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10-10-2005, 10:52 PM
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Occupation: bird watcher
Interests: eating
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hehe
he doen't look like this all the time
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10-10-2005, 10:52 PM
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Forgot what? 
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10-10-2005, 11:07 PM
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Re: hehe
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Originally posted by critter
he doen't look like this all the time
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looks like the old man after a few lines o' charly!!
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10-10-2005, 11:24 PM
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Re: Re: hehe
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11-10-2005, 12:48 PM
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Country: uk
Location: Lincolnshire
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saw the trailer for scrapheap looked more like a submarine build challenge
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11-10-2005, 10:34 PM
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Ted has been a luvvie for years
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16-10-2005, 05:51 PM
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Its on now Dudes
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16-10-2005, 06:40 PM
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Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
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Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
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Hey Simon, I wanna buy that boat....wicked!
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16-10-2005, 06:45 PM
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Location: GOLDEN MILE
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Wonder if anyone will splash em
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16-10-2005, 06:54 PM
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So, what exactly went wrong?
You told me the other day that there were 'issues' with the patented "variable ratio transmission system", but I have to say that the motor didn't look too clever either!....who prepped it for you? 
Pray tell
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16-10-2005, 07:00 PM
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Country: GB
Location: Surrey
Occupation: Architectural Designer and Ski Racer
Boat name: True Colours
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scrapheap challenge
Gd programe but wot happened 2 da expected 70mph 
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16-10-2005, 07:05 PM
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Country: England
Location: Birmingham
Occupation: Scratching
Interests: Big Dinners
Boat name: Never Enough
Boat make: Seaquel 600xs
Engines: 225hp Merc ProMax
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I was pissed off at the end result! the build up was good and it looked as if we were gonna see a bit of speed but it was a load of bollix!
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16-10-2005, 07:10 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by MrRob
I was pissed off at the end result! the build up was good and it looked as if we were gonna see a bit of speed but it was a load of bollix!
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yeah, needed an expert to spend 20 mins wiring it up!
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16-10-2005, 07:18 PM
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Registered User
Country: England
Location: Birmingham
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Boat name: Never Enough
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Yeh 20 mins wire up a FUEL PUMP no problem!
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16-10-2005, 07:19 PM
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great bit of telly, perhaps a smaller (less weight) engine might have helped or at least they might not have been sinking so quick!!
The kids loved it too but agreed not the sort of things to set records in..
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16-10-2005, 07:30 PM
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Registered User
Country: England
Location: Hertfordshire
Occupation: Airline Operations.
Interests: Rum. Pirates. And West Cornwall pasties.
Boat name: Any suggestions?
Boat make: Ring 18
Engines: Mercury 200 Black Max
Cruising area: The Bay of 'E'
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May have been better off just repairing the shagged-out outboard that they hoiked the prop off and using that. Not as innovative, but at least it was designed for the job!
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16-10-2005, 07:47 PM
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gd boat design though
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16-10-2005, 07:59 PM
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Country: England
Location: Hertfordshire
Occupation: Airline Operations.
Interests: Rum. Pirates. And West Cornwall pasties.
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Boat make: Ring 18
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Yeah. That was a pretty impressive hull to knock up from sheet in a few hours. Worked too, if a little leaky, but then what can you expect? It's not gonna have make too many channel crossings after all.
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16-10-2005, 08:54 PM
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Country: US
Location: Virginia
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Boat name: A Little Noisy
Boat make: Excalibur 24
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Location: Virginia
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Simon won. Doesn't really matter what the speed was.
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17-10-2005, 07:22 AM
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Senior Member
Country: UK
Location: Christchurch, Dorset
Occupation: Marine Engineer-ish
Interests: Boats, Cars.
Boat name: Splash 4
Boat make: Hunton
Engines: Mercruiser 640
Cruising area: Poole, Solent
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Location: Christchurch, Dorset
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Well it was possibly not as embarassing as I was expecting.
Points worth noting: Ran out of time to make variable ratio system as we really did only have ten hours.
Tehy wouldn't let us start the motor out of the water as they thought that the prop may flyoff so we didn't realise that it only had seven pistons in until too late !
Rochester/ Holley carb was completely gummed up and probably only running one barrell.
Fuel tank was above motor so should have been gravity feed.
On the run back I just got her on the plane by sitting on the bow and leaning back to steer.
So much for the rummored 290HP, I would have put it nearer to 29HP !
Lisa is great and spent the whole time making the teams coffee.
Robert is as daft as a brush, when he turned up his first words were "78 how about that 78" of course all the crew knew that he was bragging about the MPG of his Toyota Prius hybrid car.
It was, at the end of the day, bloody good fun but the startling thing was that there were 65 people at the lake involved in the production. Now you know why television programes are so expensive !
And we won- even if by default ...
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