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NO FRIDAY TEST-N-TUNE IN JUNE!
President’s May Message
Hello Everyone,
For those interested, there is a board meeting 12:00 noon
Saturday, May 11, at the Round Table Pizza in Springfield.
There will be several members at Boatniks again this year.
This will be one of the topics of discussion.
We have ordered a substantial number of shirts. We will have
some crew neck sweatshirts available now. There will be a
Show & Shine, Sunday, June 9th at Anderson
Brothers. Patrick McTevia is looking for participants. Jim
Brown is handling advertising. Please direct inquires to
those two. Jim Brown is also the “Advertising Manager” for the
association. Jim and Jessica are working together.
Please remember that we have registration protocols
established. We would appreciate it if you do your best to
comply with these. ALL questions
concerning the registration process are asked and answered
via registration personnel. They work closely with Tech.
We are five short weeks away from our first race. There has
not been enough interest generated to have a Friday
Test-N-Tune for the June race.
There is no Friday Test-N-Tune for the first race. I have only spoken with very few racers with an
interest. We spoke about this at the General Meeting. We
need at least 30 boats pre-registered to make this happen.
The list I have is very short.
Let’s wait and see what the participation looks like
Saturday morning to help make decisions as to how the
program will be ran throughout the weekend. Multiple passes
no doubt.
The 1000 foot track is operational. I have also heard some
interest concerning this from a few drivers. QE is a Lucas
class this year. NJBA and Lucas Division 1 at the July race.
This will be a 3 day event.
I am taking a personal survey
concerning Chowchilla. If this sparks some interest,
please call.
Thanks,
Andy
541-923-2323
The Banquet turned another
profit this year. All those in attendance made this
possible. 130 meals served. It was good to see the Tar Baby
III team looking good. Lynn & Theo’s Honorary Membership was
emotional to say the least. I know there are others out
there with this type of membership. Let’s search our
internal hard drives and update this very important roster.
Congratulations to all the Champions and recipients of
Special Awards. Several members worked very hard to assure a
good time was had by all. In the future, please take note of
your dinner ticket and the table assignment. It looked very
good on paper. Your RSVP really helps with your seat
placement.
The next CDBA event will be Capsule Certification. The date
and time is listed on this site. Steve wants to familiarize
a few open boat drivers with the Safety/Rescue team. I think
I will be the first in the pool for this. There will most
likely be a board meeting in April, TBA.
This season we need to concentrate on maintaining and
increasing the boat and spectator count at all of the races.
There was a lot of conversation concerning the Lakeside and
Haystack races. There will be a telephone survey inquiring
about your participation at all 5 of our events. Please be
thinking about your responses.
We have seen that we can break even with 28 boats at Dexter
and Lakeside. This is only if we have no fee increases of
any kind applied to our overhead. Haystack seems to be
recovering. I have been through several years of past
minutes and many of them point to possible repercussions if
we do not have at least 40 boats at Lakeside and Haystack.
Thank you Liz and Jason for your donation. It is
appreciated!
We are permitting the June race for a 3 day event. If at
least 30 racers want to pre-register for a Test & Tune, it
can happen. The drivers will decide this. Start sending
emails to the board members letting us know your desire for
a 3 day event.
Nobody even asked but there are
no planned fee increases at all for any CDBA events this
year. LODBRS has raised the fees by $50 to help cover costs.
It is amazing to witness all the individuals making any sort
of contribution to the CDBA. The list on the inside of the
banquet program keeps growing. I apologize for those names
omitted. Greg McAnulty, Darrold Murphy, Richie & Loretta
Graeff, Byan Lauber……….just to name a few more. We should
probably just include the roster at next year’s banquet
because we all count on each other to keep the Columbia Drag
Boat Association moving forward.
The2005 and earlier “Rookie of the Year” revolving plaqueand the Jim Backus
revolving trophy are missing. If anyone has
knowledge about these we would appreciate it if these
awards were forwarded to us so they can be updated and
placed in their new homes.
