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Went for a ride on a 38' Donzi today. Has 2 ...1100hp engines.

Hit 116 knots on the lake. I found it hard to drink and talk.

Steve burned 160 gal high octane 5.85 a gallon fuel.

Glad to be back on RedCloud...I was parched!

Joe

Joe was glad to get back aboard his powerboat too.

RB
35s5
NY

Anythings a powerboat compared to your clorox bottle boomless day
sailor.

Have you been able to get that plastic crap outta the slip yet?
No.....I did not think so.

Joe

"Joe" wrote in message
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Went for a ride on a 38' Donzi today. Has 2 ...1100hp engines.

Hit 116 knots on the lake. I found it hard to drink and talk.

Steve burned 160 gal high octane 5.85 a gallon fuel.

Glad to be back on RedCloud...I was parched!

Joe

I bet you are proud of that.

You could lose your captain's license over this.

Lloyd

Hard to lose an expired licences Lloyd.

BTW there is no speed limit on Clear-Lake and I was just a passenger
anyway.
The guy who owns the boat is also my dentist.

I see cigarboats as great to do once, but then what? Not worth the
money, and IMO not much skill involved.

Joe

"Joe" wrote in message
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Hard to lose an expired licences Lloyd.

BTW there is no speed limit on Clear-Lake and I was just a passenger
anyway.
The guy who owns the boat is also my dentist.

I see cigarboats as great to do once, but then what? Not worth the
money, and IMO not much skill involved.

Joe

I'd be looking for a new dentist. You're paying for all that shine.

Amen!

Thats right Robert. My licences is expired and I would have to put in
around 120 days on a vessel of 300 tons or more to re-new it.

I got a call from Hornbeck offshore's port Captain last week trying to
get me to work some deep anchor jobs in the gulf. He said I could get
500 a day..that the market is HOT HOT HOT in the gulf now.

I told him thanks but no thanks...why work every day of the year on a
boat like this

http://image05.webshots.com/5/6/53/6...1nJCHfE_ph.jpg

When I can make more money from the comfort of RedCloud?

Joe

You stick the the dentist driving the yugo Bob.

Amen

Joe

Joe wrote:

Hard to lose an expired licences Lloyd.

BTW there is no speed limit on Clear-Lake and I was just a passenger
anyway.

Why would you lose your license over driving 116 knots?

The guy who owns the boat is also my dentist.

I see cigarboats as great to do once, but then what? Not worth the
money, and IMO not much skill involved.

The skill is in tuning the hull & engines & props to work
together to get the most speed out of the boat. Driving one
of these is not fun IMHO, too loud & the motion is rather
violent.

Years ago I was part of a deal involving reciept of an
"offshore racing boat" as partial paymeny of a bad debt.
Naturally I was thinking sailboat, it turned out to be a 40'
beast with 3 engines, not tuned up in any respect of course.
The thing was probably 2 or 3 owners post-drug-siezure. We
did get the engines running smoothly at least and did a
number of runs over 100 knots. PITA and never did see a cent
return.

I dunno if one of these
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/phm-1.htm
could break 100 but I know for a fact they can break 80.
Prbably if not loaded, they could do a lot more.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:

I dunno if one of these
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/phm-1.htm
could break 100 but I know for a fact they can break 80.
Prbably if not loaded, they could do a lot more.

How come they were all decommissioned in 1993, some after only 11 years
of service?

Cheers
Marty

"DSK" wrote in message
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Joe wrote:

Hard to lose an expired licences Lloyd.

BTW there is no speed limit on Clear-Lake and I was just a passenger
anyway.

Why would you lose your license over driving 116 knots?

Clear Lake does have a speed limit.

The guy who owns the boat is also my dentist.

I see cigarboats as great to do once, but then what? Not worth the
money, and IMO not much skill involved.

The skill is in tuning the hull & engines & props to work together to get
the most speed out of the boat. Driving one of these is not fun IMHO, too
loud & the motion is rather violent.

Not if you are drunk.

Years ago I was part of a deal involving reciept of an "offshore racing
boat" as partial paymeny of a bad debt. Naturally I was thinking sailboat,
it turned out to be a 40' beast with 3 engines, not tuned up in any
respect of course. The thing was probably 2 or 3 owners post-drug-siezure.
We did get the engines running smoothly at least and did a number of runs
over 100 knots. PITA and never did see a cent return.

Sell it to high school kids or drug dealers.

I dunno if one of these
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/phm-1.htm
could break 100 but I know for a fact they can break 80. Prbably if not
loaded, they could do a lot more.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

I wonder where the hydrofoils ended up?

The reduction gears from the turbine must have cost a fortune.

I saw a navy surplus submarine depth gauge on-line.
Care to guess what that one 5" gauge cost the Navy?

Joe

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I saw a navy surplus submarine depth gauge on-line.
Care to guess what that one 5" gauge cost the Navy?

Ask your dentist. He has four of them.