Ocean City

[Ben Mazur]

Whose got some info and pics?

[Pete454]

I will be there saturday noonish, with my new Canon 1D, and Sigma 120-300
F2.8 lens, as well I will have my Canon 40D ready for back-up duties if required.:D :D

[Boatless]

I will be there saturday noonish, with my new Canon 1D, and Sigma 120-300
F2.8 lens, as well I will have my Canon 40D ready for back-up duties if required.:D :D

What do you think of the Nikon's? I know once you get the lenses one cannot change back and forth but I was just eying the new D3 as I have an older Nikon and of course Nikon lens

[Pete454]

What do you think of the Nikon's? I know once you get the lenses one cannot change back and forth but I was just eying the new D3 as I have an older Nikon and of course Nikon lens


they have good stuff as well, I just happened to buy Canon.

[Ryan Beckley]

Ocean City's Photos are posted at www.freezeframevideo.net

[Pete454]

As promised some pics from OC, after a late start, and not paying attention to directions, I finally arrived, shortly after the rain arrived. so no testing pics:(

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0218.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0219.jpg

Tim Sharkey shooting pit pics

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0220.jpg

[Pete454]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0223.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0224.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0227.jpg

[Pete454]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0230.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0233.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0243.jpg

[Pete454]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0246.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0249.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0253.jpg

[Pete454]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0256.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0259.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0267.jpg

[Pete454]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0274.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0277.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0279.jpg

[Pete454]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0284.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/7Z0X0282.jpg

[Boatless]

Is the sponson nose getting repaired on the Geico the Callan hull? I know they put the nose cones on after it comes out of the mold and one fell on two yrs ago in key west.

007 I am still dizzy from that paint job. what boat was that in a previous life? Good to see Reliable back from the abis of key west. same hull or new one?

[Pete454]

From my understanding they damaged the sponson tip when they stuffed it during a run on Friday, Not sure about the boat, But Art Lilly will be throttling it.


Look for more pics this afternoon.

[Ben Mazur]

Thanks for the great pix Pete. Dam'n, you were up bright and early this morning.

Looking forward to seeing more!

[Pete454]

still running on Bahrain time, sleep is all messed up. on to the pics from Ocean City. to say I was disappointed is a understatement the course was at least a 1/4 mile from shore so photo ops sucked from the beach. hopefully the next race I attend will be closer, I was using a 500mm zoom.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/Geico1.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/class3-1.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/Class4-1.jpg

[Pete454]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/Class5-1.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/Class3-2.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/Class5-2.jpg

[Pete454]

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/Class5-3.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/Talkintrash.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/motleycrew.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh201/Pboden19/Ocean%20City%202008/race%20photos/7Z0X1444.jpg

[Ben Mazur]

Pic quality looks fine to me especially considering that these pics that you were disappointed in are better then any I have ever taken.

Any idea of the results?

[Dr Speed]

http://www.freezeframe.us/RacePhotos/OC08-7/08CC4221.jpg

That hurt

[Ben Mazur]

MISS GEICO TRIPLE CROWN RACE 1 RESULTS

Ocean City, MD June 1 2008


Turbine
1st Miss Geico


Extreme
1st Chaos


Class 1
1st Cleveland Construction
2nd K2
3rd Lightning Jacks


Class 4
1st AMF Laveycraft
2nd Bounty Hunter
3rd The Jersey Boyz
4th Simmons Racing
5th Konrad
6th Adrenaline Rush
7th Team Purrrfect
8th Reinforcer
9th Michigan Mafia


Super Cat Lite
1st AMSOill
2nd Motley Crew


Class 3
1st Wanted
2nd Boat Responsibly
3rd Pour It On
4th You're Gonna Have That
5th Xtreme
6th Hot Licks


Class 6
1st Reindl One Design (Purple Boat)
2nd Knot Guilty
3rd Cotner Trailers
4th Reindl One Design (Red Boat)
5th Lock'd Up


Super Cat
1st Reliable Carriers
2nd Talk'N Trash
3rd Persuit Cat
4th JD Byrider
5th Wicked Marine


Class 2
1st Muscle
2nd Wazzup
3rd TKO
4th Bandit Racing
5th Sunset Marina
6th Strictly Business
7th On the Chip


Class 5
1st Outrageous
2nd Typhoon
3rd Goumada
4th Papa Dukes
5th Whoz Your Daddy
6th Dock Blood
7th Over Active
8th Team Mitigator
9th Reiter Racing/Thunder Struck
10th Jersey Pirates
11th Specialized RAcing
12th Crazy Chicken
13th Superheat

[Ben Mazur]

to the organisers. To have 50+ boats turn up to a venue in this day and age is a spectacular result.