We have a new Marketing
Director in Jessica Haavisto this year. I have spoken with
Bi-Mart and several other sponsors and they are still on
board with us this season.
Rick’s Welding and Fabrication
is sponsoring ”Best Race Team” & “Best Reaction Time” yet
again this year. Thank you Rick & Sandy Coffman.
Patrick McTevia is organizing a
Show & Shine event for the weekend before the first Dexter
race. He and Jim Brown are sorting out the logistics for
this.
The coverage we are receiving
in Drag Boat Review is great. Many people across the
country see what we are doing. The web site has received a
lot of positive compliments as well.
Here is a topic of
conversation. We have the anchors sitting in the water at
Haystack for the 1/8 mile and not yet put in place. What if
we placed them at 1000 feet instead? That would give us two
1000 foot tracks. Dexter and Haystack. This mightallow us to run if it gets too windy for a ¼ mile. If
so, it would be 340 feet further that running the 1/8 mile
to finish a race. Should Haystack just be 1000 feet with the
1/8 mile? Either way, we need to finish the track. The ADBA
track in Parker is 1000 foot. This is a Division 1 race.
To our traveling members.
Please be sure you have all the proper driver credentials
when you attend races out of state. It helps with the
registration process. Please remember to affix a “C”, a
minimum of 1 and 1/2 inches tall, after the boat number and
the same color as the number, to let the starter know you
are a CDBA member. Please refer to 8.9 in 2013 LODBRS rule
book.
I would again like to thank the
Board Members and their families, the racing event staff and
families, for the continuous financial contribution and all
the un-measureable time and effort it takes to keep the CDBA
operational. This large group of individuals, along with all
the racers and crews, spectators and vendors keep our
passion alive!
Regards,
Andy
President’s January
Message
The first day of winter is one month past. The days are
getting longer. I am one of those people who keep a very
close eye on winters at the 45th parallel. We
only have four months of it left in my neck of the woods.
The big news is that Lynn
Cortner is on the mend. Lynn and Theo are very appreciative
of all the well wishes they have received. Over 150 cards
and letters so far. There is pretty good evidence that Lynn
himself, not the boat, broke the beam at the finish line at
Firebird. He also broke out. He truly is the quickest man in
the CDBA and can back it up with an ET slip! We will see
them at the Banquet.
We generated 1,064,061 hits on
cdbaracing.com. The Graeff’s are doing a nice job with the site. We
are working on updates and new features.
The Banquet is only 25 days
away as of this writing. Please RSVP for a head count. The
dinners cost us a little money but we are trying to keep the
costs the same. Lucas Oil representatives have already made
reservations. It would be great if we all had something to
contribute for raffle and auction items.
The Board meeting will be an
Executive Session this year. This means elected and
appointed individuals, committee members, and liaisons. If
anyone has something new to bring up, please present it at
the General meeting. If there is something you feel strongly
about then contact me or another board member to have it
included in the agenda for either meeting. I am working on
agendas now. I would like to change the time investment for
the Board meeting. These should not be 3 hour marathon
events.
The 2013 season is on track to
be a repeat of 2012 so far as co-sanctioned races with Lucas
Oil and NJBA. We have to keep the racers and spectators
coming. We only had 15 CDBA racers do all 5 of our races.
Total entries in 2012 were down 26 boats as compared to
2011. It makes it difficult to pay the bills. Let’s hope
that the boat count does not drop further. Racers get the
most “bang for their buck” at our races.
Lynn Cortner
Recovery Fundraiser
There has been a lot of interest from
people regarding helping with the expenses being incurred
for Lynn’s recovery. After talking with the family
C.D.B.A. will host this fundraiser. If you would like
to help, you can send your monetary donation to:
Columbia Drag Boat Association
17725 SE Foster Road
Damascus, OR 97089
Please make check payable to: C.
D. B. A. and in the memo section write Lynn Cortner.
If you have any questions, please call Rhonda Anderson at
707/498-6430
