The Board Member meeting notes have been posted to the Members section.
2/1/2012 - Registration Renewals
This is a reminder that registration fees and tri annuals are due. You can view your registration status in the Members section of this site. If members wish to keep their registrations current, all fees must be paid by February 15th along with a $5 late fee. Boats that are not paid by then will go up for draw March 1st.
1/30/2012 - 4th Annual Roger Newton Memorial scale model hydroplane show!
The 4th Annual Roger Newton Memorial scale model unlimited hydroplane show will be held at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent, Washington on Saturday, February 11th from 11:00 AM until 4:00 PM.
Admission is just $5.00 for the general public and is free to all Museum members. A pizza lunch will be available. Come and learn about the exciting sport of scale model unlimited hydroplane racing from some of the nation's best model builders. Over 50 of these beautiful creations will be on display. This event is sponsored by the local unlimited hydroplane
fan club, Unlimiteds Unanimous. Admission for UU members is FREE. The public pays normal museum admission fees.
Pretty and Fast always go together rather nicely...
This scale model of the Hawaii Kai III won the 2011 Electric Radio Controlled Unlimiteds High-Point Championship. (Roger Newton founded both R/CU and E/RCU.) This beautiful model is owned and operated by Dr. Benjamin Keller of Tacoma, Washington.
A visit to the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum is also a trip down boat racing's memory lane. Vintage unlimited hydroplanes on display include Atlas Van Lines, two Miss Budweisers, Oh Boy! Oberto, Miss Burien, and Miss Wahoo! For more information, contact the Museum office at (206) 764-9453.
1/28/2012 - January Newsletter
The January Newsletter is now available. Click the Newsletter link to the right to view.
1/10/2012 - Registration Renewals
It's time to renew the registrations for your scale hydroplanes for the 2012 season. You can view how much you owe by bringing up the Jan 10 2012 Registrations in the Members Section.
Please make the check for your renewal fees out to "R/C Unlimiteds", and send it to our Registrar:
Kirk Maupin
30 212TH ST SW
Bothell, WA 98021
Thank you.
1/04/2012 - Newsletter
Hello all, Geoffry Grembowski here. With college apps finally submitted and other work done, I finally have some free time to put together a newsletter. So, for the January issue, can you send me photos, articles, notes, anything from your hard work in the boat shops during this offseason? I know there are new boats in the works, so I would love to get some news I can spread to others. Send them to the link above right, and watch out for the newsletter later this month.
1/02/2012 - Boat Bio Update
The 1972 Notre Dame, and 1982 Oh Boy! Oberto boat bio's have been updated.
1/01/2012 - Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! We hope 2012 brings everyone health, and happiness!
12/25/2011 - Merry Christmas!
A very Merry Christmas to you and your families!
12/19/2011 - Board Meeting Minutes
The RCU Board Meeting Minutes have been added to the Members section of the site. Updates to the RCU rulebook have been added to the Information page.
12/14/2011 - New Boat Bio
The Boat Bio for the 1983 Miss Bayswater Bulk has been added to the site. See Our Boats.
11/21/2009 - RCU Video
Check out this video that gives an overview of R/C Unlimiteds and what you might expect if you were to join or attend a race. If you are interested in racing with us, we would be happy to accept you! You can consider us just an extension of your family. We would love to have you come race with us, and we will give you some good competition as well! We hope to see you at a race soon!
5/24/2009 - Up Close Racing
Here is a video of the '93 Circus Circus making its rounds in an Ellensburg test session. This is your chance to see an 1/8 scale hydroplane running the coarse up close and personal!
Established in 1974, "R/C Unlimiteds" is a group of hydroplane enthusiasts who race 1/8th scale Radio Controlled models of Unlimited hydroplanes, of the past and present. The size of our propeller driven boats are approximately 2 feet wide, by 4 feet long. We use .67 (11cc) sized marine inboard engines that produce around 3HP. Our top boats travel in excess of 60MPH!!! Our over 60 club members race over 85 different radio controlled unlimited hydroplanes ranging from the 1964 Miss Eagle Electric to the latest 2006 Oh Boy! Oberto. We run a fourteen race circuit throughout Washington. While the size of the boats may be small, the competitive juices, excitement and challenge are all as large as they are for our full sized counterparts.
The races that we have are run under the same rules and regulations as the full size unlimited hydroplanes. The race format can vary slightly from race to race, but generally, four flights of preliminary heats are run to accumulate points which qualify boats to run in the "winner take all final". A tally will be made of the points each boat has gained after it has raced against other boats in four different heats. The top 6 boats (#1 - #6), according to most points gained after the preliminary heats, will be placed in the "winner take all final". The next 6 boats in points (#7 - #12) will make it into the First Consolation race. The following 6 boats in points after that (#13 - #18) will make it into the Second Consolation race.
An example of one race format could be as follows:
The Second Consolation race would be raced, and the winner of that race would advance into the First Consolation race.
Then the First Consolation race would be raced (including the winner of the Second Consolation) and the winner of this race would become the "trailer" in the "Winner take all Final".
The "trailer" in the "Winner take all Final" has to start two buoy lengths back at the start of the race, unless another boat in the Final were to "die" before 30 seconds to the start. If a boat in the Final dies before the 30 seconds to the start of the race, then the "trailer" boat can start up with the rest of the group instead of having to start two buoy lengths back.
HEAT RACES:
1st place earns 400 points
2nd place earns 300 points
3rd place earns 225 points
4th place earns 169 points
5th place earns 127 points
6th place earns 95 points
7th place earns 71 points
Full points are awarded in preliminary heats, and in the Final
1/2 points are awarded in the First Consolation heat
1/4 points in the Second Consolation heat.
Our circuit is called the Oh Boy! Oberto Championship Series and runs from April through October each year. An average of forty boats show up at each event and the races run from about 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
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