OK, Mike - fair enough - thanks.Mike Bull wrote:Fred mentions in his posting of June 2nd 2010 in this thread that it was August 67 when he saw the sponsons.
They are the best post-crash photos I've seen of the sponsons.
OK, Mike - fair enough - thanks.Mike Bull wrote:Fred mentions in his posting of June 2nd 2010 in this thread that it was August 67 when he saw the sponsons.
Missing the point here, I fear. Ken told me not to bother looking for them because they weren't there to be found. I was heading down there with a ground penetrating radar, remember? Believe me, if there'd been a chance of having them back, Ken would have jumped at it, broken or otherwise. Don't forget also that at that time he had the F-19 crossmember being tested for everything except Chlamydia in the hope of re-using it so even mashed sponsons would be better than no sponsons.The word "scrapped" is used a lot by the older generation - as is the phrase "A write-off" - even when, strictly speaking, the item(s) they are referring to were, in fact, neither scrapped nor written-off. But the term simply means ... "broken", "finished", "worthless", "gone".
That's another thing. Ken invariably referred to the boat as 'the machine' in our discussions. Never Bluebird or K7 only ever, the machine: yet others I've mentioned this to who knew him don't seem to have heard him refer to it similarly.Further proof- as if any was really needed- that Ken was VERY pro-recovery/rebuild of his beloved 'machine'.