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09-07-2006, 08:56 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
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Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
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Fast Cats & Phantoms!
1970's TV at it's best!
Another gem from the Graham Stevens collection.
This 'Southern TV' documentory on the 1975 London-Calais-London race, truely captures the 70's feel.
I've split it into part 1 & part 2, but they're still feckin massive, around 130meg each, so set ya download going, and enjoy.
Steve Baker & his 60 year old dad in the 4 litre Phantom 23 'SPECTRE' get to win the 253 mile race, thanks to the 4 litre Stapely cat 'Miss Nova Arts' breaking an upper engine mount on the return trip near to Alhallows.
Fabulously flat conditions, plenty of very 'stock' looking boats competing, like Avenger 16's, Marshans, etc, more 'Towers of Power' than you can poke a stick at, and a bit of crumpet to boot!
Enjoy.
PS. If you aint got Broadband, I wouldn't even bother clicking on the link!
Fast Cats & Phantoms Part 1
Fast Cats & Phantoms part 2
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09-07-2006, 09:14 PM
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Registered User
Country: uk
Location: brighton
Occupation: CABINET MAKER
Interests: SPEED BOATS,MOTO G.P
Boat name: MOTIVATION
Boat make: MARSHAN 21
Engines: AINT GOT ONE!!
Cruising area: sea
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: brighton
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core wicked!
i partically liked no 128 "streaker" marshan i believe
also the yellow one that some of the filming was done from,
martin davis has some footage of motivation in this race(not sure of the year) taken from a helicopter going across the channel
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09-07-2006, 09:33 PM
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Le Cat
Country: France
Location: Paris
Occupation: Computer Sales
Boat name: Le Cat
Boat make: Argo Cat 18
Engines: Mercury 2.4EFI
Cruising area: Paris
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So many cats then & so little now. What happened ?
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09-07-2006, 10:29 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
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Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
Posts: 15,959
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I'd like a couple of those 800hp straight six mercs!
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09-07-2006, 11:49 PM
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Re: Fast Cats & Phantoms!
And some chicks.
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Originally posted by Jon Fuller
...and a bit of crumpet to boot!
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10-07-2006, 06:29 PM
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Registered User
Country: uk
Location: Bristol area
Occupation: Electrician
Interests: mmm stella
Boat make: 16 reiver
Engines: mercury 125 optimax
Cruising area: Lyme Bay
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10-07-2006, 06:52 PM
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Anyway, excellent vids, well worth watching.
Dunno how fast my home broadband is, but it's NTL's midrance package and I could watch em streaming without needing to download first.
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10-07-2006, 07:26 PM
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wiked vids!!!
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10-07-2006, 08:57 PM
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Country: UK
Location: Weston Super Mare
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Quote:
Originally posted by Matt
Anyway, excellent vids, well worth watching.
Dunno how fast my home broadband is, but it's NTL's midrance package and I could watch em streaming without needing to download first.
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I watched them streaming too and i'm in spain
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11-07-2006, 01:25 AM
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Registered User
Country: New Zealand
Location: Auckland
Occupation: Construction Manager
Interests: Offshore Powerboat Racing
Boat name: NZ Privateer
Boat make: 29ft Catamaran
Engines: 2 x Mercury 300X
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excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we are setting up a 28ft mono with four 150 inlines as a retro poker run boat, can anyone tell me how we can get 800hp out of the engines
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11-07-2006, 01:35 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by kiwiracer
can anyone tell me how we can get 800hp out of the engines
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.........1 word................
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11-07-2006, 07:40 AM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
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Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
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Location: South
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Quote:
Originally posted by PuppiesBalls
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'Nitrous Oxide Systems'
That's 3 words
And you'd need a fkkn shed load to get a 1.8 litre tower of power from 150, to 800 G-G's
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11-07-2006, 09:46 AM
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Registered User
Country: New Zealand
Location: Auckland
Occupation: Construction Manager
Interests: Offshore Powerboat Racing
Boat name: NZ Privateer
Boat make: 29ft Catamaran
Engines: 2 x Mercury 300X
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sounded good on the video though
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11-07-2006, 11:40 AM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Thorpe Bay
Occupation: IT Director, www.lighthouseit.co.uk
Interests: Boats, Surfing & Snowboarding
Boat name: Isabella / Cool Runnings II / Bella / Sea Pup / Sea Dog / Speedy II / Bernico F3
Boat make: Colvic 35 Suncruiser / Bernico F3 / Phantom 16 / Zodiac 420 YL / RIB / Apollo 9
Engines: 2 x Perkins Sabre 225ti / Mercury Pro XS /Mercury Pro XS 115/ Tohatsu 2.5 / Mercury 25 / Mercury 50
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Quote:
Originally posted by Burty
I watched them streaming too and i'm in spain
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wicked video streams in Portugal as well, Matt have you upgraded the bandwidth on the server??
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11-07-2006, 11:48 AM
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It's always been on a 100 MBit connection - It's a 1and1 Root Business Server 1.
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11-07-2006, 12:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jon Fuller
'Nitrous Oxide Systems'
That's 3 words
And you'd need a fkkn shed load to get a 1.8 litre tower of power from 150, to 800 G-G's
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I new someone would say that i ment the "NOS"
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11-07-2006, 01:09 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Somerset
Occupation: old bloke
Interests: Water Ski Racing, Basic Racing
Boat name: Bad Boy 717, Hotshot 777
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excellent!!!
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17-07-2006, 07:52 PM
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Le Cat
Country: France
Location: Paris
Occupation: Computer Sales
Boat name: Le Cat
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Quote:
Originally posted by FrenchPhil
So many cats then & so little now. What happened ?
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19-07-2006, 10:41 AM
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Moderator
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Re: Fast Cats & Phantoms!
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jon Fuller
[B]1970's TV at it's best!
Another gem from the Graham Stevens collection.
This 'Southern TV' documentory on the 1975 London-Calais-London race, truely captures the 70's feel.
Enjoy.
QUOTE]
Only just caught up with this thread and found those guy's just awesome. We aren't doing races like that anymore and that's a pity 'cause the racers like 'em. Would love to say that was when men where men but won't!!
Didn't I catch a glimpse of a very young Peter Bloomfield? He used to race Stapely cats as well and did several Putney-Calais-Putney races. A very tough competitor. Great video JF. Good camera shots from the race boats when you think that we only had cine in those days.
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19-07-2006, 07:30 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: Warsash
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Fantastic film - it was a tough sport back in those days!
Always would like to have done the event - only had one go and that was in '82. Had a bad start and got upto 3rd - then hit the Estuary on a choppy day and started taking in water. Eventually had to turn back!
Totally different to anything else - speeding down the Thames is a real blast.
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