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27-02-2010, 05:16 PM
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Registered User
Country: Job Centre
Location: In a box
Occupation: Chaos's gofer
Interests: Skiving
Boat make: Spectre 30
Engines: 2 x Promax 225
Cruising area: In the bath
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: In a box
Posts: 5,201
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Originally Posted by Foolish
Wouldn't be the first time i'd have spent a night in a cell
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Might be on your own this time though as Leroy got parole!
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04-03-2010, 02:08 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 25
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Originally Posted by Adam
It is the biggest problem - a lack of affordable (and legal) engines - I could be tempted to race but don't want to buy a new XS200 - got enough boats and engines as it is!
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If anyone is interested........
We have splashed, corrected and amended, with Adams blessing, advice and agreement his Blackthunder Batboat.
We will be racing 2 of the new ones in the Malta series this year, 1 in the 250
class and 1 in the 200 class. 1st boat comes out of the mold next week and should be in the water for testing with a 250xs on the back, in 3 weeks.
Original boat was lazer alligned and corrected before molding. We have reduced the weight from 710kg to well under 500kg by utilising upto date materials and layup techniques (weight includes all, except engine and steering [dry weight]). Boat comes standard with 50Ltr bow tank and 2 x 20ltr keel tanks for balance adjustment, plus 26 gallon fuel tank. Keel tanks and new layup weight distribution will allow the running of 20" shafts with same handling of 15" shaft engines.
Cost of new boat with seats, tanks and crane lifting eyes is 7000 Euro (first 3 only....then 9000)
Comes in any colour you want, as long as its white!!!
Any interest call Adam or 00 356 99 873 509
euro)
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04-03-2010, 09:03 AM
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#43
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Senior Member
Country: England
Location: Warsash
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: sport
Boat name: Santana
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Warsash
Posts: 1,838
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Really pleased to see this project happening and great to see the good progress being made - getting near to the first new boat now!
This boat / design has always been a really important boat for me for many reasons.
The boat has also:
- won 2 National championships
- won 1 UKOBA championships
- won a heat of the World Championships
- 2nd in RMYC championships
- 3rd in Offshore 2000 championships
The boat was continually up-dated (design and build) by myself and my team over the years (whilst I raced her and with new owners) - however she did gain some weight as a result (was not that light to start with).
So going to be really interesting to see how Paul's version runs as they will be significantly lighter. Also Paul has certainly got a lot better hull finish than we managed to achieve.
It is quite possible that I will bring a boat into the UK if a sale goes through on one of my current boats - so there would be a demo / test boat around.
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04-03-2010, 10:57 AM
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#44
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Registered User
Country: Sweden
Location: Österskär
Occupation: Adman
Interests: Boats, design, advertising, music, movies, boats, boats, boats ;-)
Boat name: Speedy Canoe
Boat make: Aero 21
Engines: Mariner 150
Cruising area: Stockholm archipelago
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Österskär
Posts: 131
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Blackthunder
Are there any pictures of the Blackthunder here on BoatMad? I'm really curious. How was the performance?
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04-03-2010, 11:10 AM
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#45
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Senior Member
Country: England
Location: Warsash
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: sport
Boat name: Santana
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Warsash
Posts: 1,838
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Couple of photos - one at last event as Black Thunder - photo by Dave Ormiston.
An earlier photo of when I raced the boat as Mobil 1 Outboard - photo by Chris Davies
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05-03-2010, 11:34 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,041
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Harwich Latest
Have been informed the Harwich Boatfest preparations have started.
The hanging Christmas baskets have just come down!
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05-03-2010, 03:59 PM
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#47
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BananaShark Member
Country: UK
Location: Salcombe South Devon
Occupation: Racer and builder
Interests: Winning races
Boat name: BananaShark
Boat make: BananaShark 34' Race
Engines: Twin Yanmar BY 260's
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Salcombe South Devon
Posts: 4,638
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I raced against that boat several times, the first time at the Europeans in Cowes against Adam and a few times afterwards, it was the only other boat that would give us a race in the rough and a bit more speed in the flat would have made it hard to beat over a season - great boat!
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British Champions! RIB Formula 1 2005
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05-03-2010, 06:04 PM
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#48
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Registered User
Country: Guernsey Channel Isles
Location: West Coast
Occupation: Hotelier
Interests: Powerboat racing
Boat name: Vodkatini,Cap Camarat,Easy RiderSuper Rider & Hirrondelle
Boat make: Phantom 21,Jeaneau 925 Avenger19.Lorne Campbell Slipstream Tremlett 21.Tigershark 21
Engines: Volvo 5 litre,Merc 115 Tower,Twin 250 Suzukis and 145 Mercruiser LX
Cruising area: Channel Islands and French coast
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: West Coast
Posts: 612
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So how did you perform against Pattern Forme ?
Was this the same Hull as you Banana rib ?
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06-03-2010, 07:59 AM
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#49
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BananaShark Member
Country: UK
Location: Salcombe South Devon
Occupation: Racer and builder
Interests: Winning races
Boat name: BananaShark
Boat make: BananaShark 34' Race
Engines: Twin Yanmar BY 260's
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Salcombe South Devon
Posts: 4,638
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Originally Posted by Big Dutch
So how did you perform against Pattern Forme ?
