thedonz
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No different guy.....but i would like to see those pics....send them to my email top1gun38@aol.com....thanks
Mike
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Cougar Cat 40 w Turbines for sale what's the story
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No different guy.....but i would like to see those pics....send them to my email top1gun38@aol.com....thanks
Mike
Black Tornado
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Seahawk 41' - 38'
Graham,excuse me if I have thrown you inside this history.
Today I have found the context of the photo of the 41'Bengal Bay ex Cougar that refers to the Worlds of Atlantic City of the 1989. Then it could not be the Bengal Bay with the cutted gunwale that it is dated instead 1988.
After all also a 41' pic from the old your Library in Boatmad, show the ex Curtis cat in Atlantic City docks in 1989 that confirm this.
I also apologize to Pete for my insistence. :iagree:
Graham,excuse me if I have thrown you inside this history.
Today I have found the context of the photo of the 41'Bengal Bay ex Cougar that refers to the Worlds of Atlantic City of the 1989. Then it could not be the Bengal Bay with the cutted gunwale that it is dated instead 1988.
After all also a 41' pic from the old your Library in Boatmad, show the ex Curtis cat in Atlantic City docks in 1989 that confirm this.
I also apologize to Pete for my insistence. :iagree:
lowblue320
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lol
Lubejobs42
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Somebody should send the link to John Aruda. He should buy it. He could probably get some good tips on building a turbine boat! :26:
I remember seeing those Cougar Cats like KS&W, Sea Hawk, K-Systems, etc, running at least once or twice at the Grand Haven, Michigan boat races back in the day....1980's. I always remember seeing these boats mostly colored in black with gold accent striping on them---and some with megaphone/cone shaped attachments to the tailpipes of the exhaust.
When this boat was assembled in the late 90's there had yet to be developed a way of adapting a transmission to a turbine. So these were direct-coupled to the drives. He cut a well in the back and mounted this outboard in the middle of the tunnel. When you wanted to back up, you lowered the outboard and started it.
In order to shift the transmissions on turbines, brakes were developed to momentarily stop the output shaft rotation. A turbine at minimum idle RPM still has a turning output shaft. And not all turbines are capable of having the output stage stopped- even briefly. That may have been the case with the units he used here. I can't remember what they were. The owner had an old Cig 35 for sale about 10 years ago that I looked at. I checked out the Cougar while I was there.
In order to shift the transmissions on turbines, brakes were developed to momentarily stop the output shaft rotation. A turbine at minimum idle RPM still has a turning output shaft. And not all turbines are capable of having the output stage stopped- even briefly. That may have been the case with the units he used here. I can't remember what they were. The owner had an old Cig 35 for sale about 10 years ago that I looked at. I checked out the Cougar while I was there.
Offshore Ginger
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PJC - just curious Mate are you Steve Curtis......or
PJC
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Close he is in the next office, I am Pete Currington - Steve's buisness partner at Cougar Marine
fixxxer22
SO Tech Expert: Ford PSD's
It all makes sense now:cheers2:
I'm far from an expert on turbines, but the way I understand it, the output stage blades are hollow and are cooled by air passing through them as they rotate. Without cooling they overheat and deform or fail. Some turbines are made to be idled or stopped- like the one's in an M-1 tank or some of the marine-specific ones. Some are tolerant of it for brief periods of time and some will just die if you applied a brake to the output.
Rik
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There was a way, we've done it since the early 80's with a caliper and rotor but people at the local yacht club started getting irritated at the noise so it was dual function. Noise reduction and auxiliary power.
Offshore Ginger
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Cool , and the reason i asked is..... i remember seeing and talking with Steve and Jim Dyke when they were both with Spirt of Norway while on one of there many visits at Skater and a funny thing is... i worked on one of your old Canopy boats for Bobby Cousta which i think was a 46 or bigger and also one of the old Spirt Of Norway boats which had a very light layup .
littlenige
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