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"Didn't learn boat design sitting on a bar stool" Whaddya mean by that??????

Morales won in 48' 4 engine Cougar Cat. Popeye 2nd in a 46' 3 engine Cougar Vee. Superb boats, average crews.........

I am fluffing up my album for the OFF coming up. I need good quality 8x10 color pix of: Cougar Cub (one of the shots from the KW championship would be great), Cigarette Bullet, Cigarette Decathlon, Cigarette 21, Popeye's Flight Cat, Sheer Terror. I will credit the sender, and trade some good...

This is a perfect example of a boat that will not break (or ever win a race).

Victor Borge, Didier Peroni, Lenny Kravitz had Magnums

IC thinking. The "combustion event" is smooth and countinuous. The 1 rpm is only a stop on the road to a wheelie.

Heavens no. I don't think that you will ever see a Sterling in a vehicle. Ours is year 2000 technology engine. Sterling is 1836. They have some success in small HP sunlight power generation, but their HP to weight ratio has a high vacuum.

More steam Here is the 350HP version of the same engine. All these engines have maximum torque at 1 rpm. The 100 HP version is 850 pounds/feet at 1 rpm. Smoke your prop......... We have designs all the way from 5 to 1500 HP.

Harry Schoell and Brownie of Cyclone Power Technologies are building a boat and engine to set a modern day ‘World Steam Powered Water Speed Record’. The 21’ DDC hull will have one of the new 100 HP Mark Five radial Cyclone engines. The engine, termed “a heat regenerative, self contained, water...

I don't think so, Tim........ I feel that the offshore speeds were held down by engine technology, as opposed to boat design. We had honeycomb cats and such (Zippe), but only had about 400 HP each side, and a 10,000 pound boat. In addition, you had #2 SSM or inclined shafts. Neither one very...

I thought you said ADAM West..........

At the 1979 World Championships in Venice, Italy, we had a round table discussion of catamaran construction, attended by myself (bit player), James Beard, Don Shead, all 3 Molinaris, Cesare Scotti, Bill Seybold, Clive Curtis, Sonny Levi, and a dozen others. We were all building plywood cats back...

Negatory. They used occasional layers of glass, Kevlar and pixie dust between the layers of wood......

One thing that T2x, Linder and Adams did was to break the code on wood composite construction. They figured out how to avoid the old "acre of boat" result of running a wooden cat hard in rough water. Compared to the other boats that we used to race, the cats rode so well that it was possible to...

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