J Class Rule Changes?

[pav225]

Does anyone know what changes were made to the J Class?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Mike

[Jeff Brewster 59s]

All Pavlick entries must race at 2" below the bottom to give the rest of us a chance!

Just kiddin'

[Matt Dagostino]

Amendment

All Pavlick entries must race at 2" below the bottom to give the rest of us a chance!

Then i guess the Price Camp has to run 2 1/2" below to level the playing field!!......just kidding also!

[Howie Nichols]

The minutes have been completed and sent off to the committee for review. They should be available soon!

[pav225]

lol!!


Dang...by the time my younger 2 race J, we are going to need to drop them further. Those 2 are animals!!

Mike

[csh2z]

I believe the J committee also adopted the Mod/Pro picklefork rule. Double check I'm not 100% sure.

[pav225]

pickle fork

Thanks John.

We may need to make the new boat a round nose.

Good to see you in Dallas,
Mike

[26V]

the J committee did adapt the mod/pro rule. and like stock they did not grandfather any boats.

[fhafer]

the J committee did adapt the mod/pro rule. and like stock they did not grandfather any boats.

That means all the hydros in our trailer are no longer legal...the upshot is we will be a runabout only team this year.

You folks have developed a solution in search of a problem.

[Matt Dagostino]

Hydrotuck...................

Word is J Hydro will be subject to the tuck rule identical to ASH and AXSH..........

Looks like Chairman Buddy or Secretary Howie will be posting highlights soon......

[PAUL PRICE]

When does the picklefork rule go into effect? Round nose J hydros will be a change , I thought this was 2013 not 1981!.....Lol

[fhafer]

How do you increase participation in stock outboard racing and drive participation costs down?

Make one year-old equipment obsolete and force teams to butcher their boats or buy/build new ones!

Now there's a plan.

You folks could see the benefit of airbags and seatbelts on motorcycles and helmets in cars.

Sheesh.

[Hutch06]

This is riddiculous

Look. No one wants to change their pickle forks. No one - it's a pain to take the time to do it. Is it dumb that runabouts don't apply to this rule - yes. Should have the SORC and J Committee done this in line when the original MOD ruling went into effect 3 years ago? Yes.

But if modifying your pickle forks is really "obsoleting equipment" for you - I feel sorry for your lack of ingenuity in how to remove or ADD material. I by no means am a boat builder, mechanic, or engineer; but I figured out pretty easily how to west system a chunk of balsa wood to a picklefork and remove accordingly to get to a 1/2 inch.

There are many more much important things that need to be focused on in our sport - bringing all the kneeldown outboards together on this rule was one chance to make all uniform - it's done now and I'm 99% positive nothing will change on hydro's into the future in regards to radius of pickle forks. All of you folks demand that all 3 categories be combined (which like Dean has said, is putting a band-aid on a bullet wound), yet you don't want to adhere to the different rules.

[fhafer]

"west system a chunk of balsa wood to a picklefork and remove accordingly to get to a 1/2 inch."

Haaaa, haaaa, haaaaa! Ah... what measure of protection does this provide? This is nothing more than a work-around for a stupid rule.

Now THAT'S funny.

Post the results of the study which lead to the passing of this decision!

[fhafer]

"west system a chunk of balsa wood to a picklefork and remove accordingly to get to a 1/2 inch."

I've got an appropriate work-around...I'm going to duct tape two Whoopie Cushions to the pickleforks; call them APBA airbags.