The boy Yorke.....

[Captain Chaos]

Originally posted by Gav
".........where has all the mudguards gone....la, la ....la la!!"

come on gav, that jokes months old!

[Ben]

Originally posted by Jon Fuller
.....Is puting his life in Roger Severy's hands, navigating in his Phantom 28 for the round the Island at Cowes!

I spoke with Roger tonight, and it's all set.

Hmmmnnn. Reminds me that I must ring 'HIM' to see how the work on 'Mr. Noisy' is going including the proposed cutting of the cavitation plates enabling the fitment of larger diameter props.

If it's been done, I think I have found some very nice 18 X 28 five bladers.







Unfortunately, that measurement is in feet

[Gav]

Originally posted by Captain Chaos
come on gav, that jokes months old!

whatever

[Jon Fuller]

Ben, Is that a 'Queen Mary' prop?

[Ben]

S.S. Untited States (former Blue Riband record holder I believe) at the Mariners Museum in Newport News.

[Jon Fuller]

Originally posted by Ben
S.S. Untited States (former Blue Riband record holder I believe) at the Mariners Museum in Newport News.

Ah right.

yeah, I think it was built specifically to do the blue riband.

Didn't it fkk up the boilers doing it, coz they thrashed the living daylights out of it.

Was a fair old speed across the pond I think.

Strange to think that feckin gert thing screwed it's way across the Atlantic.

I know a few people that've done that!

[Ben]

Don't know about the boilers but I wouldn't doubt it as it's top speed was confirmed at 44 knots!

[Matt]

I dunno.

Originally posted by verytricky
If you do around the island for a record, can you legally thread the needle?

[Matt]

Just done a bit of googling - can't find any reference to boiler damage from the blue riband run. But it has got quarter of a million horsepower, and on the run the crossed paths with the queen mary (current holder at the time). Closing speed was almost 80mph!!!

I wonder if Chris, Gordon, Jan & John will do an atlantic attempt - almost the only run they've not done!

Originally posted by Jon Fuller
Ah right.

yeah, I think it was built specifically to do the blue riband.

Didn't it fkk up the boilers doing it, coz they thrashed the living daylights out of it.

Was a fair old speed across the pond I think.

Strange to think that feckin gert thing screwed it's way across the Atlantic.

I know a few people that've done that!

[JamesM]

Who's the current holder of the Blue Riband?

[Jon Fuller]

Tom Gentry I think

[JamesM]

In what?

[DAVE]

Gentry Eagle ?????

[JamesM]

Transatlantic crossing record - Ambrose Lighthouse at the entrance to New York Harbor to Bishop Rock on England's Isles of Scilly.

Year - 1989

Boat - Gentry Eagle
112'
11,500 horsepower
63 knots (70+ mph)

Record time - 62 hours & 7 minutes

[Matt]

And now refitted as a superyacht and for sale.
http://www.gentryeagle.com

[Rupert Munro]

Just found this on a google search:

In 1990, construction of caramaran Hoverspeed Great Britain had been completed in Australia and she set sail across the Pacific and then the Atlantic to her new owner's base in Europe. The SeaCat vessel crossed the Atlantic non-stop in three days seven hours. Her owners asked the museum holding the Riband trophy to hand it over - they refused. There was a question mark over the vessel - catamarans are clearly not steam-powered ocean liners. In fact, the original rule of the Hales Committee was that the trophy would be awarded to the fastest vessel making a surface transatlantic crossing, whether it was powered by steam or oil, with one hull or two. After legal action, the trophy was handed over.

HGB's record lasted until 1988, when it was broken twice - both by caramarans. The current holder, Cat-Link V, is a 91 m Danish car and passenger catamaran ferry. Her attempt was eventful - barely hours after departing America she was diverted on a search mission offf the coast of Canada, delaying her by two hours. Even so, she crossed the Atlantic in two days, 20 hours - the first such transatlantic voyage in under three days and the first to average over 40 knots.

The three record-holders of the 1990s all took the Blue Riband when travelling to Europe for delivery from their Australian construction yard. There has been no record-breaking run in passenger service since United States in 1952. It is interesting to note that Hoverspeed Great Britain broke United States' forty-year old record only by three hours!


http://www.plimsoll.org/OnTheLine/Tr...bandReborn.asp

[Rupert Munro]

So current holder is Cat-Link V

[Matt]

Anyway, what's atlantic crossings got to do with me naviguessing for roger - hopefully my navigation isn't quite that bad.

[Rupert Munro]

Pic of the Virgin Boat:

[Jon Fuller]

I think the trophy that's been changing hands with the likes of Branson & Gentry, was the one Branson put up when the Blue Riband was refused to him, coz his boat wasn't a passenger carrying vessel.

So the 'genuine' blue riband is for ferries only.