Purpose
1. To build a
Sport
Scale Hydro, in
1/10th,
1/12th,
or any other scale, but only if you are
NOT
planning on participating in the racing part of the
competition. We wish to be as inclusive as possible, so
while we suggest using the free downloadable plans, any
plan may be used, bear in mind the racing portion, which
will require either a 1/12th
or 1/10th
“ish”
scale. There will be power limitations in both Racing
Classes, however there will be no such restrictions for
the “On-Line Building Contest. The Plans may of course
be enlarged, modified, or one of the smaller scale
hydros (1/16th)
may also be built. This will be in the same fashion as
the previous build contest.
2. The boat may be built from a laser
cut kit or built from scratch, with no point penalty for
building from a kit. The contest is to promote building
skills, and to help others overcome building challenges,
by providing problems and solutions to our forum members
and readers.
3. The competition is put forth in
the spirit of camaraderie, fun, building skills and to
increase the interest in the hobbies of both boat
building and fast electric racing.
General Rules
4. Entrants must fill out the
Participation Form with full name, screen name,
address, email and phone number, as well as which
categories they are entering prior to the deadline for entrants.
5. This information is solely for the
use during the competition, and will not be distributed,
sold or disseminated to any third party whatsoever. The
information will be given to any vendor offering a
discount on participants, to validate their eligibility
for the discount. Rum Runner Racing can not be held
liable for any dissemination of the information once it
leaves us, but we will make every effort to ensure that
vendors only use this information for their own use.
6. Entrants will start a thread in
the designated forum, and proceed to “document” their
build step by step, with photographs, step by step
infers the major building portions i.e., parts cut,
frame assembled, frames sealed, installation of
hardware, disassembly, painting detailing etc.
7.
By entering the competition, the entrants agree to waive
their rights on their postings and pictures for possible
use for a magazine article and advertisement. The images
will not be sold, or used for profit, but may be
published, displayed etc. Completeness will be judged as
well as results.
8. Only Current Members of the Rum
Runner Forum in good standing (at the time of
commencement) will be considered for competition. If a
new member wants to sign up after the commencement, it
will be at the discretion of the moderators. If someone
is participating in the Moderators Challenge, they do
not necessarily need to be a member of the Forum, this
challenge is also for Fun, and Bragging rights, but also
we want to be inclusive.
9. The use of the plans is only for
the personal use of the competitors, and is prohibited
to be used for any type of commercial venture. (i.e.
laser kits etc)
Specific
Rules
10. Entrants must build their hydro
as per plans, variations in cowling, materials, colour
scheme, changes to the overall dimensions will be
allowed, as long as it does not deviate from the spirit
of the original model. As an example the shovel nose can
be built with a full cowl, Cab-over, etc, the pickle
fork can be made to look like a different pickle fork
with the same basic shape, i.e. the Atlas as the Pay n
Pak, Budweiser etc, common sense must prevail, you would
not place a turbine cowl on the shovel, etc.
11. Points
will be awarded for construction, finish, neatness,
added details, motor, cockpit, driver figure, etc. to a
limit, if someone decides to have working gauges, etc,
that in of itself will not “win” the competition, the
boats should be
finished with
racing
in mind, although there is no limit to amount of detail
you may add, there are only so many points that will be
awarded for details.
12. Overall appearance, paint scheme
may be like the original prototype, or may be of a
fictional sponsor, or sponsor of the builder’s choice,
but will still be judged on accuracy, meaning it must
represent what a real unlimited hydro would have looked
like had the fictional sponsor sponsored the real boat,
complete U-numbers or NAMBA/IMPBA/APBA numbers etc.
13. The model must be operational,
and meet all the general requirements to race in a NAMBA
style race using N-2 , P-Sport or LSH
power
as a guideline, (if you’re a NAMBA Member) if not
basically any motor and or cells, voltage not to exceed
Current Voltage Rules. Dimensions will be based on those
of the plans, with variations within reason, based on
the basis of the scale stated at the time of entry, if
someone wanted to build a larger scale model i.e. 1/8th
this is also allowable and power parameters will be
adjusted. This is meant to be inclusive, and with
current rules possibly changing, it only makes sense for
flexibility. But the racing portion again will only be
for the 2 sizes (12th
and 10th).
Team Efforts
14. Parent/Child team efforts are allowed and
encouraged, but must be declared in their intent form,
if two boats are built by the team it will only count as
one entry.
15. Team Boats may be painted in team colors, and the
team being the sponsor.
Vendor Discounts
16. Vendors have offered varying degrees of discounts,
the discounts only apply to competitors who actually
sign up for the competition, and start a thread, it
would be unreasonable for us to expect any vendor to
offer discounts to all forum members.
17. Vendors may wish to wait to
offer their discount for competitors to actually “start”
their build that is at the discretion of the vendor, the
vendor may also limit their offer to one set. For
example if someone decides to build all three offered
hydroplanes, the discount may only apply to the first
build; this is also at the discretion of the vendor.
Vendors
may also offer a discount based on the person actually
finishing the build and competing, this is all at the
discretion of the vendors and will be posted in the
build forum.
Time Frame
18. The time frame for the sign up will be anytime up to
30 days before the “official” End of the build.
19. The time frame for the forum
build will be 180 days after the sign up. For the Racing
Entrants you may keep building till the day of the first
race.
