you informed of the progress with
another article.
If anyone has a program from the
list below, and you are thinking of
sending it to me, I can scan it and put it
up on the NAMBA website, and return
your program back to you! So, it’s a
win-win for everyone. We all get to see
the program, and your personal
collection remains intact. Check your
NAMBA drawer and see if you have a
program, pin, or patch from the
following years:
Programs:
1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, and
1988.
Pins:
1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977,
1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1984.
Spare Patches:
1973 (Seattle), 1976 (Baltimore), 1984
(Newark), 1985 (Reno), 1987 (San
Diego), 1997 (Manteca) and 2002
(Springfield, OR).
I am amazed that no one wants to
donate their patch from the 1997
Manteca and 2002 Springfield Nationals.
hat’s not too long ago! For those that
would like to donate their patch, pin or
program to the NAMBA National
Historical Collection, please send to:
Dave Rychalsky
10 Timber Road
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
PROPWASH
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November 2012
individual racer. If you are testing you
still need to follow the same
rules. Enforce the safety rules on
yourselves and we will have affordable
insurance for the foreseeable future.
NAMBA Nats History
By Dave Rychalsky
NAMBA Historian Chairman
I gave all of you a break and didn’t
write an article for the previous
Propwash
. I just couldn’t stay away, so
this is Number 11. I have some great
news. Since my previous article, I have
had three members make donations to
the NAMBA collection. I’m glad
someone read my articles, searched their
tool boxes, and found a few items on my
list.
A few months ago, Howard Price
from Washington donated the 1983
NAMBA Nationals pin and program and
the patch for the 1980 Tacoma,
Washington Nationals. Thank you very
much. At the 2012 NAMBA Nationals in
New Hampshire, Doug Sick from
Canada donated the pin from the 1983
Nationals in BC, Canada. Doug, you da
man! Thank you. Both Doug and
Howard were happy to be a part of the
archives and felt a sense of gratification
for NAMBA. From the 2011 Fast
Electric NAMBA Nationals, Contest
Director Ken Haines sent me their patch
from Ft. Pierce, Florida. Great!
I am still honoring my last offer of
anyone who has a program that wants to
keep it, but will send to me to scan for
the website. By the way, for those that
do not know, it is an extremely tedious
process to scan the programs, re-shape
the images, adjust the coloring, clear the
reverse page images and finally make it
readable for the Page Flip software. I
give a ton of kudos to Al Waters, who
did 99 percent of the rework on the few
scans I sent him. (And yes, I haven’t set
any time to scan any additional programs
for our webpage, but it is still on my “To
Do” list.)
We have encountered a new problem
with our NAMBA Nationals Banner. No,
it’s not missing. No, it’s wasn’t ruined.
Well, it’s full. We ran out of room. So, I
have found someone who will make a
new banner to start the 2013 season. I
guess this is a good problem. I will keep
Safety Corner Spring 2012
By Lohring Miller
NAMBA Safety Chairman
Other groups have very similar safety
issues to NAMBA. The APBA recently
had its liability insurance canceled and
had to find a new carrier. Their
insurance has a per race weekend cost as
well as a cost included in membership
dues. It is interesting to compare their
per race weekend costs for different
types of racing. At the bottom is the RC
model category with a $149 charge. At
the top is the Offshore with Large
Classes category that has a $6664
charge. Stock Outboard racing is the
least expensive full size category with a
$2488 charge.
I’ll reprint a plea from the APBA
president: “In most cases, 2012 risk
management requirements have not
changed significantly from 2011.
However, it is mandatory that APBA
improve the enforcement of the
requirements.” Doesn’t this sound
familiar? NAMBA doesn’t need a lot of
more safety rules; we need to enforce
our existing rules and use common
sense.
Most of the serious accidents happen
when someone is in the water when a
boat is running and gets hit. NAMBA
safety rule #9 states “Reasonable and
proper provisions will be made for
crowd control and for the safety of other
members and spectators. Model boats
will not be operated when anyone is in
the water.” This holds when racing or
just running for fun and applies to racers
as well as spectators.
Preventing this type of accident is
fairly easy. Keep people, including the
people operating boats, back from the
shore and don’t run boats with anyone
in the water. The hard part is actually
enforcing the rules. We are all guilty of
stretching the rules in one special
case. Please think about what could
happen. If insurance companies think
people can be seriously hurt or killed,
NAMBA’s dues will run in the hundreds
of dollars a year and the per race fees
will look like those above. The only
thing that keeps model boating
affordable is our good accident
record. Everyone is a NAMBA risk
manager from the race CD down to the