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06 October 2003, 17:39
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: Yanmar diesel
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New toy takes shape (the real one)
Engine arrives on pallet
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06 October 2003, 17:43
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Town: Devon
Boat name: White Ice
Make: Ranieri
Length: 5m +
Engine: Suzuki 115hp
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Nah, the 'orrible old Flatacraft will handle much better than a pallet, even a pallet powered by an Opti 150 
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06 October 2003, 17:45
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: Yanmar diesel
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Engine craned up with pallet still attached
[Thanks Richard, wait for ir, wait for it]
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06 October 2003, 17:47
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: Yanmar diesel
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Fine adjustments made
Mr Maddox of Wayne Maddox Marine www.waynemaddoxmarine.co.uk using his Mercury training to fine-tune this multi-thousand pound peice of American engineering!
[He WAS posing for this photo!]
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06 October 2003, 17:49
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
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And engine bolted to transom
A-Frame removed to get the damn crane in!
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06 October 2003, 17:51
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
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Wayne ponders over ...
...what to do next, or rather more likely quite HOW fast this machine will go!
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06 October 2003, 17:57
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: Yanmar diesel
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Instruments
Cut holes in dash and start installing the (very impressive) Mercury SmartCraft gauges, VHF, GPS etc. etc.
Decided to make yellow bevels for all the instruments since that'll look nice (i hope)
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06 October 2003, 17:59
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
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Making the yellow bevels
Lots of time, but very pleased with the result...
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06 October 2003, 18:04
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
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Engine: Yanmar diesel
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Dash almost finished...
...more pics this evening / tommorow as i progress!
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06 October 2003, 18:41
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: Milford Haven
Boat name: Various
Make: Commercial
Length: 10m +
Engine: Screw / Voith / Jets
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good pics there Daniel 
what's the run in period like on this new beast of yours?
and what pitch prop is going on the lower end? 
-Alex
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06 October 2003, 18:52
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
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Engine: Yanmar diesel
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10 hours - i think  haven't got that far into the big bible that is bedtime reading... more concerned with instrument wiring at the moment... who would have thought an engine would have NMEA in and out!!!
Have gone for a 21" stainless laser II which has not turned up yet. I hope this will give me almost 60mph and still be OK with 5 bums on seats. I've got a 19" on stand-by if there's not enough grunt for waykeboarding and skiing etc.
Your boat looks similar size / engine, what prop are you running and other specs?
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06 October 2003, 19:22
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Country: Sweden
Town: Stockholm
Boat name: Osprey & Ring
Make: Osprey & Ring
Length: 9m +
Engine: Plenty
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Osprey
so when is your Osprey for sale.
Regards
Janis
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06 October 2003, 19:41
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Country: UK - England
Town: Portchester, Hants.
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New Toy
No Wonder you have been so quiet on Ribnet.
I look forward to seeing the finished boat very soon.
Cheers
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06 October 2003, 21:00
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Town: Margate / Ramsgate
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Few more pics from Mike's camera
On goes the A-Frame
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06 October 2003, 21:02
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one more...
...with me in it!
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06 October 2003, 21:05
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: Milford Haven
Boat name: Various
Make: Commercial
Length: 10m +
Engine: Screw / Voith / Jets
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Originally posted by Daniel
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I'm running a 21" Titan HR prop from Steel Developments, or I will be when I fit the thing for the 2nd time this week.... there were some vibrations coming from it above the 5000rev mark unfortunately, so it had to go back to be fixed.
I reached 49.9mph according to the GPS when it was on last time - with 1 person on board.... 2 people drops it to around 47mph top speed, pile the people on one by one and that keeps going down and down
At least you *should*  get some fine crisp winter days to run the thing in slowly with 
-Alex
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06 October 2003, 21:14
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: Yanmar diesel
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Interesting Alex - sounds nice and quick!
Have you tried this, i'm lead to beleive 10% slip is "average". http://go-fast.com/Prop_Slip_Calculator.htm
With 5750RPM and 21" and 1.87:1 gear ratio and 10% slip i get... 55 (don't know if thats knts or mph... either will do)
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15 October 2003, 20:46
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Country: Ireland
Town: Dublin
Boat name: wizzard
Make: REDBAY
Length: 7m +
Engine: 225 optimax
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 835
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oil
Great pics Daniel I LOVE THE MOTOR, WHAT OIL WILL YOU USE IN THE OPTI
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15 October 2003, 21:53
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Country: UK - England
Town: Midlands
Make: Nautique
Length: 6m +
Engine: PCM 5.7l
Join Date: Oct 2003
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nice motor Daniel
Just because im interested what made you shoose 2-stroke opti over 4-stroke?
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15 October 2003, 21:56
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: Yanmar diesel
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Cheers Gavin. To start with kosha Merc Opti oil, i'll see how much it's costing and review it. I know wavehumper is trying to offload 25li of the stuff at a fair price.
Got another few hours on the boat today, VHF, poweroutlets and waterproof switches are in dash now and aeriel on A-Frame and a few wires routed.
Tommorow will involve more head scratching over wiring for smatgagues and trying to get a 130AH battery inside the colsole!
Watch this space... more pic's tommorow evening!
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