If you wait until after January 31 it will cost you an additional $75.00 (does not apply to new members). This extra $75 that you have saved can be used for entry fees to attend an extra weekend of racing. Something else you can do with this money is sponsor an issue of CSR News. It is only $20 per issue and we now have donations through the Feb. '98 issue. Please send along a paragraph on how you got started in boat racing and racing in CSR. Make checks made out to "US Postal Service", I will take it to the post office and trade for stamps. Or you could just send me 62 postage stamps.

Clubs, if you have any flyers promoting a race you can send 50 copys to CSR News and they will get a free ride to the whole CSR class on the west coast. They must be recieved before the first of the month as the news letter is just mailed just after.

If the driver weighs as much as the boat and motor he definitely has control over the boat, when he moves the boat will react. CSR has an overall weight of 475 lbs. to achieve the 50% - 50% ratio it would take a 238 pound driver (with driving gear). The boat could not weigh no more than 135 pounds. A driver that weighs 40% (190 lbs.) of the total can still make a runabout perform. When the drivers weight gets down to 30% there is a definite problem. Just ask Steven Dawe or Tim King. At the national meeting it was proposed to lower the CSR weight to 460 lbs. It was voted down by the commission, if passed it would have been on the ballot. Ballot votes for weight change usually ends up being a survey as to who is underweight or overweight for the class.

A couple years ago the 20SSR class was revitalized for the lighter drivers and then combined with 25SSR. The 25SSR class has a proposed weight increase to 420 lbs. on the ballot. The 25SSR class at 420 lbs. and 9/16" restrictor in the 102 / 302 or Yamato 80 should be comparable in performance to the CSR's. A restrictor plate has a similar effect as adding weight to a boat. 9/16" restrictor = 55 lbs. At 420 lbs., the 135 pound boat can have a 165 to 185 pound driver using the 40%-50% formula.

Region 10 is about the only place where 25SSR is raced on a regular bases with the Yamato engines. At the races that I attended in region 10 last year the class was usually combined with Classic B or some other class but not with CSR. The only place some of the same boats were being used in both 25SSR and CSR was the divisionals. Since the boats look and preform just like CSR's I believe that this where they should be racing. Let's try combining 25SSR and CSR for the '98 season to see how it works. If this is successful this would be a great way to have a combined weight/restrictor formula so a medium weight driver could race CSR in the future.

Addresses are needed so the these drivers can recieve their news letters: Mark Jackson, Chad Cullins, Mark Neal, Tito Smith.

Driver Profile

Curt Schlosser

Turlock, California

15-O

Curt attended races at Colero Reservoir near San Jose when he was young. Then again in 1989. He also read about boat racing in "Power Boat" and thought it would be something he would like to do. In 1994 Curt was thinking about buying a pleasure boat and was looking in a boat trader news paper where he came across a racing outfit for sale: 2-Hydros & 2-Yamato 80's. & trailer. He and his cousin met the owner at 'Oneil Forebay to try out the boats. Needless to say they took the two racing rigs home with them. Curt has been giving the C Stock Runabout class some thought. In November the took Dean Sutphin's boat out for a couple dozen laps and he knew this was the class for him. Look for Curt in a yellow CSR - #15-O this season.