Beware Sunday

[Lightwave395]

All you sailors pottering around the Western Solent tomorrow morning beware the start of the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes powerboat race at 1000.
1000's of HP will be charging along towards Hurst !

 

[ashtead]

A few racing in cowes today but only 2 feet long but still seem to flip over I noticed,

 

[Lightwave395]

Went down to watch the start, bit of a non-event really, the small number racing all went west along the mainland side so the modest crowd lining the Cowes to Gurnard shore couldn't see much worth watching

 

[E39mad]

That brings back a distant memory - in 1989 I was a young yacht broker for Ancasta who I think sponsored the event back then. I was tasked with going to Torquay and ringing the results back. All rather boring.

 

[Sandy]

Goodness is this event still going. I hate to think what the fuel costs are.

 

[Frogmogman]

All you sailors pottering around the Western Solent tomorrow morning beware the start of the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes powerboat race at 1000.
1000's of HP will be charging along towards Hurst !

A worthwhile reminder. I happened to be fixing something at the top of the mast of Moonlight one year when the Cowes Torquay Cowes powerboat race started.

Not an experience I’d choose to repeat.

 

[DanTribe]

Perhaps my memory is at fault but I seem to recall a competitor running full bore up Paignton beach in a fog.
Pre GPS days.

 

[Offshore57]

Steve Curtiss I think.......

 

[Sybarite]

Goodness is this event still going. I hate to think what the fuel costs are.

I have a new neighbour in the marina with a brand new 29' Jeanneau cabin cruiser. He has 2 X 250 hp o/bs which give him 42 knts and 120l/h consumption.
Nice guy though and the French equivalent of a chartered accountant.