Paul Madill driving Craig Cooks (Nitro Thunder) Bullet hull the 4th time in the water ran 246 mph with RBs props last weekend.

your right RB props and I just dare to guess who's setup it also had. Sometimes it pays to spend you money in certain places and with certain people that have been around a long time and not reinventing the wheel

Thats not a bad thing is it PC .

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Intersting... was that on the first run???

It was a very a nice looking pass. I bet they were very pleased. I hope the dameage wasn't too bad. Is there another race or are they done for the year?

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They have 2 more races I believe in April 20 and in May 18. Hopefully they will get to run again at one or both of those.

Gary made his madian voyage in his new PM, he did great too. I will post that video shortly.

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Here is Gaz in his Distant Thunder PM

YEAH GARY!!!!! So happy to see your pass, just wish I could have seen it in person! So how did it feel? Congrats and best of luck in the next race.

Laurie

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Nice Run!!! congratulations on the 246!!!

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DID NOT LOOSE A PROP there is a cable under water they hit with there rudder just like last year

If that's the case, sounds like something that needs to be fixed. Hitting a cable at 246, very fortunate outcome.

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Yes there are steel cables in the canal for the rowing lanes but they are on the bottom of the water not on top where the boats run!!! They may have hit something but very unlikly a steel cable.

Robert no need to scream, loosing a prop is unfortunately happens and I was just asking since there was damage on the back end of the boat and the video did not show the props.

What were they using for times now, I know they want to buy a timing system but have not heard if they had or not.

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By the type of damage it sure looks like it may have hit something or other. (CROC maybe??) It's real hard to spread one of those clam shells like that, especially one that beefy. I AM however, impressed with the bullet not spinning out at that kind of speed. That's the third time I've seen one of those boats slide sideways and not tip. I'm feeling better already!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lets get a couple of things straight. The cables are not steel, but rope. They are 9' down. The cables are kevlar rope, held on the banks by huge concrete blocks, and only 4 go horizontily across the river. The rest go up and down the course. The course is 2 miles long, the actual rowing area is built to olympic measurements.To hit a rope at speed would more than likely cut the rope. We had 40 boats racing all weekend, outboards and two other hydros and no one hit anything. 1 month ago we other hydros run and did not hit anything. Even Paul himself is convinced they have another problem and didin't hit anything. Never the less we are dredging the lanes to look for anything that might be the cause. My hydro ran the same lane, much slower than Paul, my rudder would have been deeper, we hit nothing. (I'm talking about a cable, perhaps there could be something else???) Paul's rudder was not marked by hitting anything. His rudder and mine are the same length. We will advise all of any outcome we find.

My bad I thought they were stranded cable. Thanks for clearing that up Gaz, did you all get your new clocks yet?

How did you like your new ride, did she feel good?

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Hey Gary. Sorry about jumping to conclusions. I should know better.

Congrats on getting your PM going. Hope to see more videos soon. 

 

My son Brien talked with Paul yesterday, he said both his hands were bruised which means the boat rattled the rudder from the prop wash. The same problem Daryl had with the bullets first Red Bluff race....the cause is the front leading edege of the rudder was to close to the front of the clamshell pin...because the twin props are clocked, which means the left prop will be at 12 and the right set at 3 to keep from digging a hole in the water... if the rudder blade is too close the pin the prop wash beats the rudder so hard in Daryls case shook the rudder so hard the steering box rolled foward and pulled the steering box away from the splined shaft...in Pauls case the transom steering mounting plates gave out first while the transom fiberglass cracked.

Thanks Jim that makes a lot of sense and alot better than hearing he hit something. I guess that would also mean that baby was making some ponies!!!! Can't wait for their next race! Eddie are taking notes!!!!

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I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it or not, but that was a great job of driving!!
Would 246 be the fastest pass down under??? (besides Warby) I think Scott Price ran in the high teens or 220's many years ago.

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Eddie, I agree on both! Paul did a great job driving! I am pretty sure you are correct on the speed too. Scott in his TAH, was at the time running 225-227 here. I thinking it was in the twentys down under too? Hey Gaz can you please comfirm this for us?

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hi gary, I've been waiting to get an e-mail from you about your run, happy to hear everything went well.  how do you like running down the track all strapped in.  Maniac

Nope I will not even go there

Yeah, Scott Price ran a 222 and change about 8/9 years ago here in Melbourne, that was the fastest run ever here. Paul ran a 219 in one pass in the alky boat 2 years ago, but are focused on the fuel boat now.

Mills, do tell. What happened for real?????????????

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Paul seems to have the knack for getting good speeds out of the boats he drives,with Craig's TFH "Nitro Thunder" running 246 MPH and TAH "Thunder Down Under" running 226 MPH in 2006 [My memory is not real flash but I am pretty sure it was written up in the VDBC November 2006 newsletter]
Even when he Started Circuit Boat racing and he Took his Blown Alcohol Displacement Circuit Boat "Bad Attitude" to the Windsor Drags in 1996 and ran 139 MPH.
[Mr "Dads Toy Down Under" It has been ages since we took a B.A.D boat for a run and I would be interested to know what speeds the B.A.D boats are now doing down in Sunny Melbourne.]

Also Mr "Dads Toy Down Under" it is great you are finally getting to take "Distant Thunder" for a Drive.
Remember that there is a one can of coke penalty if any of our crew sees your boat "NOT" detailed in the manor in which we trained it.

Good luck,

Charlie

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