutes a RTR boat? Is an ARTR also an RTR? Who decides what a nationally recognized distributor is? Does this leave out Warehouse Hobbies, Hyperformance Products or other outfits that don't distribute through Tower Hobbies or Horizon?
With as many rules and classes that they have proposed, the RTR classes could use up a days worth of racing by themselves. Host clubs will have to decide on what, if any, classes that they have the time for.
Snoozers? Ever seen a stock gas mono class? From what I've seen of a lot of these RTR boats, they're faster than you think. My mind was changed last year after seeing some of them run. Getting 40+MPH out of a boat that you can get for under $350.00 plus a little extra work in tweaking them isn't such a bad deal. New boaters and potential racers have to start somewhere as once they've gotten the fever and seen the higher dollar boats run and have gotten some experience under their belts will R/C boat racing continue to grow whether it's nitro, gas or electric. We all had to start somewhere and maybe this is the place for them.

[Sorcerer001]

Wow... that's a lot of classes! Being that it's enough of a challenge to scrape up 20 guys to run a race, why would having 26 classes (unless I'm counting wrong) even be considered? The way we've always run races in both onroad and offroad classes is that we needed at least three cars on the track to make a class. With the attrition rate of boats, do they still run a class with only two boats showing up?

[Drobie]

Wow... that's a lot of classes! Being that it's enough of a challenge to scrape up 20 guys to run a race, why would having 26 classes (unless I'm counting wrong) even be considered?

I'm with you. We could easily drop 10.

7.4 Hydro, Sport Hydro, Offshore and Mono
14.8v. Hydro, Sport Hydro, LSH, Offshore and Mono
22.2 v. Hydro, Sport Hydro, Offshore
29.6 and/or 40 v.+ ????????????

OPC
SuperVee
1/8 scale

That's 15-18 classes, depending on how the big boats are done. Covers 95+% of what's run today.