Hello Mudder-----hello Fadder ------here I am in old Granada----
Nice and sunny-----could be funny,
Made this old fart quite a happy little bunny.
Just got in -----more misery coming your way later, J.
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Hello Mudder-----hello Fadder ------here I am in old Granada----
Nice and sunny-----could be funny,
Made this old fart quite a happy little bunny.
Just got in -----more misery coming your way later, J.
Tavares is coming closer and closer..... Jackie.
DO NOT SEND Waterwork's Molinari to him. Make Watercress come to Tavares to get it. I will pick Waterwings up at the airport and deposit his Canadian bum at the golf course for the tourney.
Is That OK with you, Waterfall?
P.S. How about a Picklefork Molinari, Jackie?
:D
Do you have the wrong number or do I have the wrong "old guy" ......Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
...... Man, look at the head on that moustache! :D .....
[QUOTE=willabee;2746669]Do you have the wrong number or do I have the wrong "old guy" ......
...... Man, look at the head on that moustache! :D .....[/QUOTE
Is that ever one smart bonce
Good to hear from you Willa, I missed your caustic comments.
Old guy I was referring to came out of Missouri, retired to Naples, had a try at making a name for himself at golf but failed miserably! It's on the tip of my tongue, sod my old britches-------WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT GUYS NAME.??
Somebody somewhere must remember his name------sooner or later?
SEA BISCUIT .? Or was that an old horse!
Maybe Butler or Rich can remember, will ask around at Tavares in November.
Pretty sure he raced number7 a time or too, maybe I was thinking of Barry Sheene, I give up!
You think Waterwings will maybe get your message Rich----does that mean I don't have to pick up the "Pony Express" delivery charge ?Quote:
Originally Posted by T2x
Way things are stacking up in the shop and the shed, I may have to hire a 20' container to ship everything.
Never gave a thought to a "Molli pickle" but it shouldn't pose too much of a problem, finished most of the present projects, just got the numbers and decals to finish off WARBY'S wonder A Couple of T3/s and four or five gear cases then I'm home free.
[QUOTE=jackiewilson;2746674][QUOTE=
Pretty sure he raced number7 a time or too, maybe I was thinking of Barry Sheene, I give up![/QUOTE]
This old guy came out of Ft. Lauderdale-----but his regular number was '43'---
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Warbys wonder, almost there.
[QUOTE=GENE LANHAM;2746679]Does "OLD BLUE"ring any chimes-----and I don't mean the V6 Merc I Aquired at Tavares last year!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Been one of those days when you try and get a quart into a pint pot ! End of the day and I'm all Cathedreled out-----Granadas is a particularly awe inspiring example.
Finished the day with a visit to a tapas bar or three , swilled down with a couple of jars of Sangria.
me done for the day------encore mañana----MYGGWY. J.
Wateryoutalkingabout TIIX? I'd be delighted to have the sculptor hand-deliver his creation to me in person! Deal, Rich!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Jackie, keep it safe and away from Warby's missile - that thing looks intimidating next to the outboard rigs. Of course size doesn't matter considering ours were meant for marathons. ;0)
Thanks Watercolor...Quote:
Originally Posted by Watermark
Thats ok Waterworks, say hi to Buffalo, ?Quote:
Originally Posted by T2x
Gotta go , breakfast and the Alhambra palace are calling,
by the way, this hotel here slap dad in the centre of Granada makes the Ritz look a bit like my garden shed----HOTEL PALACIO LOS PATOS ! Look it up on the dot dot. j.
Go back in time 700 years or so, there was this here Maquessa who had 50,000 CONQUISTERDORS with nobody to fight, King of Spain had just paid him for the use of his soldiers leaving him with a few shillings to play with !
They needed to be occupied in a gainful fashion, !
So, take a mountain and set them to work for ten years building a fort, some fountains, a castle with moat, a few hundred acres turp
into gardens and A Whorehouse ( Harem is the posh word) , for the nobility and 50,000 horny Musketeers, that's a lot of Testerone floating about so they needed a lot of female company.
Eyes are drooping, lots of Sangria, am a tad "Knackered"-----Talk later.
Alhambra ! Has to be one of the most fantastic places I ever visited. everyone should put this place at the top of their places to go to list. must have a hundred gardeners keeping the place in shape, Awesome!
Not possible to see it all in a day, it's a mini city on a mountainside, views over Granada are spectacular .
its a quiet place until 20:00hrs, that's when folk put on their best togs and strut around the town showing off all their new clothes, roving the tapas bars and hoping to pull a bird or two. This goes on until 2--3 am.
Cheapest place in the world to buy leather goods, handbags, shoes, belts etc.
Hotel is outrageous, has more white marble than the White House, headboard has over thirty crocodile skins, bleached white to match the dressing table and waste bin.
