Trivia

One last clue then. Cettien.

I will let someone else get this but would initials be H.M?

Well the M is right.

Not Harry Mcevoy?
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2697569

Also Listed under Cettien
http://www.naa.gov.au/naaresources/publications/research_guides/guides/dockyard/pages/appendix1.htm

No, but you are very, very close.( Besides, Harry was not particularly young. And he was well off with a succesful business as you had to be then, as now, to run at the top end)

Was the record set in the boat with the name Cettien or sunray II

Norman Tompkins was going to give it a crack on Lake Maq he was only 18, but I can seem to find any records to state if he did? SunRay II, please tell me it was him

You were very, very close and went off on a tangent
The answer is Harry Mc Evoy's only daughter, Tien (short for Cettien) who when still 15 set the Oz record at 67.9 over the mile in 1935. Tien was born on Oct 9, 1919 and died in Penrith hospital aged only 64 0n May 12,1984. Google Tien McEvoy and you will find an article re a very handsome gift to her from St George MBC in 1935.
As for Sunray 11 it did get the record (83 I think) in 45 or 46, ie Tien's rcord stood for 10 years. AND this boat was Cettien re-named and re-engined with a Merlin. It was a very dangerous boat and kept revolving eround the prop shaft as it could not handle the power/torque. Cettien origially had a 450 hp motor. It was retired before someone got seriously hurt.

I had looked at that too just missed it
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:YeW5jAs6TEkJ:nswapba.com/board/index.php%3Fs%3D370bbba8cea01aa1bf2b3417c2f91554%26act%3DAttach%26type%3Dpost%26id%3D304+Tien+McEvoy&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESibeSxBD1qN7hBO6QIUKToOQVbcnRbOk1YhimI7I5uBi6o5aFBmeJzM7NlRZZlRjaxSrgykloQAyYcuunmMzYlebu7lH1HpIfn3_7fGzFF3nd4YALlIqeB_mFzD3GJuk_4zZqIr&sig=AHIEtbQi5EW5BveCLoLAiq7vKrj7kXcL0Q

That was a great one oletyma Had me hitting the books

Give us a new one....

Well I'm tired now and will go to bed with a hot cocoa and take my nasty pill and see what I can come up with in the morning.

The Oz 4.5 L side valve displacement record is 102.13 kph (63.46 mph) Scrubcat IV, 1967 and the NSW rec 86.95 kph (54.03 mph) Maureen IV, 1972.
If truth be told and justice done, both these should be replaced by just one boat at a higher speed.
Boat and speed?

Who's going to have a crack at it?

There is one forum member at least who should eat this one. In any case had decided to pull the plug on it tomorrow, Saturday.

Answer: The Lewis skiff Fox back in July 1950. Over the mile on Kogarah Bay, 68.05 mph (109.52 kph) for Oz and NSW 255ci and ul displacement record. Ron Hodge who rode shotgun in the boat is still with us and in 2004 published My Years with the Lewis Bros, 1946 to 1968. Engine was a Dodge 6 sv.
When the APBA created the "new" class all that went before was swept away. There are a few oldies out there who would like justice done.
Someone else can put the next question.

OK, I'll give it a shot. It's pretty easy 'though ........ name this boat.

Although its not a merlin, that looks suspiciously like a Rolls Royce V12 in the back of that. Most probably a meteor. I'll have to do some research into what boats have had Rolls Royce Meteors in them.

Spook

Agree with Spook, looks like RR V12 and recent too. Hmmmm. Easy for you but it beats me. Ray Jones , where are you when we need you?

Guess anythying is easy if you know about it. You've just about nailed it oletyma. In fact, this might be a trick question 'cause i don't know if the boat was ever given a name. Now for a dead (pardon the pun) give away, here's another photo.

Now there's something interesting, the prop is offset under the boat. To the left. An interesting concept on a log boat.

Well spotted Bob. Actually it was to be a twin screw boat. Ray Jones was in the process of building a gearbox for it, input in the centre, output on either side. Not sure what's happening with the boat now that ray is no longer with us.

Had my suspicions but could not remember the colour even though I looked at the boat with Ray only a couple of weeks before the end. He never mentioned a name to me . And yes , two props counter rotating and a huge step up in the box. He was enthusiastic to the last.
I've never asked but could find out what became of the boat but only if there is real interest, not idle curiosity.

So, technically speaking, the question wasn't answered, so I get to go again. Same deal, name this boat.

The former NZ Griffith Cup winner, "Redhead"

Yep, that's right. "The first boat in Australasia to exceed 100 mph on water, 101.26 mph on 22nd February, 1953, on Wellington Harbour". The boat is now (or was last time I was there) in the (Sir Len) Southward Museum just a bit out of Wellington NZ

That looks like a nasty little problem that that propeller shaft and prop have experienced.