Vulture ventures? - Page 2

Ciao · 21-07-2009, 07:53 PM

Toby - You must remember!

Next time I come over to your Manor less fizz and steak!

TobyC · 21-07-2009, 08:03 PM

well the skater ran 2.5's and i am prett sure the p21 ran a 2.5 too but i may be wrong.

ps more steak and fizz next time

off to race the B28 with our Guernsey friends on the 15th / 16th hopefully the champagne will be free

TECKNO 40 · 21-07-2009, 08:08 PM

Think they were XR2s as VV tried to get a race series going all running on gas we used to dyno them have some pics somewhere will try to find them.

TobyC · 21-07-2009, 08:16 PM

I was racing the VV Offshore 2000 at the time and my boat was kept in the shed. 'Its a GasGasGas', the start boat' was duel fuel and obviously the record run in the skater was Gas, different story including SmilnJacks and a fist class flight home if you belive the stories oh and a box of broken engines being shipped the wrong way! I kinda remember a rumour that we would all have to go gas but thats about it.

Ciao · 21-07-2009, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by TobyC

well the skater ran 2.5's and i am prett sure the p21 ran a 2.5 too but i may be wrong.

ps more steak and fizz next time

off to race the B28 with our Guernsey friends on the 15th / 16th hopefully the champagne will be free

Hopefully you will be able to keep up with Walshy!

I will send Hayden down to prize giving with some fizz, if you manage to beat the donkeys.

TobyC · 21-07-2009, 08:49 PM

We will try! it looks like it may be lil Reg's first race!

larby · 21-07-2009, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Ciao

Hopefully you will be able to keep up with Walshy!

I never realised you crappauds were so sarcastic!!

Ciao · 21-07-2009, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TobyC

We will try! it looks like it may be lil Reg's first race!

Best you and Small Reg do some testing bottom of your Island.

F Me !! What is that all about!

Filth water!

TobyC · 21-07-2009, 08:57 PM

it may be filth water but its pretty good way to find out how a boat performs!

TobyC · 21-07-2009, 09:00 PM

that said, despite Mr Fuller's prostestations that it was a flat race, we found some pretty horrid water on the RB!

Ciao · 21-07-2009, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by TobyC

that said, despite Mr Fuller's prostestations that it was a flat race, we found some pretty horrid water on the RB!

As discussed you were in a 3D boat - and Fuller was in a hull set up for RB.

TobyC · 21-07-2009, 09:08 PM

Mr Ciao are you now going to put the record straight for James about being a Crapaud?

Ciao · 21-07-2009, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by TobyC

Mr Ciao are you now going to put the record straight for James about being a Crapaud?

Certainly not Toby!

Us English people know how the Islanders live, think and breed.

TobyC · 21-07-2009, 09:20 PM

Not wishing to offend any of my island friends may I observe how yet another thread appears to have gone ever so slightly off track

Ciao · 21-07-2009, 09:21 PM

Indeed - Facebook perhaps?

Jon Fuller · 22-07-2009, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by TobyC

that said, despite Mr Fuller's prostestations that it was a flat race, we found some pretty horrid water on the RB!

prostestations? mmn

Well, my comments were I think that the majority of the race was flat. Imagine if the RB had been held over the last 10 days! I think we'd all know what rough was really like then. I maintain that we had it pretty easy all things considered.

As I remember it, from Portland to Plymouth was snotty, 10 miles or so early in the Edinburgh to Newcastle leg. and some of the bits running back up the English channel (Beachy head for example). That last leg BTW was a very nice win Mr Clayson.

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oh and a box of broken engines being shipped the wrong way!

TD and I were there that day. (it was at Windermere) It was a legendary moment.

They weren't just shipped the wrong way, they were overnighted from Smilin Jacks and picked up from LHR by Charlies Helo pilot at dawn and flown up to the lake.. must have cost a small fortune. A crate full of grenaded powerheads that had only been flown out to the US a few days earlier for rebuild. (or more likely scrapping, as they were full of large holes).

TobyC · 22-07-2009, 07:55 PM

Thanks Jon, we should have had about three other wins too but hey thats racing. Next time maybe

Must admit am looking forward to racing the B28 as a real D boat in a few weeks and seeing what shes like after her winter diet!

Jon Fuller · 22-07-2009, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by TobyC

Thanks Jon, we should have had about three other wins too but hey thats racing. Next time maybe

Agreed, as I say, given the conditions, you and Jamie should really have had it all your way.

TobyC · 22-07-2009, 09:18 PM

not totally convinced about that you and the goldfish boys were always going to be very difficult to beat and we definatly needed some luck to get a result, we didnt get it the first two legs for any number of reasons so the game was over by Bangor. From Bangor on we were right on it with a team of people who worked sooooo hard to get that boat to the finish, there is a lot of pride in that. Portsmouth day one and we were given no chance of finishing we did and with a win! That last leg was driven by Moose who had built the motors and kept them runnning against all odds! What a guy