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Title: Got no steering.
Post by: Rash on April 23, 2011, 12:34:49 PM

http://youtu.be/fiRuB2i0aW0

Two lucky boats.

Title: Re: Got no steering.
Post by: M0nkey_Man on April 23, 2011, 01:17:04 PM

very lucky

Title: Re: Got no steering.
Post by: gyrene81 on April 23, 2011, 02:06:40 PM

i don't do 160 on pavement with 4 wheels...megashark or a rogue wave better be after me before i try it on water...  :O

Title: Re: Got no steering.
Post by: icepac on April 23, 2011, 04:02:22 PM

Saw Skipp Walther lose his rudder at around 180 in miami a couple of days after Jim McCormick got pitched and almost cut off his legs.

Jim Caviezel starred in the movie "madison" which loosely paralleled that season.

I was a pit rat at miami marine stadium as kid.

A nailbiter from that season....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPOQUlQXt0

Title: Re: Got no steering.
Post by: Rash on April 23, 2011, 04:20:23 PM

Those guys are crazy.  Didn't they use Merlins back then?

Title: Re: Got no steering.
Post by: Rash on April 23, 2011, 04:26:03 PM

Quote from: icepac on April 23, 2011, 04:02:22 PM

Saw Skipp Walther lose his rudder at around 180 in miami a couple of days after Jim McCormick got pitched and almost cut off his legs.

Jim Caviezel starred in the movie "madison" which loosely paralleled that season.

I was a pit rat at miami marine stadium as kid.

A nailbiter from that season....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPOQUlQXt0

Those guys are crazy!

Title: Re: Got no steering.
Post by: Rash on April 23, 2011, 04:51:08 PM

That growl is a merlin.

Title: Re: Got no steering.
Post by: icepac on April 23, 2011, 09:00:45 PM

Most were Allisons but budweiser used turbocharged griffons later on because boats were hard on the supercharger drive systems causing them to break.

Apparently the guy who hoarded all the merlins postwar would not sell them to boat racers so they had to settle for allison or griffons.

Holset miss madison also used turbos...........holset turbos.

Title: Re: Got no steering.
Post by: Rash on April 23, 2011, 09:15:10 PM

Good to know Icepack.  They sound great. When i was kid, boats and tractor pull guys used them.  Then I heard they where running out of them, and started to switch to turbines then.