Jayboat Christmas Contest

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Our friend Jay is offering up a Christmas gift in the same spirit as Powerboat and FF Jeff. What a great team of supporters this place has!!!!!

JAYS GIFT

We have seen the recent post of Jay's 50 Favorite Pics of 2009.

So here is his offering

1 LARGE 24 X 36 POSTER WITH ALL 50 PICS

1 16 X 24 PIC of the winners favorite pic from the 50

The contest will be a little different than past events.

This will be a test of how well the members know this forum.

I am going to ask you 5 questions over the next 2 days. The answers to these questions will ALWAYS BE A NUMBER.

Save your answers as I ask you questions, cuz you are going to do something with them when we are finished.

I'll ask you all 5 questions starting Tuesday am and finishing by Wed evening.

The first person to post the correct answer AFTER 7PM Thursday will be deemed the winner.


Here is a SAMPLEquestion so you know what to expect.


One of our good and kind members recently participated in a walkathon to support a charity. How many participants are missing from the pic of the event????

I'll start the official questions tomorrow morning.

Thank you so much Jay for thinking of our members at Christmas.


Kudos to all that have said Merry Christmas to SOS this way.

[fund razor]

Thank you so much Jay for thinking of our members at Christmas.
It wouldn't have been nearly as funny if you had said "the members." :D

Thanks Jay. Great prize. Those pics are outstanding.

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It wouldn't have been nearly as funny if you had said "the members." :D

Thanks Jay. Great prize. Those pics are outstanding.

OOps Good point!!!:)
Sicko

[MarylandMark]

Thanks Jayboat!!

I've won 2 out of 3 contest lately so will be sitting this one out so you other schmucks can be winners once in your life.

LOL- J/K and good luck to all!

[HiZ]

3 = +1 for extra credit?

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TUESDAY 10 am

Question 1 of 5

There are pics of a boat on here. The name of the boat is Desert Warrior.

WHAT NUMBER IS PROMINENTLY ON THE BOAT???

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Tuesday 1030 am

Question 2 of 5


There is a tight group of friends on here. One of them wears a floppy hat when he drinks beer. He hangs with a couple that own a 41 ft. boat.

They recently shared the love of boating with a young boy.

HOW OLD WAS THE BOY???

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Wed .540 am

Question 3 of 5

One of our competitors described an exciting boat ride where he was travelling over " REAL 6 and 8s" with foamed over whitecaps.

HOW FAST DID HE GO ??

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Wed 625am

Question 4 of 5

A project boat is in the works. Very soon it will trial run in an attempt to beat the record for top speed with a propeller driven boat. Its an innovative project , with the boat having a 13.5 ' beam.

HOW LONG IS THE BOAT ??

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Wed 9am

Question 5of 5

Brownie and Don A. tested a fun boat one evening. They each took it for seperate trial runs...and it pitched them both with hard turns. They laughed at one another when they discovered it had happened to both of them.

The boats name was PEANUTS.

HOW LONG WAS THIS BOAT?

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OKAY

Put your numbers in order and I'll get you to do something with them tomorrow morning.

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Good Christmas Eve Day everyone.

For the guys that are runnin around doing their last minute stuff we have left it till 7 PM to be the opening time for the answer to be posted. First accurate post wins.

ADD UP YOUR 5 NUMBERS AND THEN MULTIPLY THE TOTAL BY THE NUMBER OF DRIVES ON BOB THE BUILDER'S " PREDATOR"

Hope you had fun scrounging for answers.

To Jay..Thank you for this gift to the SOS members.

Merry Christmas Everyone

[MarylandMark]

I guess if I come up with fractions my answers are wrong?

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I guess if I come up with fractions my answers are wrong?

Kind of difficult to get fractions when all we are doin is addin and multiplying.:):):)

[Ratickle]

Kind of difficult to get fractions when all we are doin is addin and multiplying.:):):)

Maybe not for all of us........


Thought it was metric or something......

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Maybe not for all of us........


Thought it was metric or something......

:cheers2::cheers2:

[MarylandMark]

Kind of difficult to get fractions when all we are doin is addin and multiplying.:):):)

Fractions can be expressed as decimal numbers. Like 33% can be .333333333333

I'm coming up with a decimal number but am positive my numbers are correct; even have the post links where I gathered my data.

