Steve,
Right you are! Beats Teddy Turner and that San Diego guy. I forget
whether my model was a C-1 or C-2. It was about 1952. I looked
pretty much like the other Italian and British racers of the day.
Graceful fenders and rear deck (boot as some might call it).
His Corvettes and the Jag were another breed and a decade later. If
GM had stayed in the racing biz we might remember Cunningham right up
there with Shelby.
Do you know the story of packing the engine compartment with ice when
the 'Vette began overheating due to leaking coolant late in the
race? They had to complete the 24 hours and could only stop after so
many laps to fill it up, I think. Don't think NASCAR would allow
that today. What would it look like on TV for a fake Chevy or Ford
to be running around the track dripping a steady stream of water
behind it? Probably not too good for the cars following it, either.
Pat
On Jul 2, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Steve Hyland wrote:
> Only person to ever have a class win at Le Mans and win (or defend
> in this case) the Americas Cup.
>> There are your Jeopardy questions (answers?) for the day
> From: tuna-bounces at myfleet.org [mailto:tuna-bounces at myfleet.org] On
> Behalf Of Nancy & Pat Broderick
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:12 PM
> To: Michael Andrews
> Cc: List Satanna 22
> Subject: Re: [Santana 22] Ookers
>> Hello All,
>> Briggs Cunningham was a childhood hero of mine via Popular
> Mechanics or Science magazines. I only knew of his sports car
> fame, however, since I grew up far from anything to do with a
> sailboat. I spent hours drawing Cunningham's speeding around
> corners on imagined grand prix courses and even built a balsa wood
> model of his car that used a CO2 "fizzie" cartridge stuck in a
> hole drilled in the rear to propel it down a taut string. The
> cartridges were expensive for a farm boy, however, and I think I
> only did that 6 times, the number of cartridges in a box. It was
> a quick run, over sooner than later, and not that interesting for a
> 12 or so year-old after a couple of runs - and no corners for the
> car to careen around.
>> It was only later that I learned the strange hole in my Coronado 25
> sail was designed to have a rope run through it to tension the luff
> and that it was named for that same man. Even that knowledge never
> allowed me to sail that boat with much racing success.
>> Pat Broderick
> ex-"Cibola" (Coronado 25 #4766)
>>> On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Michael Andrews wrote:
>>> My boom has a cast aluminum end with a stainless steel pin that
> secures the tack in place near the goose neck. My main's have been
> built with a tack ring accordingly.
>> Regards,
>> Michael Andrews
>> From: tuna-bounces at myfleet.org [mailto:tuna-bounces at myfleet.org] On
> Behalf Of Wayne
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:16 AM
> To: tmc664 at comcast.net; Sally Richards
> Cc: List Satanna 22
> Subject: Re: [Santana 22] Ookers
> Does anyone have a gooseneck with a tack fitting on your boat?
>> -------Original Message-------
>> From: Sally Richards
> Date: 7/2/2008 12:59:45 PM
> To: tmc664 at comcast.net> Cc: List Satanna 22
> Subject: Re: [Santana 22] Ookers
>> An Ooker is a Cunningham. The term is used by those who think Mr.
> Cunningham should probably not get the credit for having invented the
> trim device.
>> Sally Richards
> Pineapple Sails
> On Jul 2, 2008, at 9:34 AM, tmc664 at comcast.net wrote:
>> > Just checking the class rules on mainsail construction and the term
> > ookers is used a couple of times. What is an ooker?
> > Thanks in advance
> > Tom
> > Fun Zone #664
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