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09-05-2010, 09:11 PM
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#261
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Engineering
Boat make: None, boo!
Engines: Turbines mainly!
Cruising area: The inside of my workshop!
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Take 2...
So i reverted back to making a 'race hatch' which is just as minimal as possible. Easy enough. The old one used to stick out at the back where it attached to the piano hinge, so I've stepped the back to avoid this issue. This part will then be covered to make it flush with the back of the boat and hide the hinge. Turned out much better this time and it all lines up.
I've tried everywhere to find a suitable scoop, but there's nothing that both fits and doesn't look ridiculous! So, I'm gonna just have the blower poking out and left bare. I'll have a small stainless scoop over the flame arrestors, which can be pointed backwards to prevent water ingress, and the blower assy will all be coated in a way to stop it corroding. Should look great this way and really fit in with the 'hot rod' style I'm aiming for. Only time will tell!
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09-05-2010, 09:17 PM
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#262
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Engineering
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Engines: Turbines mainly!
Cruising area: The inside of my workshop!
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Depressing bit...
Next up was to take out all of the bulkheads and floors that I'd so carefully made and put in place so I could glass them ready for fitting.
Only got one pic of the progress for this bit when I happened to have to answer my phone, you get the idea though!
That's all for now, tomorrow's job is to get them all glassed into the boat!
James
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09-05-2010, 10:40 PM
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#263
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Interests: racing!
Boat name: The boat with no name
Boat make: P20
Engines: Promax 225
Cruising area: Mainly the sea -sometimes the air
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 210
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Blimey Larbs! You don't do stuff by half eh! Fairplay to you mate! Am sure it'll be awesome when it's done!
Look forward to seeing it on the water and reading how you get there!
Good luck mate!
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09-05-2010, 11:53 PM
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#264
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Registered User
Occupation: Champion Pie Eater
Boat name: On The Rocks
Boat make: Ring 21 marshan 17 four winns horizon, hydro 3 pointer, f2 cat, backdraft 22
Cruising area: Way up norf and Sarf coast areas
Join Date: Apr 2007
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James
Whats the motor?
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10-05-2010, 08:45 AM
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#265
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Engineering
Boat make: None, boo!
Engines: Turbines mainly!
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Cheers John
Gazza - It's my '96 Silvia, had a few bits an bobs done. Might sell it soon as I'm hankering after a supercharged Jag. One day I might keep a car for more than a few years!
James
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10-05-2010, 08:55 AM
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#266
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Registered User
Country: UK
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Originally Posted by larby
One day I might keep a car for more than a few years!
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Why?
They don't get better with age.
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10-05-2010, 04:57 PM
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#267
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Engineering
Boat make: None, boo!
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Very true. And I get bored easily! I just want something that's designed to be very fast now, which I can leave pretty much standard.
Got the lower half of the bulkhead under the dash in today. I was hoping to get a lot more done but you know how it is!
Hopefully I'll have most if not all of the rest in by the end of the week.
James
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11-05-2010, 09:54 AM
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#268
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Registered User
Location: falmouth
Boat name: purple haze
Boat make: vector xr 24
Engines: cosworth yb turbo 300
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: falmouth
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looks like its coming together really well James, What sort of drive/engine combination was fitted by the last owner .
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15-05-2010, 08:21 AM
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#269
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
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Sorry for the delay there! Had a busy week again!
She was fitted from new with a big block 7.4 (tuned to some degree) and initially a TRS, then changed to a bravo.
I'm fitting an 8.2 with a supercharger and keeping the bravo, along with crossed fingers!
James
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15-05-2010, 09:10 AM
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#270
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: At Home
Occupation: Boat Stuff
Interests: Boating, Shooting,Fishing
Boat name: Oklahoma / Project Racing Team
Boat make: Aqua Star 33 - a tug!
Engines: Perkins Sabre 300
Cruising area: Round Britain
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: At Home
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hi iv got the pictures from the old Mariner/Offshore Bar in Poole and a great one of the boat right out the water if you would like it
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15-05-2010, 06:12 PM
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#271
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Registered User
Location: hayling island
Boat name: snow monkey
Boat make: extreme 24
Engines: mercruiser 6.2
Join Date: May 2004
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is that the bar next to sunseeker,if so they had some great pictures in there
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15-05-2010, 07:23 PM
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Location: Bournemouth
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Bournemouth
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My favourite was the one just inside the door, on the left, that was looking down on a crewman with lots of buttons and switches.
