Trivia

[bootlegger]

Sorry Brian. The boat was called Firebolt. The stepped Hydro was designed by the famous aircraft designer Wackett.
The boat was built in 1929 and powered by a WW1 Maybach Zeppellin engine. With the propellor forward of the step it pulled the hull through the water. It did around 60mph but rolled over in a turn on Rose Bay.
Wackett went on to design another hydro called Cettien. With its V12 Liberty engine it went on to win the Griffith cup several times. After WW2 a merlin was fitted and it ran under the name of Sunray 2. It too rolled at over 80mph.

Both these hull were radical for there day.

Wackett went on to design several well know aircraft for CAC (commonwealth Aircraft Corp).

[bauchy]

thats the one. couldnt find the info i saw on it a while ago.

[bootlegger]

Oh well Brian if you knew the answer you can ask the next question.

[bauchy]

hahaha have you run out of information dave???

i didnt answer it so its yours to ask. i knew id seen it but couldnt find where i saw it so i may aswell have known nothing

brian

[bootlegger]

Name the famous female driver who raced a boat called Dianne?

[Sunbeam11]

gees Dave...you twying to twick us.......Dianne of course????

[Dave88]

I believe that would be Grace Walker

[bootlegger]

Your right Dave. Dianne was the name of Grace Walkers Daughter.

[Dave88]

An easy one,

What is a gunwhale?

[Sunbeam11]

need a wee bit of help with this one Dave ................can you spell it like you say it