Spyro
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If a picture paints a 1000 words
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rotrax
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What were Murray Walkers famous words
" To finish first, first you have to finish! "
I know little about racing yachts but I have taken on the toughest and longest race track in the world - the IOM TT course - and finished three times out of four starts.
The one I retired in was a small internal gearchange part that Suzuki thought might have gone through the hardening process twice, making it brittle. Everything else was fine, just jammed in 4th gear.
Despite the superb build and hi-tec materials of Hugo Boss I suspect it was too lightly constructed or a touch of the old carbon fibre autoclave going wrong. Be a sodding great autoclave for a boat that big!
Round 'ere in the early days Williams F1 had trouble with reproducing equal quality for their driver tubs. One would be good, the next couple not up to scratch for no apparent reason.
We shall no doubt find out soon enough.
And I might be wrong......................
" To finish first, first you have to finish! "
I know little about racing yachts but I have taken on the toughest and longest race track in the world - the IOM TT course - and finished three times out of four starts.
The one I retired in was a small internal gearchange part that Suzuki thought might have gone through the hardening process twice, making it brittle. Everything else was fine, just jammed in 4th gear.
Despite the superb build and hi-tec materials of Hugo Boss I suspect it was too lightly constructed or a touch of the old carbon fibre autoclave going wrong. Be a sodding great autoclave for a boat that big!
Round 'ere in the early days Williams F1 had trouble with reproducing equal quality for their driver tubs. One would be good, the next couple not up to scratch for no apparent reason.
We shall no doubt find out soon enough.
And I might be wrong......................
Tomahawk
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With all the due apologies for a political post in Scuttlebutt... but here is another dejected soul looking very unhappy he can’t have things his way..
Stemar
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A caption for both: "Maybe I should have taken up golf"
But then, on the other hand
But then, on the other hand
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I've just read that they think the rudder failed due to Orca attack. Apparently some people nearby had been goading the orcas in old fashioned diving suits painted as seals and it must have annoyed them.
38mess
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What's the point.
Tomahawk
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RichardS
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Then why can't I paint you? 
Richard
Richard
rotrax
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A caption for both: "Maybe I should have taken up golf"
But then, on the other hand
Dipping once again into my copy of Alistair Cookes "Letter from America" he gives a quote from the commentator, wit and homespun philosopher H.L. Menken.
" If I had my way, any man guilty of Golf would be ineligible for any office of trust under these United States! "
How did he know - he said that 50 years ago.....................................
mainsail1
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I am gutted for him............he no doubt followed the advice of "the experts" when building the boat.
Sybarite
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Reminds me of the trouble Pete Goss had with his revolutionary wave-piercing catamaran.
fisherman
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We followed the boat as it was towed home, backwards, past us off the Lizard. I know little of such high spec construction. However it seemed obvious, looking up the broken hull, that there was no transverse stiffening. The oval hull, long, hollow, and unsupported, had a cross section in my mind like a circular Xsec which is half crippled. I would have had a transverse 'deck' half way down the hull.
Another 'if it looks right.....'
Blueboatman
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Iirc Goss’s problem was that , clever design aside, no one could physically get in there to build it with the required degree of precision @ those sort of tolerances ...
JumbleDuck
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Yeah, everybody knows that non-experts build better boats.
fisherman
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Puzzling about that.....if the hull was layed up from the inside out then the inside could be done first as I suggest....and it must have been if no one could get inside.
You would start with an 'I' section laid on its side, the transverse inner deck, and mould the hull round it.
mainsail1
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Aha........I have touched a nerve
JumbleDuck
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Not particularly. I'm more amused than anything. Perhaps next time Mr Thomson will know better than to employ all these professionals and get random blokes on the internet to design and build his boat for him.
mainsail1
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There are experts and there are experts. I suggest he picked the wrong bunch.
rotrax
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Just like the TT or the Dakar Rally, the balance must be between speed and reliability.
Hugo boss had one but not the other.
I never thought it would finish, but his attempt finished far earlier than I expected.
Hugo boss had one but not the other.
I never thought it would finish, but his attempt finished far earlier than I expected.
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I think Trump has a lot to answer for. Complete and utter fools now completely decry any knowledge, science or expertise.Not particularly. I'm more amused than anything. Perhaps next time Mr Thomson will know better than to employ all these professionals and get random blokes on the internet to design and build his boat for him.