Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

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offshore racing’s very own “daddy cool” !!!!!!!!!

[FUJIMO]

...no relation...

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That’s “DADDY COOL’S” ride !!!!!!!!!!!
Hell of an achievement to win the COWES/TORQUAY/COWES five years on the trot at 60 + and rising. !!!!!! I told him we would allow him in at the old farts in November, [providing he brought AIMEE.]

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Betty Cooks “KAAMA” that Christian Toll had painstakingly brought back from the scrap heap broke a starter ring and was unable to make the start

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Stap my old boots, but somedays i am bloody good [and modest with it] !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hard to believe its my son Marks last day over here before he flies back to Florida.
Mind you, we did have a couple of days in Cowes Isle of Weight during that time.
Do have a shed load of work to get through in the next couple of months so i do not have time to procrastinate

[FUJIMO]

...what a warhorse...

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Dont doubt for a minute some dude is going to ask me to do Miles Jennings SILVERLINE tunnel but they will have to wait until after Christmas as i am on 7hour days and 7 days a week . Yes that’s about all i can manage these days— just bought another bandsaw with a tilting table——- that should make life a tad easier .
Do have a bunch of concepts ready for key west first week in november —- but a lot of them do require the finishing touch.
All you guys who have any of my concepts can take heart from the fact that the last two concepts have both been auctioned off for way over £2,000. Apiece . Just a pity i had to wait until i was into my 90’s before anyone believed in me !!!!!! Not even my own family thought much of my fernaglings !!!!!
Rich LUHRS is sat on number two [at a guess that would fetch five big ones — but he has had it over ten years].
Good news is that prices now start at $750 a pop !!!!!!!!
Would appear that i am the only guy in the world who is fernagling raceboat concepts out of either solid metal or hardwood ———plenty of superb plastic models around , but nobody who creates boats from the heart without drawings . Just a picture and a good memory.
sorry. Need to get the shop and me fired up again .

[FUJIMO]

[Lake X Kid]

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boat sure did run good - level and true in Sheboygan——- just nice to see some new old kids on the block——-Miles is getting a bit long in the tooth and both Johnny Tomlinson and Stevie Curtis ain’t getting any younger !!!!!!!!!

Me !!!!!! I’m just waiting in the wings in case ??????????????????

Steve Curtis (catamaran throttleman) ascent … from factory dirt motorcycle racer to,
Cougar Marine, then payed throttleman for Lamborghini, then Spirit of Norway,
then Spirit of Qatar (and also 244 mph record run), then Geico, then & now the Huski Team.

An impressive Championship career.

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My son Mark and Stevie Curtis played together as kids in the 60’s.
Stevie is now on the sticks in one of the HUSKI class 1 cats managed by my grandkids [Gary and Lou Stray] . Talked with his mother ANNE at last Sunday's Cowes /Torquay.

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Guess the kids did not shine today at St. Pete’s —-reason i suspect this, is the fact there was nothing on facebook., if anything exciting had happened the result would have been all over the bible !!!!!!!

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We dont have any such thing as LABOUR DAY this side of the pond !!!! Was not able to switch on to the P1 site to see and hear whats going on at st Pete’s on Sunday —————-now it all becomes clear —racing will be today.

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Summer finally arrived in England!!!!!!! Mind you, we did have to wait until September . Was the hottest day of the year so far —over 90 in most places.
Funny thing happened today in the workshop. Felt a bit weird in the tummy region , belly button felt different. There was a large lump popping out so i pushed it back in and phoned the surgery. What do you know , got a 3-00 pm appointment!!!!!!!1. Turns out its a HERNIA. TOLD HIM I DID NOT HAVE THE TIME FOR ONE OF THOSE DAMN THINGS.
Also have a scan booked for the belly button as well as the think station —- guess all the bits are either falling off or protesting my way of life.