Mail on Sunday

[Mike Bull]

I haven't been out to get the actual paper yet, but we've made the Mail on Sunday's website!

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1186909/Bluebird-Newbird-Campbell-8217-s-craft-rebuilt-speed-Coniston-again.html

EDIT- got the actual paper now- we're on page 46.

[Jordangbr]

Thats a pretty good article.
Well done Mail on Sunday!

[jonwrightk7]

nice article well done

[Mike Bull]

Not bad, is it? Personally speaking, I'm really glad to see that shot of the whole boat out there in the national press with the 'few new parts...are green...while the rest is original' caption. Hopefully that will really impress upon Joe Public just how original she'll be when she's finished.

[Renegadenemo]

Aye, a nice little article there even if it did take the whole afternoon to get the pics. The Mail on Sunday did make a contribution too with which we're considering the purchase of a new compressor as ours is wheezing like an asthmatic pit pony.

[Jordangbr]

Would we have to paint the new pit pony green as it's non original?

[DMCK7 Fan]

Nice to see and well deserved

[Renegadenemo]

It was a nice piece though what isn't obvious is that we spent all of Friday afternoon and most of the evening working with the Mail on Sunday guys to get it right. We had to light and set up the workshop then the pics were taken followed by an hour of tweaking them on the Apple Mac. Several were then printed out for me to annotate while the rest were uploaded to the newspaper's server. That took us to 6.00pm then the phone went at 8.00 for an in-depth interview and much checking of technical facts. Who decided I was press officer? And big thanks to Alain who did the IT thing with the office network and broadband link to make the upload possible and Mike for helping with the workshop side of things.

"Do you have any plans?" The photographer asked at one point - meaning engineering drawings we could unroll to make an interesting shot.

"Aye," I said after due deliberation, "to get you out of here so I can go home for my tea."

[model-maker]

Ther is another comment in the Daily Mail today, Monday May 25th

"There's something gloriously English, ie batty, about rebuilding Donald Campbell's record-breaking speedboat Bluebird K7 which broke up at 300mph and killed him on Coniston Water 34 years ago. His daughter, Gina, has been given permission to hold speed trials up to 100mph.
Surely the only point of rebuilding Bluebird is to fulfil Campbell's dream or keep it as a stationary exhibit. Piddling about Coniston at 100mph is neither here nor there. There's no shortage of crackpots who'd like to suceed where brave Donald sadly failed."

Comments, anyone?

[Renegadenemo]

Yeah - I was talking with one of the senior engineers in charge of going over our safety policies last week and he said, once you get around the type 1 idiots and the type 2 idiots you only need common sense after that. What's the difference, I wanted to know. Type 1 idiots are just idiots, he told me. Type 2 idiots are "effing idiots". Lots of 'em about.