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09.05.2021 23:33:38
He has nothing but good things to say about you. Looking forward to meeting you at some point.
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He has nothing but good things to say about you. Looking forward to meeting you at some point.
I was pretty young then -- but wasn't it Fred Bowden who was the first to bring a true tunnel (Eliminator) to the VP class? more
#36 - Not sure --- Could be Gordon Downard? [links]
Louis,
I don't think we've ever met, but we have some things in common. I've run 4 Mirage Jaguars ('86, '95, '97, and an '00) and one Quarter Master. So I am somewhat of a Collins/Mirage devotee.
I bought what I heard was your MVP circle boat from a mutual
friend, Jay Cox. It was blue and grey and had glassed on wood
lift strakes on the sponsons. He told me that you had barrel rolled it at Havasu, and were leading the race at the time. From the cracked deck it had, someone had wrecked it!
I bought the boat from Jay with no motor. He said you were running a Yamaha at the time?
I drag and lake raced the boat with a Mercury. It was really too
heavy for dragging, but I still ran mid 11s @ 105 with a box stock
2.4 EFI bridgeport, which was not too bad back in the late '80s.
I bought a used '95 Jag from a local dealer here (Jaco's) and
completely rebuilt the boat. I took it to Brad's Kaufman, TX factory
where he and his crew treated me like family. We put in a rear
seat and deck/fairing while I was there, and few other mods.
Since then, I've been through 2 more Jags, the last of which won
last year's Hot Boat Mag Wild Paint Contest. I'm currently running
a '96 Quarter Master in U/O and I really like the boat.
Thanks for the true history of the company. I know a lot, but I
didn't know about David Lee's involvement, or Cullen.
I hope you are enjoying your retirment. Do you ever come to the
drag races?
Best Regards,
Steve
This is a special alliance for our company and for us personally, having competed in the 2010 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race in the Oxford Blue Boat and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
We started rowing at the Saugatuck Rowing Club in 1997 when we met James Mangan, an Irishman who founded the club in 1990. Back then, James would show us VHS tapes of the Oxford-Cambridge race and we dreamed of one day competing at that level. more
Rowing instilled in us the power of aligning a team with shared principles and values for the purposes of advancing a common mission. At Gemini, we strive to move at the speed of innovation, with as much agility and velocity as possible. We are constantly in search of “swing,” that state of flow when everyone is rowing together or working together in harmony. It’s that powerful and rhythmic force that drives a rowing shell or startup towards its objective as fast, efficiently, and joyously as possible. [links]
We are delighted to announce that Gemini is the Principal Partner of the 2021 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
Where the 105MC reveled in its quirkiness, the Legacy 35 has shifted into the production cat mainstream. Gone is the 105MC’s centrally mounted Westerbeke diesel and swiveling love-it-or-hate-it Sillette drive leg, in favor of a brace of 15hp Yanmars. The diamond-stayed rig is all-new and so is the square-topped mainsail. Halyards and reefing lines are now led aft to the cockpit, and the optional Code 0 is set on a retractable sprit. The pivoting centerboards that allowed the 105MC to float in just over 18 inches of water have been replaced by a pair of fixed keels that increase draft to 2ft 10in; the trade-off is improved protection for the hull when drying out. here
The sound of water rushing past the foils and propellers took on a note of urgency as Gemini’s Robin Hodges cranked in the genoa and pointed the Gemini Legacy 35 higher into the 10-knot breeze. A large, aggressive-looking production monohull was coming up fast from leeward and few cat sailors can resist such a challenge. For perhaps half a mile we held off the 50-footer, neither gaining nor losing ground and pointing as high, the knotmeter flickering around 8 knots, before gybing to run back toward Annapolis. And no, I can’t swear to the calibration, but if it was exaggerating, it wasn’t by much.
Warren Luhrs himself took charge of the cockpit design, which is more open than on the 105MC and, thanks to the lack of backstay and the mainsheet traveller being moved to the hardtop, less cluttered.
The Gemini 35 has a redesigned cockpit more
The Gemini catamaran has been one of the quiet achievers of American boatbuilding, selling solidly through various incarnations that always showcased the twin attractions of affordability and versatility. The latest of these is the Legacy 35, which embodies the most significant changes in the 33-year history of Gemini catamarans. The design team at Marlow Hunter in Florida—where Geminis are now built—has reinvented the boat in order to capture a new audience. Consulting with the boat’s original designer/builder Tony Smith, they’ve put a new spin on a venerable classic. more
Electric Gear Box and Clutch: here
Provisional Patents have been filed on these inventions. more
A very exciting and interesting fact is that the Gemini Electric Motor, fitted with either Ceramic or Neodymium permanent magnets does not draw more than 27-30 amps, even under a heavy load. If the load forces the Gemini Electric Motor to slow in r.p.m. ( revolutions per minute ) the amount of amps drawn will be correspondingly reduced, unlike all other motors, which will draw large amounts of amps even though r.p.m. have reduced, and motor efficiency is falling sharply. This property of using permanent magnets both sides of the energized coil appears to choke the amount of electric current being drawn. Making the use of the common deep cycle lead acid battery a viable application, with the use of household electricity for recharging. more
Frictionless Electric Brake: here
We all would have heard of Elon Musk�s proposed Hyperloop system and the competition to design certain aspecs of the Pod, and of particular interest was how to provide a braking system. How do you brake or stop a Pod that is traveling through a vacuum tube at up to 760 mph (1,223 km/h), that was the problem given to engineering students around the world. I am not an engineer, I am an Inventor, and this is my solution. You use the Linear Motor that has propelled the pod to the high speeds required, to act as a braking system, by working in reverse, by that I do not mean by reversing the direction of the electric current. A Linear motor works on magnetic attraction and repulsion, the principle of unlike magnetic poles attract and like magnetic pole repel, so by reversing the sequence, and having the magnets repel when they would normally attract, and attract when they would normally repel, the linear motor would remain stationary, can be made to act as a brake, with the same efficiency and torque as if it were a motor. There is an air gap between the ends of the energised coil, and the permanent magnets mounted on the track, so there is no friction, no moving parts to wear out. This invention is an adaption of the technology demonstrated in my US patent no.6,812,615 for an electric motor, which effectively uses both sides of the energised coils to provide a means of forward and reverse propulsion and a means to incorporate regeneration while not using an electric current, but to also provide a means to slow or braking of the energised coils, without the friction and heat generated by physical contact between two surfaces that are suitable for a round electric motor or linear electric motor. To under stand how the electric brake works we again look at the energised coil A end 1, which is now a South magnetic pole, like magnetic poles repel, so the permanent magnet 18 would like to be repelled, but is forced in the direction of rotation by either inertia or friction, towards the center of the energised coil A end when it is over the center of end 1, the commutator or electronic controller changes the direction of the electric current, so now the magnetic pole at end 1 is now a North magnetic pole, and unlike magnetic poles attract, but the permanent magnet 18 is forced to move in the direction of rotation as the constant magnetic force is applied to stop the rotation of the permanent magnet 18, it will stop rotating and remain stationary, the force of braking is dependent on the amount of electric current and voltage applied, but it will be equal to the force and torque of the electric motor.