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From: bdl@cruiser.uucp (Bob Lombard)
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Subject: Re: Overheating problem
Keywords: OverHeating...
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 15:23:26 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: what? me organized? no way!

jfh@cs.brown.edu (John F. Hughes) writes:

> I have a problem. Perhaps describing it as an overheating problem is
> prejudicial, so let me just describe the circs:

  stuff deleted....

 
>    Any conjectures? I'll probably just *remove* the t'stat for the next time 
> use her---that'll make her run at about 140 (or it did the last time), and
> that's no great sin. I'll probably only put an hour or two more on the engine
> before haulout anyhow. But if anyone has ideas about what might be causing th
> high temperature readings, I'd love to hear them. Powerboaters: this is your
> chance to explain things to an ignorant sailor...I'm all ears.
> 
> -John

You probably have a blocked coolant line, a bad or damaged water pump, and
possibly a bad connection on the temperature sending unit, as you had on
your gauge.

Some of the brass hose-to-block fittings used on marine engines have thin
sleeves inside that corrode then move, blocking flow.  I've had this happen
twice on an atomic 4.

You do need to prove to yourself that the coolant pump is actually pumping.
An easy way to do this (well, except for climbing around your engine!, on
my Ranger32 it stinks!) is to run a hose from a bucket of clean water to 
the pump inlet (old garden hose works great !) and to run the outlet hose
(Hose into heat exchanger ? hose into pump?) into a bucket.  Fire that 
puppy up and look for water flow.  No flow= bad pump or a clog somewhere.

You also mentioned antifreeze, so I assume your fresh water cooled.  What
about the flow through your fresh/seawater heat exchanger ?

Good Luck !






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From: tsai@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jeffrey C. Tsai)
Subject: Movie reivew : "WIND:"
Keywords: my towwo thumbs up!
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:29:07 GMT


I draggThis past weekend, I dragged my mwwifet t o to see the moveie "WIND".
It receivd ed our thumbds up!  Pley of sailing actionsBeaside sailing video, I have never
see any other moremore actionsailing actions then on in this movie.  It has d Internationl
14 racing and palllanning and 12 meters ac actions.  GHighly recommanded!

The best part of the movevie is that it has cons makde my wife conveinced my wife
that it is OK to sail the boat with certain heeling angle and
it is not a sign of turning over!

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From: mike.federchuk@rose.com (mike federchuk)
Subject: Changeing a name
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:31:32 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 09-05-92 03:22
ST|There are lots of ways to attract bad luck on the water, for example,
ST|having women on board. Whistling will get you into trouble (unless
ST|you're the skipper, in which case you will get more wind). A good
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Funny, I always thought it was the beans...... :-)

Mike

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From: bobp@cherise.UUCP (Robert Parkinson)
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Subject: Chesapeake Bay Mailing List
Date: 6 Sep 92 15:57:18 GMT
Reply-To: cbnet-request@cherise.sandr.com
Followup-To: cbnet-request@cherise.sandr.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: S&R Software, Incorporated

For those of you who missed the original article, there is now
a mailing list for boaters on the Chesapeake Bay. To subscribe
to the list, send mail to cbnet-request@cherise.sandr.com asking
to be included in the list. Include a good address if you would.

The mailing list originated as a way not to clutter rec.boats
with articles concerning our planned net.raft, and is being
continued for general info related to the Chesapeake.

Bob Parkinson
bobp@sandr.com


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[ Bob Parkinson                                 S&R Software, Incorporated ]
[ bobp@sandr.com                                              410.628.9241 ]
From: lastra@betelguese.cs.unc.edu (Anselmo Lastra)
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Subject: Re: Boat Show Question
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:34:36 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

In article <1992Sep14.161152.15550@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu> gra@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu writes:
>Can anybody offer advice on which of the fall in water boat shows are the
>best to attend.  I'm shopping for a day sailer, ...
[rest deleted]

I would say that the Annapolis Boat Show may be a waste of time if
you're looking for a daysailer. True, there are some exhibited on shore,
but not very many. Most of the boats are large cruising boats sitting in
the water. You'll probably see more daysailers at Dave Morel's yard in
New Jersey than in the boat show.

