Kurt Hamilton

Hi guys

Posted this time last year about the Maritimo guys running in the Bridge to Bridge powerboat race here in Australia.
To recap its basically a race down the hawksbury river near Sydney, the river gets tight towards the end of the race, mostly 18-21' tunnel boats and hydro's and displacement boats running.
Maritimo won outright last year despite a spin in first corner, they fell just shy of the 29 odd min record.
Well today they again took line honours, this time smashing the record finishing in 27min 51sec!

This is a link to my thread from last year
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...-maritimo.html

There is only one video so far on Facebook as they crossed the finish (I can't work out how to link it yet) but no doubt more will pop up in coming days, I'll link them as they come through here.

mat h

Fantastic job. Well done.
I watched them from my boat at Peats Bite.
Such an amazing sight seeing this beautiful boat charging down the river.
World champions. Bridge to Bridge record holders...whats next ?
Nice work guys.

Kurt Hamilton

Here's a great video of them drifting the big girl into Pittown straight.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb3gsU7399s

Kurt Hamilton

And another
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OdOSdWntrCI

Also calculated an average speed for whole race of 140mph! When you know that river and how many corners and how tight it gets (for such a big boat) that's very very fast!

Kurt Hamilton

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N8mpuXfXdSU

Kurt Hamilton

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o21lOo9nVAc

HaxbySpeed

Super cool seeing that thing ripping such a narrow twisty river! Gotta be a lot of trust between the driver and throttle man.

Wobble

That is cool.

Not sure I like the company in the river though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7tMyNIfiy4

Is that a big shark at 37 seconds?

Kurt Hamilton

Sackville straight, roughly half way
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=STA276zn8rY

pstorti

iTrader: (2)

Yee Ha! is right looks like a lot of fun!