SOWEGA MODEL BOATERS

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This video was taken by Bill Davenports Quadra Copter.                                                          It has a power line hit by a carbon fiber glider.

Mac had a great turn out and if you have never been to this week long event you should try it.

SOWEGA Model Boaters will be hosting the next Grand Prix Race at Kem’s Big Pond in Sycamore Georgia June 9, 10.                                                                                                  Registration is on our website under the link for RC Racing Events.

SOWEGA Model Boaters would like to invite you to the second stop on the District 13 Grand Prix Series.
This race is to be held June 9-10, 2012 at Kems’ Big Pond in Sycamore, Georgia.
You can enter on line at www.rcracingevents.com .

Open water will be all day Friday and Saturday from 8am to 11:30.

Drivers Meeting at 11:45 and racing to start at noon.

IMPBA and NAMBA cards will be checked and if you do not have one you must join the IMPBA to race in this event….. NO exceptions.

All racing fees are to be paid before you launch a boat, this includes open water times.

We had a great turn out for the first race and the SOWEGA gang would love to have you attend this race.

On another note…. Lake Hodges in Americus will be our November stop for the last Grand Prix Series race of the season.
The ground around the pond has been graded and is ready for grass.
This is going to be a beautiful site dedicated to rc boat racing, sail boats and float planes.
Check out our website for Grand Prix Race info and classes and other info about Lake Hodges.

Several of the 2010 SOWEGA/STORM Night race videos have been added to the “VIDEO” tab.

More videos are coming.

Eight new pictures have been added to the “NEW POND” Tab.
They are dated February 27.
A new pump is being installed in the well and then it should be ready to fill the pond.
Grading is almost complete and grass seeding will start soon.
Within the next week or so the over flow pipe will be installed.
Everything is looking good.

 This was the first of five Grand Prix Races where only the best of four races count and the attendence proved that everyone wanted this one to count.

The weather was cloudy and windy and we were located on the edge of some really bad stuff. 

Racing started at noon Saturday and everyone was there to win.
We raced all day Saturday with some light rain starting in the last two heats of the day. Sunday was cloudy and windy with a few short lived sprinkles.

This Series has the best people racing that you would ever want to meet.
Everyone was on their game and was ready when their heat was up.

There was some new faces to the series and I hope they will come back.
It was good to meet some guys I have heard about around the racing community, like John Otto, Gene Mongar, Tommy Cardoso, John Bullis and Mark and Perry Walter and a couple of guys to watch out for in the future is Chad “Water Baby ” Weaver.
Chad did well at this race and made his water baby debut in the SOWEGA 93 degree….I mean 53 degree water of “Kems Big Pond.”
Also, a new racer that did well for his first time out was “Mr. I got the rc boat racing bug Bad” Geoffrey Sawyer a new apprentice under the wing of Norman Morton.

The race scores are on rcracingevents.com for you to check out.

Congratulations to Jan Bearden for her first Womens Thunderboat Shootout win. Come on ladies we have enough boats, jump in and have fun, this shootout is for you.

Thanks to all the regulars of the Grand Prix Series and Mark Poole, Dennis and Chris Harvey, Rick Glover and Ricks Future Racing Champion Gage for returning to the Series.

Some more THANKS go to Kem and Julie Gilley for providing a beautiful race site. To Rick English for his hard work getting the site race ready the weekend before the race. To the SOWEGA gang that helped to make this race a huge success. Pit bosses, Julie Gilley and Jan Bearden for keeping us moving along. To Jim Ragan on the CD stand, and Norma English for those long hours on the scoring table. 

I know this is a lot of thank you’s but I have one to go “Thank you  that the first race of the season is over.”

Later at the Pond, Ricky B.

The first Grand Prix race of the year starts this Saturday at noon.
We have two classes that did not meet the 3 boat minimum…. Sport 40 and D Hydro.
Weather will be in the upper 60s low 70s with 60 percent rain Saturday.
Come prepared for the SOWEGA Weather.
We will be running only three heats due to tme restraints.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the pond.
Ricky B.

The safety nets and pit area are in place and we will be kicking off the 2012 Grand Prix Series next Saturday at noon.  There is still time to enter with the deadline being February 15 at midnight.
Thanks to all for your interest in this series and this year should be the best season ever.

Also Congratulations to our very own JUlIE GILLEY for passing her Realtors Test.
I guess Kem will be looking for some new Farm Help.

Lake Hodges is slowly filling and we just can’t get a break on the rain……. 3/4″ here and there while areas around us is getting 4 to 5 inches at a time.                                             1300 ‘ of pipe has been installed from the pond to a well that is on the property and we are waiting on the power to be turned on.
Billy has been doing a lot of grading around the pond and there is still a lot to do before grass can be seeded.
This is going to be a beautiful site and one that Hodges Hobbies and District 13 will be proud of.

Entries for the first Grand Prix Race of the season are coming in and this race will be in Sycamore, GA. at Kem’s Big Pond February 18,19.
Go to to the RC RACING EVENTS link to enter and come check out the great people that race this series.