Races/Events Article...by Kevin Sheren, IMPBA National Gas Director

The Northern Nats was hosted by the Thames Valley Model Boat Club on August 25 & 26, 2007 in London,
Ontario, Canada.

Almost 200 boats were registered, some from as far away as Bermuda and Alabama. Despite the rain all day Saturday, the host club pushed thru the first 2 rounds and partly into the third round. Racing started at 8:30 am and ran to about 7:45 pm on Saturday. Free pizza was served to all racers and families as the racing ended for the day.

Sunday morning brought brilliant sunshine and warm temperatures and racing started at 8:00 am. The 4th round was finished by 4:30 pm. There were numerous raffle prizes which took almost an hour to distribute. A 50/50 was held and then beautiful glass plaques were handed out to the first 3 finishers of each of 18 classes.

Club president Mike Hallam organized the event with help from his daughter Robin who did all the computer work to set up heats and organize the radio impound tent. Mike's wife Marg, Sherry Hallam and Tammy Harrison kept things straight in the radio impound tent and had the radios ready without delay for every heat. Roger Hallam did most of the pit bossing to ensure that the heats were ready to go as soon as the retrieve boat got back to shore. Steven Enneper and Trevor Dawes did the retrievals for most of the weekend. Calling the races was shared by Robin Hallam, Mike Hallam, Steve Peterson and Terry Keeley. Shannon Harrison helped with the scoring on the CD stand as well as handling the stop and go flags in the launch area. All of this could not be possible without help setting the site up on Thursday. Mike coordinated this effort with help from Steve Reesor, Karl Wallace, Robin Hallam and Steven Enneper. Robin started registrations on Friday while racers were testing all day.

This event was a huge success! The club hopes that everyone had a real enjoyable weekend and will make plans to return next year.

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