Tomorrow we head for Cordoba for a couple of days, it has one of the world's grandest cathedrals.
Sorted the Pickle out in my mind decided to put a V 8 JONRUDE on its bum.
Have a need to elaborate on the Red Tunnel, needs a bit more detail.
Been away two whole days but got the workshop fever, anyone remember Masefields "Sea Fever" ?
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, and all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by. Look it up on the dot dot.
Bought meself a fancy silk baseball umpires shirt, for showing off in Tavares.
All rambled out, don't worry, I'll have more misery for you tomorrow just remember, "Always head for the sun, then you will never walk in the shadows" G'night all MYGGWY.J.
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This old BASTY Nastard followed me again----told him to bugger off !
Your upper body strength has to be off the scale!Quote:
Originally Posted by willabee
Dave
Jackie can pull start a v6
Yes Pilgrim, but but only on Easter Sunday-----after Spinach -------and before Sex !Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Three months after that picture Dave, I had a growth that would have made Scotty B. Look like the baby Jesus------then I cleaned up my act and turned to religion. (Boat Racing)Quote:
Originally Posted by CNC_Guy
Lovely 200 kilometre drive through The mountains to Córdoba-----bought four of the largest oranges I ever saw for a dollar. Lunch including wine and water was twenty dollars for two of us !
Hotel is centre of the town, bit of a grot-box compared to the last one.
zuzz time , talk later!
Now you know why you pay all that tax in the uk.
Nice roads too?
Try and stay away from Facebook -----should be retitled INYERFACEBUK , never could abide folk getting boating facts wrong. As usual I've opened my big mouth, put my foot in it and stirred the pot 'till it doth boil over and some folk may get burned along the way.
Now take young Tim Thipedeaux (Was him who first introduced me to S&F), dads are the be all and end all and can never be wrong, 'cept sometimes dads can elongate facts according to degree of neccessaty at any given time .
A lot of folk have been misled over a long period of time as to the prowess of the OMC V8.
Very few knew how to drive it.
There were no boats available to put it on.
First efforts by recognised boatbuilders ie; Molinari, Velden, Burgess and Hodges were pitiful.
OMC did not have enough Qualified drivers to form a series, so huge sums of money were offered to ANY driver willing to put their life on the line. Still not enough jockeys, so they recruited drivers from the lower classes who did not have the necessary skills to run those motors.
Right, I just opened a can of worms, let's see what crawls OUTA the woodwork.
OK let's forget that one shall we-----move on to more interesting things.
Cordoba is on a river with massive bridges, ornate artwork and modern sculpture which to my mind is pure sh-TE , I could do better with my eyes tight open. Piccasso and Dali were brilliant con artists, let the mind wander and doodle, people don't understand it so it must be brilliant, some of it was, but by accident sooner than design!
Not looking for a fight, just telling you the way I see it, feel free to disagree.
Hands are as smooth as a baby's bum, three days and haven't lifted a finger, I ate too much and drank even more. Pounded the paving stones looking in shop windows that were selling the same crap that the previous 27 shops were selling at the same asking price you could knock down by 95% and still wind up paying too much for!
Off to see the church inside a cathedral inside a Mosque, built by the English which pissed off the Spanish, so they covered it with a cathedral which only lasted a couple of hundred years before the Muslems took umbridge and covered the whole lot with a Mosque a couple of hundred years ago!
Halfway through the holiday deal, I'm stacking up brownie points for Tavares, three down and three to go.
I did put a razor edge on my three spokeshaves before I left, ready for carving the V8 Molli.
See what Lewis can do in qualifying tomorrow, bit of friction in the camp. Keeps everyone on their toes, will annoy you all some more later, MYGGWY,J.
How is Bernie going to reign in Mercedes, they spend more than all the other teams added together, thats a recipe for a failed class if ever there was?
PS love to hear about the f1 v8 as I have one now.
When you get 25% of the pot, why bother?Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
You are such a money supermarket dot com Pilgrim, I GOT ONE NOW, NA, NA, NA NA NAH.
Jackie: Vacation doesn't seem to agree with you. You appear a tad more obstinate that usual. Lighten up and enjoy your time with your pretty bride.
thanks John
Wait till Jackie sees how big my mantle piece is to mount that great big lump on.
WHATTTTT,! Nothing could be further from the truth Johno, I was born to be pampered and puffed up in swanky doss houses, fed champagne and caviar by topless females, sit on my arse all day long and do sweet f,a all my life-----------somehow, I don't think so, I got withdrawal symptoms for the workshop already and there's still two more days to go!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
Just love big mantle pieces Pilgrim, usually means a hot fire down below and trouble brewing!Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Went out Tapas barring last night which left poor old Jilly with a very upset tum. She spent most of last night in and out the bathroom, didn't go down for brekky either-----she must be bad!
