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Old 10 May 2006, 16:14   #41
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. in regards to your cam i am glad it stayed on, who fitted it? Scorpion
Warner Brothers I think!
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Old 10 May 2006, 16:21   #42
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well bugs bunny and his mates tell me that the cam was done by bob the builder. for your information scorpion just got 90 knts out of one last week in greece so a birdy tells me, what do humbers do 45 max hahahaha
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Old 10 May 2006, 16:40   #43
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I've never seen any RIBEYE owners slating any other peoples boats on here.

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They wouldn't dare!! The return flak would be unbearable.

I have no personal gripe with Ribeyes at all, perfect for the job for which they are built. I'm starting to wonder about the humourless bunch of farts that own them though. Chill out guys and have a pop at Solents or something. It's like a bit of changing room banter, if you've ever played any sport.
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Old 10 May 2006, 17:38   #44
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That's OK, I was looking at the Scorpion website earlier and the smallest one weighs 2 tonnes according to the manufacturer,
i think you will find that the high weight is when they include the average scorp owners wallet. If one of us normal ribbers was on the boat the all up weight would be far less i would imagine!
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shit......did i say wallet, i meant ego!!
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No, you meant willy!
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Old 10 May 2006, 17:44   #47
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If one of us normal ribbers was on the boat the all up weight would be far less i would imagine!
Are you havin' a larf?! Not judgin' by the strain that your cummerbund was under at the christmas do!!

Debs must have to wear a deepsea divers suit to keep that Osprey on an even keel!!
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now now dont start a war, we all know who is best
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Yes, we did use Scorpion two seasons ago, but we had so many problems with the Scorpion that we had to sell it within the first year. We had absolutely every screw coming out, the seat-bars broke, the entire hull full of water, the suport on the transom holding the tube broke which again punctured the tube, the gear/gass-throttle loosned, the bilgepump loosned, the batteries loosend and jumped around in the console, the Seastar tiebar was not mounted horisontaly and caused the stearing to break, this was never taken care off by Scorpion, even after 10 mails etc etc. Grahan Jelly sais we drive the boat to hard. That is thrue, but the boat was built as a searaftingboat by Scorpion and they thereby knew what it was ment and built for. The Scorp was also causing us problems in sharp high speed turns. Once we did a sharp turn with customers, the boat suddenly grabbed and twisted the other way and threw 11 people over board. Causing one broken finger and some camers to break. What we do is that we absuse our boats, and normal people will never experience this and the Scorps will work just fine. We are now using Revengers only and have no problems with them. They don`t break and we can do the sharper turns without juming sideways. A freind bought a Revenger 29 more than three years ago and used it for searafting without any problems. Since July 2005, we have bought three Revengeres, 27, 29 and 34, from them and asked for quotes for two more.
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Old 10 May 2006, 18:39   #49
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yes you definately said willy, we all heard you

to the last comment made about the scorpions falling apart, he must have driven the shit out of the her. how can a rib go so fast around britain and be ok yet in the solent breaks. uhm i think your matey might want to learn how to read the waves.
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yes you definately said willy, we all heard you

to the last comment made about the scorpions falling apart, he must have driven the shit out of the her. how can a rib go so fast around britain and be ok yet in the solent breaks. uhm i think your matey might want to learn how to read the waves.
ok ok ok my comment about the weight of a scorp being a wallet or an ego were indeed incorrect, a scorp weighs so much due to the big willies in them!....or words to that effect

glad thats all cleared up satisfactorily.....cool eh ribeyers

Alice, that photo from the christmas doo was scarey, i looked like a right fat Ba$ta£D, on a diet now and the only chips are on my shoulder!! I am sure some irish guy doctored it ...honest

I hope all you scorpers are at the ribex, would be good to meet up
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Old 10 May 2006, 20:03   #51
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i wonder if that is why the guy who recommended the offset for my engine said i would not need much offset at all if i was driving



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Are you havin' a larf?! Not judgin' by the strain that your cummerbund was under at the christmas do!!

Debs must have to wear a deepsea divers suit to keep that Osprey on an even keel!!
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Old 10 May 2006, 20:26   #52
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i think you will find that the high weight is when they include the average scorp owners wallet. If one of us normal ribbers was on the boat the all up weight would be far less i would imagine!


Well if I had taken the purchase price of a ScrapIron out of my wallet it would be a vacuum inside so wouldn't weigh very much at all

No, they are very nice, but with that weight no wonder they all have 200+ on the back!
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Old 10 May 2006, 22:19   #53
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I have no personal gripe with Ribeyes at all, perfect for the job for which they are built. I'm starting to wonder about the humourless bunch of farts that own them though. Chill out guys and have a pop at Solents or something. It's like a bit of changing room banter, if you've ever played any sport.
Are you for real Alice?

Are you actually questioning Ribeye owners experiece in sport and time engaged in changing room banter?

Now that is funny.
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Old 10 May 2006, 22:49   #54
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Well I've got a Ribeye 5.8 and Yam 100 and this evening it reached 250mph in a force 8.

And there were loads of fit birds in the back.

And I caught a whale. Which was nice.
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Old 11 May 2006, 07:52   #55
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fit birds everywhere and yet you end up with a whale... give up the booze
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Old 12 May 2006, 19:49   #56
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We had 60mph out of are dont want to do that agen. with a 23pich prop and lots of trim and not to much fuel. lost all contorl reli did it 4 about 4 miles and neva will do it agen. it chinwalks ova 54 so to get it to 60 was not fun at all it stop chinwalking but there was not much of it in the water it was just on the engine and planin weg. so 70mph not thank you not in a ribeye. been faster in ova ribs but felt safe not in a ribeye.

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