2012 Official SO WinterNationals

[guedo499]

East Coast DSH

Mike Lee
Mad Russian
Steve Noury
Scott Clark
Alan Akerstrom
Pete Gevinski
Steve Dunn

Any of you planning on making the trip to Lakeland??

How about the Midwest guys

Tom Smith
Larry Gottschalk

I know I missed a few....

Howie,
Since it costs just about as much to go to Florida for the Winter Nationals as it does for the West Coast Divisionals, we were throwing out the idea to head your way. We potentially have 3 DSH's that could attend, have you heard any additional interest from the above participants? Thanks, JP

[Staron]

Week end before for testing at Lake Placid

If anyone is planning on coming in a week early, you will be welcome to test/race at Lake Placid on formerly Cemetery Lake now Lake Apthorpe. Great testing and racing area. Will be having the AOF winter nationals, but not a lot of boats, so test time at max. You will have to follow the Home Association and lake rules, be a member of AOF ($25) for the week end to cover liablity insurance on the lake. Other Lake rules:
do not go in orange grove. Camping arranged nearby at Carl's house, but not in pits. Open containers of alcohol prohibited, off road vehicles used for launching only, no running of motors before 10 am and noon on Sunday, no running of motors after 5 pm on Sat, 4 on Sunday, testing with signed release and manned pick up boats only. Pet owners resp and follow county and common sense rules. Fishermen given courtesy. Register first! Plenty of trailer parking. Great site. We can throw things together and have a pre-winter-nationals race for your class! ---And own an AOF championship. All classses welcome. Driver schooling, as there are a lot of know it alls at the race. lol Just have fun.
Not trying to hijack, just trying to help. I will be taking the safety boat to USTS about Tuesday, so will have no one on the lake after the safety/pick up boats are gone. (Not my rules, this goes way above my head. We are just lucky to have this lake for all of our Florida testing. Just need to follow the guidelines to keep it!)
Carl Staron AOF Executive Director 863-699-9701

[Raymond]

Streaming in real time is good: I will be watching.

I would like to help preserve this event while also producing a resource for the Race Committee to use next year when trying to secure support and sponsorship. Grab your video cameras and let’s help to hype this event up! The idea is a 10 to 15 minutes of promotional entertainment to post on the Stock Outboard TV You-Tube channel. Who know what content collected over the years could do towards future promotional efforts

Here is a dreamer’s shot list. Any of these shots would be helpful in producing a Winter National Promotional video along with anything else creative you can come up with. .

 All the race action shots you can gather.
 If you see some good side by side racing action capture it as tightly as you can.
 If you could find a way to capture images using the traditional camera and go-pro that could be used in developing synchronized affect like a onboard and following shot.
 Starts with a sight line inline with the start buoys.
 The start clock in the final seconds of countdown.
 Green and white flags flying in the turn judge boats.
 Green white and checkered flags flying at the judge’s station: tight and loose views.
o From both a shore-side perspective and a water bourne perspective.
 Entrance signs leading to the race site like the name of the race, lake and or town.
 A panning shot of the pits; from above (if possible) and a wide angle possibly from a patrol boat.
 A few random shots of the weigh station and inspection tent activities.
 A shot of the announcer talking from a script welcoming racers to the 2012 SO Winter nationals…..along with some highlights of the race if you can.
 Drivers meeting…roll call.
 Random shots from any evening awards or social event there may be.
 If you can collect some sound bites like announcements for the drivers meeting, green and white flags and such.
 A still shot of the race committee (as a group) with names.
 A still and video shot of the hosting clubs trailer/logo.
 Still shots or images of any and all event sponsors.
 If you can get some members together to do a quick tip on something, anything such as different types of boat carts or steering set up or readying the trailer for cross country trip or…
 How about a time elapsed pit set up shot.
 Can you dream up any cool questions and do some fun interviews such as
o Why do you Race Stock Outboard?
o What’s your favorite class?
o What’s your favorite boat; hydro or runabout and why?

