Cultural Differences and the Wimps

Hi Folks,

First off, to the thousands of loyal readers of my blog (lol) I apologize. I have been lax in posting and your calls for updates will be answered. I hope all of you had a fantastic Holiday season be it late in coming.

There’s been something that’s bothered me for a very long time. It’s a “us vs them” type of thing. Across the globe racing and running fast electric boats has been a niche in model boating. The Nitro powered boats really taking the lions share of participants, followed in recent years by gas powered models. Things are changing though and FE powered rigs are now some of the fastest powered boats there are. As a matter of fact a FE powered Hydro holds the world record for speed at over 140 miles per hour.

The gentleman that built and developed the boat was from Germany, he and his team came to the U.S. last year and set the record in LA. The Germans have brought some huge technical advances to FE racing, mainly speed controls and motors. They are among the best in the world when it comes to speed and that is what this post is about. Being on the top of the heap in any sport puts a bullseye on your back and by human nature someone’s going to be gunnin’ for ya.

Don’t think for a minute that we here in the States have been sitting on our ass, oh no, we have some big guns coming that in some ways are better than anything that has come from overseas. The Germans have seen it first hand and I believe they’re very concerned because their reign at the top is quickly closing. We do things differently and quite frankly they don’t care for our direction. I say too friggin’ bad! I’m really sick and tired of hearing about how we should put limits on what we do. You hear stuff like “someone will get hurt”, “it will raise the cost” and my favorite “you won’t get my respect”.

To put it in an analogy it’s like Republicans vs Democrats, or Top Fuel vs F1, Nascar vs Rally so on so forth. In America we like horsepower and heads up racing; overseas they like finesse racing on equal footing. It’s the same in FE boat racing and we do it here way way different than they do overseas and they just don’t get it.

Stay tuned, much more to come.

See ya,

Paul.

It Must Be True!

Hi All,

It never ceases to amaze me that people will believe whatever they read. Of course I’m talking about the “unlimited” power lipo cells will bring. I love all the keyboard physics professors out there that tell us all they “know” about what “could” happen in FE boat racing. Ya right, and pigs will fly out of my ass too. If these types of people had a tenth of the brains they think they have they would be dangerous!

Theory and practice don’t always (usually never) walk hand in hand. Maybe I’ll get lucky and aliens will visit me in the middle of the night. They will bestow upon me all their knowledge and give me the tools needed to run the mythical boats the professors are talking about. Nope, I don’t live in a trailer park so I guess I’m screwed, aliens don’t visit normal folks homes. But they must visit the professor’s homes, how else would they know all they do? Wait a minute, I just figured it out! They have read and learned all they know from the Internet, it must be true.

Paul.

The Train Wreck

Hi All,

Yep, just like a train wreck you have to look at, the lipo debate goes on. I’m getting a kick reading the comments by some of the people out there. And they are “out there.” LMAO! You would think having lipo cells in a boat was the same as the North Koreans having nukes. Maybe we should have a study group like the Feds had for Iraq. Ya right, that’s the ticket. The mentality is it’s to much too soon, give me a break. Maybe the nay sayers should grab a candle, sit on a dirt floor and READ A FRIGGIN’ BOOK! Then go out and feed the horse that PULLS YOUR COAL CART! Schmucks.

Then there are the ones who get it, I call them leaders and pioneers. These people move forward and advance the sport I love. It’s here and now, you can either jump on board or get out of the way.

Paul.

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