Annapolis seems more appropriate for looking at boats that most of us
can't afford.
From: frenette@ast.COM (Dan Frenette)
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Subject: Re: Jib furling systems
Keywords: Roller fulling
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:26:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AST Research Inc., Irvine, CA


rheinze@lrc.edu:
> 
> I would like to see a discussion of furling systems for
> smaller sailboats - under 25'
> Are they overkill on a small cruiser?
> What systems work better under what circumstances?
> What are the choices?  etc.?

No they are not, but you may not need a profurl or a harken to get the
job done on such a small boat.  I would go to a good supplus boat store
and get one of the older models that roll on a head stay.  Then put a
head stay in you large sail.  This will mean you only need 2 attachment
points.  One for the roller at the head and one for the drum.  By doing
this you can roll up you genoa and put up a working jib or storm sail if
you need to, you can store you genoa on deck or below deck as needed
and you will leave you head stay in place.

On a boat this size you could do the whole job for under $150 including
the wire luff of the genoa, fulling gear and tag line.  I had this system
on my Columia 28 and it made my genoa last a lot longer because when it
got rough I wasn't running on my good expensive head sail I was using and
old but stong (and cheaper) jib.

Good Sailing

Dan Frenette               frenette@legs
AST Research Inc.          (714) 727-8669
-- 
Dan Frenette               frenette@legs
AST Research Inc.          (714) 727-8669
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From: caf@sequent.com (Frank Collom)
Subject: Boat value ?
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Distribution: pdx or
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 17:03:12 GMT

I am considering the purchase of a 1983 Criss Craft Catalina
29' twin 230HP V-direct drive.  I has a flybidge therfore dual helm.
The boat is poorly equiped as far as electronics, (1)vhf, (1)DS, (1) compas.

Everything surveys out ok,  what I'm wondering is, on the west coast,
mainly Portland Or. area what is fair market value?

If this kind of question is inappropriate for this group please accept
my apologies and blow this away.

Thanks for any and all responses.
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From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
Subject: Re: Andrew in Miami
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:00:44 GMT

Brian Smith writes:

	I saw a short piece on the TV about the fishermen riding the 
	storm out at the docks--I've no idea where.  It was difficult 
	to get much idea of what they all did to survive (they all did) 
	because the reporter didn't ask any real questions or get any 
	technical answers.  Most time was spent on a character whose 
	survival technique was to get a couple of six-packs, lie back 
	on the boat and enjoy it.

The Subject heading says Miami, but it was South Louisiana, Cajun country.
It seemed rather clear to me that the locals were having the reporter and
film crew on and doing it rather well. I had the good fortune to spend
some time on a waterborne seismic crew in the bayoux and it was an 
experience I relish. I cannot remember a time when I have been taken less 
seriously. Great people.
From: jsnyder@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (J Snyder)
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
Subject: Re: Hey Buck, have a Heineken and relax, Please.
Date: 8 Sep 92 05:38:46 GMT
Organization: The lowering of entropy within a system

In article <Bu0BJK.6t2@acsu.buffalo.edu> v120p993@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Kevin F Hulme) writes:
|
|Buck-- try Heineken, really.

"Heineken?  F*ck that sh*t!  Pabst!  Blue Ribbon!"
			Frank Booth / Blue Velvet


This minor digression has not been smiley captioned for the
humor impaired, although it probably should be.
-- 
---------------------------+- If we took the bones out, it wouldn't --
jsnyder@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |  be crunchy, would it?  -  MPFC
---------------------------+  That is your reciept for your husband,
and this is my reciept for your reciept. - Brazil
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From: shla@spf.trw.com (Sheila Wallace)
Subject: Re: Disney World expansion?
Organization: TRW Sensor Data Processing Center, Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 18:59:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.143947.17102@ccd.harris.com> wjf@controls.ccd.harris.com (Bill Figie) writes:

>They still have plans on their Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. 
>THis looks to be one intriguing Disney ride.  It will be a
>Disney-type free fall.  The paper briefly said the final part of
>the ride would simulate a fall in an elevator from 13 stories.  I
>can't believe Disney would actually build a real freefall. 
>Haven't freefalls "fallen" (sorry about the pun) out of favor with
>park goers?  

