New Vintage APBA Club accepting memberships for FLorida Vintage events !!!

[Tom Smyth]

SUNSHINE BOUYZ RACEBOAT CLUB IS OPEN FOR MEMBERSHIPS!!!!
The Sunshine Bouyz Raceboat Club is now accepting annual membership. Currently you can purchase membership from July 1, 2025, good through December 2026 for $60.
1 - Please go to our website at www.Sunshinebouyzraceboatclub.com
2 - Download the Membership form, fill it out and scan it or snail mail it to us at the address / email on the form. Also please download the other form which is our story and mission to bring Vintage Race boats back to Florida in 2026.
3 -Go to the payments section on the page and you can pay with your credit card there, or snail mail a personal check in USD only please.
We are also accepting donations to fund our event which is planned for the weekend of March 13-15, 2026, at Tavares Florida. The City of Tavares is cosponsoring this event and has approved our permit. We have already secured significant support on our crane, tractors and floating docks from generous vendors.
However, to do this event we are seeking your donations. Please download the other Form on our website that describes the starting of our club and the process we have taken on to bring Vintage boating back to Florida.
We have set a fundraising goal of $15K and a membership goal of 75 paid members. We will keep you up to date on the status and progress of both as we draw closer to the event. We want a 100% TRANSPARENT ORGANIZATION that our members have total knowledge of the club’s progress, problems and issues.
We will be announcing Regatta information, hotel room info, site layout, etc SOON!!!!!
THANK YOU for your support and understanding. We hope to hear from you SOON!!
Sunshine Bouyz Raceboat Club
Tom Smyth, Chairman
Mike Muscato, Vice Chairman
Conni Muscato, Treasurer
Mike Sadlon, Secretary

[CUDA]

https://sunshinebouyzraceboatclub.com/

[dagodiver]

Okay everyone with an old/vintage race boat here is your chance to
run it at a florida event again.!!!

Lets go.!!!

Dago

[CUDA]

Great, check is in the mail

But what I'm looking for is to revive a popular class T850

I guess the only place they have strong turnouts is in Canada

I'm putting two small outboards together

I'd like to make one legal T850 boat, but we need like minded people,

The little 3 cly motors are as cheap as anything can get,

I plan on going north some year, but getting a group down south would be sweet.

a little info

https://youtu.be/uirGEyUhfws?si=-fdVxquZIvOmyL_g

[CUDA]

Ok I guess the T850 is a Canadian class where you don't have to have a safety cell

But good old APBA is very careful and requires one, a good reason why the class died ?

I guess VP 75 is it ? or WAS it

https://www.apba.org/classes.php?id=128

[Tom Smyth]

When running vintage the rules are slightly different. Saftey cellsrequire a diver on the water as with any restrained cockpit boat. Age of the boat and motor also are important.