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.
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08-26-2011 09:44 AM
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08-30-2011 06:19 AM
Would love to see a class 1 version! Boat looks great in the flesh!
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08-31-2011 04:35 AMCookee
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08-31-2011 04:41 AMCookee
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08-31-2011 04:43 AM
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
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09-26-2011 06:18 PMNice.....
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09-26-2011 06:33 PM
Cool!
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09-26-2011 10:31 PMI was chatting with Wil Smith, he was very complimentary on your boat.
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09-28-2011 08:57 AMCookee
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09-28-2011 09:11 AMThey had some major problems on his boat too......
Tough stuff on those open water big races......Getting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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10-01-2011 03:02 AM
Some video my colleague took the other day on a GoPro HD Cowes To Southampton on board the E-Lites BananaShark Stirling
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10-01-2011 09:06 AMThe 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?????Getting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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10-03-2011 08:52 AM
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
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11-09-2011 01:31 PM
Hi Guys! We have done some renderings to show an outboard leisure version - see what you think ......
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11-09-2011 02:33 PMNow that is an extremely interesting concept.....
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11-09-2011 02:34 PMWill it take two of those 500HP small-block chevy outboards?????
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