Venue: --  Cabarita Beach Round 4  

Date: --     27 July 2008 

Time:--      Be at the back of the Surf life saving club

                  by 7:30am Sharp 

Event:--     SURF X 

Mandatory:--  All safety gear has to be worn. This includes

life jackets, spare kill switch, wet suits, helmets must be at

least 75% bright yellow or orange and cover the jaw, prop

guard, prop blades must be inside the prop guard, roll over

Remember:-- Membership fees must be paid and also race

fees of $60 on the day. This also can be paid direct debit

before the day. DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOU OWN

RACE ENTRY FORMS.

Penalties:-- $5 late fee will no be enforced if racers turn up

after starting times, as this event is no latter than 7:30am.

$5 will go into the club funds. Cop it on the chin if your late.

There is going to be some very tight action racing on the 27^th

So bring the family and the kids for a spectular day at a

Attention Thundercat Racers......

Round 3 QLD TITLES

This Sunday the 13th of July is the Long Haul event.

The weather looks to be great on the weekend 5-10 knots 

The course will be a 96 km event. One lap is 24km.

1 fuel stop on the end of the second lap.

All safety gear and offshore gear is required. Flares V sheet etc

Be at the boat ramp by 7am sharp. There will be an

A & B grade event. B Grade will do only half of the race 50km. 1 full 25lrt tank.

The course will start at main beach and

a turn can will be 500m out from Nobby's beach. Dont forget your race form.

Normal fees apply. Any questions call Sonic the hedge hog. 

See you on the water....

Next General Meeting

Where:-  Victoria Point Tavern {inside} crn colburn av and Cleveland

Redland Bay rd at Victoria Point. It is behind the Bunnings complex.

When: Thursday night. 3.7.2008. Be there 6:30pm for a 7:00 Start,

should finish around 8-8:30pm. Food and drinks can be comsumed

over the meeeting.

Who:- All members and guests are welcome. Call

Chris on 0410 582 458 with any queations.

If you have any concerns or any ideas to improve the club please

write them down and present them to me or John Kerrisk on the

night. Put the thinking cap on......

C you all there. 

This weekend is the 3^rd & 4^th round of the National Thundercat Series.

Saturday is the Surf cross and Sunday is the Long haul.

Scrutineering  

Racers that are not at the beach by 8:00 am on day 1 & 9:00am on day 2

will be penalised 25%

points for that day. Officials will not be chasing anyone.

Scrutineering will be held on the beach. There will be a trailer at the ramp

for all bags, fuel etc to go down to the beach via the surf club. When

traveling through the seaway it is 4 knots only until you reach open

water.  More Info........

The weekend was great with 13 boats attending. The A & B Graders

werebattling it out on a 2ft ground swell with glassy conditions

which made these surf battling boats into speed machines, The

engines were screaming to find that top end speed.Even though

the surf was small there was a mean sweep running north which

made starts very difficult. That boats had to be nose into the current

just so you could stand on the spot.

While holding the boats and watching the surfers ride waves through

 the arena at the same time was very frustrating and fatigue was

kicking in. The day was successful pumping out 14 racesand the

new stereo system pumping hard.

There were surprisingly 2 flips for the day. Im Too Toe from the

B graders did a spectacular cork screw off a wave side on, along the front straight. Sadly the second flipe goes to Fat Cat, going around a turn can and hitting a massive 1ft chop sending him over.

The out standing flip award goes to Adam and Tim from Im Too Toe Congratulations.

Darren the driver from RP Industries also known as "LOOSE" through

himself out of the boat turning around a turn can..... { HOLD ON DAZZA}

Boats that competed for the day were Crocker Builder, Ducks Nuts,

RP Industries, Im Too Toe, Fat Cat, Carrot Cat, Rampage, TTTC, Goodline Racing,

G E Paint, Blue 104, Neptune Boat and Impact.

Well done to all competitors racing and check QLD results for you points.

National Titles is coming up on the 7th and 8th of June at Kingscliff

so dont miss out. See you all on the water.

The first round of the National Titles has just past with

outstanding results from the Brisbane Club. The National Titles

were held at Laurieton- Port Macquarie. The first day was surf X

ON THE WATER

Its on tonight 26.5.08...

THE LOCAL THUNDERCAT RACE TEAMS WERE CAPTURED AT THE SPIT

ON THE GOLD COAST. THE TV SHOW "ON THE WATER" WILL BE SHOWING OUR

THUNDERCAT TALENT AS WE ARE THE THUNDER FROM DOWNUNDER.

MAKE SURE YOU WATCH EACH EPISODE TO CHECK OUT ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF

WATER ACTIVITES/SPORTS.

CHANNEL 31   {BRIS 31}

TIME: 8:25PM

WHEN: MONDAY NIGHT

THE THUNDERCATS SHOULD BE ON NEXT MONDAY 19TH OR THE MONDAY

26TH THE WEEK AFTER. SPREAD THE WORD AROUND AND SET ALL YOU ALARMS

SO DONT MISS IT......

