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March 2012

Issue 14

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2012 Racing Schedule

Region 10 April 21/22- Inboard Lawrence w/

outboards (not sure what classes yet)

May 4/5- Mossyrock, WA (tentative)

May 19/20- Bremerton, WA

May 26/27- Newberg, OR

June 2- Everett, WA

June 23/24- Seaside, OR

July 7/8- Tacoma, WA (American

Lake)

August 25/26- Eatonville, WA

Sept. 8/9- Moses Lake, WA

Sept. 21/22/23- Yelm, WA Outboard

Lawrence

Region 12 March 24-25 – Puddingstone

April 14-15 – Parker, AZ—WESTERN

DIVISIONALS

August 4-5 – Long Beach

September 15-16 – Bakersfield

October 27 – Parker 300 Enduro

November 23-24 – Parker, AZ

Red= Divisionals/Winter Nationals/Nationals/NA Champ

Blue= Record Runs

Side Notes:

Salton Sea ―Speed Week is Kilo Runs

Long Beach is the nationals for Flat bottom classes only.

DEADLINES:

The 15th of each

month prior to

each issue.

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Off the Water

Left: Dean Comer and Gary

Gosliga talk about the LA Boat

Show and the upcoming

Puddingstone race.

Right: Dave Hale and Marlee Hill

explaining what our boats are

and how you can get into racing.

Left: Olivia Knudson goes

swimming after Dave Hale

while testing.

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2012 Annual Meeting

Chicago, IL

The Stock Outboard Commission

from the 2012 APBA Annual

Meeting.

Right: Hall of Champions 2011 Inductees

are as follows: Jared Pavlick, Terry

Rinker, Rob Rinker, Greg Gluck, Rick

Miller, Bob Dunlap, Dan Koschka, Jim

Nilson, Jay Walls Jr., Doug Hall, Scott

Schatz, Tom Thompson, Joe Pater, Kyle

Bahl, Ed Hearn, Dave Villwock, and

Laura Wheeler.

The Pro Outboard Commission.

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Looking Back

Jay Root driving with Fred

Hauenstein deck riding;

this photo shows how

rough of a ride the deck

rider has going through

the turns, an old F

Runabout.

Reuben and Jimmy

Dawe in 1953.

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Los Angeles Boat Show

We let a bunch of new

potential racers sit in our

boats at the LA Boat Show.

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Los Angeles Boat Show

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Region News

Region 12:

It seems as if now we are in the ―calm before the storm‖ part of

our season, we’re finally starting to clean off the boats, start getting

them ready to go and get a few test sessions in there. For Region 12,

our season will resume in about 5 weeks in San Dimas, CA at

Puddingstone Reservoir, March 24-25. Like in Parker this past

Thanksgiving, we are expecting to have a very high ASH boat count,

could be up to 15 ASH’s and maybe even more to come! I’m

getting really excited to see what all this race brings in.

This past month has been pretty crazy for me, 3 weeks ago; I

spent a week in Chicago, IL for the APBA Annual Meeting. It was a

great experience to go to all the meetings possible and then spend

time with all the other racers that were there from all over the

country. I met a lot of new people, and the trip gave me so many

new memories that will forever be remembered. Being there I was

so busy, I went to every Stock Outboard and J Class meeting, and

even a few inboard meetings. I also put in a bid for a grant from the

APBA Historical Society for some money to buy a ―loaner‖ cut suit for

a driving school that we are trying to start in Region 12 that passed.

We are trying to do everything we can to get as many new people

in boats as possible and to help promote our sport and to reduce

the barriers to entry by having readily available equipment for any

new drivers. We are looking forward to getting a lot of new people

into some boats this upcoming season.

Also this past month, we (boat racers) were given the entire

entry way to the Los Angeles Convention Center just for our race

boats to be on display, in hopes to bring in some new racers. We

had a lot of people that seemed seriously interested in the boats,

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mainly the ―little boats‖ and the SST45’s. We had 9 boats on display,

of those 9 boats we had 3 ASH’s, one being Dave Hale’s 42-C, Nicole

Knudson’s ―Splash‖ 29-C, and Marlee Hill’s 1-C; there were also 2 SST

45’s, one being Dean Comer’s 37 and the other being Chuck

Skelton’s 93, driven by RJ West; there were also 2 Classic Outboard

Runabouts (COR’s) one belonging to Mike Quindazzi, and the other

belonging to Tim Carranza; also there was a Comp Jet there

belonging to Gary Gosliga and an old Patterson Endurance Boat

powered by an Allison V-12 World War II airplane engine, the 80-K

―Super Cinders‖ belonging to Mike Leach. I want to personally thank

Dave Hale, the entire Knudson family, Chuck Skelton, Dean Comer,

Angie Jolly, Trisha Thomas, Jason Taylor, Tim and Dave Caranza, Rod

Zapf, Mike Leach, Carla Mulford, and Gary Gosliga for all the help in

working the booth for us, and most importantly I would like to thank

Mike Quindazzi for putting this all together and making it all possible;

Thank you Mike also for all your hard work you are putting in to our

region. We definitely had a great turn out of people coming over to

check out all the race boats, with a lot of new interest! There were a

lot of people that were really excited and really eager to come out

to the Puddingstone race too to check it out, I’m really excited to

see how many people show up, I told quite a few people about

having them try it out and go for a boat ride and they were really

interested as well, so hopefully we will be getting several new drivers,

just coming from the boat show! My goal this season is to bring in 5

new drivers, we’ll see!

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Puddingstone, good

luck to everyone trying to get all their equipment dialed in, and I’ll

see you all out on the water!

-Marlee Hill

TheShearPin@yahoo.com

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Behind the Wheel

http://youtu.be/iqDhShU1

QLI

Racing promotional video

from Australia.

http://youtu.be/1wTknE3-RGM

PowerboatTV talking about

boat racing in Canada.

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