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6 November 2008, BKK, Thailand – Mr. Veerasak Khowsurat, Minister of Tourism and Sports and Mr. Itthipol Khunpreum, Mayor of Pattaya City together with White Sand Beach Pattaya, the sole primary sponsor of the event gave a press conference ot open 1 of the 4 King’s Cup trophies 2008. The trophy attracted much attention from local and international media.

Multi national and world champion Chris “The Mac Attack” MacClugage will compete in King’s Cup on a new Ski. Actually, he has shipped his Limited Ski over to Thailand. DASA from Japan build a powervalved engine for it and everything will be put together by Peter De Smitt from JSU.BE. According to his –MacClugage’s- plans this package should run very well. Chris will also race in Pro Runabout class, possibly on a 525hp specially build Turbo race craft.

Frenchman Jean Baptiste Botti made a point this year (as well as two years ago) at the World Finals. He might have been unlucky but that’s racing… According to his team manager Pascal Barriac he will compete in King’s Cup at the end of the month. The young gun is already in Spain where he is practicing prior flying to Thailand. Barriac is fine tuning his already powerful engine and he hopes for the best.

The IJSBA is very pleased to announce that the Jet Ski Sport will remain as one of the disciplines of the Asia Beach Games. The Asia Beach Games, held every other year, will next be held in October 2010 at Muscat in the nation of Oman. We received comments from the Olympic Council of Asia that they were pleased with the Jet Ski Sport and that they thought the Jet Ski Sport’s growth would fit nicely with the growth of the Beach Games. The organization of the IJSBA staff were instrumental in demonstrating the potential of PWC racing. The IJSBA would like to thank the staff who made this possible: Karen Baron, Joe Baron, Melody Nolan, Jeremy Hoyland, Bob Crabtree, Martha Frazier, Peter DeSmet, Jon Currier, Julia Currier, Mike Hodges and Kristina Iantosca. We would also like to thank the members of the Indonesia Jet Sports Boating Association (IJBA): Fully Aswar, Grace Taryoto, Heru Taryoto and all of their staff. We also would like to thank Persero Lubricants for their sponsorship of this portion of the Beach Games. We wish Persero luck in their new line of lubricants launched under the name of Mestan Marine Products. The IJSBA will have more information pertaining to the 2010 Asia Beach games and the Jet Ski Sport events as soon as it becomes available.

In Spain, this weekend, was the launching of the participation of the Spanish team in the World cup of Peru. As always these things wake up different type of feelings. The certain thing is that Spain continues in the line of the prototypes that began the last year France. For this edition they are bringing very well besides the new Yamaha SHO setting that according to them of series goes to 113 km per hour with the improvements introduced by PENINSULA Racing, they also bring Ultra Kawasaki and the vedette of the group a Yamaha SUV Cuatriplaza with the SHO Turbo engine from Yamaha. We will see if it gives the result that they wait, but this undoubtedly goes in the line that made the last year the French team of Audemar France Racing. The pilot will be the enthusiast of the raid RAFA NÚÑEZ, in his first time on the Jet Raid. On the other hand the ultra French of Pastorello and Rouffet promise tip speeds like any other one. The champions of the last year of f2, Minimoss and Maxipat, for the friends, they return with their sexy one ultra with a cover decoration that it gives to speak. From the organization of the Jet Raid we send a great greeting to the whole community of the Jet Raid that year to year takes pains in making of this event the adventure.

This is the flyer being distributed to the fisherman and the oceanic villages in the efforts to find Jeremy. Please feel free to pass this on to anyone who you think may be of help. This update comes on October 28, 1:30 PM local time in Bali. After numerous meetings and interviews with police and other officials, the authorities have agreed that there is good cause to continue the searching for missing official, Jeremy Hoyland. Interviews with the technical officials of the Jet Ski portion of the Asia Beach Games led the authorities to conclude that the circumstances under which Jeremy went missing along with Jeremy’s ability to survive against the odds were substantial factors in extending the search efforts. The PWC community would like to specifically thank the Bali Police especially the Chief of Police, the IJSBA, Fully Aswar, the Chief of the Navy, the Search and Rescue division of the Navy, the battleship commanders who allocated their time, the helicopter force and the private helicopter entities that joined, the capital of Jakarta for sending resources, the Army, Shawn Alladio and the extended K 38 Staff, and all of the private persons such as the local fishing community. We appreciate that you are all doing everything possible to find our friend. We also would like to extend our appreciation to all of the friends and supporters that have offered their support, well wishes and resources towards this search effort. As of today, oceanic searches are continuing and extensive land searches are now launching. The IJSBA remains hopeful and we will update all of you with any information when it becomes available. We appreciate that all of you have kept the focus on supporting Jeremy and the search efforts.

Pro rider Italian Alissia Ida was injured in Havasu on the second moto of the Pro Am Women’s Ski. She dominated in the first moto though was also involved in a crash in the second one and she broke her right leg in four places. Due to the fact that she had not mentioned her insurance policy in the application form she faced extreme difficulty prior entering the Operation room, due to the U.S. regulations. Since most of her friends flew to Italy, Chris and Rachel MacClugage pulled a few strings and on her side was ex-multi champion Tera Laho. We saw her at the hospital and we wished her once again a good and quick recovery.