Was this the same Hull as you Banana rib ?
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We competed very well against Pattern Forme in the rough and it was a bit faster in the flat against us in this:
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06-03-2010, 08:38 AM
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#50
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Registered User
Country: Job Centre
Location: In a box
Occupation: Chaos's gofer
Interests: Skiving
Boat make: Spectre 30
Engines: 2 x Promax 225
Cruising area: In the bath
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: In a box
Posts: 5,201
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FLYING FISH
Have been informed the Harwich Boatfest preparations have started.
The hanging Christmas baskets have just come down!
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06-03-2010, 12:15 PM
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#51
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Senior Member
Country: England
Location: Warsash
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: sport
Boat name: Santana
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Warsash
Posts: 1,838
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookee
I raced against that boat several times, the first time at the Europeans in Cowes against Adam and a few times afterwards, it was the only other boat that would give us a race in the rough and a bit more speed in the flat would have made it hard to beat over a season - great boat!
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They were some good times - and do miss the competition of 3C. Would love to see class 3 get back to strength again and some big fleets racing.
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09-03-2010, 09:43 PM
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#52
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Registered User
Country: England
Location: Kent
Interests: Offshore Powerboat Racing
Cruising area: South East
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kent
Posts: 34
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Class IIIC Europeans
Apologies!
A number has been missed out of my e-mail address on the Advance Notice for Harwich in July/August. It should read: sheena.williams3@btinternet.com
More information available on:
SEPA website: www.sepaoffshore.co.uk
Harwich Power Festival website: www.harwichpowerboats.com
Thanks to Ian Stirling for letting me know!
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09-03-2010, 09:53 PM
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#53
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Senior Member
Country: UK
Location: Devon
Occupation: Garage Proprietor
Interests: PowerBoat Racing
Boat name: If Only
Boat make: Bernico F3 OCR, Bernico Prototype Inboard, and some Ribs
Engines: Yamaha Pro V 115
Cruising area: UK, France
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Devon
Posts: 3,095
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can we assume that SEPA members will be sent them as a matter of course ??
Thanks
Bob
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09-03-2010, 09:58 PM
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#54
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Quite Near
Occupation: Don't Ask!
Interests: Racing Rubber
Boat name: Comfortably Numb
Boat make: SR9
Engines: Yanmar
Cruising area: Over there
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Quite Near
Posts: 302
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Was always impressed with pattern forme. Remember in the rib racing with the two litre fleet in Cardiff. Mick Archer pipped us to the post after some great racing in some very rough waters, after the line we had a ciggy and a bottle of water and started to have a little bet about which diesel rib would be next. We saw the spray in the distance and as the boat drew closer it was pattern forme a good 2 minutes ahead of the other ribs taking 3rd overall.
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10-03-2010, 07:59 AM
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BananaShark Member
Country: UK
Location: Salcombe South Devon
Occupation: Racer and builder
Interests: Winning races
Boat name: BananaShark
Boat make: BananaShark 34' Race
Engines: Twin Yanmar BY 260's
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Salcombe South Devon
Posts: 4,638
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I remember that event - we broke our lifter!
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British Champions! RIB Formula 1 2005
National Speed Record Holder at 90.15 (still)
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10-03-2010, 08:35 AM
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#56
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: Quite Near
Occupation: Don't Ask!
Interests: Racing Rubber
Boat name: Comfortably Numb
Boat make: SR9
Engines: Yanmar
Cruising area: Over there
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Quite Near
Posts: 302
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Yeah tough break didn't Jackie & Mike break there saddles too???
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10-03-2010, 09:23 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
Posts: 15,959
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New pdf....
www.boatmad.com/SEPA/harwich.pdf
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheena Williams
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10-03-2010, 12:46 PM
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BananaShark Member
Country: UK
Location: Salcombe South Devon
Occupation: Racer and builder
Interests: Winning races
Boat name: BananaShark
Boat make: BananaShark 34' Race
Engines: Twin Yanmar BY 260's
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Salcombe South Devon
Posts: 4,638
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Numb Nuts
Yeah tough break didn't Jackie & Mike break there saddles too???
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I think they may have done - we were using the latest "Gorilla" lifter from Stainless Marine - after we broke that they changed the design back to how they were before and we never broke another one - it sucks to be a test destructor sometimes!
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British Champions! RIB Formula 1 2005
National Speed Record Holder at 90.15 (still)
www.bananasharkracing.com
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10-03-2010, 01:37 PM
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#59
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Registered User
Location: devon
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: devon
Posts: 556
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Numb Nuts
Yeah tough break didn't Jackie & Mike break there saddles too???
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Everyones props were nice and clean though.
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10-03-2010, 02:18 PM
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#60
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,041
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Advance Notice
Will be interesting to see where all the powerboaters end up lodging in an area known as `God`s Waiting Room`.
As they say up there, it`s Harwich for the Continent,and Frinton for the incontinent.
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