2008 Round Britain Offshore Powerboat Race

[@6ramazon]

Way too much volume on background music during some interviews.

[@stevegriffiths5364]

I thought the same thing

[@littlenige]

Tremendous thanks Mike!

[@dieseldog00]

RIP Fabio, a World Champion in every respect. We will never forget you. :-( :-(

[@berniecoles2337]

Brilliant, thank you 👍

[@yanyan9153]

Fantastic video totally ruined (IMHO) by unnecessary, irrelevant and intrusive music throughout. I gave up watching it after five attempts to hear what Dag Pike was saying about the cancellation of the second leg - his voice is drowned out by the music.

[@carolinedavis1468]

Awesome

[@TimothyTapping]

Just Fabulous !

[@coastncountryedits680]

Great video, what an epic race. Could care less the audio isn't perfect. Thanks for uploading.

[@mikelloyd75]

Thanks Thomas, that took two years out of my life to organise working 18 hour days - unpaid! Thats dedication for you but boy did it give the lads (and girls( the best of times. Great memories for us all.

[@coastncountryedits680]

@@mikelloyd75 much respect to you for your contribution to a historic and unique race. Could this race or similar happen again do you think?

[@mikelloyd75]

@@coastncountryedits680 No, IMHO it will never happen again. We suffered badly at the hands of the "Greens" before the race began and they actually called me an "environmental terrorist". So you can imagine that today, 13 yrs later how bad it would be if it was attempted again. So no, I don't think it will happen again, that was the last one!

[@steve-opainter9572]

i wish they would have not canceled the 2nd leg of the race..would have been fun to watch ..though i would hope they were going to take it easy and be going along gingerly

[@AttitudeCharter]

steve-o painter Fun to watch other people smashing their expensive boats to pieces just for your entertainment. Sure thing Steve. I know what you mean but 7m waves? Come on. If you want to watch mental boats in mental waves search ‘Apache Powerboat Racing’ on KZbin. They’re awesome.

[@polygamous1]

Did duck Pike navigated for Fabio Buzzi when he first started? i seen ti remember his face n they won the race cause everybody else took the wrong turn? this Is powerboat racing at its extreme Best by the way many thanks for posting this brilliant video guys

[@mikelloyd75]

+Takis Sozou - Hi, thanks for your kind comments. Dag Pike didn't race with Fabio Buzzi in the 2008 Round Britain Race. He raced with Vassilis Pateras in Blue FPT - the winning Greek boat which was designed and rigged by Fabio.

[@mudabudda]

Brilliant race should be every year

[@mikelloyd75]

Actually impossible, it takes two years to put that together. And then you need the competitors! Without then you dont have a race and this race is expensive to take part in let alone put together.

[@cageordie]

Round England, Wales and the easy part of Scotland race. Yes, yes, I'm sure it's hard work and you deserve respect. But this was the Round most of Britain race. Missed the prettiest part too. And what the hell is with the musak? Which pillock mixed the audio on this?

[@andys6318]

Round Britain not "Round United Kingdom" and you have no idea of the work involved in preparation and competing. I was on board for the duration as technician for one of the top ten teams so I speak from experience.

[@dieseldog00]

I believe the next Round Britain was won by the 51' Ice Marine trimaran Bladerunner(Bradstone Challenger), a boat I would give everything to own.

[@mikelloyd75]

Brad stone Challenger never took part in the 2008 Round Britain Race. They hold the record though for the fastest circumnavigation of the British Isles.

[@dieseldog00]

@@mikelloyd75 Yes I looked for that boat in the 2008 race but didn't see it. Was there a later race they ran in or was it a solo effort by Ice Marine??

[@mikelloyd75]

@@dieseldog00 it was a solo effort around 2006. It's never been broken - yet!

[@dieseldog00]

@@mikelloyd75 Well we have a Miami-Bimini-Miami race here and the Caribbean offshore racers hold a Trinidad-Tobago-Trinidad race every year I think. Neither one is as long as the Round Britain race though. I can't even imagine a Bermuda Triangle race. That one might be twice the length of yours.

