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    Forty odd years ago when I first first got the Mercury dealership, I was gobsmacked by the price of their spares, particularly the waxed pull cords with the wooden peg. Went to a rope maker and he told me I could buy a hundred yard drum for the same price as five lengths from Mercury! I still got a healthy chunk left, so I used it for the rigging on the " Harsoul".
    Its still chucking it down outside so I might just put my order for a CCSEVEN in early and call it a day.?

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    Watched Zack Johnson walk off with the open, brilliant performance and some of the best golf I ever saw, the guy deserved it, he earned it. Spieth is going to be a great all time golfer, has to learn not to cry just 'cos he didn't emulate Ben Hogans triple .
    Found me a huge suitcase to transport all the pieces to Tavares ------have to dismantle most of them , then stitch them back together once I get over there.
    Not having the best summer over here, pool temp is up to 26degrees

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    Scream and fly fell out of bed last night, it had been painfully slow all day but round about eleven the connection failed in mid sentence so I never got to say goodnight so I'll just say good morning people!
    We have a beautiful morning here, just like a summers day should be, no wind and cloudless, I may just potter about in the garden this morning, have instructions to erect a new curtain rail in the computer room! We don't have one, or the mountings, so I have to cobble one together out of an old gazebo pole, then bend up some brackets from the scrap bin. Stops "dementure" creeping up on you, so she who shall be obeyed tells me!

    Was good to see the wing that got dunked in Valleyfield is up and running again!
    I well remember the way trouble always seemed to occur after a submergement, niggling little things, getting a shock from a trim pump switch, dieing in the corners, intermittent cutting out for no reason, the all night stints making sure we had everything right. Happy days ? We thought so!

    Even Willa seems to have gone on vacation , everyone's gone very quiet, you all still have "freedom of speech ", how 'bout you use it anytime soon?

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    Trump for president!
    Ross Perot for treasury

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    I just farted

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    So have I, was it a Trump or a fart.

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    Stavros and Pilgrim are full of hilarity tonight, always amazes me how you colonials either love or loathe your president, there is no middle ground! Nobody says "he's ok BUT", me myself never did meet the guy-----can remember the high hopes that people had, they thought the world was going to change when they got a coloured president, guess he didn't come up to "expectations".
    Very few U.S. Presidents do come up to expectations, even the great ones were flawed!
    Most of the British parliamentarians are as bent as an eleven sided threepenny bit, homosexuals, child molesters, perverts and paedophiles , liars and thieves, claiming for fictitious expenses, entertaining escorts (Hookers to you and me). The higher up the social ladder they are the more likely they are to be "OF THE OTHER PERSUASION"
    Was racing in Milan when this friendly American came in to the camp and started talking to Chas, my mecknick,told us he was a peanut farmer, Chas said "I know that feller from somewhere, but can't put a name to the face", he came in the camper and had a cold drink, wasn't until the day after, as we were going through the Mont-Blanc tunnel, chas said, " I just remembered who that guy was, -------it was Jimmy Carter. (That was 1972.) Thats it for today folks, but I got a quickie for you as a bedtime tale.

    Angela Merkel flew into Athens airport, was met by Border Control who looked down their noses and asked " OCCUPATION ?
    She replied smartly "NOT THIS TIME !"
    MYGGWY.J.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jackiewilson View Post
    Angela Merkel flew into Athens airport, was met by Border Control who looked down their noses and asked " OCCUPATION ?
    She replied smartly "NOT THIS TIME !"
    MYGGWY.J.
    Jackie Wilson for president! At the very least you scored my best laugh of the month award for this one.

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    Have an 8am appointment at the surgery this morning, just routine stuff, Bloods, urine, blood pressure. , cholesterol, gout, diabetes. Jesus wept, the things they do these days to try to make an octi into a centurion . Could be around for quite some time if this trend continues.

    We're having a normal sort of dull as ditchwater summer, bit of rain, lots of cloud, wind and very little sunshine, but I suppose it's better than forty degrees which seems to have hit the USA this week!
    Sawed up some of the holly I stole from Steve next door, turned half a dozen round billets, not for anything in particular, thought I might have forgotten how to use the lathe.

    "Once more into the breach my friends" , to shake a wicked leg at the world and get on with something today, so as not to waste any of the time we've been given!

