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Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
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Bidding ends midday tomoro 28th innit Cooks?
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28 September 2004, 08:49
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Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
Boat name: BananaShark
Make: BananaShark
Length: 10m +
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Bidding ends midnite tomoro 28th innit Cooks?
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I thought we had said Mid day today - only 3 and a bit hours to go - not long now!
http://www.rib.net/forum/showthread....0&page=4&pp=10
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Originally Posted by Zippy
When a boat looks that good who needs tubes!!!
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28 September 2004, 12:10
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Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
Boat name: BananaShark
Make: BananaShark
Length: 10m +
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It's over!
Congratulations Whiteshoes - call me on 07836 268747 and I'll send you the forms! 
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Originally Posted by Zippy
When a boat looks that good who needs tubes!!!
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28 September 2004, 12:13
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Make: Ribtec
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Still another 50 minutes - Ribnet time is GMT!
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Sh#t. I just told Kay she was going!!!!
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28 September 2004, 12:14
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Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
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Sh#t. I just told Kay she was going!!!!
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Sorry changed my post - something odd hapening with the clock on here! Well done she's going!
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Originally Posted by Zippy
When a boat looks that good who needs tubes!!!
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28 September 2004, 16:46
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
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Congratulations Kay and Cookee ....should be a brill team!!!!
Amazing generosity for a Charity effort once again from Mr Brian of the White Shoes!!!!!
Look forward to cheering ye on
Us 
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28 September 2004, 17:13
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Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
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Thank You
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this thread, it has warmed the cockles of my heart to see the generosity of everyone in this day and age when we all get asked constantly to contribute to one charity or another.
Well done Mr (Brian) Whiteshoes! Thank you very much indeed for your pledge!
Spoken to Kay (who will be the one in the boat) this afternoon and she seems remarkedly calm and excited all at the same time - I'm sure she's going to do a great job on Sunday!
Look forward to seeing lots of people up at Cardiff!
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Originally Posted by Zippy
When a boat looks that good who needs tubes!!!
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29 September 2004, 11:01
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: Cardiff
Make: Humber Destroyer 5.5
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Well done Brian and Kay !
Looking forward to watching on Sunday and will try and get some video / photos for you !
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04 October 2004, 18:08
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Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
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News from Cardiff!
We raced in the first of three races on Friday - the course was altered on Thursday evening, when Rory Power, John P and Dave Field his navigator went out with Ricky Hill in his sponsors cruiser - apparently Ricky had been telling everyone that there was plenty of depth to race despite there being a place that dried to 3.5 m on the chart (there is a 12 m range though!) anyway they were going round the course when the boat suddenly stopped throwing everyone forward including Ricky jamming the throttles wide open - apparently there were foot wide rocks cut in 2!
Anyway the RIB race was reduced to a simple race round the mudbank race, and despite a 67 nm course we were only allowed 60 minutes which was never going to be possible!
Unforunately for us we had fitted a brand new Stainless Marine lifter as we had been very pleased with the previous one, although it was worn out! On arrival it was very different due to a redisign and the sliders cracked in the first race and the scrutineers decided it wasnt safe to race with (it wasnt) so we had no option to put the boat back on the lorry and become a spectator for the weekend!
The rest of the weekend went as well as could be expected considering the weather and the number of different classes present - the V24 fleet did a demo race in the bay and Class 3 actually raced in the bay as well on Sunday.
The forecast gale force winds arrived shortly after racing finished which meant that the racing was not as badly affected as was first feared, and as far as I am aware there were no serious incidents, although Ian Mackman did lose his 200 HPDI Yamaha right in front of us - thankfully the control cables and loom stopped it going to the bottom!
I had a lot of cheering up from The Mrs and Paul after the boat problems and hope we can have a get together in the winter sometime one and all!
It was great to see some old faces and well done to Adam and Matt!
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Originally Posted by Zippy
When a boat looks that good who needs tubes!!!
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05 October 2004, 08:16
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
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Yep. Brill weekend Cookee.
Thanks a lot.
Us
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05 October 2004, 23:54
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
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01 November 2004, 19:18
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
Length: 6m +
Engine: 200
MMSI: soon !
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Cookee's and Whiteshoes' mighty effort for the Ileostomy Association (as well as for Cookee's other Charity : the provision of phones for the local hospital) all came together yesterday as a Salcombe Hotel threw a bash for Team Bananashark and guests.
A mighty cheque (supplemented by a very generous private donation by Cooks) is on its way to Jimmy Mc Ilwaine, secretary for one of the nominated charities.
Thanks for inviting us Cooks. It was lovely to meet all the top local peeps and it was a hugely generous gesture by Brian Whiteshoes and yourself.
Wonderful hospitality. Fiona too will be very touched by all the kindness.
Photos will follow. Including some evidence of the new Bananashark Leisure RIB. (Cool boat )
Thanks again.
Us
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06 November 2004, 12:34
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
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Hokay,
Here's Cooks presenting cheques for both charities (from Mr. Whiteshoes. Cookee also presented personal cheques ).
The boat caused quite a stir outside the Hotel !
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06 November 2004, 12:36
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
Length: 6m +
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06 November 2004, 12:39
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
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Some highly confidential glimpses of the new Bananashark Leisure RIB...loads of exciting design innovations from the Team...they all give Kitten a lot of credit ! (Paul studying everything carefully!!!)
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06 November 2004, 12:41
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
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MMSI: soon !
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Looking good Cookee!!!! Same Lorne Campbell-inspired stepped hull (correct me if I'm wrong !!!! )
Lovely twin console design....full of electronic goodies... and excellent anchor storage and dry locker ...
In fact there was great thought given to the leisure use with fantastic use of space...and Kitten's latest innovative seat design (You'll have to supply photos Kitten; ours is too blurry)
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06 November 2004, 12:49
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
Length: 6m +
Engine: 200
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Great thought given to detail...finishing touches to die for ....lovely throttles :
Paul felt very comfortable
In fact the whole team were very welcoming and courteous as usual. If anyone's in the Salcombe area you've got to go and see this..the photos don't do justice!
And John (Cookee) takes all the time in the world to explain materials, build, capability etc etc.
Well worth a visit....highly recommended.
(Will post a few more on Willowkis' Forum tomorrow eve )
Thanks Team !!!!
Us
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06 November 2004, 20:17
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Devon. uk
Boat name: bananashark
Make: me
Length: 7m +
Engine: opti 225
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Molded and fitted the fwd hatch since those photos, complete with bespoke two point locking and grinning Cookee.
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06 November 2004, 20:28
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Devon. uk
Boat name: bananashark
Make: me
Length: 7m +
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pictures of the seat don't make much sense without any one sitting in it at the moment, so I'll post the first development photo.
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07 November 2004, 10:45
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Town: Hamble
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I like the "in control" foot throttle, not cheap but very nice.
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