A lot of the questions I knew I read about before. When I read the forums, I read every title that interests me and any thread that "gets legs" - like has a lot of post quickly or is on page 2-3 within 2-3 days. I may skip over some thing one time when I log on, then it grows to 2 pages so I'll check it out. Some times the title doesn't mean that is what is about; hijacking happens!
1- simple. Searched "desert warrior" and display posts vs thread and scanned 2-3 posts before I found one with a picture in it. Less than 5 minutes to get the answer.
2- I knew it was Phragle with the floppy hat and knew it was ChiefApache's boat so searched post by them. Found a post from CheifApache saying it was "DavidMc's" kid and she thought he was 8 or 9 so then I searched posts by "DavidMc" and the keyword being "son" or "years old" (forget which one I used). Again, had search results display post vs thread. Took about a 1/2 hour. Tricky question!
3- hardest since older post and putting numbers in the search field says the search criteria is too short. This one took some time- 30 minutes I guess. "Competitor" made me look for post from MobileMercMan, Ryan, etc. Brownie, T2x, etc are Icons so that wiped them out of the search. I think I searched using "foam" or "white caps" by authoer. Would say it was more luck that I found this one- found a good story and kept reading and there it was. Tough question!
4- simple. I knew the boat so searched threads started by "Copeland Phenomenon" and there it was. Checked another post by him to verify the beam. Less than 5 minutes to find the answer
5- searched "Peanuts", displayed threads and saw the same thread listed most frequent so read the whole thing to hear the history. Less than 5 minutes to find the answer
6- add them all together and MULTIPLY instead of divide and came up with the answer. I knew Bobs boat had trip 485 Yanmars so had to have 3 drives.
GREAT CONTEST!!!