No lie!

Y'all will have to bear with me as I look into the rules and logistics of it. We might find out that it's completely boring and never do it again, but I always wanted to try it.

Just so everyone knows, I believe that a road rally is on public streets. The drivers never break the speed limit (there's a penalty for that), and that's about all I know at this point.

If anyone has any smarts on this, let me know. We'll also have to put together a chow plan, a route, a date that's conducive to most of us, some t-shirts (I couldn't care less what they look like), and maybe some prizes. Maybe even alert the local PD about our plan. I see this as a family event.

Let me get a feel for interest. If there are very many of us, I'll probably assign some of the responsibilities above to some of you.

Cool?

 

Need help?
I'm down!
$25 a head the organizer keeps 15%.
The winner takes the rest!(and the girl)
(Just a suggestion yo!)

 

Cool.

At this point, I'll leave the money issue to the folks who wanna do it.

I consider this period to be the 'fact finding'.

 

What is a "Road Rally"?
Two or more people, in ordinary cars, on regular roads, within the legal speed limit, make up a rally team. The challenge is to drive on time — not early or late (it's not a race). Each team needs a watch which can be set to match rally time; something to write on and write with. For night rallies it is a good idea to have a map light, flashlight or other interior lighting to be able to read instructions.

Cars start at one minute intervals. The first section of the rally is called the odometer check leg and allows you to compare your mileage to the rallymasters'. If you have a trip odometer in your car you can zero it at the start. You will have a specified amount of time to reach the end of the odometer check leg which is called the Official Mileage Point. Wait there until the given time has elapsed, then leave, following the directions given and travel at the specified speed. Timing controls, or checkpoints, will be found at various locations along the route. After you pass the checkpoint sign and the timing car, stop safely off the road and go back to the timing car to get your time and any other special instructions.

Since the Rallymaster knows how fast you were supposed to travel, and how far you went, it is possible to calculate an exact time when you should arrive at the control. The control crew times you with a very accurate clock when you arrive. Your score is the difference between when you should have arrived and when you actually did arrive. Points are given for being early or late. This is a contest of precision, not a race. If you are late at one control, you can not make up for it by being early at the next. The score for each leg is separate. Scores for all legs are totaled and the lowest score wins (just like golf). And, just as in golf, it takes practice to get very good scores.

Regardless of whether you get very good scores, or just scores, rallying is a lot of fun if you like to spend time in your car, see some scenery and spend time with congenial people. Rallies usually end at a location where munchies and beverages are available. You can join the rest of the crowd in discussing how the event went and how you did, while waiting for the final scores to be calculated and trophies to be awarded.

The best part about rallying... No Experience Required

 

Do you plan for the even to be a closed course or open w/ other cars on the road? I'm pretty intrested. Take some time away from life and just drive. Sounds great.
^(INTRESTED! HAHA.. I CNA'T SPEL...)

 

Oh dude! It'll be using the entire island. The course won't be the entire island, of course, but in making the route, I will have the entire island to use.

So who wants to be 'RALLYMASTER'.

 

You know I'm down.

But this will take a lot of planning.

 

Im down for this.

 

I'm down if I am not working...

 

i'm down and i'm sure my friend will be too.

 

I'm interested in helping out with planning. Would be easier to have a planning team instead of one or two planning this event. Sounds really involved. Let me know.

 

i'm definately interested.

 

wooh.. i'm up for this too... round island sounds fun.. is there a road around kaena pt.? if there is.. then...

 

Nope, no road around Kaena pt.

Hey, all I'll ask everybody is to have patience as I will pull this together; yeah, I'll probably need a lot of help, Doc, but my goal is to do this before March, and hopefully Dec-Jan.

If you could, do some research for me and see if you can find any peculiarities that should be added or left out in order to tailor it to Oahu.