Saving Old Seagulls

The other Charles asked my to post this.

Tjhe other hemisphere, one suspects.

This is Ross Leger using a 102, taken during the Great Waikato Seagull race a couple of years ago.
This is how fast a good 102 will go!
Notice the fuel top up system from a tank in the front, & where the weight has to be.
No life jacket but a survival suit instead.

Ross is a very quick boy!

madness ..madness ...

these young hot head thrill-seekers in their devil-may-care quest for unfettered velocity.... ignoring to their cost the natural beauty passing by as one just potters along <<sigh>>

Is it my screen -
or why is Jeremy Clarkson's upper body half through the floor of a a boat? He appears strangely ensconced in immersion tank lagging.

His vast bum is creating a sizeable bow wash.
I notice it must be a displacement hull, the keel being well down in the water . . .
however with his feet sticking out through both sides of the boat this must be a patent Hydrofoil design to raise the boat on the plane . . .

It looks like a shark chasing him which would account for the forward position, no legs and top speed!

Just musing <grin>

Hugo.

Naah! I think he is surfing down the front of a huuuuuuuuge wave, either that or its a lake with a slope in it.

Is it an optical trick or is that a steel tank on a 102? looks like you can see a seam on the left hand side there ** shudder **

Long range steel fuel tank circa late seventies early eighties. Aesthetics not important in the quest for speed IMHO.

Great photo.

you chaps just don't get it do you ....?

these speed freaks' heniousness knows no bounds

from previous posting,... My AC will go to the race

This is obviously one of the 'Extra Light Grandads' currently being illicitly traded .....obviously a secret training run in preparation for the 20th in cornwall

one despairs...just despairs ....

The Grandad thing has been stopped,
now all participants must wear a regulation lifejacket.

So half filling a 2 litre plastic coke bottle with his ashes is just outside the rules, even though he floated real well in my bath & salt water is more bouyant.

This looks like it could work with a seagull.

Modern materials (foam, epoxy, 4mm ply) should be quick to make and a bit of fun.

Also it would give them a major laugh on the jet-ski launching ramp.



9 days to race H.I.D. has chucked major spanner in the works, broken both the bones in her lower left leg. There goes my support vehicle driver.
Boat will now be a tad lighter as she will be watching from the Pub.

H-A

If there's a psychology student reading this, then here's the basis of your thesis, mate!

indeed ....

H-A facing a thorough drubbing ???
has introduced a problem in the HID Dept ??
spark not quite blue enough??

Hmmmmm ???

Nothing like a bit of sympathy!

The operation to pin her spiral tibial fracture was a success, they don't mend the fibula. Now on crutches for 8 weeks.

She will will be out of hospital soon (if we can get her off the morphine), but she will not take part in the race.

Family now back on full rations.(kids will be up front for more weight)

H-A

P.S. Might use my Lodge plug that could give me a pink spark.

Sympathy is most certainly in order, hope all is back in working order soones.

A Lodge C3 could just give you three sparks all at the same time. But pink? Hmmm

perhaps I missed something you all know about seagull racing ....first you aint going to get good speed unless you can get it on the plane ....are we saying not enough power or too much body weight for this ??? so why not use a 12 year old kid as the pilot???
whats this survival suit caper ..... if you are doing say 1 km each way on a calm river or lake ???? more details please

Why is the boat not long and thin like the ones at oxford v cambridge ??

please bring a light to the ignorant ??