Don't know about anyone else out there, but I love Freefall-type
rides (still).

>Well that's all I have.  I hope this gets out to you all.  Disney
>is going kind of slow now because of the recession, the war,
>perhaps the problems at Euro-Disney, and if you ask me, the cost
>for them to put in a ride such as Splash Mountain.  Could you
>imagine what kind of park you could put in if you were given $91
>million dollars?  You could almost build a park from scratch.
>

I haven't been up on the Disney scene -- what problems have
occurred at Euro-Disney?

Thanks for your informative post.

Sheila

-- 
Sheila Wallace		(shla@spf.trw.com)
TRW, One Space Park, R2/2162, Redondo Beach, CA 90278
From: cf170@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kevin R. Russell)
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
Subject: Re: Arrow & Vekoma: What's the connection?
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:08:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.188modINN2n5
Reply-To: cf170@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kevin R. Russell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson) says:

>
>It's always been obvious to me that (mechanically, at least) Vekoma's
>roller coasters are very similar to Arrow's products.  I've always wondered
>what the connection between the two companies is.  
>
>Does Vekoma have a license to use Arrow's mechanical designs, but then come
>up with their own variations from there (as in Boomerang and
>Kamikaze/Ninja)?  What little I've seen of Vekoma's designs seem to
>generally be more interesting than Arrow's usual "inversion checklist"
>style of rides (again, the Kamikaze/Ninja comes to mind--from the pictures,
>it looks much more interesting than most Arrow megaloopers).
>
>So, again, what sort of collaboration exists between Vekoma and Arrow?
>-- 
>_________________        David "Chuckie" Johnson        _________________
>      "I'm       \     aq009@cleveland.freenet.edu     /   ...no one
>   looking for    \       		              /  seems to have." 
>    something...   \      "Diversity in Injury"      /     -Mudhoney
>

"Chuckie"
As I understand the situation, Vekoma (who built some very nice smaller rides)
was licenced to build Arrow rides in Europe.  At the time of the Arrow-Huss
come-apart, the agreement kind of fell apart, although Arrow still built 
trains for Vekoma up until about 4 years ago.  Vekoma has since designed their
own trains, which are supposed to be superior in some ways to the Arrow coaches..a
I have not seen the new Vekoma trains, so I am just passing on other peoples
opinions.
-- 
Kevin Russell 	
				"Read my lips, no more inflammatory messages"
				me
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From: hempling@quorum.com (David B. Hempling)
Subject: Grand Slam Canyon
Originator: hempling@parker
Keywords: Circus Circus, Las Vegas
Organization: Quorum Software Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:42:30 GMT


Saw a small report on the Last Vegas, Circus Circus Amusment Park
project on an early morning news report this morning. The report
included shots of a model of the proposed park. 

The model looked like a large pie wedge, about 40% of a circle, completely
encased in a clear (glass? plexiglass? plastic?) housing. They took
the top off the model and showed the general layout of the proposed park.

A "wall" of the canyon was set at the "hub" of the wedge, with rocky
fingers that separated the wedge into smaller wedges. One wedge contained
a water park with an interesting looking set of water slides. Another
wedge held a steel coaster model. Painted bright red, two sequential loops
and a corkscrew were clearly visible. It looked as though the corkscrew
was suspened over a main walkway. Lots of model foliage could be seen
as well.

The park looked small. The report said it will sit on 5 acres. 

A Circus Circus spokesman boasted that this will be the first completely
enclosed amusement park. Plans are to open in 1994.
From: aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
Subject: KI's new-for-93 suspended coaster
Date: 12 Sep 1992 18:44:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aq009@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Johnson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I'm wondering if anyone has any information at all on Kings Island's Arrow
suspended coaster which is opening in 1993.  

