Hi guys do you all race in championships?
i noticed some of you not bein allowed on the water without a lecence thingy?
wot was that?

R u all away for the w/end or are you meeting up for a day out

hav a great week end

most sundays there are local fast electric boat races you can use them on most waters and allways big turnouts .

i havent used the gas boat since last november nobody can be arsed to use them anymore because theres lots of aggro with what waters you can use
also the fast electric unlimited or super mono class is much faster than petrol if you want speed LOL

You must be selling your stealth and makara.
Can i have a price.

Not sure about the makara yet
( genrally i dont sell my models they just get stockpiled in the shed)
Stealth is going electric 50 volt plettenburg
running 12 - 14 cells = over 10hp @ 30,000 rpm on a 72mm prop
( a gas motor would be busy staying with it )

Yes it would for the 10 minutes.

check out
www.omra-uk.org

this is the championship series i run in this year !

as for water for petrol yep there aint many waters and they can be problems at times.
In the next few months i will be signing a lease and have a water that there will be no problems and we can use any class of boat without restrictions this will be a club water where only paying members will be allowed use and will hold championship events also will have gated access with our own onsite storage.

theres a big race in bristol this weekend of over 50 boats booked upto last night !

all models should have some form of insurance ! cars have the brca, planes bmfa, boats mpba or omra

if people wish to race most organisers will ask for proof of insurance in some way with a set minimum public liability of £5,000,000 possibly more ?

anybody running any high powered model would be a fool in todays society not to have insurance if they were to have an accident without insurance i wouldnt like to think of the out come !

are you moving from trafford?

That would be great if you could sort a water out without restrictions its good fun when a few turn up and we can have a bit of a race ,

Trafford is a great place but there are too many restrictions and a very high cost to run there ( pay a years membership and then have to pay £3.50 every time you use the water ) and then to be told you cant use the water for 6 months

At bury you pay £20 a year you can go anytime and you are fully insured

Just renewed Jacks and my insurance with MPBA again;..£19.50 total for both of us!!
cant get cheaper than that.
Brod..

we will still be keeping the trafford club running ! as well as the new one ! more details when sorted !

me to omra though, watch out for 116

I had to join the MPBA to race fast electrics this year didnt know that coverd me for gas

he he ! sorted then

could be a good summer

every summers good ! its just tthe winter and cold weather that spoils it ! lol

Thats why i moved over to fast electrics they race all year round (they use the recovery boat to break the ice in winter and still race)

lol

so why are there so many restrictions on the petrol?

its not to do with eco-stuff is it?

yep its an eco thing but also the old wrinklies not liking the noise !!!!

pmsl...

More like 3-4 mins.
At 10hp,even a 7000mah 13 cell pack wouldnt give more than 3 mins. at full throttle..

Brod...

Think i'll stick with the gas boats lol.
slightly more experience with em.

fast electrics are great fun ! but id rather be messing about on the water for as long as possible rather than a 5min run then in to charge up for 40mins ! it would be too much like the old 1/10th car racing day !
but every man to his own !

I like petrol and electric boats the problem with petrol is at best you only get 1 or 2 boats turn up on a bashing day and if you are very lucky you may get two running at once ,
with electric on a bad day you will get 10 boats they all race at the same time its only 6 mins but good fun , with a few sets of lipo's you can race all day

i went to the blue lagoon last sunday afternoon took 2 boats and had 4 runs not much fun on your own,
for me the fun is in racing i think a 30 min run with gas boat on your own is not for me

lets hope that more people get into gas boats in the northwest then we can have some local events then i can get the makara out of the shed

(its a good job i didnt spend over 2 grand on my twin engine project )

Agree totally Phil on the gas interest,almost none round our way,and i thought there was no interest with the helis.
We went last nite to Fleetwood,calm lake,no boaters.
Still had a good time,but would have been better with a crowd.

Did nobody else go this weekend???
Brod...

agree, need some were local that we can just pull up along side no hastle and get a good turn out. didnt get to play, was already then me throttle cable let go . need to arrange collecting me new baby off you

well theres always 3 or 4 minimum at trafford if theres no omra meeting on ! and once a month we have a meeting over at another water where we have upto 10 members attending now !

but come the winter it will be dead again ! till end of feb early march happens every year !

babys waiting
Brod....

Just waiting for the omra memebership to come through then
will have a trip to Trafford with insurance thinks its £3.50
for the day is it not.

and once a month we have a meeting over at another water where we have upto 10 members attending now !

Would be nice if you could post on here
were and when then you could have 15 at least
with us lost.