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Forum: GENERAL FORUM Topic: Why we don’t have different boat types racing in Ontario |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: August 12th, 2023, 8:03 am
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| The boating industry has gone thru many changes over the last few years. We have certainly noticed them on our lake. We did have many high performance boats on the lake, they disappeared and we saw high performance fishing boats, they disappeared and were replaced by pontoon boats. Inboard ski boats... |
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Forum: GENERAL FORUM Topic: Why we don’t have different boat types racing in Ontario |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: August 11th, 2023, 11:46 am
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| There are few advantages of being a senior approaching 80 years young. I have lived though the beginning, the growth stage and the decline of boat racing in Ontario. I think one reason is most people today aren’t interested in boats racing. They likely never have known about them, thought about them... |
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Forum: PERFORMANCE BOAT HISTORY Topic: Professional Powerboat Racing....PPR |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: August 9th, 2023, 1:44 pm
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| A lot of familiar names in this organization. https://www.angelfire.com/ak4/ppr/ The head members in the OPC division became disenchanted with the Canadian Boating Federation and deciding to separate and become a separate organization. Once PPR started it was the only option to race in OPC . It was ... |
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Forum: TECH TALK Topic: Modifying a 30 Yamaha 6J8....Not too difficult! |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: August 7th, 2023, 2:20 pm
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Replies: 1
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| Mod C was racing in the early 1990’s. It was a tunnel Class with Mod motors up to 35 cubic inch. The favorite motor was the 30 hp Yamaha triple. That motor was 31 cubic inches. The modifications were extreme....custom sleeves, and Pistons to increase the displacement to 35 cubic inch...special reed ... |
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Forum: CBF Topic: TBoats Racing At TORC Race Haliburton..August 19/20 |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: August 5th, 2023, 4:01 pm
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| There are 6 currently on the preregistration list. There are 3 more planing on running. And so far one boat will be raced by the dad one day and the son the next. There’s still time to get ready and add your boat to the entry list. These are all OMC T850 class entries so far. Let’s see if we can get... |
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Forum: TECH TALK Topic: “3” Cylinder 56 cubic Inch Engine Modifications..Interesting |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: August 4th, 2023, 10:45 am
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| I don’t think any of the do it yourself T boat people have even thought of doing a sleeve replacement. Most don’t have the knowledge, skill or the equipment to do it. Having a machine shop do it is very costly and without really knowing it will work out....it’s not worth the cost. In T850 racing we ... |
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Forum: TECH TALK Topic: “3” Cylinder 56 cubic Inch Engine Modifications..Interesting |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: August 3rd, 2023, 10:14 am
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| Behind the scenes there have been and still in progress some interesting projects to build different combinations of cylinder sleeves using different engine blocks. There are two sleeves, the Bridgeport and the Oval port. There are 3 different blocks, the early production or sand cast, the first foa... |
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Forum: BOATS FOR SALE Topic: Center Steer Hydrostream |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: August 1st, 2023, 12:58 pm
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Forum: GENERAL FORUM Topic: TBOAT QUIZ.....Voodoo |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: July 9th, 2023, 1:03 pm
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Replies: 11
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| (3) What was the first year the Voodoo was manufactured? 1989 and 1986 ... I think neither is correct I believe the first year was 1987 (8) Other than being lighter, what was different about the comp Voodoo. No answer They were stringer boats..no complete floor..no flotation....some didn’t have the... |
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Forum: GENERAL FORUM Topic: TBOAT QUIZ.....Voodoo |
| Hounddog |
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Posted: July 9th, 2023, 12:45 pm
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Replies: 11
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| [quote="Hounddog (7) What is the appropriate bare hull weight of a comp Voodoo? Tim has 180 lbs There were no light core materials back then. We have weighed 1 comp Voodoo. It would be nice to hear from original racers as to the weight of their actual boat. Here is a HPBC link where Steve posts... |
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