Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[GENE LANHAM]

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Anyway , question is this———- who remembers “MISS TITTIE”. Twin stacker Molinari with the weird S bottom ———- really Did haul asse——— but the bitch was a tad lively and unpredictable——- Renato dumped it rather heavily in practice, so it never made the start line——- Havasu 1969 If memory serves me right ?
I believe it went back to Oshberg for major surgery, I kinda lost track of it after that ?
C’mon Gene or Willabee——— one of you should remember what happened to the dear girl .

A few months later (March, 1970) it was at Parker. Bill Sirois driving. Another boat that possibly could have won Parker that year.

Bill actually led the race, but was another victim of 'The Lower Unit Issue'---

The boat had a history, and I think was the boat that Bobby Massey was killed in---

[AZMIDLYF]

[jackiewilson]

Was probably one of the Glastron Carlson “came out of a bucket” jobs. There were a lot of em about in those day’s ———- privateers were buying them off the shelf and blowing them over——- seemed like half the field was made up of Bob Hammonds plastic Molinari’s.

[powerabout]

I don’t understand the reasoning behind canceling that program. There’s nothing else that can do what the SR-71 did!

they have another plane that replaced it but its still secret, lol
Sr71 really was a fantastic machine

[jackiewilson]

they have another plane that replaced it but its still secret, lol
Sr71 really was a fantastic machine

My friend Nigel Warnes built the American Air Force Museum at Duxford to a Sir Norman Foster design.
He went on to build THE SHARD and London Bridge Station, The Millau Bridge, and many other notable buildings.
Point I’m trying to make Pilgrim———- there’s an SR 71 in there!
Always takes me a couple of days to get over a visit to Duxford——- the fact that 55,000 US airmen lost their lives in WW11 is a sober reminder of just how expensive our freedom today was—— the cost was horrendous!
Fact is Pilgrim—— there’s always new secret sh-t in the pipeline——— but it does make you wonder, if they could afford to dump a project like the SR71———- just what the hell DO they have under wraps ?

[jackiewilson]

Thursday—— so it’s car boot day.
Found a guy who had bought a rake of engineering tools———- not that I need any more tools of any description. But what the hell——- another twenty quidsworth of lathe tooling that I did not want, but when you have that well known illness called car boot sickness ——- it’s what you do, buy all sorts of useless things!
Why do they climb Everest? ———— because it’s there!

[powerabout]

I think you need to buy a mill, then the tool options get very wide

[FUJIMO]

...Hands down, your best work...lol

[jackiewilson]

Honest to Murgatroyd Fuji————the best is yet to come——— as A J so famously said———- you ain’t seen nothing yet !!Current concept is a forty foot Predator with four giggling prawns hung on the transom, looking good in gold and polished alloy.

[jackiewilson]

As I look back at the Motors I raced during my time———- the real works of art that will withstand most scrutiny were the seventies motors! Straight sixes———V sixes. They looked like they were meant to perform———- to take you where you wanted to go——— rather quickly !
Todays outboards look like truck engines——-stuck on a leg—— hang em on the back of any boat ——- what have you got ? Closest thing you’ll ever see to a giant shrimp throwing up into the boat
Me myself think they should. Rephrase and simplify the meaning of the word “OUTBOARD” ————
IE: If two people cant lift it off’n the transom without the use of lifting gear——— then it’s no longer an
“OUTBOARD”
500 + Horspower from a clamp- on ? That is obscene as well as insane.
2,500 horsepower on the back of a forty foot tunnel——— simple logical thinking comes up with frightening figures as to the lethal velocity of these creations ——- annual insurance premiums must be skyscraper figures———— must be the equivalent of a fifteen year old wanting to insure a street legal F1 road car ?

[AZMIDLYF]

Or, if you have the means, stroll into Skater and grab yourself a run of the mill 40 footer capable of 180+
https://speedonthewater.com/new-boat...ing-1350-power

[jackiewilson]

I think you need to buy a mill, then the tool options get very wide

Have never had the room—— or the He inclination to own my own milling machine Pilgrim——- let alone the ability to get the dust out of one.
Im pretty much self taught on my capabilities, apart from woodturning when I was lucky enough to meet my old friend Bill Moulland who just happens to be one of the words greatest wood turners.
He taught me everything I know about wood and wood turning, which is a skill I use very little these days.
Quite Funny really because as I walk around the recycling facility/ Scrap yard I see oil drums full of milling tools—— reamers—- cutters of every description——- huge mills just waiting to be melted down
If I wanted a “BRIDPORT” today——— they would sell it to me on weight alone at something like a dollar a pound. Seems all the small engineering businesses are closing down, just like all the high street shops.
Dawn of the “INTERNET SHOPPER” has arrived——— family businesses are becoming a thing of the past——— world is changing——— big business is taking over——— what you can buy cheap today, will be bloody expensive tomorrow.
Amazon——— Apple and Microsoft will become the predators——— all you have to do is look at SONY !

[jackiewilson]

Steady old day——- one of those where everything goes right, but at the end of the day, you don’t have a lot to show for it.
Decided to make the four outboards look like today’s “giggling Prawns with a hangover”——— took a 16”x 3”x 1 1/2” chunk of solid aluminium——— cut it into four and shaped it into something resembling one of today’s bloody great big motors———- turned out far better than I expected, so did a second one——— close of play, I had four coats of Gold on the PREDATOR and two “Puking Prawns”——- two down and two to go !

[jackiewilson]

I'd be interested to know what broke?
PS Kaye is up and about and racing soon I hear.

Sorry for the delay in answering this Pilgrim, but I’ve only just managed to talk with Craig about the problem———— simple problem really———- the saddles broke and the engine fell off the back——— four broke in the Mumbai race———- four broke in the P1 series in England last year !
Glad to hear Kaye is up and running again——- didn’t get anywhere with my enquiries as to her health!

[powerabout]

ok thanks, I see they weld a plate on to join the transom clamps together to help but clearly not enough.
Time for some bronze ones?