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The Anti-PWC Article Lives On
Your Hobie-Sidewinder article in On The Wire was hysterical. Nice editing job on the pictures. The still ROFLOL, Craig Simmons, Hobie Fleet 196, Virginia True, the AIM-9L is a weapon possessing tremendous anti-PWC capabilities. However, I have recently discovered that, during tests conducted around Biscayne Bay, the traditional Browning M-2 .50 caliber deck-mounted heavy machine gun works just as well for us budget-minded cruisers. Bear in mind that target deflection is occasionally a bit difficult to compute, given the erratic nature of the target, but by linking three rounds of tracer between five rounds of armor-piercing/incendiary, results are usually quite spectacular once hits are made, and collateral damage from freshly-lit Cohibas and IR-radiating barbies is eliminated. Fred Moore Someone posted your PWC missile page to rec.sport.jetski and they are having great fun with it. Did you know USCG forces PWC owners to carry flares if they go offshore? They are always looking for "targets" as the cartridges go out-of-date. Wonder if he can get a flare burning on the trampoline or Hobie sail coming straight up the stern at 65 or 70 mph?? New PWC easily can be made to run this fast... I've suggested, tongue-in-cheek of course, the Army's small version of Phalanx, the Navy's high speed rotary Gatling gun. If you take out the front storage bucket on the PWC, the cartridge belt intake sits right over the hole! We can run the gun's software under Windoze CE on a palmtop taped to the PWC handlebars....(c; It'll take a few wasted rounds to find the mast, don'tcha know.... Strange, I notice your ego showing as you assume your BOW will always be towards the PWC. Go test drive the new SeaDoos with D-C-Bel sound reduction. Your missile might give Bombadier a reason to incorporate Stealth technology into their line of SeaDoos! Bombadier IS in the jet aircraft business, so acquiring the technology should be fairly simple.....Just a thought. Larry../..Aboard SunSpot....observing some 8000 yards off through HEAVY lenses....I USED to own PWCs....thanks for the fun! Brilliant! We have a job getting these missiles in the UK, and so risk extreme personal danger and use shotguns. You have to get in close, but you have the advantage in that you can hear them yip. Peter Chennell You're a sick individual, Peter. Just the kind of writer we're looking for. We have seen beach areas where the PWC jump into the air off the waves. Combine this with your "control method" and you have a sort of variation on skeet shooting. Pull!!! -ed. |
Sorry. We're Only in Cyberspace
Is there also a hardcopy version of On the Wire available? I live in Boston, can you indicate to me where to get it from? Regards, David Bresch Sorry. On The Wire is only available on line.? -ed. Permission to Publish I am a UK sailor, based just out-side of London. I contribute to one of the UK sailing forums. Scuttlebutt at Yachting Monthly (URL= www.ybw.com). I would like to reproduce some of your material for the forum if I may. Specifically, the Ben & Jerrys ice cream and PWC sidewinder articles. I hope that you will give this request the OK? I understand that it is probably copyright and that you may refuse to OK this. There is no financial gain and this is just for fun. Keep up the good work, humour is needed in the world of sailing Simon S. Bradshaw I'm honored to appear in your publication. There is a reproduction notice on our letters page. Basically, you are free to use anything written by Bill Mattson and Frank Pineau. For other authors, you should seek permission. Some articles contain copyright notices, in which case you are obviously required to contact the author. In all cases, we appreciate a credit to the author as well as a reference to our site and URL. I'm glad we could help you. Likewise, if you have any articles that we could use, I would be glad to run them. We are a bit light on material in the off season. -ed. Weather Helm Somewhere I read a very detailed description of weather helm and rudder 'rake' (not sure rake is the right term). This article very thoroughly described how the rake affected the amount of helm that is felt in the tiller. I THINK it was on your site, but as yet i'm unable to locate it in your archives. If this sounds like one of yours and you are able, would you mind directing me to that article? Our archives are pitifully out of date, due primarily to a lack of storage space. We now have the storage, however, so we should be updating them any day now. The good news is that the articles you describe were written by Kim Miller, who maintains a website containing all of his articles written for our ezine. You'll find his site on our links page. If you still have problems locating the articles let me know. I will post them somewhere for you to access. Note that there was also an article prior to these that gave detailed, illustrated instructions on how to rake your rudders to correct weather helm. If you are in need of this one, I would have to post it. -ed. |
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