Qatar Team Obliterates Shootout Record with 244-MPH Top Speed
08-28-2014, 06:53 AM
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John Cosker was a Field Engineer for Rolla Propellers when we worked together on a performance problem on huge "Miss Turnberry". That was about 1992. Then he took a job with us on the Gentry Transatlantic team. John Connor, Me, E.J. Potter (The Michigan Madman) and Tom Gentry. He was our computer engineer and naval architect. You could see his drive and brilliance even then.
I met john when he was working for Buzzi on La Gran Argentina, in Jacksonville 1995, been best of friends since....
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08-28-2014, 07:56 AM
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I have never met Dave Scott but am a big fan of his. I can't ever remember him packing 3000hp t-55's in his mystic and failing...
08-28-2014, 08:06 AM
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Wrong again, dave did build a turbine powered cat, an MTI, that he sold and bought his mystic that he still owns today. Give Dave a call, he'll verify it for ya, if you don't believe me.
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08-28-2014, 08:26 AM
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^^^^^ 218 with the Alky motors.
08-28-2014, 09:13 AM
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That boat never had turbines in it. It had Sterlings in 2007, then converted to alcohol motors. It was Bud Select in 2007 if I have the correct boat and painted red/black.
Congrats to Qatar for SHATTERING a record I thought was untouchable.
Wannabe
Congrats to Qatar for SHATTERING a record I thought was untouchable.
Wannabe
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08-28-2014, 11:57 AM
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Tank,
I've known JC since 1995, and he is a very hard working, family man, who's design background allows him to think outside of the box, and it shows, not just in the C5000, but the SL70, C62, and the list goes on and on. There is a really cool project just around the corner, that will once again show, his design skills are unmatched!
Dean
I've known JC since 1995, and he is a very hard working, family man, who's design background allows him to think outside of the box, and it shows, not just in the C5000, but the SL70, C62, and the list goes on and on. There is a really cool project just around the corner, that will once again show, his design skills are unmatched!
Dean
And yep, I believe I've been privy to said upcoming project. It is and will be a success. I think it's going to blow mystic up even more.
08-28-2014, 12:02 PM
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Tank, "IT" and the C4000 builds already has Mystic in overdrive! Hope someday we will meet at Mystic or the Miami show. I'm also scheduled to be working in North Ca. in 2016....
Dean
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08-28-2014, 12:27 PM
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Correct Mystic never had turbines. Sitting in shop with no mills in it when I saw it in May.
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08-28-2014, 12:46 PM
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The turbine MTI was only delivered a few days before the Shootout(2006) and he made a couple 1/2 course exhibition passes.
He sold it(over seas I believe) before it was ever really dialed in.