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    Do most of my deep thinking in the shop. Once I have my teeth into a project I can get lost in my own little world.
    Today I took a four inch by two foot round of worm eaten Holly with an almighty crack in the middle, wasn't really much good for anything except firewood so I ran it lengthwise down the bandsaw, then put the two faces over the planer so at least I had a datum point.
    Marked out a yacht/dinghy sort of shape and hit it with the spokeshave, after about an hour, I had some semblance of a round bilge "Craft" with some elegant lines.
    Thats when I got to thinking about of how many sailboats there are of different shapes and sizes, you don't need to be a marine architect to build a sail boat, any old shape will do, any configuration of sail will do !
    All this tosh about "The Romance Of Sail" was solely because power was not around.
    Be honest would you sooner be on the Q E Two or a three masted schooner, it's a "No Brainer". Why would you ride a bike when you can travel in a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce.
    As for designers, don't make me laugh, when Henry the eighth wanted a warship updated with a bit more firepower in 1535, the designer just put a hundred cannon on the upper decks, launched it in Portsmouth harbour where it immediately fell over and sank.
    Same thing happened in Stockholm around 1625 with the VASA when Good king Gustav ordered a new ship with more cannons than ever before, most expensive ship ever built, didn't even make it out the harbour before it fell on its side and sank.
    Point I'm making is, most boats float, all on their own, they don't need a "Marine architect/Designer"!
    All today's really quick sailing boats have copied powerboats to get themselves off the mark, the successful designers all came from the race car industry, must be time to write "THE ROMANCE OF POWERBOATS" Don'tcha think?

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    Jackie - Some days are good, others are magnificent!!! Had a PET Scan today and already got the results. No sign of Cancer. Looks like surgery and chemotherapy did the job. This last 3 years have been a bit of a journey but it looks like I will be around for awhile. OLD FARTS FOREVER. - Seeroy

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    Good for you!! Keep it up.

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    Titanic designed by experts
    the Ark by a beginner

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    Quote Originally Posted by seeroy View Post
    Jackie - Some days are good, others are magnificent!!! Had a PET Scan today and already got the results. No sign of Cancer. Looks like surgery and chemotherapy did the job. This last 3 years have been a bit of a journey but it looks like I will be around for awhile. OLD FARTS FOREVER. - Seeroy
    Wonderful news Steve tell Iris to keep up the good work I will try and catch up with you in November.

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    Hope this doesn't lamblast some poor unsuspecting soul with odd "Willabee utterings!

    Quote Originally Posted by jackiewilson View Post
    .....Even Willa seems to have gone on vacation , everyone's gone very quiet, you all still have "freedom of speech ", how 'bout you use it anytime soon?
    My Bride was doing some straightening up in the storage room at home. When I returned home she said that she had found "some stuff" in a box that I might want to look at. It was a small "Treasure Chest" of racing momentos I had collected back in the day and long since forgotten.

    The "stuff" is in mint condition! Things like the 1971 Outboard World Championship program. Full color, Havasu race history, etc. and looks like it's never even been read! Several mint Vapor Trails, some photos including some Merc PR shots of me (man, I was a stud back then ). Some material from Peacock and Cordosa Marine! They had used Molinari's and Merc Twister's for sale to racers in Portugal (wonder where the hell Gary got that stuff?). Anyway, it was all cool stuff to see again.

    Most interesting is a catalog for Mercury Racing items. I have written notes in it that appear to be giving someone direction on items and wording. For example, one picture shows a thru transom power trim cylinder and it's description. I have written "add Lightweight" next to the description. Makes me think it was the last proofread before the "final draft". It mentions the Merc Race Teams success in major worldwide events held in 1971 using Twister power and that the OPC and Offshore versions of that motor can now be purchased. It has the white Molinari pickle fork, Spooker IV, that Bobby Hering drove pictured on the front cover. I wonder if this was ever changed and released to the public, I don't remember? If so, it would have come out in 1972, a year before the Merc Hi-Performance Products Division was started! If I can get Tinypic to work, I'll post it. Anyone out there know what catalog I'm talking about or actually have one?

    Also, a plaque I bought for myself when I was the Foreman of Mercury Racing. I always thought it did a nice job of expressing how things sometimes went for me around there. I goes like this .....

    It's not my job to run this ship,
    it's horn I can not blow.
    It's not my job to say how far this ship's allowed to go.
    It's not my job to throttle down
    or even clang the bell.
    But let the damn thing hit the dock
    and see who catches hell!
    Last edited by willabee; 07-23-2015 at 01:32 PM.

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