Offshore Thunder Productions LLC
Texas Outlaw Challenge

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OUTLAW STAMPEDE STREET PARTY
(Thursday Night)

  • Registration: FREE TO REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS
    • Complimentary Welcome Party included with Texas Outlaw Challenge Weekend
      Event for registered Captains and Crews
    • Street parking for all boat teams
    • 24 hour security
    • Arm-bands required for BBQ dinner, bar, & evening entertainment

      ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST READ AND SIGN THE EVENT RELEASE FORM

GAMBLER POKER RUN
(Friday)

  • Registration Fee:
      • Captain and Boat: $200
      • Crew: $100 each
    • Includes one Poker Hand + one Poker Run Party armband per registration
      • Additional Poker Hands: $50

SAFETY

  • Each participating boat must provide a copy of their current liability policy and boat registration.
  • Personal Floatation Devices (PFD’s / Life Jackets) are mandatory and are to be worn by all occupants
    during this event while operating your boat above idle.
  • The Poker Run is NOT a race.
  • Each card station shall be considered a NO WAKE area, please approach at NO WAKE speed.
  • In case of unacceptable weather on Friday, the Gambler Run will be held on Sunday.
  • Each driver and all boat riders must sign a waiver release. This release states, "In consideration of
    being permitted to participate in this event, the participant will not hold Texas Outlaw Challenge liable
    should they be harmed during the event".

SCHEDULE & COURSE

  • Open stop format (no set card stop schedule)

Turtle Club
Stingaree’s
Galveston Yacht Basin
Boudreaux’s on the Bay
South Shore Harbor

  • Boats mingle Friday at 11:30AM in Clear Lake.
  • Poker Run departs Kemah Inlet at 12 Noon.
  • Touch and go card pick-up at all stops
  • Lunch available at Stingaree’s and Boudreaux’s on the Bay
  • Fuel Available at the Galveston Yacht Basin and South Shore Marina
  • Card Stops close at 5:PM
  • All card tokens must be presented at The Turtle Club by 7:PM

RULES

Card Collection:

  • Each location designated a card stop will award tokens that each owner of each hand purchased
    will be responsible for collecting
  • Each location will present a different token
  • A registered boat will have to make all 5 locations to collect 5 tokens for each of its purchased
    hands

Card Turn in:

  • Poker card tokens will be redeemed and each registered participant will draw up to 5 cards (if all
    5 stops were made) for each hand purchased, starting at 7:PM at the Turtle Club.
  • One extra card per hand purchased can be drawn and substituted, for an additional $50 cash if
    desired.
  • Tied high hands will be decided by high card cut from a single deck.

OUTLAW SHOOT-OUT RADAR RUN
(Saturday)

ENTRY

  • Registration is included in Texas Outlaw Challenge event
  • Mandatory drivers meeting on Saturday morning
  • Radar Run Class entry requires each boat to make at least two passes through timing system.
  • The MPH result for the participant is the average of the runs made for that Class.

SAFETY

  • Tech Inspection includes: kill switch operaion, USCG equipment, VHF radio, impact rated life
    jackets, hydraulic steering, and helmet(s)
  • Occupants: (maximum 2) must have signed event waiver prior to entering course
  • Vessels must be titles and insured, or hold 2008 racing status with a sanctioning body
  • Maximum of two people in each boat. All persons limited to 18 years of age or older. Each must
    be wearing appropriate life jackets and helmets
  • VHF radio is required.
  • The TEXAS OUTLAW CHALLENGE is an insured event with the safety of the participants and
    volunteers as the primary goal.
  • Please include a copy of your current boat registration and insurance policy.
  • You will be required to observe all official personnel requests, honor all course flag
    communication, and be responsible for you and your crews conduct, and your boats control.
  • You will be required to read, and understand the Event Rules and Event Safety Plan, and sign
    activity waivers.
  • Non-compliance with any of the required participant responsibilities will result in
    disqualification from all event activities.

CLASSES

  • Pleasure and Race
  • Vee Hulls and Cat Hulls
  • Five Classes of Length in each Hull Type: (25’-31’), (32’-35’), (36’-40’), (41’-45’), (46’+)
  • Four Classes of Engine Types in each Length or each Hull Type: (Factory Stock), Modified-
    Natural), (Power Enhanced), (Turbine)
  • BIG GUN FIGHT : Any Hull Type, Any length, Any Engines
  • 40+ Classes

    Note: Big Gun Fight entries may request to run at any time of the day and will be immediately selected
    as the next boat on the course.

COURSE

APPROACH ZONE = _ Mile
ABORT LANE = _ of a mile into the Approach Zone, driver can choose to abort run before entering the
marked Run Zone.
RUN ZONE = 1 Mile
(If a boat enters the course Run Zone, the run counts as a run for that class)
RADAR ZONE = A boat is timed in the last 60 feet of the Run Zone. MPH is measured at the 1_ Mile
mark of the course. (Approach Zone + Run Zone) (Refer to course chart.)
SHUT DOWN ZONE = 1 Mile

TIMING

Timing and recording of of each run will be by a Race America Wireless T-Link light beam sensor
speed trap device. Accuracy to 0.001 MPH will be recorded and displayed. (Radar gun back-up.)

RUN SCHEDULE

Mandatory drivers meeting at 9:AM
Tech Inspection from 9:30AM to 11:AM
Course opens at 11:AM
Course closes at 5:PM
Scheduling changes may occur due to providing the safest conditions to the faster entries.