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Old 14-09-2010, 07:54 AM   #21
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I dont know why no-ones come up with any footage of you guys and your 'rubber tub'.. have to say you really were making easy work of Hurst narrows.. fast, flat and smooth!
That's because they don't like 'rubber tubs' on this site
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Old 14-09-2010, 08:00 PM   #22
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yes nitro hurst was windy but............... we were safe on dry land though!!
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Thanks for posting! Another secret race fan! Now you've started I hope you realise there's no going back! We'll all be expecting your library of photo's too now you know..........................
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Old 19-09-2010, 12:13 PM   #24
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We'll all be expecting your library of photo's too now you know..........................
Oh god!!.. I've so many photos of race boats.. 70s, 80s onwards!! probably 1000 pictures.. from hurst.. from boats.. then theres poole quay, cowes, brighton marina, oh and then theres films too.. oh and then there was the drag boats in the USA.. but my god the scanning!! and the photoshopping! then movie editing! maybe i need to make a start somewhere.. but where to start? and where to put them.. do i post them here or put them in the gallery?.. yikes
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Time to book some evenings in with a beer and a scanner.............
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Old 27-09-2010, 10:44 AM   #26
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Nitro - any evenings in scheduled?!
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Old 27-09-2010, 11:42 AM   #27
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Winter evenings boredom sorted!

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Nitro - any evenings in scheduled?!
Oh yes! Have talked to Jon and he's set to add a gallery to the multimedia section as soon as i can get some batches of pics to him. Heres a bit of taster of what I've started scanning.. going to do it by races.. as I've quite alot of pit/quayside pics. We used to watch the pits/start of the Cowes races from Cowes then jump on the hydrofoil/red jet and drive (like crazy people) to Keyhaven and then pretty much run the length of Hurst to catch the first boats coming home.. it got pretty tight timewise in the days of flat water plus Lambo cats.. but it meant i got pics from 2 places and it was great fun.

Also sorting a slide scanner to do the 70s pics courtesy of ebay.

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Good man! Can't wait to see your library!!!
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Thanks for sharing Nitro9.
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[QUOTE=nitro9;190543]We used to watch the pits/start of the Cowes races from Cowes then jump on the hydrofoil/red jet and drive (like crazy people) to Keyhaven and then pretty much run the length of Hurst to catch the first boats coming home.. it got pretty tight timewise in the days of flat water plus Lambo cats.. but it meant i got pics from 2 places and it was great fun.

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You weren`t the only daft bugger I can assure you.

In 1970 I did the Hurst beach march to film Black Tornado,Miss Enfield II,Avenger OO7 etc scream by on route to the Nab,then another quick march back,and drive to Anvil for the boats returning in my high speed Morris Minor.
Heart in mouth job to make it, cos you know what the roads are like from Hurst to Anvil via Wareham.All that filming is in the Boatmad Gallery.
I was also at Hurst filming Yellowdrama as per your pic,so there we were like ships passing in the night.Organisers might like to note where the beach was relative to Yellowdrama,mind you Ken Cassir was as blind as a bat.
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Terrific pics . Keep 'em coming.

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Old 30-09-2010, 11:16 AM   #32
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You weren`t the only daft bugger I can assure you.
And to think I thought we were the only daft buggers.. but you got us beat with that one.. charging from Hurst to Anvil against powerboats in morry Minor sounds like misson impossible to me!
I remember the panic we got into in the centre of Lymington when my old Triumph stopped dead and refused to move again for 10 minutes.. so 'leaning on' an A series across Dorset sounds a challenge!

I would have been the little kid on the end of Hurst stood with my dad.. that year the nagging finally paid off and he took me to see the powerboats.. that close pass Yellowdrama made him realise it was worth seeing and was about the tightest I ever saw anyone take Hurst.. I guess i was assuming it was local knowledge by the crew.. but I spose 'blind as a bat' works just as well.

littlenige and Mike...
This week i have mainly been scanning!
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The media on this site is fabulous and has made me SO nostalgic.

My Dad and I used to go up from Fowey in his Fairey Huntsman 28 watching the glorious sights at Torquay once a year. This was back in the early 70's. Down in Cornwall, all I had as a kid was the magazines to look at and the annual Powerboat book -think I still have a couple of copies somewhere but mags have gone missing. If only we had camera equipment like today back then. The boats were always tiny little dots to us when the film was developed.

omg, I'm gonna have to try and find them now !!!
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