I've heard some of the rumors, read what ACE News reported about it, and
seen the stack of track in the parking lot myself.  What I'm looking for
now are any interesting, more specific details about it.  (Placement in the
Wild Animal Habitat?  Interesting features?  Possible names?)

This is one ride I'm looking forward to, after finding out how good they
can be from riding the Big Bad Wolf.  (My previous exposure to Arrow
suspended rides had been the Iron Dragon...)  :-P

-- 
_________________        David "Chuckie" Johnson        _________________
      "I'm       \     aq009@cleveland.freenet.edu     /   ...no one
   looking for    \       		              /  seems to have." 
    something...   \      "Diversity in Injury"      /     -Mudhoney
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
Date: Sat,  5 Sep 1992 17:57:56 -0400 
From: Tracy Fluharty <tf1g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: World's of Fun Hours


Does anyone out there happen to know what WOF's hours are on the weekend
of Sept. 18, 19, 20?  We would appreciate it.

Trace & Gary
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From: buck@cavlry.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: RE: Batman The Ride( was: Re: The Vortex)
Keywords: gack, ugh, barf
Reply-To: buck@cavlry.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:33:32 GMT

Lawrence Daffner laments:


>  Ex-squeeze me?? All others paled in comparison?? Not even close
>buddy..... There's at least two at SFGA that do.. ShockWave and the
>Eagle.. Batman is a very boring coaster, IMHO. There's no interesting
>G's on that ride at all. Sorry. Get a life then report back.
>
>  -Larry


Excuse ME, but I'd really love to hear a more "in depth" series
of accounts as to why you feel BATMAN--THE RIDE "is a very boring 
coaster".  ???  Every ACEer I have talked with LOVES this ride
to death, and has it in their personal Top 10 (this author included)!
What, specifically, did you not like about it?


As far as your statement of "no interesting g's on that ride at all",
I thought B--TR offered *wonderful* positive g's throughout, which
is more than I can say for the "eagle" (which is a gross waste o wood
imvho).


Buck, with life in check
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From: rhb@ucs.usl.edu (Bird Rendell H.)
Subject: Carolina Cyclone (was Re: The Vortex
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:06:23 GMT

Chris LaReau writes:
>No, you will probably like it about as much as you like Iron Wolf, I did.


Obviously, in all the follow-ups things got confused, I have ridden
both The Vortex and the Iron Wolf (at their respective Great America's).

I thought the I.W. was fine, but I thought the Vortex was WONDERFUL!!


>Sounds like you don't like Arrow coasters that much. That's fine, but
>not all of us share that opinion.
>For its size, I liked it very much. Your mileage may vary.


I am not the only person on this list who doesn't care much for
Arrows coasters. 

Obviously, my mileage *has* varied significantly since I thought
the Carolina Cyclone was pitiful.

Still, maybe I am being unfair. The only other looping coaster I
had ever ridden (up to that point) was The Mindbender at SFoGeorgia.
It usually ranks in most people's "Top Ten (Steel)" lists.
Maybe they are just too different to compare...


Personally, I put Batman The Ride in a separate list to keep it
from subverting all my other favorite non-wooden coasters.



Rendell (sounding more and more like a CoasterNerd every day   <shudder>   )
From: v120p993@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Kevin F Hulme)
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
Subject: Info on heights of future Roller Coasters desired
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:56:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Hi, its me again, the guy about The Pipeline/CP, etc. I have a new question:

I am a fan of roller coasters with big first drops; to me, a great coaster
needs a huge hill. Magnum XL-200 came out in 1989 with its bohemoth 205 foot
first hill, and to my surprise, has not yet been surpassed. My question is:
does anyone know if coasters with even larger drops are ready to come out?
Will the 250 or 300 foot barriers be passed anytime soon? I guess the 
question arises: how big can they be made, from a Mechanical standpoint,
and from a practical standpoint; when will they start to get so big that
people are afraid to ride them?? (I won't be one of those). On the same
note, are coasters with a huge first hill as its highlight the most popular/
sought after coaster nowadays, or are the "my coaster loops more times than
yours" the hot thing, lately? Elaborations/comments appreciated.

