Looking forward to the Ivy Lake run

[Rapier]

Will be my first successful Ivy Lake do for almost 2 years, as have had a run of bad outboard-juju. Been weeks of working on an Oppie in prep. for a new lease of life, so the idea of a proper test day on the water thrills. Hoping to run the Pearly Miss with raised Mercury 40hp and a 15 pitch prop, to see if I can break the 35mph (!) mark...in reality it needs 44 cubes, not 32, to make it really go & I need some pics of it in less sedate mode too.

Have waders and packed lunch..look forward to seeing everyone there though.

Nice vid from the April meet...

[water_buoy]

I can't wait as well should be a good un as long as the storms pass.

Let me know if you need to squeeze a few more miles an hour out of the pearly miss and we could try a lighter skipper

Only joking

See you there!

[Rapier]

Need to keep you away from it though..the Dark Side will call and then you won't be happy with a wheezy old Ski Twin.

[water_buoy]

strangely enough I have been browsing eBay for the dreaded M*#€ just seeing what my options are for future 'hop ups'

[Rapier]

Then you definitely need to have a run and compare it with the 40hp Ski Twin experience from Cardiff. Then find someone with a Merc 50 powered boat on the day....they're cheap to run, single lever remotes, can be retro 'decal'd', 45hp at the prop and plentiful enough these days to be picked up cheaply. Will make your boat fly without much weight difference to the 33hp.

[Rapier]

Merc wouldn't start this morning, flushed fine after Poole, so after a moment of panic (the inition system is unique to this motor and hard to find) I isolated the killswitch and it started up, killswitch full of water, so now in the oven, drying out. Phew...didn't fancy swapping it over for the Chrysler with today's rain.

[catweazle]

The ivy lake jinx must be broken,will be viewing a workshop in Emsworth yacht Harbour with space alongside for my nelson tomorrow ,hoping to move down and retire to the area ,will pop in and visit the lake if all goes well.

[Rapier]

Thanks floater. Great day, usual suspects and met new people - with some great boats, much admired. Hope Mark got home before was too cold. Thanks to the launch drivers too. I had dreams of empty tanks - but motor too frugal; if displaying rooster tail tendencies.

P.s jinx broken I think.

[Rapier]

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[Alacrity]

???????? Riva Bertram????