[Ben Mazur]

http://www.lucidideefastboats.com/2008oceancity.html

[SHARKEYMARINE]

Photos are now online.

http://sharkey-images.com/opa.html Click on the Banner for Ocean City

Be sure to view the SLIDE SHOW option at the top of the page for an 800 x 600 large viewing experience.

You can also adjust the speed, color background or even click through at your own pace...

Enjoy the images !

P.S.

If anyone feels the photos are too far far away, keep in mind I can zoom in and crop in on the boats.

The photos are in a large format and in some cases can be printed up to 8 feet if kept the original size...

1 Example below. The same photo cropped.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/sharkeymarine/Ocean%20City%2008/060108_046C.jpg

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/sharkeymarine/Ocean%20City%2008/060108_046C810.jpg

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/sharkeymarine/Ocean%20City%2008/060108_046CDrives.jpg

[SHARKEYMARINE]

Pete,

I wasn't having much luck offshore either. I shot 3,000 + pics and dumped 1/3rd of them. But I did experiment and tried something different so that was partly my fault.

Also I was shooting w/ both cameras. I remembered what I hated about the XT. One bump and it went into full manual mode.:mad:

Good thing I checked after I shot 50+ pics. Of course they were some of the best ones I wish I had got but they all came out way under exposed and I trashed them.

Pete, normally they raced about 300 yards off shore. It wasn't until the driver's meeting that I found out that the course was moved out by the decision of the Coast Guard. Keep in mind, last year a swimmer drowned and we also had a boat run up on the beach. This was brought up by the Coasties and commended the Wicked team on how they kept the entire situation in CONTROL. They radioed in and announced they were taking on water and they were going to beach the boat. By the time they reached the breakers the boat was slowed down and I believe they cut the engines. No one was hurt either on the beach or the boat. The drowning was a separate incident, but all of this was taken into consideration for the moving of the course. Should they had another swimmer in trouble this year, the CG wanted enough buffer so that they could search and rescue without having to stop or interfere with the race.

Last year's race:

A Day at the BEACH

http://www.slide.com/r/ys358lA93j8HYy9XZrZ0cxhcoIFVfiax

[Pete454]

Pete,

I wasn't having much luck offshore either. I shot 3,000 + pics and dumped 1/3rd of them. But I did experiment and tried something different so that was partly my fault.

Also I was shooting w/ both cameras. I remembered what I hated about the XT. One bump and it went into full manual mode.:mad:

Good thing I checked after I shot 50+ pics. Of course they were some of the best ones I wish I had got but they all came out way under exposed and I trashed them.

Pete, normally they raced about 300 yards off shore. It wasn't until the driver's meeting that I found out that the course was moved out by the decision of the Coast Guard. Keep in mind, last year a swimmer drowned and we also had a boat run up on the beach. This was brought up by the Coasties and commended the Wicked team on how they kept the entire situation in CONTROL. They radioed in and announced they were taking on water and they were going to beach the boat. By the time they reached the breakers the boat was slowed down and I believe they cut the engines. No one was hurt either on the beach or the boat. The drowning was a separate incident, but all of this was taken into consideration for the moving of the course. Should they had another swimmer in trouble this year, the CG wanted enough buffer so that they could search and rescue without having to stop or interfere with the race.

Last year's race:

A Day at the BEACH

http://www.slide.com/r/ys358lA93j8HYy9XZrZ0cxhcoIFVfiax

Tim,
It is what it is, Bruce (IMAX) told me if I go to anymore ne races this year let him know. I have a pic of a LG rescuing a kid that appeared to be in trouble this year. having the race that far from shore sucked. whether there for photo ops or just spectator.

oh well Jax Poker run produced some great photos.
and I am sure hollywood will make for a few good shots
as will sunny Isles.

[Pete454]

shot some surfing though

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m126/pete454/surf1.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m126/pete454/flip.jpg

[SHARKEYMARINE]

Maybe next year there will be a shark sighting around 12:00P on race day. ;)

That would keep people out of the water for a few hours....:D