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(Detroit.CityRegions.Com, May 18, 2016 ) Grosse Pointe, Michigan -- Just a year ago, at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club’s 2015 Great Lakes Boating Festival, twin brothers Max and Ben Brabb were answering questions from curious kids (and parents) about their experiences at the Michigan Hydroplane Racing Association driving school.
With their first race still weeks away, they could only imagine what it would be like, but they were looking forward to taking the green flag and start racing.
Fast forward to the 2016 Great Lakes Boating Festival at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club (www.gpynef.org). Just one year later and Max and Ben are displaying the trophies and honors they won driving their J-class APBA outboard racers.
Max earned 2015 Rookie of the Year in APBA’s Region 6 and twin brother Ben wears the 2015 J- class Runabout championship crown. All this accomplished in their first year in racing.
The Brabb twins discovered the sport of boat racing through an outing to the Gold Cup hydroplane races arranged by Courageous Kids, a Howell, Mich.,-based organization dedicated to helping kids cope with life-threatening medical conditions.
Their goal is to provide these kids with anticipation, distraction, emotional support and an opportunity for family bonding through group attendance at exciting events like Tigers and Pistons games, Gold Cup Races and this year, the Yacht Club’s Great Lakes Boating Festival.
Max Brabb is one of those Courageous Kids (www.courageouskids.org) who attended the Gold Cup Hydroplane races in 2014. It was there he was introduced to the exciting world of boat racing…a world he would soon join.
Born with a medical condition that led to three open-heart surgeries, Max had the good fortune to meet Robin Shane, the mother of Gold Cup champion driver Jimmy Shane. She took the time to explain the strategies and tactics it takes to win. Max was hooked…and when he learned he could go the Michigan Hydroplane Racing Association driving school that September he thought of nothing else.
With their very successful first season in the books, Ben and Max are looking to even more success in 2016 and are anxious to share their story with others.
The Grosse Pointe Yacht Club’s harbor and grounds will be filled with the latest in boats and accessories the weekend of May 20-22. The Great Lakes Boating festival is open to the public.
Contacts:
Mr. Bob Brabb
(Ben and Max Brabb)
(313) 449-857
bob.brabb@gmail.com
Leah Borst
Courageous Kids
(248) 343-3663
leah@courageouskidsmi.org
Commodore Sloane Barbour
GPYNEF/Grosse Pointe Yacht Club
(313) 743-3762
sloanebarbour@yahoo.com
Bob Brabb
Bob Brabb
(313) 449-857
bob.brabb@gmail.com
Source: EmailWire.Com
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