There was also a picture of a rough looking yellow boat, that was near the managers office, where the throttle man had clearly got it wrong
Someone told me a funny story about the manager !!!
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15-05-2010, 07:55 PM
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#273
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Wildey
My favourite was the one just inside the door, on the left, that was looking down on a crewman with lots of buttons and switches.
There was also a picture of a rough looking yellow boat, that was near the managers office, where the throttle man had clearly got it wrong
Someone told me a funny story about the manager !!!
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That was Curtis in the cockpit of something, prolly Bagutta.
You mean this picture of this yella boat & crap throttleman?
Chris the manager there, was a strange cookie, that's for sure.
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15-05-2010, 08:03 PM
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#274
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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
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I always rather liked this one of 'Ambassador Communications' too (Will Haycock) The surface drive Revenger that became 'Superluminal', then 'Team Tanglefoot', then 'Pink Beaver'.
Both these pics were rescued from 'The Offshore' when it closed down by James Sydenham, who kindly gave them to me.
My faves were those huge black & white ones. One behind the bar of a Cowes start, covering the whole wall and one over the back of I think, 'Passport' scotch whisky. Very cool.
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15-05-2010, 08:22 PM
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#275
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Engineering
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Engines: Turbines mainly!
Cruising area: The inside of my workshop!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by S1DEY
hi iv got the pictures from the old Mariner/Offshore Bar in Poole and a great one of the boat right out the water if you would like it
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I'd absolutely love it!! Like a bit of history! I'll PM you.
Jon - That is a great photo of 'Ambassador Communications' too, those were some big props, no wonder it shook itself apart!!
James
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15-05-2010, 09:26 PM
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#276
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by S1DEY
hi iv got the pictures from the old Mariner/Offshore Bar in Poole and a great one of the boat right out the water if you would like it
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Taken I believe by Gordon McMath.
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03-10-2010, 03:02 PM
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#277
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Registered User
Location: West Coast of Norway
Occupation: naval architect
Interests: surface piercing props, stepped hulls, air entrapment hulls
Boat name: none
Boat make: PetterTintorera
Engines: Yamaha 90
Cruising area: West Coast of Norway
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Coast of Norway
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04-10-2010, 06:51 PM
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#278
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Engineering
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Wow!! I'd love a blackhawk, but the consensus seems to be I'm best off not being surface piercing, so it's probably not the best move. Awesome drive though, and seems a good price to me!
I really must get on with the build, or at least update the thread to where I am now. I'm newly inspired to push on after a weekend in lymington.
James
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04-10-2010, 10:23 PM
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#279
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Engine tester
Country: united kingdom
Location: Southend on Sea
Occupation: Construction
Interests: Gin & Women
Boat name: motorvator
Boat make: Revenger San Marino / Sunseeker Camargue 46 / Phantom 18/19/600
Engines: 502 mercruiser / Detroit 550s / 115 ProXS / Anything Borrowed
Cruising area: Thames, Southend
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Southend on Sea
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Aw go on go on go on you know you want to.
http://www.racingjunk.com/category/1...SuperSize=true
Expect a big bill for props though if you can find 'em
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04-10-2010, 10:33 PM
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#280
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Registered User
Location: north west
Interests: Northern poker runs,without the loosers
Boat name: Daze of thunder
Boat make: fastest recorded outboard phantom
Engines: which one
Cruising area: M6
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: north west
Posts: 263
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Quote:
Originally Posted by larby
Wow!! I'd love a blackhawk, but the consensus seems to be I'm best off not being surface piercing, so it's probably not the best move. Awesome drive though, and seems a good price to me!
I really must get on with the build, or at least update the thread to where I am now. I'm newly inspired to push on after a weekend in lymington.
James
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, black hawk only any use on stepped,hulls or large amount of rocker built in,and dont respond to trim very much,and need atlest 17 inch x dim, and upgrade the gears, then find the props
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