crazyotto

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hi, im setting up my fun run for late spring early summer it will be in south jersey near the toms river area . id like to see how many people would like to attend , im either going to have it for a saturday or maybe saturday into sunday , there is alot to do in the jersey shore for off time like boardwalk the ocean beach, mini golf if you are into that and kid stuff too if the family comes and there is alot of lodging too. so if you can post on here and send me pms so i can save your info im going to see how many will attend and that will determine where we will run ....thanks for reading

kevin

oh yeah all style boats are welcome , my friends and i run gas, fast electric and nitro ...

Ron Olson

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If you need other help, let me know. I've hosted 4 of them so far and here in Michigan, if you set up buoys for a course I have to get a Regatta permit. I cover my tail by getting the permit as it doesn't cost me anything but a drive to the DNR office and I also talk to the Parks and Recreation Dept. to get their blessing just in case we have a visit from "The Man".

crazyotto

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thanks ron i may talk to you about this .....so far the spot i may use is literlly on private property , for which i will have written permission to use . so i wont get shut down for sure ...

ob nut

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Ron, next time please tell the neighbors to be a bit more quiter next year....

yeeharacing

Otto count me in! uhh... wait I need to get a boat first..
I'll be there though! Maybe with a boat.

Ron Olson

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When you get plans finalized, let me know and I can pin the event at the top of the General forum for a couple of weeks. You can also post it in the Events area. You can get there by clicking on the "RC Community" and following the drop-down menu.

Lakefrontlivin

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Crazyotto,
I'm in..
Can't decide which boats to bring..LOL
Maybe the new Expresscraft GTX with the Twins in it..
Or the Whiplash Hydro,
Crackerbox,
Whiplash Hydro,
Insane Mono,
Hurricane Mono,
G-Force Outrigger,
Aeromarine Sprint Cat,
Aeromarine Sprint cat,
Aeromarine Donzi..
I think I have listed them all .. LOL

To many Boats and not enough time... Tom H.

crazyotto

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well looks like you can bring the boats ill bring the soda and beer hopefully my supercat will be running by then , but looks like for now my

36 drifter L fast electric

55 drifter XL 260 zen

crazyotto

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i think matt (justaddwadda) said he is coming too. he has some crazy stuff too...

crazyotto

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ron that sounds great , thanks what id like to do is get a head count . then post a poll on what date works for everyone . id like this to be a great turnout and have it as a meet and greet for rcu , putting the faces w the names


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peteyboy69

Hi Kevin im in I will pick three or four of my baddest boats to bring along I have all winter to get them ready , good deal ,keep me posted.

crazyotto

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cool pete looks like we are going to have a great turnout , between the locals and the ones whom are traveling

Justaddwata

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I am planning on making it. I will see if I can get a few of the guys I run with around here to come along.

Any chance you can post a pic or two of the lake and shore access. Bigger boats have special challenges

Malidrag

some of the people we run with have "Special Challenges"....lol...

crazyotto

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matt currently im scouting a location wide oopen areas are no problem im just looking to find a secluded area to run so we have no problems , and im going to talk to ron to get safe ideas on running this event , so we dont have cop problems and or boat wrecks ...if anyone else hosted an event please chime in , but this is for fun and i want to keep this a event we can have every year ...

crazyotto

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bring them down i love action they just will own the lake for intermission time , crash event

Ron Olson

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Like I said earlier, once you get a place and date, let me know. For ours, I also put fliers up in the local hobby shops to help draw in others in the area.
The park where we hold ours at encouraged us to run there as they want to see the park being used again by families as for a while it got run down and was used for more illicit things if you know what I mean. The city put almost $1,000,000.00 into fixing it up again with biking and hiking trails but I haven't seen the handicapped accessible fishing docks yet which I translate into drivers stands.
Let everyone know that thye wil be running their boats at their own risk and that by attending they are aware of this. Nobody likes lawsuits! Use guidelines that the sanctioning bodies use for the safety of all.
We're lucky as we have pretty much the whole lake to ourselves as the boat ramp is really bad. Yes, it's a lake, not a pond.

crazyotto

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run at your own risk, well that is a practice my friends and i use , we had a small colision last summer not too bad but one guys hull got chewed by a rudder and prop but hey that is our own risk running multipul boats , question is do i need to translate this by mouth or have a wiever to sign ??(run at your risk)

Ron Olson

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A waiver will give you black and white evidence that the person did understand this if you feel that you might need it. I run with a good bunch of people and so far the only problem that we had was someone getting some nitro in his eyes. Fortunately another person had a bottle of fresh water to rinse them out.

crazyotto

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well id like this to be a fun event not a legal issue , im sure we will have great people comming

Justaddwata

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If your looking at posting flyers at local hobby stores (like Ron had mentioned he had done) you will be opening the door to anyone and everyone. No gurantee that everyones going to have the same level of skill, care, consideration, or experience and that can certainly make for trouble (like someone turning on a radio without checking frequency). You can take all kinds of measures to reduce the chance of problems but you cannot anticipate everything (hence the name accidents). A signed waver will certainly be a little peace of mind but by the same token should never be considered a get out of jail free card. Ultimately everyone will be held accountable for their actions and decisions.

As a rule I try to run my boats when the pond is clear and also run DSM frequency to avoid frequency conflict.

We can also consider it as a chance to pass on some knowledge and experience in safe boating !!

Looking forward to hearing more about it. Should be a fun run !!

crazyotto

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matt, you really made a good point i think with our resources( RCU and fellow friends). we can make this a good turn out i dont want to trade good people for a large number of unknow people , like matt ii have expensive boats too and dont want any issues as well. and if we can have a small meeting before we run to explain how we are going to run so this doesnt turn into a circus we can all agree that we are responcible for our own actions , and in turn i think we will have a great day ..

Ron Olson

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If you want frequency clips, I picked up some clothes pins at Dollar General for I think a dollar and marked them but usually check with everyone before turning on your TX if you have a small crowd.
We try to avoid having big gassers running with small nitro boats unless they're cool about it.
Yes, the idea of a Fun Run is to keep it fun. Just as long as everyone uses common sense you really don't have anything to worry about.

Justaddwata

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Problem is that I find "common sense" to be surprisingly hard to come by these days.

Not so much referring to people in the hobby as I am daily encounters. Are you going to make the haul down to NJ Ron ?

I heard a rumor that Raj (XXXBoatworks) may be in town for the run too.

Ultimate48

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One way of avoiding problems is to have transmitter impound table. We do this in the plane club fun-flies. It's the best way to stop models from crashing !

Steve