                                 Kevin
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From: rhb@ucs.usl.edu (Bird Rendell H.)
Subject: Re: Batman The Ride( was: Re: The Vortex)
Keywords: gack, ugh, barf
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:09:04 GMT

(Lawrence Daffner) writes:
>  Ex-squeeze me?? 

Quoting Wayne&Garth?  How original.

>All others paled in comparison?? 

All other STEEL coasters did. Woodies will still be
my favorite, however. If you re-read my post you will
see I was talking about STEEL coasters only.

>the [American]
>Eagle.. Batman is a very boring coaster, IMHO. 

It is almost blasphemy to mention the name of Batman the Ride and
the ABOSOLUTELY *dreadful* American Eagle in the same sentence.

My friends had told me to ride the A.E. with 'greatest reservations'.
I had myself set for a disapointment. I still managed to over-estimate
the ride. In many ways, The American Eagle may be the worst wooden
coaster I have ever ridden!

(If only because: the look is *so* impressive, and the ride so *DULL*)

>Sorry. Get a life then report back.

I would write something appropriately imflammatory here, but since
I am the creator of this newsgroup, I think I will stay my hand. I am
supposed to be one of the people who helps keep the net from flame-wars.



Still, if you thought the American Eagle was anything other than the
BIGGEST WASTE of lumber you ever saw -- then *you* need to get a life,
and report back.



Pleasantly amused by net.idiots,
Rendell
From: muth@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Wayne A Muth)
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
Subject: Socially Unacceptable Ride or Park names .. ??
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:12:03 GMT


Time to lighten up and put on your 'thinking caps' -> just a little
contest with no prizes ...

Over the years, there may have been some names of rides or names of
amusement parks which in today's society might definitely be
non-cool, uncouth, socially unacceptable, or whatever ...

I herein start the list with "Fairyland Park" [long since
departed] in Kansas City.  Get the idea ??  Definitely not a real
good name to attempt to market under today ...

Your names ???
Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
From: chrisl@joplin.wri.com (Chris LaReau)
Subject: Re: The Vortex
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:03:36 GMT

In <1992Sep11.212253.19014@usl.edu> rhb@ucs.usl.edu (Bird Rendell H.) writes:

>(Chris LaReau) writes:
>>(3) Vortex at Carowinds. 
>>    I thought
>>    the Carolina Cyclone was a better ride though, and many of the
>>    locals I rode with concurred.

>***OOOOUUUUCCCCHHHH***

>Carowinds is on my list of favorite parks in the country. I gave it
>this personal distinct DESPITE the Carolina Cyclone. This was the first
>of the cookie-cutter-Arrow-coasters I had ridden. I truly despised
>this ride.

>#begin Bette_Midler (imitation)

>	Ees the Vortex *really* **that** ***bad***?!?!?           Why bother.

No, you will probably like it about as much as you like Iron Wolf, I did.

Sounds like you don't like Arrow coasters that much. That's fine, but
not all of us share that opinion.

Cookie cutter? It's unique as far as I know, and I've been on a lot of
Arrow coasters. "Cookie cutter" would apply to to the Arrow standard model
corkscrew (i.e. Geauga Lake, Canobie Lake, Myrtle Beach, Busch Tampa,
ad infinitum), or the Arrow shuttle loops, but not to their larger coasters
which generally have some differences in track configuration. I thought
that the Carolina Cyclone was the best Arrow coaster of its size that I've
been on for the following reasons: good airtime first drop in the back
seat, zippy loops, a really nice negative-G hit before the turn into
the corkscrew, a very fast corkscrew (they are not all created equal, and
this one compared with Great America's (IL) ShockWave in terms of speed),
and a very nice and fast _downward_ helix in a tunnel before the station.
The ride is well paced, no dead spots, everything goes bam, bam, bam,
right in a row with no letup from top of chain to break run.

For its size, I liked it very much. Your mileage may vary.

Chris

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Wolfram Research Inc. 100 Trade Centre Dr. Champaign IL 61820  (217) 398-0700
"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" - A. Dent
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