Mosque morning ,if Jillys up to it, it's turned 11 and no sign of activity yet, nice bright sunshiny day, yelling at me to put on my walking boots.
Rich is helping out on V8 overachievement claims, I get lonely out there on a limb, an ounce of help is worth a pound of pity as my sainted mother used to say.
My friend Bedford Davy, financed GG/s World record attempt, all the hype put out that 200 mph should be easily attained, think when they got around 150 it gradually dawned on GARY there may be a slight problem. It's fairly safe to say the motor was not quite a production fishing motor or the hull a production, Molinari/Velden craft, think it was a rather special Karlessson, built for just one purpose!
To do a 146 lap time with a couple of turns would need a top end of around 175, somehow, I don't think so. Anymore than a 100 mph lap at Bristol.
I shall wait for comments!
CÓRDOBA -----traditional home of Bullfighting---remember Tyrone Power in "Blood and Sand. "(Lust in the dust) and Errol Flynn with his trusty TOLEDO steel tooth pick.
In spite of all this, the place stinks of sewage, especially down by the riverside.
Did the Mosque this morning , amazing place------can accommodate 100,000 godbotherers at one time, Muslims and prayer mats included.
It must have cost trillions to construct-----it's religion gone berserk----how anyone could put that much time effort and money into any one project, beggars belief, started sometime around 745 AD, with the finishing touches some thousand years later!, will download some piccies later.
Yes I know it's got sod all to do with S&F but it does creep in under the "Tricks" label, that's why I kept the OMC bit in here!
"Anymore than a 100 mph lap at Bristol."
I shall wait for comments![/QUOTE]
Jackie..wasn''t that lap in the official timed practice... or was off the back of Charlies omega to ramp up the crowds interest?
We shall never know Phill-----IT was difficult to get the boat set up to run 100 and accelerate out of the turns so there was no way it happened except over the loud speaker, but the thousands of folk watching kept coming back for more, and let's face it 100 sounds a hell of a lot better than 87.275. Am pretty certain GG in his wisdom had enough foresight to make sure the "official" speeds were much higher than anything that went on before, besides just WHO would ever question it ?
...glad you are enjoying your trip Jackie and am looking forward to the pics. Hope the Wife is feeling better and remind her what we always say when headed down to Mexico "Don't drink the water"!!
2005 Cappellini did 156mph with an F1 boat, a hydro should go lots faster as would a Merc built outside F1 rulesQuote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
So the v8 on a hydro had 20mph on it
That just about sums it up Pilgrim.But don't forget the odd million dollars thrown at the record attempt.
For every action ----there is a reaction---that's Kenetic energy for you.
In the early days of boat racing I remember being told by a well known racer of the time he had seen sixty miles an hour on the clock, I knew the boat would never see even fifty, but it made the guy happy, who was I to shatter the delusion. Ever since then I have taken all boat speeds with a pinch of salt, and the stories just keep on getting bigger.
take a logical step backwards and analyse the facts, start with a 50 hp lump --45/50 mph, then a 100 hp----60/65, then the change starts when we start using tunnels, 125/ 150 hp ----75/85 mph-then comes 200hp and we get speeds approaching 110/120. Now we have reached "the wall". No matter how high the hp. Speeds only creep up gradually, fifty years on, we are still nowhere near the 200 mark. Exclude drags and specials, we are talking production motors and their use in competition.
my own veiw is power to weight-----hydro Versus tunnel, straight line, rolling start, no contest???
this is a hornets nest but please don't shoot the messenger, like someone else I know, I like to stir the pot from time to time.j.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Galveston340
I'm afraid Jilly did drink the water and has been rather poorly and taken to the bed, that's why you are getting more nonsense than usual, I've been sitting in the room all day keeping an eye on her and pounding the IPad.
Broadband speeds here are dismal ----morse would be quicker-----but couldn't send you mosque Piccies----I tried, honest to MURGATROYD
all true but we did have a 100hp evinrude doing 131 mph in 1961Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
So jump to 200 not so big with 400+hp I would have thought?
Look at offshore boats 100mph was a big deal in the 80's now a big tunnel with same big blocks and stern drives can do 200mph
[QUOTE=powerabout;2747512]all true but we did have a 100hp evinrude doing 131 mph in 1961
So jump to 200 not so big with 400+hp I would have thought?
Look at offshore boats 100mph was a big deal in the 80's now a big tunnel with same big blocks and stern drives can do 200mp
Entrops efforts were great, but not representative of circuit speed, but close to what V8/s were doing, 25 years later with double the horsepower-----
Offshore has come a long way since Ritchie Powers took me for a ride in an eighty mph Cigarette with 500 horsepower in the early seventies.
Gary tells me the HP is now up in the thousands on the GEICO.