[Public-List] A30 Team for Eastport/Annapolis Tug'o'war.

Fri Oct 24 09:50:35 PDT 2008

As the owner of a 2hp Seagull I must throw in an argument.  I would
argue that your Seagull prop was properly designed to develop maximum
thrust at a forward speed of 4-5 knots. You were doing a bollard-pull
comparison!

Mike
Rinn Duin #272 (1967 A30)
Powered by an Atomic 4 built the same year.
With 2HP British Seagull built the same year..
Let me know if someone comes across a 1967 dinghy.
(My wife was born in 1966 but I will keep her anyway)

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I can't come to your event, Andrew, but the invitation reminds me of a
bad memory.

I worked for Tom Taylor Co in Toronto for many years after I graduated
from school (those Canadians on the list who are my age will remember
the department store sized chandlary down town)  I still dream sometimes
about what that old building was like when I would come in to open up.

Among the gear we handled was the distributorship for British Seagull
outboards.  I loved them and had one myself on TOUCH WOOD, my old
Folkboat.
I used to tell everyone that they were the greatest, and I sold a lot of
them.

One day my soon-to-be wife and I were sailing back from a weekend in
Niagara in TW, in company with friends in their Shark class sloop.  We
were becalmed so both fired up the aux outboards.  My 'Gull was
vibrating and hammering away, smoking like crazy on the heavy oil mix as
usual, but as I said, I loved it.  

Boyd decided to challenge me to a tug of war in the glassy calm.

We quickly rigged up a line - I was confident of victory.  My Seagull
was rated at 170 pounds of thrust, had the extra long shaft and the
five-bladed 11" diameter high torque prop.  Boyd's boat had a buzzy 6hp
Johnson with a tiny high pitch prop...both engines about the same
displacement.  We knew his boat had a higher top speed but I loyally
attributed that to the Seagull's superior design, which produced
fantastic torque at low speeds - like a farm tractor, I used to say.

Well, he towed us backwards with a foaming 'bow' wave at our stern.  He
took
pictures which he still occasionally emails to me.   Over the roar of
our
engines I could hear him triumphantly shouting "Ha Ha, you bastartd!
All those poor people you lied to, all those poor people!"

Gord #426

On 10/23/08 9:23 PM, "Meinhold, Michael J."
<MICHAEL.J.MEINHOLD at saic.com>
wrote:

> I am in! 
> 
> Mike
> Rinn Duin #272
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:public-list-bounces at lists.alberg30.org] On Behalf Of Andrew L.
> Cole
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> Cc: 'Robert Martensson'; 'Eric Schwartz'; tlochner at boatinglaw.com; 
> 'Marc Stanley'; 'Staller, Phillip B'; 'William Lagman'; 'Lawton, Ike';

> 'Andrew Stephenson'
> Subject: [Public-List] A30 Team for Eastport/Annapolis Tug'o'war.
> 
> One of my crew is involved with the annual Tug'o'war across Spa Creek 
> and has asked if we could put together an A30 team to compete this
year.
> He's trying to get the Cal 25 group to put up a team to oppose us (the

> fools).
> 
> 
> 
> We can have as many as 33 people on the team, the entry fee is $20.00 
> per person, and my understanding is that the proceeds all go to 
> charity (I will have to check which one).
> 
> 
> 
> The Tug is on Saturday November 8, registration opens at 11, and the 
> tugs will take place between 12 and 1.
> 
> 
> 
> I'll have coffee and donuts at our house for the team before 
> registration (everyone can park on our street and walk over to 
> registration after we're sufficiently caffeinated and sugared up).
> 
> 
> 
> If you're interested, send me a note and I'll start compiling a list.
> Don't forget to pass this on to your crews as well.
> 
> Andrew L. Cole, Esq.
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