IJSBA National Tour Round 7: Lake Hartwell, Anderson, South Carolina

Pro-Am Ski GP

1.      Rick Sherker

2.      Rob Flores

3.      Chris Macclugage

4.      Jimmy Wilson

5.      Josh Block

6.      Bill Haig

7.      Paul Puchaski

8.      Broc Harris

9.      Justin Laczynski

Pro-Am Runabout Open

1.      Dustin Farthing

2.      Trey Frame

3.      Brian Baldwin

4.      Erminio Iantosca

5.      Jeremy Schandelmayer

6.      Dennis Mack

7.      Scott Wilk

8.      Dustin Charrier

Pro-Am Ski Stock Spec

1.      Rob Flores

2.      Josh Block

3.      Broc Harris

4.      Rick Sherker

5.      Paul Puchaski

6.      Alec Hohnadell

7.      David Cabrera

8.      Cade Poole

9.      Jeremy Geiger

Pro-Am Runabout Limited

1.      Michael George

2.      Brian Baldwin

3.      Christine Milone

4.      Justin Price

5.      Derek Correll

Pro-Am Runabout Stock

1.      Ryan Hardwick

2.      Erminio Iantosca

3.      Dennis Mack

4.      Chris Macclugage

5.      Ricky Lindner

6.      Cameron Frame

7.      Troy Snyder

8.      Robert Greenwald

9.      Stan Hightower

10.  Michael Bellamy

11.  Scott Wilk

12.  Victor Nolan

Pro-Am Women’s Ski Limited

1.      Megan O’Donnell

Women’s Runabout Limited

1.      Casey Moore

Expert Ski Limited

1.      David Cabrera

2.      Alec Hohnadell

3.      Cade Poole

4.      Olga Janssen

5.      Sean Morris

6.      Nick Handler

Expert Runabout Open

1.      Roshad Goff

Pro Freestyle

1.      Jeremy Parr

2.      Michael Ratti

3.      Jeff Bolte

Amateur Freestyle

1.      Johnny Leftly

2.      Alexander Petrovic

3.      Michael Petro

4.      Clay Barbee

5.      Laura Milone

Novice Ski Stock

1.      Sam Burgard

2.      Pat Bolton

3.      Gavin Reed

4.      Lytle Prichard

5.      Brian Smith

6.      Kevin Parks

7.      Cody Mccallum

8.      Wayne Myers

9.      Sam Price

10.  Drew Horn

11.  Joshua Herrin

Novice Ski Limited

1.      Gavin Reed

2.      William Kotara

3.      Shawna Simms

4.      Jordon Carroll

5.      Kris Lemaster

6.      Dusty Mccallum

Novice Women’s Ski Limited

1.      Shawna Simms

2.      Laura Milone

3.      Leslie Horn

4.      Brianna Dyckowski

Novice Runabout Limited

1.      Jeff Dyckowski

2.      Wilson Tai

3.      Alex Weaver

Veteran Ski Open

1.      Kennie Mckennzie

2.      Erin Mcconkey

3.      John Wilkosz

4.      Wayne Myers

5.      Brian Edwards

6.      Jeremy Geiger

7.      Clay Barbee

Veteran Runabout Open

1.      Stan Hightower

2.      Kevin Kennedy

3.      Clay Barbee

Runabout N/A Spec

1.      Susan Anderson

2.      Cameron Frame

3.      Robert Ross

Amateur Ski Open

1.      Erin Mcconkey

2.      Sean Morris

3.      Cody Mccallum

Amateur Runabout Stock

1.      Michael Bellamy

2.      Jeff Dyckowski

3.      Kevin Kennedy

4.      Rick Ross

Junior Ski Lites 10-12

1.      Mason Kotara

2.      Cooper Stevens

3.      Alexia Baldwin

4.      Ashton Yates

Junior Ski Lites 13-15

1.      Alec Hohnadell

2.      Cade Poole

3.      Gavin Reed

4.      Brianna Dyckowski

5.      Zach Herrin

Junior Ski Limited 13-15

1.      Cade Poole

2.      Alec Hohnadell

3.      Gavin Reed

4.      Ty Kotara

5.      Kevin Scott

6.      Brianna Dyckowski

7.      Eric Schulte

8.      Zach Herrin

Beginner Ski Stock

1.      Joshua Herrin

2.      Ashley Huffman

3.      Doug Woodberry

4.      Nancy Hardwick

5.      Nathan Hyde

Beginner Runabout Stock

1.      Tyson Laird

2.      Kyle Johnson

3.      Wasbert Ramos

Sport Spec

1.      Craig Woodberry

2.      David Gorie

3.      Fred Hardwick

4.      Justin Laczynski

5.      Matt Abbott

Junior Sport Spec

1.      Eric Schulte

Junior Freestyle

1.      Brooke O’Donnell

2.      Eric Schulte

3.      Jessica Milone

4.      Brianna Dyckowski

5.      Laura Milone

6.      Kevin Scott

Junior Ski Stock 10-12

1.      Mason Kotara

2.      Ashton Yates

Last Chance to Get Jettribe Gear Before Worlds!

