OPA Racing

Thank you for your support in 2013
See you on the race course in 2014

February 8
OPA AWARDS BANQUET
Leeds Point, New Jersey

May 2-4
LAKE HOPATCONG GRAND PRIX
Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey

June 20-22
ATLANTIC CITY GRAND PRIX
Atlantic City, New Jersey

July 25-27
ST CLAIR RIVER CLASSIC OFFSHORE POWERBOAT RACE
St Clair, Michigan

August 8-10
INTERNATIONAL OFFSHORE POWERBOAT RACE
Port Huron, Michigan / Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

August 22-24
GREAT RACE ON THE SEA
TBA/Long Island, New York

September 12-14
SOLOMONS OFFSHORE GRAND PRIX
OPA Nationals
Solomons, Maryland

October 3-5
OPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Ocean City, Maryland

DIVISIONAL SERIES
April 25-27
SMOKIN' THE SOUND - Biloxi, MS

2014 RACE SCHEDULE

2013 TV Schedue

Six-B Apparels Returns as Partner for 2014
February 5, 2014

Six-B Apparel is excited to partner with OPA Racing this year as the Official Apparel Supplier. Six-B Apparelis offering all of the teams great pricing on their team uniforms (see details below) as part of this program. Six-B Apparel is one of the United States premier clothing suppliers to race teams.

Six B Apparel is the premiere source when it comes to custom dye sublimated crew apparel.

They are the factory, therefore they are able to offer no minimums for orders. They also have an in house award winning art department for all of your design needs. As you well know a great product, great price, and customer service are a rare trio these days. With that being said, we would love to earn everyones business by offering all three.
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OPA Awards Banquet Six-B Apparel Door Prize
February 7, 2014

As you may be aware of Six-B Apparel has returned to partner with OPA Racing this year as the Official Apparel Supplier.

As an added BONUS, Six-B Apparel is giving away 4 Free Crew Shirts with Design Time included as a Door Prize at the 2014 OPA Awards Banquet. Make sure you get your ticket at the Racers Meeting or Awards Banquet. (You must attend the awards banquet to enter and only 1 entry per team.)

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OPA Winter Awards Banquet Celebration
February 11, 2014

Coming off a very successful 2013 season, the OPA Teams once again converged in Galloway Township in New Jersey to hold their annual meeting and Awards Party.

During the meeting, Ed “Smitty” Smith, President of OPA, announced the unification with APBA. In attendance was Dan Weiner who explained many of the benefits to this unification. Following the announcement, Smitty went over safety recommendations & requirements for all boats; the criteria has been changed for the High-Points Champions; and a new criteria will be amended for the Jimmy Welsh Trophy for the 2014 season. OPA will continue to red flag races whenever there is an incident on the course. Once the course is clear, the race will be restarted. Smitty also announced that Super Cat.....

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OPA Is now part of APBA Offshore
February 11, 2014

After more than a dozen years of producing Offshore Racing events, OPA Racing (Offshore Powerboat Association) has joined forces with American Power Boat Association in order to bolster the ranks within APBA’s Offshore Category.

“We see this as a very positive move for our teams and the sport in general” said Ed (Smitty) Smith, President of OPA. “By joining with the APBA, several things happen. Our teams are now eligible for the APBA Hall of Champions, we can now promote joint events with other APBA categories to enhance our product at our race sites, we can establish globally recognized speed runs and we have the exclusive rights to the APBA Offshore sanction within Region one, two, three, four and six. The sport has been so fractioned that it was time to do something to help put it back together.”.....

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Biloxi's Smokin' the Sound Welcomes OPA Racing
April 2, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

With the Offshore Performance Association (OPA) joining forces with the American Power Boat Association(APBA) last month with the goal of making Offshore Powerboat Racing a stronger force, results are already coming in. OPA Racing is proud to announce the addition of Biloxi's "Smokin the Sound" to its newly formed Divisional series. The race will take place later this month on the pristine Gulf Shores of Biloxi, Mississippi along Casino Row between April 24th through the 27th, 2014.

"We are so pleased to have Biloxi on board with OPA Racing! Yes the amount of time we have to organize has put a strain on things, however, with Woody Bailey and his staff hosting races since 2004, ......

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