Gee spot.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Chris was obviously worried about what might become of the old girl.

3 bums looking for damage.

We were looking at the V drives,we had to encapsulate the timber bearer in heavy alloy plate to take the xtra torque.the drive gear ratios were changed to suit the new set up,new gears had to be made to change the ratios.Bit like a transfer box.They held up ok.

GRITINEYE:rofl:

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

OK OK,all you who pm,here they are,CUMMINS 5.7 litre.480hp each.turbo charged,after/intercooled.common rail,fly by wire (modern crap wont last 40 yrs like mine)

[N.O.S.]

Gee, whatever floats your boat :rofl:Nice clean transfer box and scullery, I mean bilges!! Where's all the lub oil and diesel gone??

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Gee, whatever floats your boat :rofl:Nice clean transfer box and scullery, I mean bilges!! Where's all the lub oil and diesel gone??

Not like the old days mate is it,your be pleased to know theres plenty in mine,:-D

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

New props have arrived for mine,to good to use,look nice on the wall.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

:argh:

Removing the rudder stocks,bodged by the company before the race.

They are bronze and the addisive they used made removal verry difficult,we had to run a wood saw between the two it took fore ever.

the shaft is bent where it fitts into the bronze blade,the bearing surface is rough lookes like they faced it up with an angle grinder.

this one is just as bad

the two marks are where they bored out the stock to take what was probably a standard size bush,they left it that thin it came thro you couldnt make it up.

Thats how much they took out:argh:

A lot of pounding went on here took all the paint off,mainly due to failure of trim tabs i suspect.

[AndyFowler]

More please Cat ! :-D

[Enigma]

A lot of work by the looks of it.

[gritineye]

All good stuff CW, here's one for your naval collection

 

 

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

damage to the starboard prop from the barrier

[Tony B]

When the HMVF day on the briney then? Have you a copy of Peter Scott's Battle of the Narrow Seas. One of the guys at work knew him, his farther was one of Scott's crew on Grey Goose.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Packed ready to go back to the co who repaired them ,they can do it all again for free.

The shaft was running out of line,thanks guys did a real good job.

when i took the bolts out the flange dropped about an inch,

[gritineye]

How will the casting be repaired? Have they got a plan?

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

How will the casting be repaired? Have they got a plan?

Dont know as yet Bernard,we wait with baited breath.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

The company who did the original machining replaced the parts free of charge.The work was finished at 3am thursday.it was a bit dissapointing that 40 knts was still the top speed even tho the props had 1.5 inches taken of the pitch.this did allow the port engine to make max revs.the starboard still down 150 revs.The trim tab rams were doubled up as they constantly failed.it didnt seem to help.The organisers allowed a boat from the cruiser class to transfer to Historic class the day before the race,it was only 20yrs old and plastic,this caused a lot of bad feeling especially as it won the historic class.Gee and 747 were neck and neck and shared 2nd place.

Forgot to mention they burnt 1.000 lts of diesel less than 200 miles.

Edited August 27, 2008 by catweazle (Banned Member)

[gritineye]

CW, you say replaced the parts, completely new castings? Or how did they do it, will it last? Pix please

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

CW, you say replaced the parts, completely new castings? Or how did they do it, will it last? Pix please

Hi,they made new castings,they said,but i doubt it as we had to make a space block to fit behind them,because the shafts hit the boat.i didnt take any pics but andy may have done,i think they found some off the shelf the bolt holes were all out.i dont believe they made them,but they were free.

[gritineye]

Often the way, try to make up for skill with cunning, pity about the plastic boat, at least you got placed.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Often the way, try to make up for skill with cunning, pity about the plastic boat, at least you got placed.

They had a great day out,and its doubtfull it will happen again,no sponcers any more,green party and all that.So they were happy,as usuall they went to the aid of another competiter,who had lost one engine,more lost time.it was one of the front runners,it eventually limped back into cowes at 10pm.The driver of Gee was a Lady who races in P1 which is the 100mph stuff scary.

[gritineye]

Well at least you were there and involved and had the experiences, (trying desperately not to sound like a GOM!)

[Jack]

CW - you have a flipping good camera as well by the looks of it!

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

CW - you have a flipping good camera as well by the looks of it!

Your not wrong there Jack,its a Pentax spotmatic very old .fitted with a 28mm to 100mile telephoto lense .i was in the cotswolds:rofl:

Photos courtesy of the organ grinders all taxs paid.

[Degsy]

Hey CW it's long past time you fitted a concealed torpedo tube to deal with these plastic tubs.:-D

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Hey CW it's long past time you fitted a concealed torpedo tube to deal with these plastic tubs.:-D

Hi ,your not wrong there,what a b....y liberty.The firm that made the props,are now saying he should have three blade now.muppets.i said this 6 mnths ago i told Richard.i said he would try and sell him 4 blade and not to listen,this is one of those things where computors cant help,its all down to past experience and trialls.i just heard the 747 boat is now on its way back to the south of France where it lives,those guys,all pilots,hence the 747,some people live the life of riley,who was this riley bloke?anyone know.CW.

[snowtracdave]

Google says the saying seems to have first been used by Irish American soldiers of the First World War but it's origins are unknown