U.S. Fame

[Jon Fuller]

Large git racing (Ian Cutler, our FLA correspondent) teamed up with Saretta in Deerfield beach, Florida this weekend holding the Union flag high with pride attaining a first place in 'one design' (V24)!

Cool result from the spunky Brits:banana: and just look at that sticker!:pirate:

[Jon Fuller]

Their steed

[Jon Fuller]

...eere captain, your stickers are getin all over the gaff now!

[Jon]

Well thats excellent.:banana:

Thing is how many people in the world besides members of this Forum will see it?

Sad isnt it?

[Rogue Wave]

we could post a link of Ribnet then a lot more people would see it!

:brain:

[Jon]

GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.:flame:

I Hate Ribs:cry:

[jw.]

Well done to them.

[Ice Kiddie]

Great stuff.

I bet The Garfish will be well impressed... :hugegrin:

[Captain Chaos]

Originally posted by Johnson
...eere captain, your stickers are getin all over the gaff now!

Blimey.............that one actually dont look too bad........I must ave ad an off day!

stunning green boat!

well done all!

BTW Johnson..........I had Eras bold all along............you dipstick rodney!

[Jon Fuller]

As I said, the eras bold italic in the bm logo is well bastardised, you'd do way better just using the 4048 pixel PSD file i sent, as it's exactly right in all respects.

[Captain Chaos]

shut it nobba..............you dont know what i'm doing yet!

[Captain Chaos]

ah.....the Yorke vote of no-confidence.......................so i'm a little late the the 2ft high "Pug GTI" stickers in illuminous yellow!!

no need to get shirty!

[Rogue Wave]

Originally posted by R-Don
GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.:flame:

I Hate Ribs:cry:

Oh they have their uses

[Jon Fuller]

I've never seen either of those boats before in my life! :asshole: :hugegrin2

[Captain Chaos]

Thats one muvva funkin big fly.....top left!

[Jon Fuller]

Na, it's a bit of 'Upduck'

[Captain Chaos]

Wazza "duck do" then frecklz?

[Jon]

Nice one Rowg,

How embarrasing for "John (Butty) Burden" and Co.

Hey, yours is a proper boat cos you can stay over.

Impressive looking bit of kit that, how do you find her?

[Rogue Wave]

regrettably it's not mine but I can wish! It's an 8,5 metre Scorpion

i have stayed overnight on my 6.5 metre Scorpion but that was cos I got stuck on the fkkn mud coming out of Aslett creek. and had to sleep on the foredeck


It was a good day all round when that picture was taken. I think it was the first Drivers Wharf poker run.

The more embarrassing part of the picture isn't who has broken down it's who is on the RIB throwing the salvage rope!



:banana:

[Ice Kiddie]

Originally posted by rowgscratcher
It's an 8,5 metre Scorpion Rowg, you've just undersold Sea Hound by a whole metre and a half!
The more embarrassing part of the picture isn't who has broken down it's who is on the RIB throwing the salvage rope! Actually I thought the embarrasment may be suffered by the bloke who tuned the engines. TAXI! :bolt:

[jw.]

Originally posted by Captain Chaos
Thats one muvva funkin big fly.....top left!

Nah, thatts wun ov gArfs ribba boms cummin inn tu lannd.

[Jon]

Originally posted by rowgscratcher


i have stayed overnight on my 6.5 metre Scorpion but that was cos I got stuck on the fkkn mud coming out of Aslett creek. and had to sleep on the foredeck

The more embarrassing part of the picture isn't who has broken down it's who is on the RIB throwing the salvage rope!

Well Ashlett Creek can be troublesome at times, theres a sandbank at the entrance.

So who is throwing the salvage rope then?

And further more, who tuned the engine of "Extreme it too"?

Never understood why john went for a black and pink rinse chequered effect on that boat. ;)

[Ice Kiddie]

Originally posted by R-Don
So who is throwing the salvage rope then?

And further more, who tuned the engine of "Extreme it too"? Same answer to both... where's that TAXI! :bolt:

[Jon Fuller]

OK, OK, I threw the rope! :cry: :cry:

But,... any responsibility for that motor, and it's state of tune/reliability, went way, way out the window when Tony sold it to John Burden, and technical support fell under 'Fred' the electrician!

Let's not forget, when under the control of 'Team Extreme', that motor ran faultlessly for three seasons, set two national speed records in class (one of which still stands) and won every single national points race of '95 and '96, (admitedly the '95 season had little competition for us) and only got beat in the very rough '97 season by 1 point by an excellent rough water boat......then 3 years later Mr Burden bought it, the rest is history and a great shame!

The end.

Whad'ya mean, tetchy! :lol:lol: :argue: :seaman:

[Ice Kiddie]

The single smiley.... :D

[Ben]

Thought when I first saw the title of this thread that my mother had made the big time - 90 years old and all that but it turned out to be boat stuff after all.

Interesting though, when otherwise reliable engines are turned over to new 'experts" they often seem to go down the tubes. An example (in addition to Jonson's), the engine(s) in the Thunderbird Pro Vee boat ran relatively faultlessly due to meticulous adherence to the engine builder's maintenance and instructions over the 4 years that the boat raced. We followed the same schedule when we put the race engines in our corporate hospitaity boats. Oil change every 10 hours, strict start procedure for the blower motor (ignition off - bump motor over on starter - hit starter for 10 seconds with ign. off to circulate oil around engine. Ign on - don't pump throttle) and viola, engine starts. We were told that at 100 - 150 hours to send the engine back to be 'freshened' which we did. It never missed a beat.

