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OT to the max: Great River Race
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The other weekend, I was listening to the broadcast of this event, on
the radio in the car, and cackling laughing.
It's for char-idee and as you can see from the website below, there's a
substantial entry fee.
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may I commend the Rye Raft Race to the house.
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Are upturned kitchen tables allowed?
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Is that across the Seven Seas?
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Look out for the Brighton Rock.
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Are the UKRM Queens involved?
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nah. BGN's a big girls blouse.
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But I'd have thought we have enough lunatics here both to construct
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Speaking in those terms, you should construct things like this
More family fun oriented in the Catalan area
More competitive in the Basque country
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They do something similar at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Or used to
- down the hill-climb section. A lot of the Formula One teams have
entered vehicles and rumour has it that the R&D expended, purely in
spare time, of course, would fund a few months' racing.
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Saw it a few years ago. It's a bit surreal, these tiny vehicles
travelling almost silently down the track.
That year, there were two rival teams, Bentley and, err, forget the
other, who had carts that took design cues from their respective
marques. very close race, IIRC.
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Ukrm has had a poster in the recent past who was on the design team that
built the last Lotus car to win a race. OK, so it was a soapbox car
built for the Goodwood race, but impressive all the same.
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Only been once but *must* do it again.
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some sort of 10-seater craft and paddle it the requisite distance
without sinking. I really fancy it for next year. Anyone else? Anyone
here ever actually *built* a boat?
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Sort of. I helped my Dad build one when I was 8. It was a small 2 pax
boat for going fishing in. It worked too.
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My mother did something similar, little plans-built sailing dinghy, about 40
years ago. It's currently sitting on a trailer in the drive, awaiting
refurbishment.
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Could it be fitted with 10 sets of rowlocks and does she want to part
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Easy. Saw it in half at the broadest part, then fit a looong
uniform-section middle.
It would just need rows of running lights (say, one per rowlock) and
a boomerang antenna on the stern and Hey Presto! a stretch dinghy.
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with it?
Better still, is there a way of fitting a concealed engine so we can
cheat, mightily?
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Erm
I've got this Kawasaki Zephyr 750 engine sitting in the shed doing
nothing. Its next to a pile of plastic tubing, solenoid valves and a
polished cylinder with NO2 written on it.
Would that, by any chance, be of any use to Sir?
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There was a response to your thread on ZephyrZone only last week about that
engine.
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Does that help?
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Sounds like you're over-qualified. Anyone else?
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Well I've built boats and canoes but you don't need it over here.
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Turkish: Well, you know about caravans.
Tommy: How's that?
Turkish: You spent a summer in one, which means you know more than me.
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I've fixed them, and I know how to stick kevlar tape to curved surfaces.
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Thank you for your application. We will consider it, and be in touch
if we want any further information.
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I lived next door to a bloke who built a boat in his garage - took him
about 20 years.
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Erm...
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Anchorpac made by T.T.Boughton Ltd in Amersham but that company has
gone now.
Anchorpac as a name and product was bought by a "new" company and
shifted to somewhere near Exeter IIRC.
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I've designed drain cleaning equipment, waste compactors and conveyors
for McVitie's ginger nuts.
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Essential war work, your exempted
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Ooh! Ta!
Aksherly. Everyone should be given the chance to eat ginger nuts while
they are still warm - best biscuit in the world, when eaten like that.
But not digestives - they just taste like cardboard when they are still
warm. And don't ask me about fig rolls.
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Any of that any use?
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I've built rafts; does that count?
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even I've done that, so probably not.
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Mine didn't sink; does that help?
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Undertook a bath race across the Wear. In a steel bath, when all the
other teams used plastic baths.
We sank.
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if anyone has, I'd suspect Simon Kenyon.
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