Please find below some suggested accommodation at Kingscliff for the National Titles. 

This is held in the June long weekend 7th 8th and 9th. There are other motels closer to

where we launch the boats, but this motel has ............Read more........

The weather was HOT HOT HOT on the weekend. The surf sure had some power as a solid 3ft waves

were rolling in on the back bank. This was well deserved after the last race day was hell on earth. The

A & B graders had combined into one race heat, this will test there thundercat ability to the extreme and

had proven to be very successful on the skills that they had learnt in such a short peroid of time. Since

all the boats stayed up right for the day, the Out Standing Flip Award could not be handed out....Bummer....

This was our first race day at Cabarita Beach and had a very warm welcome by the Cabarita surf club.

A big thanks goes to the  Eoin for driving the boats up and down the beach. Also providing us

with the BBQ equipment for the Feast after we called it a day. Thankyou you very much.

Dennis co-pilot of Macleods Daughters was the only co-pilot to fallout on the weekend, this was on the

first lap of the first race. Keep it up Dennis...

Nick co-pilot of Carrot Cat, lost his helmet punching through the middle of a green wave. As the boat came

through the wave the helmet went flying up in the air out of control, the boat then went up the next wave

and he managed to catch his helmet in mid flight and he put it back on his head. AMAZING...

Thundercats that attended the day were TTTC, G & E Paint, Fat Cat, RP Industries, Carrot Cat, Im Too Toe,

Blue 104, Macleods Daughters and Crocker Builders. Thanks for attending.

There was no shortage of AIR time as most boat recieved some sort of punishment as the sets were rolling inn.

Near the end of the day, it was decided that it was time for some handy-cap races. We lined the slowest

boat up at pole position and went out to 8th boat being the quickest boat of the day. Each boat had a

seperate starting flag of a handy-cap up to 10 sec delay. This turned out to be a exciting event as most boats

by the 4th and 5th lap were all very close together, it came to the 6th last lap to decide a winner.

The Booming Brisbane Thundercat Club is making a big splash in the water with 13 teams

attending the first round of the QLD State Titles. Eight of the boats challenged for the top 

points of the first round of Qld titles, and 5 new teams racing for the first time in the B grade

event.

The weather was very demanding, as there was a strong S/E wind with a 2-2.5m swell rolling

inn. You could almost hear the heart rate of the pilots and co - pilots as they looked into what

 would become there play ground of adventure! the surf was sure showing its strength! The 

dark clouds moved in quite quickly with the wind with a few small showers sending the score girls

head for cover. 

The day began with some warm up laps, once the racers had a feel of the surf they were ready

 to roar!  Ducks Nuts was the first boat to stop a race as Sam{co-pilot} showed amazing grace

with his superman fall out of the boat- proving how strong the surf was!

A handful of pilots pushed the limits and flipped their boats, these classic moments were

condenders for the Outstanding Flip Award- A grade boats that flipped were Goodline Racing and

Fat Cat. B Grade- Pie Wagon & I'm too Toe cork screw flip off a wave.

Overall it was a fantastic day of extreme fun, friendship some great racing, the Qld title was a

great learning experience for the new comers to the club, as well as the highly experienced boys.

An unfortunate accident accured in a B grade race where 2 boats, Im Too Toe and Macleods Daughters

were heading along the front straight, Im too toe ran out of water and ran agound,

Macleods Daughters went straight into the back of Im Too Toe. The co-pilot went flying out of

the boat and landed beside the driver in front. Fortunately no injuries occured, Unfortuantely we

cant say the same about the boat, Macleods Daughters left hull was slightly deflated.

Round 1 race results were 1st Tony Total Tree Care, 2nd Fat Cat, 3rd Ducks Nuts, 4th Scardy Cats,

5th G & E Paint, 6th Goodline Racing and 7th to JP Industries. Congratulations to all crews

competing for the day.  

B Grade positions for the day were 1st Carrot Cat, 2nd Im Too Toe, 3rd Pie Wagon, 4th Blue 104,

5th Macleods Daughters, 6th RP Industries. Very impressive on the way the boats were handled. Keep it up. 

Rp Industries won the Outstanding Flp Award for throwing his co-pilot out on the first race/ first

lap and also flipping his boat going back to the boat ramp after a day of racing.... Congratulations...

It was great to see alot of supporters come down to watch for the day as the conditions were poor.

Thanks to the Girls for scoring and keeping count of the boats for the day. Thanks to Scotty,

Darren, Tony, Nemo {RD}, and John for slected officials for the day and running a good show. It was

 great alot of members stayed behind for the BBQ and the results to be read out. Hope its Sunny

weather next race day and see you all there. 

More Pictures are in the photo gallery. Click HERE.....