[@mikelloyd75]

@@dieseldog00 That will never happen of course, there's no hunger in America for long distance offshore powerboat races. The Brits have however and have proved it several times. The longest offshore powerboat race in the world was held here in 1972, it was the 2,400nm London to Monte-Carlo race, won by a British Team in a British Boat - it's on KZbin somewhere. That boat is still racing over here 40 yrs later!! Princess Grace of Monaco presented the prizes, I have all the pictures! That race will never happen again, I spent 2.5yrs trying!

[@shaungilmartin1505]

the music swamps out the interviews

[@jimmycline4778]

4:11 LOL, 1 Thousand horse power ain’t nothing a lot of American pleasure speed boats have twin 1550 hp race motors!

[@robreibel3491]

Great vision but audio mix ruined the Doco

[@mikelloyd75]

Sorry about that

[@boomer3305]

music,s too loud ffs

[@jimmycline4778]

13:46 I can’t here a word this guy is saying, only loud music!

[@jjfore0921]

Ditch the music, it’s distracting and it is sometimes louder than the person speaking. 😊 great video though.

[@airindiana]

Er. Boat race telepeople. Having lived just down the road from Bangor Ni, I can assure you, your dot is in the wrong place, by a hundred or so miles. Looks like you’ve moved Bangor to Dundalk. Then mysteriously relocates to the correct place on the second showing lol! Not very good for a boating program, hope the maps on board were better ha

[@brian.7966]

ruined film by the music.

[@RT-np5ws]

Navigation!!!

[@OttoMatieque]

28:04 who punched grandma in the nose?

[@neilfurby555]

Great video ruined by ...."music"....what a shame. Happens so often, and adds nothing to an exciting event.

[@raycox6986]

lol😊

[@alexarditti1726]

Ben Kramer and Bob Saccenti would of creamed this in the Apache.

[@mikelloyd75]

They had their chance both for the 1984 RB race and the 2008 RB race but they didnt take part so your post is pointless.

[@christhomas6419]

I’d put a Apache 47’ in this race and make the Brits cry 😂😂😂.

[@mikelloyd75]

But you didn't did you and now never will. You Yanks can't handle long distance racing like this. Not one American in this, one of the longest offshore races in the world, which proves my point.

[@owenlang1419]

@@mikelloyd75 they arent going to ship it across the atlantic, but you cant argue with horsepower mate.

[@mikelloyd75]

@@owenlang1419 - Why not? They did in the Round Britain Race of 1984. Trouble is it broke up after only two legs of the race!!

[@AttitudeCharter]

Seems a few boats get all the coverage whilst other awesome powerboats like Cinzano are insulted by their invisibility in this video. Very strange. And the shit music being too loud in places?

[@mikelloyd75]

I ensured that EVERY boat that took part was filmed from the helicopter as it was only fair to the competitors who had pored sweat, toil and tears, and of course huge lumps of money in being there. Unfortunately I had no control over the final video which was made by a company for commercial showing and therefore was time limited. I actually have over 30 hours of film from which they took what they thought was the best bits. Re Cinzano and a few others, many had mechanical problems that were so severe that they spent most of the Race on their trailers following the pack!! Eventually, Cinzano managed to overcome their engine problems and took part in the Cowes/Torquay/Cowes race a couple of months later and did well.

[@jordanc07]

Not really round Britain is it 😂 missed the top half 😳

[@mikelloyd75]

OK, we will get you to organise and fund the next one!

[@kayakell9200]

Crapp coverage Blah Blah Blah.

[@mikelloyd75]

I'm sure the 47 race teams that took part will appreciate your "intelligent" observations!

[@kayakell9200]

@@mikelloyd75 Whats intelligent about burning thousands of liters of fossil fuels just to massage a bunch of egos.