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01-10-2006, 08:18 PM
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Silence!!!... I kill you
Country: UK
Location: Surrey
Occupation: Retired
Interests: Powerboat racing, Travel
Cruising area: South Coast
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Originally posted by OldMan
Hasbeen what?
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Competitor, sponsor, gopher, waster,  etc, etc.
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01-10-2006, 08:34 PM
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Country: England
Location: Cornwall.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Hasbeen
Competitor, sponsor, gopher, waster, etc, etc.
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Most of that could be my life. I'm not too sure about waster though, never had the time to do that, toooooo busy!
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01-10-2006, 09:33 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Reading
Occupation: President
Interests: Racing
Cruising area: South Coast
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not so much bloody old
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02-10-2006, 04:17 AM
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Registered User
Country: US
Location: Virginia
Interests: Quiet desperation
Boat name: A Little Noisy
Boat make: Excalibur 24
Engines: Express Racing 525
Cruising area: Mobjack Bay (where?)
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Virginia
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What do you think HIM? Couple of years to get the old girl ready (no smart comments please). Could be fun.
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02-10-2006, 06:07 AM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Reading
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Cruising area: South Coast
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Ben
HIM is away on holiday but i am sure he would like to do the RBOPR
with you on throttles
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02-10-2006, 03:42 PM
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Moderator
Country: England
Location: Cornwall.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ben
What do you think HIM? Couple of years to get the old girl ready (no smart comments please). Could be fun.
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The "Old Girl" would make it, don't know so much about you Ben, getting a bit long in the tooth? Great fun it will definitely be. 
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03-10-2006, 02:32 AM
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Country: England
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Can you help?
Everest Double Glazing was the sponsor for the 1984 Round Britain Powerboat Race and they had a very expensive film made of the whole event. We do have, and it's on the gallery somewhere, the Mercruiser version made by South Western Marine but the original film we can't find. I have of course asked members of the original committee and Everest but no luck.
My last shot is the name of the girl who did the P.R. at the race called Sue Drinkwater. (don't laugh). Most racers of the 1980's will remember her as she did a lot of work for UKOBA.
Does anyone know the whereabouts of this young lady, well not so young now. Last heard of in the Devon/Cornwall area.
Please let me know if you know where she is as we want this film to go onto our web site in the "history of the race" section and also it's an important bit of powerboat history in itself.
I have been given a complete 16mm cine reel of the 1969 race by Tim Powell so if anyone can tell me where to go to get that converted to Video or DVD please let me know. That will be even more fun to watch.
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03-10-2006, 10:15 AM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
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I've got the TV-video of the '84 event.
here's a short highlights version from the gallery
http://media.boatmad.com/gallery/v/m...itain.wmv.html
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03-10-2006, 10:29 AM
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The Doc
Join Date: Mar 2004
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have you now................... so wheres my feckin copy nobba?
is it safe to assume that drinkwater is likely to be her maiden name....... or do we have the name of Mr drinkwater, her husband?
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03-10-2006, 10:38 AM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
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Could it be Barry Drinkwater's Mrs? (don't know Barry myself, but am sure blufin will, failing that, Howard Wretham will I'm sure have contact details)
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03-10-2006, 11:33 AM
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Traveling
Country: UK
Location: Alderholt
Occupation: Aerospace
Boat name: T/T D2S
Boat make: Midas 27' Cat, Argo 16 Cat. Avon Rib Thingy
Engines: Merc 280-ROS -JSRE,65Xs, 75 Stinger, Yam 60
Cruising area: Any Seedy Bar
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Alderholt
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Sue is Barry's Sister. Dont have anything up to date
Howard would have any contact info i'm sure.
Sue was reporter then editor of the South Coast Mariner which became Mariner Mag qute offshore Race orientated, UKOBA's newsfeed till it went pop think Dave Sewell took over from her when it was re-vamped
MMMh talking of Vids Mr Fuller now the dark winter nights are coming............any progress 
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03-10-2006, 12:37 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
Boat make: Phantom 21, Phantom 21
Engines: JSRE Merc 2.5 EFIss 280hp, Merc 2.5 x 2
Cruising area: Weymouth, Weston and rest of UK
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Somerset
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would happily drive for anyone willing (mad?) enough to let me . . .
