Diamond Cup

Diamond Cup

The Diamond Cup hosted by the Taranaki Model Boat Club at Lake Cowley.

Saturday Morning as we arrived at LakeCowley we were greeted with a slight breeze and flat water. The Scale 45’s were the first onto the water. After tune-up, the 1-lap sprints were started just as the wind increased which made the water quite bumpy. When the first round was completed, it was decided to let the placing’s stand and move to the alternative course at the other end of the lake. This was sheltered from the wind and gave us flat water more to our liking. Results of the 1-lap sprints went to Paul Flett with Miss Renault followed by John Nicholls’s new Lady Bug. Merv’s Radical Rat finished third while Jason succumbed to the lumpy water with Poseidon. Paul Garner was having radio problems with Annihilator and found his receiver had burnt out. Brian Dougan had to withdraw Outlaw as he was call out from work.

Working in the Pits

Heat Racing for the Scale 45s was intense and all the boats ended up with at least one heat win under to their credit. John has Lady Bug really singing now though he said there were a few more improvements that could be done. Lady Bug took out the heat racing followed by Poseidon in second and Miss Renault and Radical Rat tying for third. The Final came down to just two boats, Lady Bug and Miss Renault. Lady Bug was sure to get first place, leading down the back straight on the last lap it did the unexpected and tripped over something in the water and submerged. This left Miss Renault for the win but for a gust of wind picking her up and flipping over backwards.

This left us with no winners in the final.

LadyBug took out the Heat Racing for Scale 45

Class I sprint racing was exciting with very close racing between Hyperactive, Express Video and Jason’s new boat, Romper Stomper. In the end, Hyperactive took the honours with 40 pts from Express Video on 36 pts and Romper Stomper on 32 pts.

Hyperactive won Class I

The rest of the afternoon was open water for the 1/8ths to tune-up.

Sunday morning everybody was down at the Lake bright and early as the wind was again forecasted later in the day. Earlier on Paul Flett had bought Smokin Joe’s for us to peruse our weary eye over and this is a very nice looking boat and will not be long before it is race ready. Mr Pringles had withdrawn from the days racing.

Paul working on Speedy Printing

The first heat started on flat water but like yesterday it did not take to long to get to bumpy to race on. After the first heat finished we moved to the alternative site that again gave us some nice flat racing water. Jason with DeWalt Tools showed he was a top contender after winning the first heat but then found water in his radio box and took the rest of the heats to remedy the problem.

Dean has Winston really flying

Dean with his Winston Eagle and Merv’s Miss Budweiser had two heat wins and a second to their name. John was having problems keeping Captran Resort up the right way while in the mean time Miss Speedy Printing taking a while to tune in (someone called it a Tug Boat) started to find its legs in the later heats.

Captran Resorts after another flip

The final take all heat was a thriller with only three boats making the water before the 30 sec cut-off time elapsed. Miss Budweiser just edged out a fast charging DeWalt Tools while Miss Speedy Printing caught a gust of wind and reached for the skies.

Miss Budweiser Winner of the Diamond Cup

DIAMOND CUP HI-POINTS

Merv Sowden	1540	MISS BUDWEISER
Paul Garner	1332	AMERICAN SPEEDY PRINTING
Dean Harris	1117	WINSTON EAGLE
Jason Lester	730	DEWALT TOOLS
John Nicholls	375	CAPTRAN RESORT

The Auckland guys had a great time and a big thanks to the Taranaki Guys for the BBQ, running the events, rescuing the boats putting us up for the night etc.

THE SUHA TROPHY HI-POINTS

Merv Sowden	3163	MISS BUDWEISER
Paul Garner	3153	AMERICAN SPEEDY PRINTING
Terry Wilson	1274	ULTRA BOLD & DASH
Malcolm Miller	1190	MILLER HIGH LIFE U00
Dean Harris	1117	WINSTON EAGLE
Jason Lester	730	DEWALT TOOLS
Steve Trott	600	EXECUTONE
John Nicholls	375	CAPTRAN RESORT
Chris Breen	225	PRINGLES
Jason Lester	13	WINSTON EAGLE
Glenn Sayers	0	YORK

1/8^th Scale Unlimited Hydroplanes Registered

BOAT NAME	"U"#	OWNER
AMERICAN SPEEDY PRINTING	U40	PAUL GARNER
ATLAS VAN LINES	U1	PHIL ATTENBOURGH
CAPSTRAN RESORTS	U20	JOHN NICHOLLS
DE WALT TOOLS	U6	JASON LESTER
KISW MISS ROCK [31	UIOO	SKIP FRANCIS
LLUMAR WINDOW TREATMENT	U8	CHRIS BREEN
MILLER HIGH LIFE [1]	UOO	MALCOLM MILLER
MISS BUDWEISER [12]	U12	SKIP FRANCIS
MISS BUDWEISER [17]	U1	MERV SOWDEN
MISS CIRCUS CIRCUS	U31	GRAHAM DOGGETT
MISS EXIDE II	U11	BRIAN DOUGAN
MISS MADISON 1999	U6	JOHN NICHOLLS
MISS MADISON TONY THE TIGER	U6	BRIAN DOUGAN
MISS TOSTI ASTI SPUMANTE [3]	U10	ED BRENNEN
MR PRINGLES	U8	JONATHAN SOWDEN
OH BOY OBERTO [6]	U2	BRIAN DOUGAN
PRIDE OF PAY-N-PAK [2]	U25	JOHN NICHOLLS
SMOKIN JOES	U10	PAUL FLETT
SQUIRE SHOP [3]	U2	PHIL WOODHAM
THRIFTWAY	U60	WAYNE LESTER
ULTRA BOLD & DASH	U8	TERRY WILSON
WINSTONE EAGLE C/C COWL	U10	BRUCE BURNS
YORK INTERNATIONAL	U10	GLEN SAYERS

Brian's Oh Boy! Oberto

Scale 45’s Registered

BOAT NAME	Racing	OWNER
LADYBUG	√	JOHN NICHOLLS
GENISIS	√	JOHN NICHOLLS
ANNIHILATOR	√	PAUL GARNER
KING RAT III	√	PHIL ATTENBOURGH
BLACKFIRE	√	CHRIS BREEN
NICE ONE	√	BRUCE BURNS
RADICAL RAT II	√	MERV SOWDEN
POSEIDON	√	JASON LESTER
NEED IT!	√	JONATHAN SOWDEN
OUTLAW	√	BRIAN DOUGAN
MISS RENAULT	√	PAUL FLETT
LADYBUG	√	SKIP FRANCIS