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Scarborough- North Yorkshire, UK

1st to 10th June 2007

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TEAM TAHITI DARK

Driver: Mark Ross

Co-Pilot: Robbie Glen

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(16-03) ITINERARY

Castle Howard

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/webcams/360/popup/castlehoward.shtml

Friday 1^st June

Test day on the Great Lake, the Castle Howard Summer Daze Festival opens to the General Public, with the P750 World Championship Grand Opening at Castle Howard in the evening.

Evening Party: South African Brii - Volunteers wanted from the SA team to be the Chefs

Saturday 2^nd             

First day of Circuit Racing with the Summer Daze Festival open to the General Public.

Evening Party: New Zealand go Welsh with Lamb. 

Sunday 3^rd                 

Second day of Circuit Racing with the Summer Daze Festival open to the General Public.

Evening Party: Bollywood Style 

Monday 4^th                

Final day of Circuit Racing with the Summer Daze Festival open to the General Public.

Evening Party: Best of British.. 'Bangers & Mash' 

Scarborough

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/webcams/360/popup/scarborough_southbay.shtml

Tuesday 5^th June     

Teams and boats Arrive in Scarborough.  RNLI Safety at Sea and Thundercat capsize procedure displays on the beach at South Bay.

Evening Party: TBA 

Wednesday 6^th          

Long haul Race, from South Bay  via Whitby back to Scarborough for a beach re-fueling stop, then off to Filey, watch them race up the beach then race back to Scarborough.

Evening Party: Scarborough Welcome Party 

Thursday 7^th             

The Spa Ocean Festival Opens to General Public.  Team Hustler P1 will be attempting to break the speed record set last year by Team Microlink Scarborough - to Whitby – Scarborough; onboard will be Mr. Simon Howard of Castle Howard.  Public Raft race on South Bay – ‘Not all cats hate water’.

Evening Party: Irish Night at Merchants

Friday 8^th 

First Day Surf Racing with The Spa Ocean Festival open to the General Public.

Evening Party: 'Rocky' here we come! 

Saturday 9^th June     

Second Day of Surf Racing and First Day of the Jet Ski Racing National Championship with The Spa Ocean Festival open to the General Public.

Evening Party: Studio 1 

Sunday 10^th June     

Final Day of Surf Racing and Jet Ski Racing, with a Podium Prize Giving Ceremony Evening Gala Awards Ceremony in the Grand Hall, at the Spa.

Hi Guys

These are the provisional dates,

Premier Shipping and Packing who is your friendly logistics sponsor will be contacting your representatives to give them all the details regarding your requirements. Remember you must insure your own goods - we are not responsible for your possessions.

The dates below may vary slightly but the reason why your boats are coming over early is to allow a window in case there are unforeseen problems with the ship or customs, we don’t want your boats arriving late.

No containers will be opened until you or your representative is present at Castle Howard.

Loading and unloading of containers in the UK will be your responsibility.

South Africa: Jane Jardine 

Cape Town - Loading container around 26th April with ship leaving 30th April arriving in the UK on 15th May 

New Zealand: Kerry Wood 

Auckland - Loading container around 4th April with ship leaving on 9th April arriving in the UK on 15th May 

CLARIFICATION OF THE ENGINE RULES FOR THE P750

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2007.

Technical adviser and Chief Scrutineer

Glenn Baker

technical@m2mracing.com

Meeting took place: 19.00 hrs 20.02.07

PIT PASS ACCESS

Large and very strictly controlled Wet & Dry Pit areas will be erected.......more

Castle Howard is where the Circuit Racing and Welcome ceremony will take place

www.castlehoward.co.uk 

or go to the Thundercat UK website

(added 14th Dec 2006)

Hi Guys

Here is the up to date list as per the World Championship today 15.00 hours UK time. At this time we are still in the dark whether there will be entries from Australia?

Thank you for all your help and cooperation with getting teams to enter early, we are sending them a profile and media form so we can organise pre-event local media hype for the teams locally...

What do you think?
 

1. The main authorities or local clubs holding a returnable entry fee confirming teams entries to the Worlds, when the teams boat is in the container they get their deposit back, the cost does not have to be much but enough for them to commit. Otherwise we could see teams withdrawing and entries that would like to attend loose their spaces. What is your view on this???

