Nigel,
The museum contains at least one of his cats, models, archives etc- it is private and by invitation only.( His gardener told me about it !)- although technically "neighbours" I haven't been round to borrow any sugar yet (or a spare Seatek..)
Simon,
I also have fond , if distant, memories of Powerboat week '86 -we swopped a new Mariner 200 with Jason Hunt for his pair of 2.4s .
Sadly we only had a couple of days testing and although we ran nicely for the first 10 minutes of the race we threw so much spray into the cut-down cowls we were only running on a few cylinders meanwhile the Holley fuel pumps were still emptying the tanks at a great rate -consequently we kept speeding up and slowing down until we finally ran out of fuel about half way to Goulliot.
The William Arnold towed us back to Town! Drank a bottle of champagne on the way back if I remember (kept on board for medical emergencies)
Attached is a scan of the entry list that reads like a who's who of offshore racing in the mid '80s- Apart from stars from Guernsey Powerboat Assoc, plenty of names including Steve Curtis, Tolman Twins, Gerve, Casiraghi, Didier Pironi, Lady Arran, Michael Frode etc etc etc.. many current boatmad members there too (inc Adam younger, Mike Lloyd)
Its hard to believe it was over a quarter of a century ago!!!
Cheers Guy