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The Hov Pod is a 3-seat factory assembled personal leisure cruising hovercraft No kits available, sorry. Commercial craft available.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sirs, In response to Miki’s letter in the last magazine, I feel I am in a more appropriate position to comment than most. Many took Miki’s outburst at the big lake to be some sort of attack on HCGB and the organisers, but you know, he was actually right. Think about it like this; The UK scene is supposed to be vibrant, active and boasting up to 8 events each year, whereas the European (and rest of the world) scene looks dire with only 1 other EHF event-taking place in 2012. So, Miki, Magnus etc, quite reasonably should have expected to drive 3000k and find several UK F1’s to play with and Connie and Michael quite equally would have expected a big F2 field. It’s not unreasonable for their expectations for this one event to be second only to the worlds being held in Germany, so we should imagine that from their perspective, it looks like HCGB is in trouble with no one wanting to race. So the European visitors are confused about HCGB. “Are we not a racing country anymore” they ask. “What’s the future for all those juniors” they ask. I can tell you that they were not as disappointed as I was to see very little F2 UK representation and not a single F1 craft at what should be a prestigious event for HCGB to be putting on. Why was this then? Not the weather, difficult as it was, this I doubt has anything to do with it. Not the idea of hiding craft from world’s preparation or not showing what we have planned, I don’t buy that for one second. Yes, there was some previous attrition in the F1 field with all 3 regular F1 entrants with damaged craft, but we need to ask ourselves why perhaps as many as another 5 F1 UK craft didn’t turn up? Ok, so the reality is a combination of; broken down craft, our water sports centre forcing our hands to make the EHF event not clash with their own major event the weekend before, but significantly – money. We can all list several drivers and craft who we know are simply not there because of the business trading conditions and some people can’t do even 1 event, let alone a whole season. I think we have reached the point where we need to address the number and or timing of rounds we are putting on for 2013 at least. I’d love to see 8 rounds but we are short of marshals and other support from members, it’s not just about the wallets of drivers here, everyone is in the same dilemma. Race meeting or holiday? EHF weekend or worlds? Families have to make difLightHovercraft

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ficult decisions here and though some think so, hovercraft racing is not all there is to do in life. Miki has sent a real message not just a moan, and we need to pick up on this. “Will we came over” for the worlds or next season for the EHF? It’s a fair question to ask. Another question has to be “will hovercraft racing die in Europe through lack of circuits, support and funds”? There’s no point in saying well we will try, better to be honest and say that unless the whole sport can better fund its operation there is no prospect of a significant UK entry into EHF2013. I get the feeling we did more harm than good putting on the EHF event and the order of the day is clearly mistrust and misunderstanding between HCGB and EHF. I most certainly do not take Miki’s comments as derogatory towards the event organisers in particular and HCGB in general. But we do need to ask ourselves about plans for 2013 and in my own personal view, spread the dates wider than 2 weeks between future events and consider dropping the least popular events off the calendar. We have many members who have to fund their racing and marshalling out of their wages and 2 regular hits a month can be a big ask. June and July have potential race dates only 2 weeks apart. Between August and end of September there is the potential for three meetings each with just two weeks between. Two more dates in May are at least 3 weeks apart more or less. I believe we can actually find enough circuits to do all this but really, do we have the resources? How we mend fences with people like Miki who went out on a limb to support us I don’t know. He took the trouble to write to the magazine because he cares. How can we repay this? If we made Hackett’s an EHF event (and dealt with other race class issues) would the club membership as a whole be prepared to support such an event? I hope in conclusion that my defence of Miki’s commentary helps us all to understand better what he meant to say. I hope also that drivers and marshals will make their own feeling know to comps and if enough people express a view shared with my own then we might see a better spread of events in future years. Kind regards Keith Rhodes

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