DockRat
07-16-2010, 07:45 PM
LB to Catalina Waterski Race Weekend
Plan on The Queen May and Davies launch being packed :Shocked: San Pedro best bet for a LA launch.
Saturday 7:00am Look out :Shocked:
Start time for the waterski event is scheduled for 8:30 a.m., but often is deyaled up to an hour due to water conditions and clearing the race course of pleasure craft and normal channel traffic
Shortly thereafter, the 2010 Pacific Offshore Powerboat Race will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
This year, the event will be introducing a new twist. Rather than racing to Catalina, the powerboat race will instead loop around White Island. Spectators at or near Belmont Pier should have a very good view of the race, said Brad Johnson, president of Pacific Offshore Powerboat Racing Association.
The course will trace a five-mile oval around the oil island, with two two-mile straightaways. Because of the course layout, drivers will have to constantly be shifting speeds, so “it should make for some really exciting racing.
“These will be some of the fastest boats in the world from all over the country,” he added, noting that the higher boat classifications could top out at more than 170 mph. :Shocked:
Race to from Long Beach, CA, to Catalna and back on water skis? At 85+ mph? In the open ocean?
Indeed they do – nearly 60 miles round trip from the Queen Mary to Avalon and back at speeds reaching more than 80 miles an hour. Todd Haig did the trek in 51 minutes in winning in 2008 – his fifth in a row and eighth overall.
One competitor for 2010 is Lauryn Eagle. The tall and blonde Aussie is a former Miss Teen Australia who is one of the female favorites for the victory. She's got a smile that never stops, is as smooth doing interviews on land as she is skiing on the water and has continued in the sport despite losing her father in a boating accident a few years ago. Oh, and she boxes. :Razz:
Check her out at ; http://www.pubclub.com/LosAngeles/skirace.htm
Jetski/SeaDoo LB to Catalina Sun 9:00 a.m. July 18th, 2010
This prestigious National Championship event is part of the Long Beach Offshore Powerfest weekend that takes place on July 17 & 18. Three separate racing events including the 62nd Annual Catalina Ski Race on Saturday July 17th , the American Powerboat Racing Association’s (APBA) Pacific Offshore Powerboat Racing Association (POPRA) Offshore race and culminating on Sunday July 18th with the Hot Products Professional Watercraft Racers (PWC) APBA National Championship Long Beach 2 Catalina & Back race presented by Sea-Doo & Sea-Tow.
Seven classes of personal water craft including the “Sportsman” for the “first time” racer class, “Manufacturer’s Stock” classes to entice the average PWC enthusiast to participate and new in 2010 is the “Super Stock Limited” class (open to all racers that have done minor modifications to their boats except the drivetrain). These new classes are expected to swell the field to over 75 boats as the news of the weekend of racing stirs interest in the entire personal water craft community to enter and be a part of this momentous weekend. Offshore PWC racers from across the country are clamoring to get their entries in and compete with the elite West Coast group of offshore endurance experts try to break the new records in every class set last year for the challenging channel crossing.
http://www.rpmracingent.com/Home_Page.php
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb39/mean-gene1/Long%20Beach%20-%20Catalina%20Ski%20Race%202007/2skiers-1.jpg
You have been warned. DR
Plan on The Queen May and Davies launch being packed :Shocked: San Pedro best bet for a LA launch.
Saturday 7:00am Look out :Shocked:
Start time for the waterski event is scheduled for 8:30 a.m., but often is deyaled up to an hour due to water conditions and clearing the race course of pleasure craft and normal channel traffic
Shortly thereafter, the 2010 Pacific Offshore Powerboat Race will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.
This year, the event will be introducing a new twist. Rather than racing to Catalina, the powerboat race will instead loop around White Island. Spectators at or near Belmont Pier should have a very good view of the race, said Brad Johnson, president of Pacific Offshore Powerboat Racing Association.
The course will trace a five-mile oval around the oil island, with two two-mile straightaways. Because of the course layout, drivers will have to constantly be shifting speeds, so “it should make for some really exciting racing.
“These will be some of the fastest boats in the world from all over the country,” he added, noting that the higher boat classifications could top out at more than 170 mph. :Shocked:
Race to from Long Beach, CA, to Catalna and back on water skis? At 85+ mph? In the open ocean?
Indeed they do – nearly 60 miles round trip from the Queen Mary to Avalon and back at speeds reaching more than 80 miles an hour. Todd Haig did the trek in 51 minutes in winning in 2008 – his fifth in a row and eighth overall.
One competitor for 2010 is Lauryn Eagle. The tall and blonde Aussie is a former Miss Teen Australia who is one of the female favorites for the victory. She's got a smile that never stops, is as smooth doing interviews on land as she is skiing on the water and has continued in the sport despite losing her father in a boating accident a few years ago. Oh, and she boxes. :Razz:
Check her out at ; http://www.pubclub.com/LosAngeles/skirace.htm
Jetski/SeaDoo LB to Catalina Sun 9:00 a.m. July 18th, 2010
This prestigious National Championship event is part of the Long Beach Offshore Powerfest weekend that takes place on July 17 & 18. Three separate racing events including the 62nd Annual Catalina Ski Race on Saturday July 17th , the American Powerboat Racing Association’s (APBA) Pacific Offshore Powerboat Racing Association (POPRA) Offshore race and culminating on Sunday July 18th with the Hot Products Professional Watercraft Racers (PWC) APBA National Championship Long Beach 2 Catalina & Back race presented by Sea-Doo & Sea-Tow.
Seven classes of personal water craft including the “Sportsman” for the “first time” racer class, “Manufacturer’s Stock” classes to entice the average PWC enthusiast to participate and new in 2010 is the “Super Stock Limited” class (open to all racers that have done minor modifications to their boats except the drivetrain). These new classes are expected to swell the field to over 75 boats as the news of the weekend of racing stirs interest in the entire personal water craft community to enter and be a part of this momentous weekend. Offshore PWC racers from across the country are clamoring to get their entries in and compete with the elite West Coast group of offshore endurance experts try to break the new records in every class set last year for the challenging channel crossing.
http://www.rpmracingent.com/Home_Page.php
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb39/mean-gene1/Long%20Beach%20-%20Catalina%20Ski%20Race%202007/2skiers-1.jpg
You have been warned. DR