2. Would it be possible for you to put the Shippers logo and link www.psap.co.uk on your websites they have asked if this would be possible. Plus if you feel it would be suitable the 3 Scarborough logos... this might gee them up to help further.... sorry for being pushy, just got to find a lot of sponsorship and I need their help!! Yorkshire forward, Scarborough council and Scarborough Renaissance

I have included the forms again,

With much appreciation

Fiona
 

Entry List for the Worlds 2007 Scarborough: S.A, Namibia and NZ   As at Dec 13TH 2006

South Africa

1.      Nickie Smit and Dewald Theron – Cape Town

2.      Rianto Van Niekerk and Jacques Victor – Cape Town

3.      Andi Brand and Brandon Theron. – Cape Town

4.      Stefan Lindeque and Danny Havenga – Cape Town

5.      Rudi Rollin and Malan Botha – Cape Town

6.      Roy Ball and  – Cape Town

7.      Lionel Ball & Stephan Hugo – East London

8.      Danie Van Heerden & John Wakefield – Cape Town

9.      SA Team

10. SA Team

11. SA Team

12. SA Team

13. SA Team

14. SA Team

15. SA Team

16. SA Team

17. Barry Marx and Bungani Ndesi – East London

18. George Van Baalan & Chantell Van Baalan – Port Elizabeth

19. Herman Louwrens and Michael Davies – Cape Town

20. Mark Gleed

21. Tiaan Vermeulen and Stevie Minnaar

22.  Gregory John Upton and Brenton Noakes – Port Elizabeth 

23. Dzjan Schutte and Rimus Geldenhuys

Namibia

1. Dewald Kleynhans & Michael Bryne - Windhoek

2. Quinton Liebenberg and Mark Leibenberg – Swakopmund

3. TBA – Leon Smith to advise

New Zealand

1. Mark Ross and Robert Glen – Auckland

2. Gareth Wing and Simon Royce – Auckand

3. Proposed in total 10

Australia

            ?

Europe so far:

Sweden - 2

France - 1

Spain - 2

Malta - 2

Poland –?

Germany - 1

UK - 14

Mike Costello wrote:

Fiona,

 

cc : John Puddifoot - RYA ( UK UIM National Authority)

      Kerry Wood - President TRANZ

      Jeff Horne - President NZPBF

 

Hi ,

 Our Thundercat Member/Racing Commission , the Thundercat Racing Association Of New Zealand

(TRANZ) has asked ourselves to raise the following questions with your self regarding

the 2007 P750 World Championships. Please refer to the email below - forwarded to my

self from Kerry Wood the President of TRANZ.

 

Please reply to myself in the first instance - we have no objection to any "cc" to Kerry Wood

and the members of TRANZ.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Mike Costello
Secretary

New Zealand Power Boat Federation Inc.

  

Fax 0064-9-5330016
Ph  0064-9-5356614
Mobile 021-335198
P.O.BOX 54-061
Bucklands Beach
MANUKAU CITY
NEW ZEALAND
email  mikefc@ihug.co.nz

----- Original Message -----

From: Kerry Wood

To: mikefc@ihug.co.nz

Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:21 AM

Subject: FW: Questions for worlds in UK

 

Hi Mike

can you send these on to Fiona please as Question regarding the Worlds In England

Dear Fiona,

At a meeting held by the individuals looking to be involved in  the worlds  the following questions arise.

Fiona's answers to our questions in Red below.

1, Confirming the Motors are standard (you can machine to homologated specs on head and block).  We can also run the D model exhaust and head. (This concerns some people because they are not commercially available anymore so some teams will miss out).

Can you advise a full set of the motor specifications as required for both Tohatsu and Yamaha.

The homologation specs come from the UIM re: Circuit rules 560

Preferably some of us would like our motors measured before we start racing, just in case the measuring system is different, would this be possible.  YES

2, Transport, if we can have more details of the container, or would you like to give us a contact for us to organise.  When will it be leaving, where does it land etc.  How far is the fresh water lake and surf beach from where the container will be?  Will we need trailers to get our boats to any venues?  Will we need rental cars to get about?

Auckland to Sheerness near Dover, then transported to Scarborough. You will have the container to pack at the docks prior, it will take 31 - 35 days and 5 days to clear customs and arrive at Scarborough on Wednesday 30th May. The container will arrive and when you are all there, you will have to unloaded and then it will leave, it will come back to be packed by yourselves on Monday 11th, then sealed to leave. We need you to pack and unpack so you know nothing has been taken, it gets sealed each end. Each team will have to have their own goods insured we will not be responsible for insurance.

