Foam Flyer

[Mike Lloyd]

As we are picking up our 1969 RB race boat this week I am trying to trace a little more of the history of this type of boat made in what became the Tremlet Yard (previously the Westcraft/Watson Yard) in Exeter.

Ed Williams-Hawks has given me a considerable amount of information so far as he worked in that yard as a lad but he has told me about a boat made in a similar way in the same yard originally called Miss Supercavitation then Sandy Bay Girl. It was the first ever boat racing with surface drive super cavitating props offshore, and with a pair of the 'blue' Perkins factory prepared turbocharged diesels, '6.354.3' models (6 cylinder. 354 cubic inch, Mark 3), she broke the CCII record at Windermere (60+mph), coming the fastest recorded Cabin Cruiser in the World and won the CTC Beaverbrook Trophy in 1975. Apparently she used to keep up with the Class OP1 petrol racers (Blitz etc) in a bit of a sea.
Has anyone any further info on this boat or any pics?
ML.

[timtap]

[Mike Lloyd]

Originally Posted by timtap

Fantastic, thanks timtap. I wonder where she is now?

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by OldMan

Fantastic, thanks timtap.

It should be pointed out that yet again, Graham Stevens awsome historic library comes to the rescue.

[timtap]

Originally Posted by Jon Fuller

It should be pointed out that yet again, Graham Stevens awsome historic library comes to the rescue.

Almost!!!! I've had this one in my files for a long long time !!!! and help from members fo The Classic Offshore Powerboat Club
Looking for more Tremlett history for a biography though !!
Especially Miss Polly Perkins !!!

[Bus Pass]

I remember Sandy Bay Girl from my first CTC 1975.

We were in the same class, CCII, ( we blew an engine on the way back and retiered into Poole) and Sandy Bay Girl won the Beaverbrook Trophy, beating the favorite Jack Cunningham's Foodspeed Too.

In those day's that was the main prize, £1,000, I think