If in doubt: capture/shoot it.

[Howie Nichols]

Sanction is now out...

http://www.apba-racing.com/internal/...p?EditID=11078

[Howie Nichols]

I have all the SORC live stream equipment being sent down. Patrick Gleason and Kyle Bahl have been helping and are sending me a cheat sheet on how to work it. I have 1 volunteer to help with it so far but will need several more hands...

[Bob Dunlap]

Also, does anyone know about how good the Internet coverage is there via cell phone, so maybe we can do some live streaming of the event?

Should be great coverage there. It's close to downtown Lakeland and in a very populated area.

[DtwSailor]

Ray, give me a shout regarding the shot list. I have some equipment and a cameraman available!

Also, does anyone know about how good the Internet coverage is there via cell phone, so maybe we can do some live streaming of the event?

Getting antsy to get in the boat!

-MD

[Howie Nichols]

Hotels

The long awaited Hotel List is now here...

Some of the prices are up there, but remember that this weekend is pretty heavily booked with events throughout Lakeland and the entire Polk County area.

When booking hotels please use the code word "Lakeland Boat Races."

It may take a day or so for the hotels to get the word that we will be using this code word. This will help our Sponsor track hotel rooms booked by us which is what they need and how they get their funding which in turn keeps us with a sponsor!

Mileage from the pit area to the hotels (in order as printed on the PDF file)

The Bold names are the hotels we have listed as the "Host Hotels" with the Best Western as the Headquarters Hotel"

Best Western - 12.9
Holiday Inn - Lakeland - 6.8
Travelodge - 23.7
Green Gables Inn - 29.5
Stay Plus Inn - 26.5
Ranch House - 18.1
Holiday Inn - Bartow - 11.5
Jameson - 6.9
Stanford Inn - 12.8
Stay Inn - 11.8
Regal Palms - 34.8
Bahama Bay - 35.9

Good luck everyone and see you all in 6 weeks!!

[Howie Nichols]

Bill,
I know of 1 DSH here in FL that has expressed an interest, other than that nothing that I have heard.

[Team 12R]

D Hydro?

East Coast DSH

Mike Lee
Mad Russian
Steve Noury
Scott Clark
Alan Akerstrom
Pete Gevinski
Steve Dunn

Any of you planning on making the trip to Lakeland??

How about the Midwest guys

Tom Smith
Larry Gottschalk

I know I missed a few....

howie,

did you get any feedback on how many D's are attending? a couple covered wagons from oregon are headed that direction. might be room for a little D hydro if there is a class.

[jtower3941]

Lakeland, Fla

Howie and Nuch:

You have put a lot of time and effort into this race. We thank you and will see you soon.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT

JIM TOWER 118P

[Hutch06]

Camping

Thanks for the camping information and all the work that you and Nuch are putting into this.
Thanks Howie!

[Howie Nichols]

Sanction / Website is not not transferring the info on classes correctly, Cindy is working on this for us. All J classes will run at Lakeland.

David - There should be plenty of JH's present so its Emily's choice as to which class/classes she runs. If she decided to do both we will make sure whe has the time to make the switch!

Camping:

PDF file is attached with campground information for the surrounding area.

Hotels:

We hope to have a list by Monday...

Schedule:

No complaints / requests, so far so good!

Make sure you have looked it over since it did have a few small changes...

[Emily88]

JH and AXR running?

Howie,

I did not see JH and AXR listed on the sanction on the APBA website.

I only have one motor, If you need Emily to run JH, will I have time to switch restrictor plates and change the motor for AXR? You know how fast I am with a wrench! (not very )

David

[Howie Nichols]

East Coast DSH

Mike Lee
Mad Russian
Steve Noury
Scott Clark
Alan Akerstrom
Pete Gevinski
Steve Dunn

Any of you planning on making the trip to Lakeland??

How about the Midwest guys

Tom Smith
Larry Gottschalk

I know I missed a few....