End of season Round The Island race - Page 2

ciao! · 10-11-2008, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Tony Davis

So, tell me again, what does C.O.P.O.C. do?

Best that you speak to the chaps that run it Tony, I just look after the web pages for them!

blind dog · 11-11-2008, 06:53 PM

im told the forcast looks ok for saturday,should be a good day for tear up and a hog roast to warm up,who,s going with or without a boat

Pash 1 · 11-11-2008, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by blind dog

im told the forcast looks ok for saturday,should be a good day for tear up and a hog roast to warm up,who,s going with or without a boat

Me and Mrs P will be there for the Hog Roast.....

BluFin · 12-11-2008, 06:57 PM

Bump bump bump.

Childrens Trust guys................

scottyboy · 15-11-2008, 07:51 PM

Well anything good happen?

Tony Davis · 15-11-2008, 08:08 PM

Yeh, 3 pig rolls, 1 choci cake and 3 mulled wines, what I would call an excellent day!

Many thanks to Gill and Marc.

Virtual Insanity · 15-11-2008, 08:53 PM

here here tony....mulled wine really hit the spot. many thanks to gill and mark. a good excuse to abuse the machinery. happy days

Pash 1 · 15-11-2008, 11:09 PM

It was a great day...... as TD says Pig was good, Mulled Wine Great (for medicinal purposes you understand - ive not been well!)

Great to See Splitpin (Thanks for travelling all the way from Dartford)

BluFins Daughter started the day off well by turning the Playgroup "Savoury" by bringing down her homemade quiche mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Makes a welcome change from cakes

Went out for the first time in BluFins Cat...... OMG ("Oh my God" for the older members of this forum) 94.3mph the fastest I’ve ever been in a boat

and a fifteen year old wooden boat at that - what a testament to John's skill at refurbishing her

Hope a lot of money was raised for the Charity...

Thanks again Gill, Mark and the Team at Drivers for a great day.....

BluFin · 16-11-2008, 10:25 AM

nice day out, good to see so many faces.

Not a bad run out for Pash & I, around 35 stone of british beef onboard , hate to think what our momentium would have been.

Middle Fin had a great day to & was well chuffed the quiche was a success. She had her first run out in Midas, she really enjoyed it (81.1mph). She had ikle drive of it too a little bit fish tailing but not to bad.

Iron Man of the day award goes to barry (total insanity) - Respect "all the way round the island"

hunton69 · 16-11-2008, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by BluFin

nice day out, good to see so many faces.

Iron Man of the day award goes to barry (total insanity) - Respect "all the way round the island"

Have to agree about Barry in his 18 foot boss . We done RB8 without stuffing the boat once on Sat put the bow in twice on the far side of the island. Had the Mrs on board aswell.

Not sure how many went round shame about the time keeper.
Anyone know the exact mileage? and what 52 mins equats to in mph

Deans new boat looks fab to going to turn some heads on the solent next year.

Thanks for the food and Mulled wine went down a treat

verytricky · 16-11-2008, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by hunton69

Not sure how many went round shame about the time keeper.

Timekeeper tried for two days to get the timekeeping boat in the water. The reserve boat also would not start. Should have gone to the football, but that did not work out well either.

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Originally Posted by hunton69

Anyone know the exact mileage? and what 52 mins equats to in mph

The official course distance is 57 Statute miles. 52 minutes gives you 66 mph.

That is roughly the 1996 Pete Little Class 3 2 litre monohull record, and more or less the same time as the 1996 Johnson Fuller / Pdidddy Davis Touring class record.

The 30 to 50 foot unlimited UIM world record ( the closest class for your boat ) for RTI is 75mph set in 2000.

hunton69 · 16-11-2008, 05:29 PM

Thank you Mark for that info.
I know you tried very hard to get the boat running wasn't having a dig.

Burty · 16-11-2008, 05:37 PM

thought negotiator had the record from a couple of years ago

Tony Davis · 16-11-2008, 05:55 PM

That's an outright record, there's also class records

hunton69 · 16-11-2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Burty

thought negotiator had the record from a couple of years ago

And that one will be hard to beat. Class 1 boat and perfect conditions i believe he had to slow down to 90 past Portsmouth.

I believe John Puddifoot has the rib record anyone know what rib he was in

Tony Davis · 16-11-2008, 06:36 PM

It was in a twin o/b powered Revenger.... And I, along with many others suspect he knows a short cut!

hunton69 · 16-11-2008, 06:56 PM

Thats a problem for us to beat as our top end is only 71 mph

Burty · 17-11-2008, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by verytricky

The 30 to 50 foot unlimited UIM world record ( the closest class for your boat ) for RTI is 75mph set in 2000.

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Originally Posted by Burty

thought negotiator had the record from a couple of years ago

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Originally Posted by Tony Davis

That's an outright record,

Numb Nuts · 17-11-2008, 09:26 AM

Can we at Drivers say a very big thank you to all those who took part in boating and pig eating on Saturday.

You all managed to raise £515 for the Childrens Trust.

Well done to all you guys and gals who went rounf the Island and a big thankyou to Marc for his donation to half of the Pig. Also thanks to little blufin for her culinary skills and bringing a bit of class to the 'playgroups' usual Saturday fodder.

Thanks again to all our customers well done

Gareth & Gill

verytricky · 17-11-2008, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Burty

You are correct to be confused:

From the UIM records website....

UIM WORLD RECORD #3607
Class over 30 ft and up to 50 ft
C. Parsonage GBR 2005
NEGOTIATOR LAMBORGHINI
106,73 MPH

However,
I provided the initial information from Mike Wards Historic British Records list. As they have the overall outright record, they were listed seperately from their class. The historic records for their class dont show them as the class record holder in th 30 top 50 foot category...

It does show them as class record holder for the Class 1 class.

I believe you can only claim one record class when you break the record, so although they are in the 30 to 50 foot category, they did not claim that category record, they claimed the Class 1 category record.

I think that the category shown on the UIM website is not the correct category that they claimed - alternately the UIM do not recognise the number of categories that the british register recognises - Someone else will have to answer that.

As the British Record for 30 - 50 foot is still 75.30mph, this should still be up for grabs. But it is likely that the UIM will not recognise it as a world record, as they have allocated this to Chris Parsonage.

Johnny Pussyfoot has the BIBOA F1 record at 78.8mph, although there is much debate about how that was achieved.