K777 and Bluebird

[FranklinRatliff]

Originally Posted by Loosecannon

He sure did, with the best of British engineering of the day .....then Ken Warby built a boat in his backyard (on Campbells drinking budget )and ran 2 world records driving thru every world record Campbell done, in a boat he designed, built and drove ( the only person to ever do so), plus broke the record by the biggest margin in history,, first over 300MPH, and 500KMH, plus the boat looked great on smooth or rough water, 34 years later, still at the top of the tree, the only person alive to ever hold a unlimited water speed record

Warby's accomplishment was pretty amazing, although he had the example of the Hustler jet boat built by Rich Hallett for Lee Taylor to draw upon. When Taylor set his 285 mph record, he made a one-way run of 299.310 mph.

[FranklinRatliff]

Lee Taylor's Hustler (essentially a stretched version of a Rich Hallett Banzai, http://www.performanceboats.com/v-dr...49-banzai.html ).

[FranklinRatliff]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcWPIvfXkj8

It still mystifies me what Ken Warby was thinking building his second boat as an open cockpit hydroplane when by that time every other 200+ mph boat in the world was being built with a fully enclosed cockpit.