The Jettribe Road Show will be at Round 7 of the UWP-IJSBA National Tour Triple Crown of Watercross for the Lake Hartwell race in Anderson, SC this weekend (August 13-14). Come and check out some of the greatest riding gear known to PWC riders today! Derek Correll will be on hand at the Jettribe booth demo-ing and selling any Jettribe gear that isn’t bolted down.

For those riders and fans who will not be going to the World Finals in Lake Havasu in October, this is your absolute last chance to load up on Jettribe gear at rock bottom World Finals pricing!

Jettribe Represented at DJSA Race

Jettribe had the pleasure of supporting Diablo Jet-Ski Action at their Chowchilla, CA race on July 24^th. If you don’t know about Diablo Jet-Ski Action, DJSA started 5 years, 61 race days, and about 6400 laps ago, in the quest to bring a regular circuit of PWC racing to the Bay Area waters of California.

Here’s what one of DJSA’s own racers, Chris Wattier, had to say about Jettribe and DJSA:

“I think Jettribe and DJSA are a perfect fit and after reading Tony’s interview in WetRacer you’d think they were interviewing Jim [Lambert of DJSA]. Like I said before, I’m just a racer with DJSA but that’s how grass roots it is. We help set up and tear down. I made the start line band snap mechanism and racers’ wives sell food concessions to offset costs. What I’m getting to is that I’ve been racing for almost 20 years. In my opinion, DJSA is the future of jet-ski racing as much as I believe Jettribe is the future of jet-ski gear because you both work harder than the longer standing entities that in the past like 10 years haven’t given it much effort. I, personally as a racer would like to thank you for putting forth a positive forecast on the state of jet-ski racing and if I ever get a chance to meet you or Tony I just want to shake your hand and thank you in person.”

Thanks, Chris and Jim. We at Jettribe are happy to support guys like DJSA who truly have their heart and soul into jet-skiing as much as we do. We look forward to a lifelong partnership together.

Jettribe & Black Star Motorsports: The Dream Team

We rolled into the birth place of George Washington mid-day Friday and were greeted by the locals with open arms!  This was a very cool site, and I have to say my team had the perfect pit area right in the middle of it all. Best of all, the Jettribe rig got spotted right beside us. Some people might be a little intimidated by having your team sponsor looking over your shoulder at an event, but Jettribe is not that kind of company.

Tony is one of the most genuine people you'll meet and truly has a love for PWC's and PWC racing. We have been working with Tony and the Jettribe crew for several months now trying to make the products better and better. You won't get that kind of hands on input from any other company in the industry! Nowhere else will you see the main figure of a company travel across the US to be onsite for an event, constantly learning and tweeking product designs. We are proud to represent them! Oh, and by the way, the fashion show was off the chain too!    

Rick Sherker Recap: Colonial Beach

Colonial Beach, VA

I arrived very late Thursday night into Colonial Beach, VA for round 6 of the UWP/IJSBA National tour.  Friday was brutally hot and humid with a heat index of 110 degrees, making it a tough day to get through the routine of unloading, testing, and tuning.  Luckily everything went smoothly.  That evening we strolled over to the High Tides, a restaurant and bar, just a short walk down the boardwalk between the pits and race site only to run into several familiar faces from when I first started racing, it was like a region 8 reunion.

 Saturday, temperatures where hot again, but humidity dropped making it much more comfortable.  The race course had been finalized and set… it was a right handed course that wrapped around a rock jetting coming out of the splits, coming back to shore along the beach, than back out along and around a pier full of spectators where the finish line was located. My first race was GP ski, where I had a terrible start after a good start that was red flagged due to a band malfunction. I was caught with my ski in the air when the band snapped, but managed to make my way up to third going into the splits and coming out second behind Macclugage.  Chris ran smooth without any mistakes, I stayed within a buoy of him, and Jimmy Wilson stayed within a buoy of me for all twelve laps to the finish. In Stock class, Rob Flores pulled another holeshot.  Josh block came out in second and I came out third. I finally got around Josh after he made a mistake coming off the back straight into the splits on about lap 10 of 12.  I finished second.  Saturday evening everyone made it down the street to the Dockside restaurant and Blue Heron pub where Jettribe hosted a fashion and swimsuit contest. It’s nights like those that remind me why I love this sport.

