New raceboat for the UK

[600sci]

So, forgive me, 95.1 gallons x 7.4 lbs per gallon x .75 full = 528 lbs of fuel on board during your test.

71.33 gallons diesel = 570 US lbs = 258.54 kg

and i do believe from posts i read that 33.10 is indeed from bow to transom.

shortening it by 3.10 feet at the transom would in my opinion not ruin any handling and would make a great SVL !
the problem i see in a single 525 / 30 COOKEE monster would be to make weight at 4800 US lbs.

[littlenige]

Would love to see a class 1 version! Boat looks great in the flesh!

[Cookee]

Did you look at how the hulls are measured in the pic above? Is that the way your hull measures 33'10"?

Ours will be longer measured that way - the UIM measure to the bottom of the running surface to the bow

[Cookee]

71.33 gallons diesel = 570 US lbs = 258.54 kg

and i do believe from posts i read that 33.10 is indeed from bow to transom.

shortening it by 3.10 feet at the transom would in my opinion not ruin any handling and would make a great SVL !
the problem i see in a single 525 / 30 COOKEE monster would be to make weight at 4800 US lbs.

If you want to take the risk we'll make a short one for you!

The current boat weighs approximately 3000kg rigged with no fuel - 4,800 US Lbs is 2,177kg - take 3 feet off the back and an engine/gearbox and drive off the boat I think we would be close!

Over to you!

[Cookee]

Thanks Nige - it reverses into tight spots quite well doesn't it!

Our report from the Cowes Torquay Cowes race last weekend:

The dust has settled (or should that be spray?) and we have sorted out what happened and what we need to do.

First of all well done to the winners and especially for Martin Lai who has struggled with that boat from the start.

We drove the boat up by water from Salcombe on the Friday afternoon and had a very uneventful journey. It was good to see the wet pits fairly full of boats when we got there.

The measurement certificate difficulties have continued but they will eventually be sorted out properly once Guy Child (thank you Nicky and Guy) has come down with his measurement certificate - should have called it the BananaShark Cougar - it would have been a lot easier!

Once we had made it down the Solent to the Muster area (glad we had a biggish boat it was choppy going down there!) it was race time and we were looking forward to the race - Jeremy Gibson on the wheel, Graham Lawton on the Throttles and I was navigating with Adrian Everett from E-Lites providing moral support in the fourth seat.

We had problems getting the boat on the plane - our new faster bigger props would not spin up in the lumpy conditions (fine in testing in the flat) meant being at least 5 minutes behind at the start - a navigational error by myself meant we headed off to the Needles Fairway buoy - I had changed everything on the plotter for the new course to two buoys but for some reason it still sent us the wrong way, my fault I should have checked it better.

We caught six boats by Portland and were trailing Jon and Nick by around six miles - when we were approaching Portland we caught a big swell and landed a bit on the side and we think this may have been the start of the end for the trim ram on the Starboard side - we also had an alarm going off but as all of the temperatures and pressures were good we decided to carry on taking it easy at first and increasing speed as we reached the more sheltered waters nearer Torbay. Another couple of awkward landings must have damaged the trim ram further resulting in a very impressive rooster for my wife watching us from Berry Head and a bit of a list to Port!

We were also suffering from a loss of power as we had been running pretty much on one tank and we were getting a little air into the fuel system - with the damage and fuel issues we decided to retire the boat in Torquay instead of the middle of Lyme Bay - we had the boat back at BananaShark and cleaned off by 6pm!

A big thank you go to all of the team and especially Kitten for all of the late nights and our sponsors E-Lites who made the boat look fantastic in the pits (and paid for the fuel and entries!).

We are pleased with the way the boat performed with only the second set of props we have tried - none of the problems are a long term issue - we will turn the rams upside down and look at the size of the skeg, do a little plumbing and we'll be ready for RB12 - see you all at the start!

[Cookee]

Some video of the boat running yesterday: BananaShark Cowes to Southampton

[Ratickle]

Some video of the boat running yesterday: BananaShark Cowes to Southampton

Link says video has been removed.....

[600sci]

Link says video has been removed.....

it worked earlyer today ..now its gone ...WAS COOL !

[Cookee]

it worked earlyer today ..now its gone ...WAS COOL !

Sorry guys - here's the new link! Cowes To Southampton

[Ratickle]

Nice.....

[Bobcat]

Cool!

[Ratickle]

I was chatting with Wil Smith, he was very complimentary on your boat.

[Cookee]

I was chatting with Wil Smith, he was very complimentary on your boat.

I met him in Cowes - A friend has one of his boat over here racing so he was over to watch the Cowes race. He is a really nice guy and a pleasure to meet - maybe I should get him to sell our boats over there?

[Ratickle]

They had some major problems on his boat too......


Tough stuff on those open water big races......

[Cookee]

Some video my colleague took the other day on a GoPro HD Cowes To Southampton on board the E-Lites BananaShark Stirling

[Ratickle]

The boat sure seems to ride nice in that stuff, very flat and no side to side. Congrats on the design.......


Where's the vid from the BIG action?????

[Cookee]

The boat sure seems to ride nice in that stuff, very flat and no side to side. Congrats on the design.......


Where's the vid from the BIG action?????

We've had a problem with the camera housing steaming up in cooler conditions, I have now discovered that GoPro make a product to stop that happening - we'll be using anti fog inserts from now on! I'll see if I can get anything useful from what we have to show you how well it runs.

Next event is records week on Coniston water (where Campbell met his end), we're sure we'll get into the 70's but not sure how fast we'll go with the props we have as every time we've been out with the big props on it's been too rough to see what speed we'll get!

[Cookee]

Hi Guys! We have done some renderings to show an outboard leisure version - see what you think ......

[Ratickle]

Now that is an extremely interesting concept.....

[Ratickle]

Will it take two of those 500HP small-block chevy outboards?????