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Re: lv-ab: And the winner is....

From: Brian Cunningham (no email)
Date: Tue Aug 17 1999 - 14:08:49 EDT

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    Well I guess that answers the question of wether or not a jet drive can be put on a sailboat.

    ---John Bierrie <>
     wrote:---
    >This weeks winner is:...
    >
    >Guy Gibbons
    >who got it right very quickly I might add.
    >
    >With the second place, runner up being:
    >
    >Randolph Stroschein
    >
    >Great work guys.
    >
    >For the rest of you, the boat in question is named: "The Other Woman".
    >From my limited recollection, she is about 280', give or take. She is
    >powered by two (maybe four) Kiawa (I can never spell that name) water
    >jets... a very large jet-ski. All her sail controls are hydraulic and yes,
    >she does sail. How well she sails is, I'd say, a question that is really
    >moot... with a boat like that, who would really care? According to the
    >Capitan, she did as expected under sail with his having done only a long
    >broad-reach when we spoke with him. The picture was taken three years ago,
    >in Sag Harbor, NY (end of Long Island).
    >
    >Now for the next go round. :-)
    >
    >John
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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