20. After 180 days, and your forum entry is still not
complete, your entry will not be scored. “Mercy Minutes”
may be offered if there is some extenuating
circumstances and the moderators are notified prior to
the end of the 180 days, and then only at the discretion
of the moderators, and not to exceed 7 days or
approximately 10,000 Mercy Minutes.
21. To take into account the various weather conditions,
complete means, all major components complete, painted,
motor/hardware/radio equipment installed but not
necessarily tested.
22. There will be a requirement at
the end of your build to have at least a few pictures or
a video of the boat on the water and actually under
power and on plane. These pictures will count toward
your final standings. The time frame for pictures/video
for this will be determined on a case by case basis, but
as soon as possible after 180 days, but not to exceed 30
days.
The
racing scoring will be addressed in the Racing addendum
to the rules.
Scoring
23. Basic Build Quality/Framing/Lay Out- Max 15 pts
24. Fit-Finish Sheeting- Max 10 pts
25. Paint/Lettering-Max 15 Pts
26. Details-max – Max 10 Pts.
27. Scale Correctness 10 pts
28. Hardware Installation- max 10 Pts.
29. On water performance (for the online contest)- max
10 Pts, this will be performance based for the Racing
portion.
30. Documentation (building thread, photographs etc) Max
10 Pts.
31. Innovation Max 10 Pts.
Judging
32. Judging will be done by a panel of judges selected
for their knowledge and skill in hydroplanes, model
boating, designing model boats and or building models.
33. The judges will each have a vote, to cast based on
the above stated rules.
34. The Forum Representative (Don Wollard) will have a
vote.
35. The Forum Members will have a vote via a poll, each
contestants thread will be listed and members can vote
for the boats that they feel best lived up to the rules.
36. The final votes will be for the appropriate
categories, 1, 2, 3 etc. and will be added in as a
single vote, along with the judges, Forum Member’s and
Forum Representative’s vote.
37. In case of a tie vote, the two tied boats in each
category will be voted on by the moderators, the results
of this vote would decide the first place winner.
38. We have tried our best to come up with the when and
where of judging, and came to realize that it is
logistically impossible, to get all the contestants and
all the boats at one location, so it was decided to have
all judging done on-line, in this regard it may be
required for contestants to reply to Judges questions
and or take some additional photos at their request to
better clarify some building point, this is unavoidable,
and is up to the contestants whether they will or not,
but it would be in the contestant’s interest to do so,
as it will most likely improve the score. We are
intending to have a separate award at a national type
event, there will be an award for concourse as well as a
race of the built boats, we have not confirmed the
venue, but this will be separate from the online
contest.
Conduct of Contestants
39. This is a friendly competition, and it will remain
so, any contestant badgering or belittling another
contestants efforts will be disqualified.
40. Any contestant that continues their derogatory
comments after being disqualified will be locked down.
41. The decision of the Judges is final; any contestant
or forum member that berates any judge will be
immediately locked down.
Categories
42. There will be two categories
to enter, “Scale” or
“Sport”.
This
counts only for the online contest, a scale boat can and
will race with a sport boat, and here is where we are
stressing the racing more then the scaleness. We will
have two classes the SSH (1/12th
sv27 power plant) and the 10th
scale with p-sport parameters, but only to 1p.
Final Thoughts
The award of the prizes will take place as soon as
possible after the close of the competition and the
scoring is compiled. The awards for the race versions
held at a national style event will be awarded at the
event. No matter your placement in the competition you
will be a winner for participating, and will have
learned or improved your building skills. You will have
a top notch hydro that you made yourself! We hope that
you will remember the generosity of the vendors, during
your next build, please support the people who support
you. The Rum Runner Forum Team wishes you all the best
of luck. Enjoy Yourselves!!
Racing
Addendum
There will be two
classes for the racing competition, 12th
scale and 10th
scale, these will be based loosely on the P-Sport Power
requirements currently in place for NAMBA, at the time of
construction, if someone however builds from the plans and
comes to the races, they can feel free to run them in any
class the build falls under, and can be judged for the
concourse judging for the build contestants. For example, if
someone builds a 1/12th
boat and decides to run it in N-2 Sport Hydro, he will not
be eligible for the racing portion of awards, but can
compete in the Concourse portion, all Concourse entrants
“MUST” race, if you do not wish to risk your pride and joy
then stick to the on-line contest.
To win the racing
portion, an entrant must travel to at least 2 of the
scheduled racing events, they may and are encouraged to run
in as many as possible, but only their top finishes (with
times verified by the CD) will count. The Race length will
be ½ mile or 5 laps on a 10th
mile course, 4 on an 1/8th
mile course, 3 on a 1/6th
course. Racing format can be as per the clubs hosting the
race; we personally recommend the racing over two days, 3
heats one day, and 2 heats for the second. However, only the
top finish and fastest time will be carried over.
There will be individual race
winners, as well as concourse at each event but to be the
Grand Champion, Racers must travel to at least one other
event.
In
the event of the expected large turnout for the races, and
in the interest of keeping races low key, it will be up to
the club running the races to decide if more then one flight
of the same class will be run, in this case, the heats run
will be considered qualifiers, and only the top 2 finishers
will be move onto the final, The third and fourth place
finishers will compete in a consolation race (the Connie).
Power
Parameters
For the 12th
scale, you must use the Aqua craft SV27 motor, power is
limited to 12 cells or 4S 1P, no exceptions, any speed
control may be used, and any type drive (except outboard).
For the 10th
scale, any motor, may be used, 12 cells or Lipo up to 4S1P,
any speed control may be used and any type drive.
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