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31-07-2010, 07:49 PM
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Country: Gibraltar
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Fuller Breaks down
News travels fast and all the way from sunny Spain, i can tell you all that Mr Fullers race class compised of all of two boats, you would think that they would both get a podium position. As it stood he was beaten by Gordon Crompton, fair enough someone has to win, but Mr Fuller did not even get on the podium, so results are Gordon Crompton First.......... Jon Fuller LAST.
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31-07-2010, 08:16 PM
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I find that news absolutely hilarious how very good of you to come on here and let us know.
Just think, Nick (who actually owns the 32) has spent some serious money on new engines for this year only to have some kind of minor failure. But frankly, on a day when someone has lost his life at the very same event. I'd hope you'd have better taste
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31-07-2010, 09:30 PM
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Registered User
Country: Gibraltar
Location: Gibraltar
Occupation: None for the moment, living the Dream
Interests: powerboating,smoking and sleeping
Boat name: used to be The Rock
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Engines: Used to be Yamaha 130
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unfortuantely news of the accident did not travel as quick as the news of jon breaking down. Yes it is sad and tragic that a great racer and person and friend of mine has had a fatal accident, but no where in that post have i disrespected him or any one else or would even think of doing so. i was having light hearted fun at Mr fullers expense.
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01-08-2010, 12:22 AM
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The Doc
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mandy
i was having light hearted fun at Mr fullers expense.
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well thats ok then, we all like to do that 
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01-08-2010, 08:55 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
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Originally Posted by mandy
so results are Gordon Crompton First.......... Jon Fuller LAST.
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It was worse than that! we didn't even finish.
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01-08-2010, 08:58 PM
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Country: shropshire england.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon Fuller
It was worse than that! we didn't even finish.
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What happened?
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01-08-2010, 09:31 PM
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The Doc
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jon ran out of cookies 3/4 of the way round the course and suffered a major "power down"
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02-08-2010, 08:19 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Chaos
jon ran out of cookies 3/4 of the way round the course and suffered a major "power down"
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And I wasn't even there!
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03-08-2010, 01:30 AM
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numbskull
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For anyone that's interested.
Here's a few short clips popped together of our unsuccessful challenge against Lord Compton of Sealand on Saturday. Showing the late start (struggled getting on plane, so a few mins behind the fleet) then catching Gordon, then Bob, then about 1 min from the end of the clip, we lose one cylinder on the std motor and the speed drops to about 50. didn't give up completely until we were off North Foreland (farthest point from home, our usual trick)
http://boatmad.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=30497
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03-08-2010, 07:56 AM
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Can't pin point it but that clips seems so much easyer on the eyes than the test run last week
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03-08-2010, 08:00 AM
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numbskull
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Yawn.
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03-08-2010, 08:44 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon Fuller
Yawn.
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It was
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03-08-2010, 09:23 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon Fuller
For anyone that's interested.
Here's a few short clips popped together of our unsuccessful challenge against Lord Compton of Sealand on Saturday. Showing the late start (struggled getting on plane, so a few mins behind the fleet) then catching Gordon, then Bob, then about 1 min from the end of the clip, we lose one cylinder on the std motor and the speed drops to about 50. didn't give up completely until we were off North Foreland (farthest point from home, our usual trick)
http://boatmad.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=30497 |
Oh dear! Any idea why one cylinder went down then?
Your suspension seats look like there working well 
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03-08-2010, 01:00 PM
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The Doc
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especially the port side
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03-08-2010, 05:55 PM
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Nice sunglasses
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03-08-2010, 06:29 PM
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It didn't look rough enough to need the bog roll that seemed to be blowing around the cockpit?
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03-08-2010, 06:46 PM
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numbskull
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Techteam
It didn't look rough enough to need the bog roll that seemed to be blowing around the cockpit?
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I nicked a bog roll from the toilets for applying rain-x to my visor. the roll sorta escaped and unravelled when we were on the move.
But no, wasn't particularly rough. at least not on the parts of the course we ran on.
Swipes has a great record of breaking down on the farthest part of the course. never seems to happen near home.
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03-08-2010, 07:03 PM
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numbskull
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PuppiesBalls
Oh dear! Any idea why one cylinder went down then?
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Appears to be injector failure of some sort.
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04-08-2010, 06:44 PM
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Have you got any pics of the interior of swipes? Looks really neatly rigged in the vid, I'd love to see some more!
James
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04-08-2010, 08:30 PM
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numbskull
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A few pics...
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