Round Britain 2008 - Page 8

thomas · 26 June 2008, 12:02

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Originally Posted by Downhilldai

Despite being a bit slow to get through the lock in Milford Haven

Had you sorted out the earlier mechanical gremlins suffered during the first leg when you left Milford Haven?

Yes we sorted our mechanical problems that we suffered on the first day. At Milford Haven for the first 20-30minutes we had problems with our Fly-By-Wire throttles for the engines, they were not sending the right info to the engines and kept tripping the system sending it into a safe mode.

jcooper · 26 June 2008, 12:42

The Goldfish are great boats having owned one for 10 months now and done 110 hours, it hasn't missed a beat. They will take anything you can throw at them. Arctic Blue, Wahoo and Scorpion are good, don't get me wrong, but the Goldfish to me are in another league.

will_m · 26 June 2008, 13:33

The article opens with... Quietly kicking the rest of the fleet's backsides in the Round Britain Powerboat Race are three Goldfish RIBs.

GO ON!!! Best of continued luck to the Lionhead team, can only imagine what its like for you, its bloody exciting even from only watching being sat behind a desk!!

Cheers guys, Will.

Quote:

Originally Posted by s1dey

Here is a link to the latest update for us on MBY:

http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/200...18mbynews.html

Downhilldai · 26 June 2008, 13:34

I thought you were having problems as you came over the start line.

What happened in Milford Haven Marina to cause you delay in getting out?

ribit · 27 June 2008, 18:00

MBY correspondent Derek Wynans tells of his experience with the crew racing down the east coast with Lionhead/Goldfish

http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/200...25mbynews.html

story of the 5th leg

http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/200...15mbynews.html

Poly · 27 June 2008, 22:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by ribit

MBY correspondent Derek Wynans tells of his experience with the crew racing down the east coast with Lionhead/Goldfish

http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/200...25mbynews.html

story of the 5th leg

http://www.ybw.com/auto/newsdesk/200...15mbynews.html

No mention of the aparent problems at the startline or the finish which have resulted in 1hr time penalties for 5 boats though?

Poly · 28 June 2008, 11:31

Oh dear - looks (from Marine Track) like the Bandit is limping back to port edgar.

MarkWildey · 28 June 2008, 20:31

The Bandit had overheating problems and I think the boat is with Barrus as I type this. Barry and team have done really well and it would be a shame for them to drop out now.

Cheers

Mark

MarkWildey · 28 June 2008, 20:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcooper

The Goldfish are great boats having owned one for 10 months now and done 110 hours, it hasn't missed a beat. They will take anything you can throw at them. Arctic Blue, Wahoo and Scorpion are good, don't get me wrong, but the Goldfish to me are in another league.

I take it you don't have a DMAX 380 engine then!

I think Garmin has the record for most hours spent in an engine fixing things but Goldfish are very close behind.

The finish on these boats is better than anything I've seen before, and so it should be for the money

, but I think they need to spend more time getting the mechanics right.

Cheers

Mark

simmons0 · 28 June 2008, 22:46

Spotted the Rib International Artic Blue in Southampton today looking a bit sorry for itself!

Mark you must be having an epic trip. Have Goldfish actually lost an engine during a leg so far? I was skeptical about the reliability of 380hp out of those engines but they seem to be doing very well!

Harry

osprey__viper · 29 June 2008, 19:34

We made the long trip from North Notts over to Lowestoft to watch the boats home. There was even a fair sized crowd on the south pier to watch them in

osprey__viper · 29 June 2008, 19:41

A couple more. Including Jon Fuller trying a prototype toob

You know he loves rib's really

MarkWildey · 01 July 2008, 17:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by simmons0

Spotted the Rib International Artic Blue in Southampton today looking a bit sorry for itself!

Mark you must be having an epic trip. Have Goldfish actually lost an engine during a leg so far? I was skeptical about the reliability of 380hp out of those engines but they seem to be doing very well!

Harry

Harry

Good to see you in Portsmouth yesterday and sorry I couldn't spend more time but we had loads to do.

The Goldfish guys are a great bunch and rightfully proud of their boat and its achievements. Talking to them they said the engine hasn't itself failed rather the stern drives have been a big problem plus turbo's have been failing. As these boats are prototypes they will fix these issues and have, what I consider, to be the best RIB on the market, with the exception of the Buzzi 40 of course.

Cheers

Mark

Tim M · 01 July 2008, 18:10

Had quite a sore head this morning after the awards dinner last night

ciao! · 04 July 2008, 01:33

Sorry so many of you were disappointed with lack of info on the RB site, I make no apologies but it was a pretty tough task on my own.

Perhaps if there is an event similar in the future - you could email / call the webmaster and offer your assistance?

Believe it or not I would have loved some help.

osprey__viper · 04 July 2008, 07:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by ciao!

Sorry so many of you were disappointed with lack of info on the RB site, I make no apologies but it was a pretty tough task on my own.

Perhaps if there is an event similar in the future - you could email / call the webmaster and offer your assistance?

Believe it or not I would have loved some help.

I think the fact that the race ran at all was more than enough. I have helped organise motorsport events in the past and it is far from easy. Especially when you have a family and a 'real' job as well.

Well done to you and the team for keeping the news upto date

Heres to the next RB

John Kennett · 04 July 2008, 09:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by ciao!

Sorry so many of you were disappointed with lack of info on the RB site, I make no apologies but it was a pretty tough task on my own.

Perhaps if there is an event similar in the future - you could email / call the webmaster and offer your assistance?

Believe it or not I would have loved some help.

I've had a search and I don't see any messages from you saying that you could do with some help. I'm sure that plenty of people would have chipped in if only they had known.

It's a bit late to start complaining now!

John

ribit · 04 July 2008, 11:19

The RB site was no doubt done to the best ability time and constraints allowed

, however from my point of view and I'm sure many other followers of the RB John K did a brilliant job here and boatmad of tabling the leaders and all the various classes even without being asked and from my point of view it did make it more interesting to follow, thanks

Also a great insight on boatmad by John (ciao) on how it almost didn't come together

http://boatmad.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11293&page=2

Poly · 04 July 2008, 11:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by ciao!

Sorry so many of you were disappointed with lack of info on the RB site, I make no apologies but it was a pretty tough task on my own.

Perhaps if there is an event similar in the future - you could email / call the webmaster and offer your assistance?

Believe it or not I would have loved some help.

Ciao! I don't think it was meant as a personal criticism of the person doing the work, but rather of a slightly inward looking approach which the organisers took (the quote JK highighted is exemplary of this) - where keeping the public or media well appraised was not as important as I think it should be for a major event of this significance.

However, if you were struggling then a quick post here, on Boatmad or on the RB forums would probably have got you the offers of help you wanted. If you don't ask you don't get. I am sure if an unknown entity just volunteered their help it would either cause offence ("is my contribution not good enough") or suspicion ("who is this random person - and how much damage are they going to do to my site").

Downhilldai · 04 July 2008, 19:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by ciao!

Sorry...... I make no apologies..

Personally, I think it was a cracking event, with decent web coverage, given the budget - even Marine Track seemed to be accessible after Day 1. Considering the amount of work required to keep the whole race moving along, I think congratulations are in order - well done and bring on the next one.