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03-10-2006, 01:13 PM
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Moderator
Country: England
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Quote:
Originally posted by BluFin
Sue is Barry's Sister. Dont have anything up to date
Howard would have any contact info i'm sure.
Sue was reporter then editor of the South Coast Mariner which became Mariner Mag qute offshore Race orientated, UKOBA's newsfeed till it went pop think Dave Sewell took over from her when it was re-vamped
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I knew you guys would come up with the goods, many thanks for that. Can anyone give me Howards Tel No or his email address please? Still no one knows how to convert old 16mm cine to video, the reel is about 12" wide?
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03-10-2006, 07:23 PM
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Reading
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Interests: Racing
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What Howard is this is it Wretham?
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03-10-2006, 08:11 PM
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Traveling
Country: UK
Location: Alderholt
Occupation: Aerospace
Boat name: T/T D2S
Boat make: Midas 27' Cat, Argo 16 Cat. Avon Rib Thingy
Engines: Merc 280-ROS -JSRE,65Xs, 75 Stinger, Yam 60
Cruising area: Any Seedy Bar
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Alderholt
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yep
oldman I'll dig out the number tomorrow
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03-10-2006, 08:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Quote:
Originally posted by BluFin
yep
oldman I'll dig out the number tomorrow
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howard Wretham - - 01344 844377
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04-10-2006, 08:18 AM
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Will chase that up today. Thanks very much for the info. Very much appreciated. I will keep you all in touch of the result because if the film is still good it should prove fascinating to watch. Tim Powell actually gave me TWO reels. He had no idea which race was on the 2nd reel but on the front on a very old label you can just read The Greatest Offshore Powerboat Race In The World. What that is is anyones guess. All the best boats from the late 1960's anyway!
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04-10-2006, 09:18 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Quote:
Originally posted by OldMan
Can you help?
Everest Double Glazing was the sponsor for the 1984 Round Britain Powerboat Race and they had a very expensive film made of the whole event. We do have, and it's on the gallery somewhere, the Mercruiser version made by South Western Marine but the original film we can't find. I have of course asked members of the original committee and Everest but no luck.
My last shot is the name of the girl who did the P.R. at the race called Sue Drinkwater. (don't laugh). Most racers of the 1980's will remember her as she did a lot of work for UKOBA.
Does anyone know the whereabouts of this young lady, well not so young now. Last heard of in the Devon/Cornwall area.
Please let me know if you know where she is as we want this film to go onto our web site in the "history of the race" section and also it's an important bit of powerboat history in itself.
I have been given a complete 16mm cine reel of the 1969 race by Tim Powell so if anyone can tell me where to go to get that converted to Video or DVD please let me know. That will be even more fun to watch.
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Pretty sure I've got the Sowester/ Mercruiser tape somewhere. Will dig it out and have a go at committing it to DVD.
Oh yes, and watching it, you would assume there were no other engine manufacturers 
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04-10-2006, 07:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Safety
Mike
Pretty sure I've got the Sowester/ Mercruiser tape somewhere. Will dig it out and have a go at committing it to DVD.
Oh yes, and watching it, you would assume there were no other engine manufacturers
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Thanks for that Safety, I have it already thanks all the way back from 1984. JF converted it to DVD for me. It should be on Gallery somewhere. It is the 1 hour one I am hunting.
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04-10-2006, 08:12 PM
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Chief C*nt!
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Brighton
Occupation: Sparkler prefect
Interests: Boats
Boat make: Other people's mostly
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Quote:
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The rule of the race is that ALL boats have to be 25ft and over and able to maintain a mininum of 30kts.
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How do you define "maintain a mininum of 30kts"?
Does it mean that any boat failing to meet this average on a leg will be disqualified?
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