Congratulations Bill Malvey! A New Record Set at the LA Time Trials

Hey Everyone,

At the recent (Apr. 4-5-6) LA SAW time trials held in California at Legg Lake Bill Malvey piloted his Sniper Mono to a 2 way average of 76.94 mph setting a new NAMBA T Offshore record. Bill set that record with his heat racing 18 pound 45 inch mono in oval trim! Bill also had a fast one way pass of 79 mph. Bill said the boat was rock solid at those speeds which is testament to it’s oval racing heritage.

Also, Brian Buaas set a new P Hydro record at 111 mph with a fast pass at 113! Wow, that’s smokin’ fast in my book.

Congrats Guys, job well done,

Paul.

More Time Trial Records

Hi Everyone,

Ya, I know, I need to do this more often. I’ve got a bunch of things going on right now and I’ll try and get up to speed and let everyone know whats coming.

I attended another time trial in Huntsville, AL and had some success at setting a couple more records. My good friend and team mate Kelly came down from Ohio to take his first crack at some records, lucky SOB got a couple too. I gotta say I went to this time trials with spoiler boats. Stuff I just don’t run but since there’s Little Willies and Capt.Crunches lighting fires under my ass I figured why not take some records away before the ink drys on their paper.

Records set:
N1 Mono SAW, 7.548 sec. 29.809 MPH average. (fastest one way 31 MPH)
N2 Sport Hydro SAW, 3.344 sec. 67.284 MPH average. (fastest one way 73 MPH)

These were tough records to grab because the boats are small and we had some wind and choppy water fighting us all three days. N1 mono is a stock brush motor class, I built a 21 inch H&M No-Step 1 mono a week before the event. My buddy Kelly had to pick me up a motor from his local hobby shop to run in the boat. I told him to just get me what ever motor they said was the “hot” one, lol. So, at the event I had to take the motor out of it’s package and wire it up in the boat. Ha! No pond time dialing in this one and I set a record with a “box stock” motor! That’s right, no fancy tricked out motor from some guy claiming to have the “magic bullet”.

N2 Sport Hydro is an open motor class so I took the motor I set the N2 mono record with a month before and dropped it in a 25 inch shovel nose. Talk about a wild ride, that little boat was screaming across the water at speeds she just wasn’t designed for. There was one tiny set back though, I got greedy and wanted to up my record. Duh, cost me a stinky boat when I fried a speed control with a WAY to big prop.

One cool thing though, all my records were set with American made motors and speed controls. My old RC-Hydros ESC was in the N1 boat and a Neu motor and Castle Barracuda 125 were in my N2 Sport. Solid preformers all the way.

My Buddy Kelly had his fair share of luck also. In his first ever time trials he grabbed 2 records.

T-Sport Hydro SAW, 2.581 sec. 87.175 MPH
S Tunnel SAW, 3.628 sec. 62.017 MPH

Both boats left allot on the table, Kelly had what was needed to run 100 MPH plus in T-Sport Hydro but we ran out of time and water. That’s okay though, there’s always next time.

One of these days I’ll get serious about the time trials and build boats for speed only. Right now I get a kick out of beating records with my oval racing boats. Nothing better than taking a record from a big mouth with a boat I just tossed together, LMAO!!

Keeping the wet side down,

Paul.

PS: Check out this cool banner Kelly made for me, thanks Dude!

The Proof is in The Pudding

Hi All,

Well, I just got back from the IMPBA Time Trials in Valdosta, GA. Time trials are events that test your metal, you try and set records for fast straight line and oval racing speeds. Simply put it’s you against the clock and you either put up or shut up. Did I say that, “put up or shut up”? Yes, I did, and you know what, some guys just don’t understand that — and after an event the “excuses” fly. More on that later.

My personal accomplishments at this International Model Power Boater Association event were;

T-Mono Straight Line, record set at 72.092 MPH.
T-Mono 1/3rd mile 2 lap, record set at 23.929 seconds.

T-Tunnel Straight Line, record set at 75.55 MPH.
T-Tunnel 1/3rd mile 2 lap, record set at 25.722 seconds.

N2 Mono Straight Line, record set at 52.398 MPH.

The T classes are the big boys, you can run 32 cells or 10S Lipo systems. The N2 class is 6 cells or 2S Lipo systems.

My main goal for this event was to prove what I’ve been saying for the last couple years. My heat racing boats are every bit as fast as any purpose built straight line record holding boat. The T mono and T cat I used to set records with had no changes or mods done to them; I used my heat racing props and batteries. The mono weighs 20 pounds and the cat weighs 22 pounds. The N2 mono I put together was 4 pounds 7 ounces when it hit the water, almost twice the weight of the competition.

The weather was pretty nice although there was some wind and chop on the water. Funny thing is while other competitors sat around waiting for “good” water I ran my boats and set records. Even in N2 with a 25 inch boat I was able to set records when the competition couldn’t put one run together without flipping his boat. Not that it much mattered because the other competing N2 boat had nothing for me, he wasn’t in the same league. While I’ve heard the competition’s excuses “I have something for that” and my favorite “the water wouldn’t let me” already being tossed around, they forget I had the same water to run in that “they” did.

So, in conclusion, I’ve backed up my statements with records set, the proof was in the pudding and once again the naysayers only have excuses. If it was the other way around I would keep my pie hole shut and take my lumps — but that’s just me.

Keepin’ the wet side down,
Paul