 Sunday started out wi

th another second place finish in stock class coming up just short with a photo finish and Flores taking the win.  Second moto of GP, Jimmy Wilson grabbed the holeshot followed by Macclugage and myself.  Macclugage made the pass on Jimmy in the splits taking the win, and I ended up third behind Jimmy and just in front of Flores.  On the Final moto of GP Macclugage took the holeshot and never looked back.  I finished third again, but this time behind Flores, which gave me a second place overall finish.  On the third and final moto of stock class, my luck changed with exactly what I needed to win…happening!  Alec Hohnadell pulled the holeshot after some rubbing and bumping.  I came out second and Rob came out third.  I was able to finally get by Alec after pressuring him for several laps on the back straight.  Alec managed to hold off Flores the rest of the race giving me the cushion I needed to tie Rob with 5 points after three motos, taking the overall with the last moto counting more.

 So with a first place in Stock and Second place in GP, it was a great weekend for myself and I can’t forget to thank my sponsors Jettribe, Riva, Fly, Full Spectrum, Hydro-turf, donaldstar.smugmug.com, and the support from my parents who were able to make it to this race, for the continued support making everything possible. 

 Sunday evening everyone ended up back over at the Dockside restaurant and Blue Heron Pub for the awards ceremony.  The local community of Colonial Beach and its great location leaves me looking forward to coming back. It was great to see some old faces show up and full lines in sport spec, one of the most entertaining classes to watch.  Anyone interested in checking out some photos from the event from Don Morningstar while anxiously awaiting round 7 of the UWP/IJSBA national taking place on lake Hartwell in Anderson, SC on August 13-14, check out this link: http://donaldstar.smugmug.com/Sports/Jet-Ski-Racing and click on Colonial Beach.

Colonial Beach: An Honest Community

Our Jettribe rig has traveled through many cities and towns on the IJSBA and APBA tour stops. We always try to spend and support the local businesses as much as we can. All of our tour truck maintenance and trailer work was done on the road at the cities that hosted the races. Just to give a little back to the local business.

For the Colonial Beach, VA tour stop was not different, we stopped at a local tire place and had our tires looked at. They looked worn uneven. I wanted to buy two new tires for the truck just to feel better on the long trek back to California. But the local tire shop owner insisted that our truck tires are still good and they only needed to be rotated. They rotated all the tires around plus the spare also for only 60 bucks! I still wanted to buy new tires from him but he said that these are good tires still. Honest folks like this are what make our trips across America memorable.

In Southern California, where Jettribe is based, the tire shop would tell us that we needed to replace all six of our tires on our dually!

Jettribe at Colonial Beach, VA

For the round 6 of the IJSBA National Tour stop the Jettribe crew always enjoy spending time in Colonial Beach, Virginia! It is a cool residential, small fishing village and sort of a resort town! It’s hard describe, but it has a warm quaint Cape Cod feel to it. The local hotels or motels were a little bit challenging, so the Jettribe crew, Derek Correll and family , Trey Frame Family and Raamracing family stayed at the Holiday Inn Express about 13 miles away. And we were glad we did.</photo>

The city of Colonial Beach could not have been any more accommodating. They blocked off the streets for us and provide able security at the site. The local radio station was pumping out play by play racing action all weekend long! It was awesome!

 As always AJ's crew did an awesome job of rolling out the red carpet for the Jettribe trailer when we rolled in. It was a tight pit and Jim went beyond the call of duty to move trailers so that we could squeeze into the prime spot! Our booth was located in the middle of all of the action.

The race action was also phenomenal as always.  Trey Frame took a 4th overall in Pro-Am Runabout Open and a 1st overall in Runabout N/A Spec. Trey’s brother Cameron took a 3rd overall in Pro-Am Runabout Stock. Rick Sherker took 2nd overall in Pro-Am Ski GP and 1st overall in Pro-Am Ski Stock Spec. And Alec Hohnadell took 7th overall in Pro-Am Ski GP, 3rd overall in Pro-Am Ski Stock Spec, and 1st overall in Expert Ski Limited.

The sport class once again was huge with almost 20 riders! This was one of the very few times that our Jettribe booth was next to the racers pits and it was cool to have Trey and his family next to our booth the entire weekend. Quality time well spent! Plus, we were able to meet Rick's Sherker’s mom and day. We at Jettribe enjoy not just getting to know our team riders but their families also. We think personal relationships go a long way.

We look forward to next year at Colonial Beach, Virginia again.