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22 May 2006, 12:24
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Country: UK - England
Town: Southampton
Boat name: Eighth Child
Make: Rib X
Length: 6m +
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Top Gear
For anyone who likes boats and boating you must see BBC's Top Gear programme, I think its repeated on Tuesdays.
I know its a car programme but trust me!
Laugh? I thought my pants would never dry!
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22 May 2006, 12:31
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Town: Leatherhead
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A truely classic episode - even better than the convertible Espace
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22 May 2006, 12:37
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Town: Cowes
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Anyone been offered a Honda 225 going cheap?
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22 May 2006, 12:39
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Country: UK - England
Town: Devon
Boat name: White Ice
Make: Ranieri
Length: 5m +
Engine: Suzuki 115hp
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by britemp
Anyone been offered a Honda 225 going cheap? ![thumbs up](https://www.rib.net/forum/images/smilies/thumbs.gif)
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I do believe there's one been spotted http://www.rib.net/forum/showthread.php?t=14460
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22 May 2006, 12:55
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Country: UK - England
Town: Salcombe, Devon, UK
Boat name: BananaShark
Make: BananaShark
Length: 10m +
Engine: 2xYanmar 260 diesels
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Originally Posted by Zippy
When a boat looks that good who needs tubes!!!
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22 May 2006, 15:04
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Country: UK - England
Town: Felixstowe
Boat name: WhaleOilBeefHooked
Make: Ribeye
Length: 5m +
Engine: Yamaha F80
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Given that it was a fresh water lake and one pressumes they whipped it out of the water with a crane pronto, the engine could have been saved Nes Pas?
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22 May 2006, 18:23
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Country: UK - England
Town: Farnborough
Boat name: Narcissus
Make: Cobra
Length: 7m +
Engine: Optimax 225
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Irrelevent - what do Honda care about losing 1 engine in the name of some great publicity.
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22 May 2006, 18:30
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 12,791
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yuley
Given that it was a fresh water lake and one pressumes they whipped it out of the water with a crane pronto, the engine could have been saved Nes Pas? ![eh](https://www.rib.net/forum/images/smilies/confused.gif)
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I was running when it flipped - it's a 4 stroke so chances are bent valves and conrods - still I bet they will rebuild it pretty quick - will soon be back on a Cougar racing boat!!!
I reckon a smaller engine or the correct use of trim would have made all the difference.
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22 May 2006, 19:28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by codprawn
I was running when it flipped - it's a 4 stroke so chances are bent valves and conrods - still I bet they will rebuild it pretty quick - will soon be back on a Cougar racing boat!!!
I reckon a smaller engine or the correct use of trim would have made all the difference.
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Yeah was still running and in gear!! He was doing the right thing trimming it out to try and stop the bonnet submerging, it would never have planed though, not with the drag of those wheels.
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22 May 2006, 20:11
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Country: UK - England
Town: Brittany/Portsmouth
Boat name: Merlin
Make: Solent 6.5
Length: 6m +
Engine: 200
MMSI: soon !
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Absolutely hilarious TV! Good to see a few back-up RIBs in the water!!!!
Nice bit of product placement also!
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22 May 2006, 21:11
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Country: UK - England
Town: St Albans
Boat name: Skylark
Make: Ribcraft 585
Length: 5m +
Engine: 140 Suzuki
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yuley
Given that it was a fresh water lake and one pressumes they whipped it out of the water with a crane pronto, the engine could have been saved Nes Pas? ![eh](https://www.rib.net/forum/images/smilies/confused.gif)
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If you looked closely they removed the engine before turning over
It had suddenly gone when clarkson struggled on after it had gone over
Dont blame them !
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22 May 2006, 21:13
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Town: Dorset
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Edges
If you looked closely they removed the engine before turning over
It had suddenly gone when clarkson struggled on after it had gone over
Dont blame them !
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I did think that actually at the time as you would expect to see the skeg and prop poking vertically into the air when the truck was upside down, although there is no deniying that it got wet though, as it shows the water level half way up the cowling.
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22 May 2006, 22:27
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Town: scotland
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Engine: GM Diesels
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I'm not sure at which point you chaps think they stopped the procedings to extract the motor, coz it looks very clear to me that it went over complete with motor.
If you look closely, you can just see the skeg. remember it was maounted pretty high on the transom...I mean tailgate!
http://media.boatmad.com/gallery/v/m...pgear.wmv.html
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22 May 2006, 22:38
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonny Fuller
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I reckon thats a shark
You might be right, although towards the end of the video, when they are closer to the pontoon there is no sign of it. However as you say it was mounted high and it was trimmed out a far way, the stern/ tailgate was lower than the bonnet anyway at this point when it was inverted so this may explain why the skeg can't be seen.
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22 May 2006, 22:51
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Country: UK - England
Town: scotland
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Make: Phantom
Length: 8m +
Engine: GM Diesels
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ADS
I reckon thats a shark
this may explain why the skeg can't be seen.
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When you watch the video, I think it can be seen reasonably clearly.
As I say, there really isn't any point when the camera stops rolling, and I can't begin to imagine how they'd have recovered it. I think there's no question that that baby went down running. You can see exhaust bubbles behind the motor as the cowl takes a last look at daylight....bent rods??..JW?
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23 May 2006, 06:27
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Country: UK - England
Town: Newcastle upon Tyne
Boat name: Happy Hours
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: 300 Verado
MMSI: 235040122
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Personaly I loved it, thought it was great TV but not sure how you would justify that to the Commons Select Committee when debating the BBC License Fee!!!
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23 May 2006, 10:35
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Town: Binfield
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I was a little worried at one stage they were going to get cruched against the jetty, but it was top hole
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23 May 2006, 13:26
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Country: UK - England
Town: ramsgate
Boat name: Micki Dee Bee
Make: Ribcraft Seasafari
Length: 9m +
Engine: Twin 250hp Suzuki
MMSI: 235057235
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By far some of the funnest TV I have seen in a long time.
Well until I watch Lee Evans last night!
I think if Richard Hammond is spotted at a boat show in the future a conserted effort should be made to mention his white teeth!!!
Top Gear just gets better and better!
Anyone ordered any Doggles yet?
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23 May 2006, 18:57
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Torbay
Boat name: Loupy Lou
Make: Yamaha 480R
Length: 4m +
Engine: 50HP
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 147
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Woke the baby up from laughing so much at the toyota & VW - just wondering what would happean if i fitted an outboard to my convertible mini????
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23 May 2006, 20:11
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Bradford on Avon
Boat name: tbc
Make: Sunseeker (AshleyD)
Length: 8m +
Engine: 2 x coal burners
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 461
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrumdown
just wondering what would happean if i fitted an outboard to my convertible mini????
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Well, there is only one way to find out.....
Regarding the missing engine on the Toyboata - perhaps it fell off. BF225 engine mounts appear to be made from recycled milk bottle tops
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