The Fresh water lake we think is going to be Castle Howard which is a stately home about 40 mins from Scarborough. The long haul and surf are at the same event South Bay beach. South Bay is where your container will arrive and where the 1st and last events will be staged. Race control and the main organisational setup will be at South Bay.  We are going to organise transportation for you toget boats to circuit events unless maybe if there is room to put one or two it could be useful. As for hiring cars... this is up to you, I am sure we could organise a big bus to bring you to Scarborough if you gave me a rough time of where and when you are arriving.....
Flights: Heathrow, Manchester, Luton or Stanstead are better than Gatwick to fly into, then you can either get a connecting flight to Leeds/Bradford which is an hour from Scarborough or if you all fly in together youcould hire a mini bus and use it for the period you are here. I will be trying to get sponsored rates for hire cars... its on my list of things to do.....

3, Insurance, are we covered by any sort of accident and or liability insurance while racing at the worlds?  What sort of other insurance do you recommend?

The RYA insurance covers the event for 5 million on the water and 10 million off the water third party liability. This does not cover insurance between raceboat to raceboat there is no insurance for that. We have our National Health in the UK where anyone injured will go but this wont include if you need to be flown home so you need some sort of personal holiday type insurance. You need to check into this.  Everyone will need to have third party so as soon as I get the exact quote I will be able to inform everyone... it will not be loads.

4, Accommodation, Could we have a range of different types of accommodation and pricing that will be available.  Is there going to be any subsidised accommodation? 
 

This we are working on at present.

5, T.V. coverage, will it be filmed and will the teams from NZ be given a copy of the event for broadcast in NZ or private viewing?

Will we have access to the raw footage for use in NZ.?

We are look at the possibility of bring our own film crew , is this an issue?

Filming we are dealing with at present but everyone will be given copies and if you bring your own film crew please let me have their details and I will try and help them the best I can..... more the merrier we need to develop our sport worldwide... fantastic

6 Will the basic race rules be the same as SA?  Starting/finishes of the races be the same.  Manager per team for briefing,

The worlds is an individual championship but every country should have a representative, also we need someone from each country to go on the jury but jury members must not have relatives racing. Starts and finishes will be stated in the advance race instructions but as per UIM rules

7, Do we need any sort of marine licence to operate a boat in UK, when not racing?

 

No. You must have knowledge of the by-laws and speed limits, you can ask any of the Brits, me or the Harbour master

8/ We would like the deatails regarding course dimensions for all disciplines please.

Please can you wait till advance race instructions - all will be on it, but as near to UIM spec

Look forward to seeing you at the event, We have about 9 crews currently with huge interest in this event and as this unfolds we will keep you informed.

The South African's have filled their container already , 20 SA and 3 Namibian, although I have opened it up so SAIBA cant choose all their best, its an individual sport event and it has been done on those who send their entry forms back first get the free transportation. I have received 2 entries from NZ already - Fantastic.  What about the Australians do you think they might come?
 

From the Thundercat UK Website

Entries for the World Championship are coming in thick and fast…

South Africa have nearly filled there quota for their container – everyone who would like to enter please get your entries in as soon as possible so we are able to finish off the final planning and preparation procedure!

Everyone is excited about this extreme, exciting, prestigious event – set for lots of coverage and spectators..

Hope to see you all there!! 

I personally wish to thank our Global Community for the fantastic emails I have received from people in different countries around the world!

Volunteers asking whether they can help us at the World Championships! As far a field as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa offering their knowledge, experience and help. It makes me proud to be a small part in such a large environment! 

The Southern hemisphere are now in their season's racing and we wish them all good luck,

we are looking forward to seeing everyone who can make it in the UK next June.  The entry forms only went out last week and already the South African container is nearly full, Good news to hear that we might have a strong force of contenders from Australia and New Zealand. Sweden have got some excellent racers training to come over, France, Spain and Germany are rapidly on their toes trying to get everything organised so they too can be part of what looks to be the largest ever World Championship to hit Thundercats by storm. We have now secured the help of Jane Jardine, Scottish born with a twist of South African (as she now lives there) to be OOD at the event, although she will have the help of many others to create fair and safe racing.  There will be representation from each Country helping with the race organisation so our global community will all enjoy the racing and feel that it is each and everyone's event not just the UK

Fiona Pascoe

----Original Message-----

From: Fiona Pascoe [mailto:fiona@m2mracing.com]

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