Place your bets - Great Race

SUPAstarr · Postby **SUPAstarr** » August 29th, 2009, 2:27 pm

speakin to sautt air operatins, bhagwansingh lendin their chopper too, national heli sendin too,

pablo_tt · Postby **pablo_tt** » August 29th, 2009, 2:28 pm

N225FS?

SUPAstarr · Postby **SUPAstarr** » August 29th, 2009, 2:33 pm

is his goin back up now from tobago, good bit of vessels in the water.

bigga514 · Postby **bigga514** » August 29th, 2009, 2:36 pm

so extreme finish??

SUPAstarr · Postby **SUPAstarr** » August 29th, 2009, 2:54 pm

jus got a call they is found near fillet bein towed by sea kim, awaitin solid confirmation

RoTaRyBoYz · Postby **RoTaRyBoYz** » August 29th, 2009, 3:00 pm

Non of these boats have GPS tracking in case of a breakdown etc?

If a boat breaks out of it's class dial-in, does it mean that it's automatically bumped to the next class for the coming year's race? Or do they stay in the same class and "sand-bag"?

SUPAstarr · Postby **SUPAstarr** » August 29th, 2009, 3:01 pm

FOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Postby **Dragist** » August 29th, 2009, 3:02 pm

^^^ Cool thanx .

SUPAstarr · Postby **SUPAstarr** » August 29th, 2009, 3:04 pm

His GPS, Radio, everything malfuntion after he hit a wave hard according to renaldo (onboard), injured ricky is being taken out, an boat bein towed

SUPAstarr · Postby **SUPAstarr** » August 29th, 2009, 3:05 pm

18 miles off filette, thank goodness

evo-STI-k · Postby **evo-STI-k** » August 29th, 2009, 6:03 pm

Fury had some trim problems and as a result could not go past 110 miles per hour!

had it not been for that they would have won!

Xman · Postby **Xman** » August 29th, 2009, 6:27 pm

evo-STI-k wrote:Fury had some trim problems and as a result could not go past 110 miles per hour!

had it not been for that they would have won!

Thats why its not just about speed but reliability of your boat and equipment

AutoSport · Postby **AutoSport** » August 29th, 2009, 9:31 pm

"had it not been for that they would have won!"

Good God, how many others would have won Great Race and every other race "had it not been for that !"

And the GPS failed because of an incident on board -
seems as though the powers that be still have a lot of work to ensure that
incidents like whatever,
do not disable the GPS when an incident happens (independent back-up power)
and makes the GPS absolutely useless
when it is the GPS that the organizers are depending on
to find a boat when an incident happens. Simple?

QG · Postby QG » August 29th, 2009, 10:12 pm

Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:^ next year

its usually a week or two before great race

Oh shucks!!

I meant to ask when is Great Race and not Fete, lol.

My bad!! :lol:

gt4tified · Postby **gt4tified** » August 29th, 2009, 10:26 pm

Yeah, but QG yuh still late jed.

Anyway, congrats to Mr. Solo and its entire team and also to all Class winners.

pugboy · Postby **pugboy** » August 29th, 2009, 11:10 pm

that rescue effort porbably cost taxpayers close to $1m
just because the supplied race gps devices dont work
and the boat owners dont carry their own or emergency items

Postby **W2J** » August 30th, 2009, 11:16 am

evo-STI-k wrote:Fury had some trim problems and as a result could not go past 110 miles per hour!

had it not been for that they would have won!

correction Fury had Silbourne Clarke and had navigation problems

Postby **Dragist** » August 30th, 2009, 11:56 am

W2J wrote:
evo-STI-k wrote:Fury had some trim problems and as a result could not go past 110 miles per hour!

had it not been for that they would have won!

correction Fury had Silbourne Clarke and had navigation problems

Well said .

SUPAstarr · Postby **SUPAstarr** » August 30th, 2009, 12:18 pm

Pugboy, the knock matrix took pretty much took out everything, radio, gps, ricky's back, however renaldo was able to use an emergency call funtion on the gps device to tell race control he was 17 miles off gran riviere

evo-STI-k · Postby **evo-STI-k** » August 30th, 2009, 6:24 pm

W2J wrote:
evo-STI-k wrote:Fury had some trim problems and as a result could not go past 110 miles per hour!

had it not been for that they would have won!

correction Fury had Silbourne Clarke and had navigation problems

Ahhh i hear ya, similarily theres an evolution that has a ...........................

:lol:

i take it that you have been in a race boat going over 100 miles per hour W2J???

and the time yuh parked up in power boats with the little boy and yuh hand brake failed and yuh went for a swim does not count!

wall · Postby **wall** » August 30th, 2009, 6:47 pm

evo-STI-k wrote:Fury had some trim problems and as a result could not go past 110 miles per hour!

had it not been for that they would have won!

even so they were running in the 120mph- class which means that they would not be allowed to exceed that speed + the fact that they would only average around 85-90sumthhing mph so what it really came down to in the end was the durability of the equipment and crew but i relly wanted them to win yes.. it did seem that fury had trim problems because by time they passed by where we were on the north coast they were going bow down into the swells n solo started to leave them

Postby **Monk BANzai** » August 30th, 2009, 7:01 pm

blah blah blah....bring your best to our waters!! Mr. Solo will win time and time again!!...the boat is "Seasoned" for our waters....others are not....all the "best build" and "it deos run real fast in Florida" is nothing...

Cjruckus · Postby **Cjruckus** » August 30th, 2009, 7:33 pm

So when will the sponsors bring great race on tv?

Postby **W2J** » August 30th, 2009, 7:42 pm

evo-STI-k wrote:
W2J wrote:
evo-STI-k wrote:Fury had some trim problems and as a result could not go past 110 miles per hour!

had it not been for that they would have won!

correction Fury had Silbourne Clarke and had navigation problems

Ahhh i hear ya, similarily theres an evolution that has a ...........................

i take it that you have been in a race boat going over 100 miles per hour W2J???

and the time yuh parked up in power boats with the little boy and yuh hand brake failed and yuh went for a swim does not count!

Actually yes many times.

Cjruckus · Postby **Cjruckus** » August 30th, 2009, 7:47 pm

but seriously though back in the day when DuMariuer had the sponsorship, great race was on TV.

at least the start or somthing, or maybe some live updates from the beach, and probably the finish. It couldnt be that hard to sync it all in a 2 hr block on a saturday morning.