[Ratickle]

Fractions can be expressed as decimal numbers. Like 33% can be .333333333333

I'm coming up with a decimal number but am positive my numbers are correct; even have the post links where I gathered my data.

Startin to worry about you Mark. Good thing you're sitting this one out:sifone:

[MarylandMark]

Kind of difficult to get fractions when all we are doin is addin and multiplying.:):):)

Duh....

Bobcat moment. Multiplication is not the same a division :sifone: I was dividing the sum by BobtheBuilders drives...

[MarylandMark]

705

Question One: 69 number on hull
http://seriousoffshore.com/forums/showpost.php?p=344048&postcount=1349


Question Two: 11 years of age
http://seriousoffshore.com/forums/showpost.php?p=297083&postcount=90
real age: http://seriousoffshore.com/forums/showpost.php?p=213623&postcount=88336


Question Three: 85 MPH
http://seriousoffshore.com/forums/showpost.php?p=75030&postcount=18949

Question Four: 56 feet long, beam is 13'6", not 13'5"
http://seriousoffshore.com/forums/showpost.php?p=370730&postcount=1


Question Five: 14 feet
http://seriousoffshore.com/forums/showpost.php?p=307714&postcount=54

235 x 3 (drives on BobtheBuilders boat) = 705

[MarylandMark]

708 2nd guess in case Pengys kid had a bday

[MarylandMark]

Did I threepeat?

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Did I threepeat?


YUP.... Good going pal:):):)

[Ratickle]

Congrats Mark, impressive......:)

[Bobthebuilder]

Congratulations, Mark. I spent some time on it and gave up. The only thing I knew for sure was that I have 3 drives ! LOL

[Ratickle]

Congratulations, Mark. I spent some time on it and gave up. The only thing I knew for sure was that I have 3 drives ! LOL

I was thinking Mark got the fractions from when you broke a prop and was multiplying by 2.75 or something.....

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Congratulations, Mark. I spent some time on it and gave up. The only thing I knew for sure was that I have 3 drives ! LOL

I was about to ask how many extra cans of fuel you had strapped on the back of your boat for Cancun but neither Jay nor I could find a pic on the site !!

[MarylandMark]

I was about to ask how many extra cans of fuel you had strapped on the back of your boat for Cancun but neither Jay nor I could find a pic on the site !!

I know but I'll let someone else answer...

[MarylandMark]

Hint:

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Hint:

Good bud

[jayboat]

Congratulations, Mark. I spent some time on it and gave up. The only thing I knew for sure was that I have 3 drives ! LOL

He's got waaay too much time on his hands. :ack2:

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MM is a man of his word I can see! LOL

[MarylandMark]

Thanks Jayboat!!

I've won 2 out of 3 contest lately so will be sitting this one out so you other schmucks can be winners once in your life.

LOL- J/K and good luck to all!


MM is a man of his word I can see! LOL

The J/K was I was joking about sitting this one out..

No, really- my Mother was to be here tonight for Christmas Eve, however she is snowed in with more bad weather on the way. We are doing Christmas breakfast over the wife-to-bes parents and then having people over our house for Christmas dinner. All that means once she canceled, we were free tonight but couldn't drive the 2+ hours to go see her due to our other commitments. I didn't think I could play but since all that happened, I'm a winner once again!

[MarylandMark]

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!!!

[OldSchool]

Congrats Mark. Great work!!!:cheers2:

[Chris]

MM is our own version of Rainman.

[jayboat]

Great contest, Alec. Make em work for the good chit. :sifone:

[Ratickle]

Great contest, Alec. Make em work for the good chit. :sifone:

Merry Christmas Jay.......


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Great contest, Alec. Make em work for the good chit. :sifone:

I could have asked how long Steczs penis was but only 4 guys on here have a picture of it.:)

[MarylandMark]

Picking the pic I want is tougher than the contest!!!

SOOOO many great pics on the top 50 thread!!

Blee's boat is tits
36 MTI may be some thing I could afford one day
E Dock fleet speaks for itself

[MarylandMark]

JBS pic is the raw deal
Aqua & Geico in that water- WOW!
Gatorone- 'nuff said

[MarylandMark]

Geico & Coast Guard- good stuff
Talk N' Trash- my favorite race boat
Pbam's 40- one of my all time favorites, period

Ok- If I kept going I'd post almost all 50 pics!

THANKS SOS & JAYBOAT

[jayboat]

Thank you, Mark! Nice work.