New Boats 2011

[blueskyracer]

Just wondering since the cockpit side is cut down for a kneeler. You will like the laydown but it will take some getting use to. You feel like you should be doing more in the corners but you are just along for the ride. HEHE

[Aussie Steve]

I asked Drew to leave it at the same hight as the old side and by the time I thought to tell him to run it through without the cut out it was to late ...duh .

I will run the hand throttle inside and not on the cut out now .

I saw from pic,s the spray from the side fine was hitting the chine pretty hard in the turns to so Drew moved it out so it should help on the turns .

Steve A

[John C167]

Mike;

I don't think Steve will have any problems laying down on the job ! I can't wait to see the new paint job either, Drew did a super job on the sides !

John B.

[blueskyracer]

Can we say Bye Bye green!!!!!!!!!!!

[Aussie Steve]

Mike;

I don't think Steve will have any problems laying down on the job ! I can't wait to see the new paint job either, Drew did a super job on the sides !

John B.

Yeah John I teased Dav Trisco when he went inboard about being lazy sitting down to drive now I'm laying down hahaha .

Drew is at the top of my Christmas card list .

I will be testing up near you John early next year you should come down and jump in for acouple laps give me your input , I would say bring your next boat down but I'm thinking it will bring the cop with it's sound lol

Steve A

[Aussie Steve]

Can we say Bye Bye green!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes no more green .

Spray shop is full this wk so I will have to wait until next wk now but I will get some pic's during and after to post up .

Steve A

[blueskyracer]

John, yes Steve will make a good laydown driver. Dang COUCH POTATO anyway.

[John C167]

Steve;

I don't think the 850 will make any more noise than the 500, just different ! I can only hope to have it by testing time ! Looks like end of Feb. at the earliest, then have to go to California and pick it up ! Then I need to slap some paint on it, NO Mike, not GREEN ! Most likely will be Slate gray (gotta match the tow rig!), blue and nat. wood !

John B.

[JBM]

Paint Job

Steve;

I don't think the 850 will make any more noise than the 500, just different ! I can only hope to have it by testing time ! Looks like end of Feb. at the earliest, then have to go to California and pick it up ! Then I need to slap some paint on it, NO Mike, not GREEN ! Most likely will be Slate gray (gotta match the tow rig!), blue and nat. wood !

John B.

Its more of a Machinery Grey. I think there may be some more of it around here still...

[form-e one]

steve,,,,new 850 boat???..if so let me know willmake more races overthere,,,,

[blueskyracer]

John you should of did what I did instead of moving up to the bigger class and learning how to use a tow rope. I went on a diet. Makes the doctor happy and the C mod boat happy. Have lost 15 pounds since a week before Thanksgiving. I hope to be around 175 by testing time. That is my dream. I am at 198 now.

Whos 850 are you getting, Mr Powells?? As far as noise if it has the strait mega phones they are a lot louder.

[John C167]

Mike;

I would have, but 850 MOD is a class I ran back when it was FEH (late 70's) and I like the ride of a bigger boat ! The 500 was a hoot and that boat was a great ride, but I just want to get back to the bigger boats (A good 850 boat should'nt break either !). Don't worry, I still hope to travel to a couple of your races this summer if I can !

My wife is having some problems with her Cancer, so any plans I make are going to be written in erasable ink !

John B.

[form-e one]

john just to let ya know,,,my 850/f0rm e was only on the rope twice all year,,,, once blew over and 2nd the 5/16th bolt for throttle broke,,, othe rwise always ran,,,, just to let ya know usually abot 6 form-e hydros over this side of mountains and we usually run real good..speeds..cheyney

[John C167]

Cheyney;

You counting the blow over as on the rope ! You got a ride in the rescue boat ! Wish I had a camera when you tried to "launch" , you did that right in front of Bill Dingman and I sitting in the second turn patrol boats ! Mine back in the "old" days was pretty reliable too, very rarely got a tow in !

Well, I am hoping to get the boat in Feb., will try to get some "belly" time in it before the season starts ! When do you get your new Beast ?

John B.

[John C167]

Mike;

Garlands has the pulse tuned pipe, has the same sound as Cheyney's I would think, just exits out the side and not the top ! Hope it is not as loud as a Quincy Looper 6, OMG, those will wake the dead for miles around, but what a sound !

John