To get back to the Pro Vee motor, the new owners of 'Thunderbird (now Thundercoast of Finland) decided that the services of the engine builders were only partially necessary. Evidently they found some 'experts' in Finland. Now the Finns are good at drag racing and do seem to know something about big blocks but the performance of 'Thundercoast' in the 2004 series has been unsucsessful (and that's being kind) due to engine failure.

The moral of the story - well you can work it out.

[Jon Fuller]

The Motors(s) in T-Bird certainly were looked after the way we'd all love to able to (without any financial restraints) and always looked/sounded fantastic, the fellas from Express do a wonderful job, the pics of Tony's new Nor Tech motors say it all.

How did they get on with the repairs on the Cougar following it's 'coming together' with the sailing boat last year? It looked pretty serious!

JF

[Jon Fuller]

Originally posted by Captain Chaos
shut it nobba..............you dont know what i'm doing yet!

You're not gettin it tatoo'd on ya chopper are you? (you may have to abreviate it to BM.C) :drain:

[Jon Fuller]

Originally posted by R-Don
Never understood why john went for a black and pink rinse chequered effect on that boat. ;)

There's a wondeful story about the choosing of colours for 'I Extreme it too'!

TD can tell it tho'

[Jon]

Well,

Were waiting TD.:tea:

[Jon]

It wasnt made for "Dog" Hamiltons mate Vince "The Rinse" was it?

[saretta]

:brown: thanks everyone for your thanks!!!
well...Mr Fuller.....did you know the latest of the movement of the APBA? Supercat no longer exists and neither does one design! big changes for 2005..

Although the trophy on the pic was obviously made before the event, we've been moved into Production!!.........but the flag tells the real story which after a discussion with my prized and talented team mate, Mr Cutler himself, many times champion and intrepid sea soldier.....we are infact APBA National Champions...so dont forget to have a drink on us........

::dizzy: :brown:

and the boat is currently at BAM Marine being worked on for the Worlds in Key West.......not bad for a couple of brits on foreign turf init???:banana: now we're planning on the double... cant do the triple unfortunately cos the Europeans doesnt exist:cry:

c'mon bite me..

:duell:

[Jon Fuller]

Cool! I'd love to come over for Key West and watch ya race, but can't :cry:

Will be there for the Miami show tho' :cool:

JF

[Johnny Rocket]

Originally posted by Johnson
OK, OK, I threw the rope! It's OK Johnson, we all lnow you're a closet ribster.

We saw you giving RIBs the thumbs up at the boat show earlier this year :D

[Rockey]

thats a great pic just a bit camp, who the 7ft bloke beside him

[Johnny Rocket]

He's not 7ft tall. JF's a midget and that's a 3m RIB he's admiring.

:D

[Jon Fuller]

Originally posted by Johnny Rocket
that's a 3m RIB he's admiring.

:D

WRONG!

[Captain Chaos]

I dont know Jon...............1st i hear tales of trans-atlantic
Gahoona-Bob floral shirt wearing.......................now i see pictures of you in a Quicksiler "hoody"!!!

Are you one of these fellas that rests his laptop on a well-waxed surfboard...which will never see water!

[Jon Fuller]

Originally posted by Captain Chaos
pictures of you in a Quicksiler "hoody"!!!


Do what? a 'hoody' WTF's that?

[Louise]

You're showing your age now, JF! :D It's a sweatshirt top with a hood.

[Captain Chaos]

Isnt that a gay tree-hugger style hoodes pullover?

[saretta]

you clutchin a purse fuller?? dont let that one get out!:hugegrin:

[Jon Fuller]

It aint got no hood! and that's my camera bag!....stop picking on me you fkkr's....this is like being on FIBnet!:D :speechles :wank:

[Captain Chaos]

BTW Saretta...........I forgot to mention.........I'm a Fat man
...And a bender!

[Captain Chaos]

I thought it must have been press day..........and the hood was to cover-up your dynamic Firey-red/ Slaphead combo.........for when the cameras started going!

[Captain Chaos]

right on cue Matt

[Jon Fuller]

Shouldn't it have read, 'I have a cute man friend'

[Captain Chaos]

we aint friends...............and you aint cute.............other than in a very "doogle" kinda way:)

[Cookee]

Hi Sarah - well done girl - see you in Miami at the show if you are going to be there!

[Captain Chaos]

sharking???

[Cookee]

I have known Sarah for a long time - we raced together in 1999 in the 3C worlds in Cowes - so just passing on my congratulations - thats all!

[Cookee]

:boobs:

[Jon Fuller]

Originally posted by Captain Chaos
BTW Saretta...........I forgot to mention.........I'm a Fat man
...And a bender!

Just when I thought ..'Matt never really seems to do much Moderatin', I stumble on this! :lol:lol:

[Captain Chaos]

Oh how i wish i never typed that!

it seemed such a good idea @ the time!

just like joining this forum!