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20/02/2009: Pulling tour 2009:
During the past week, part of Hue Pulling Team has made the trip to meet with Dutch teams V12. It was as we had hoped privileged times and intense exchanges.
After contact by email the previous months, we went out to five teams and it was as we had hoped Times privileged and intense exchanges. We left on Tuesday morning with the truck team in which we sleep. We take a car inside for the movement within their territory. We took the road of the Netherlands by a passage in Belgium. The first evening, we met with the Green Spirit team at work on their Pulling. Our team was able to rediscover the wide workshop on Pulling. The explanations of the team of "Peter" and "Ko" were instructive. During the visit, the team worked on new settings which allowed to observe the flow test and pressure of methanol.

During the second day, we went to Rotterdam to see "Gerard Jonkman", we have known for many years now. We parked the truck near its workshops which was appreciable. From this site, we traveled throughout the country by car. We could do the morning tour including a visit fun when after walking aimlessly. We arrived in a street with mannequins in the window. Oops, they were not dummies, they moved ... It has flown away.

The trip led us to the "Backdraft" to "John de Graaf." This meeting was an opportunity to exchange with one of the rotating European teams with V12 engines Rover. We were not disappointed. The preparation of the engine is more impressive than the real images that we come to know during Ahoy and on the web. A beautiful exchange. But we must recognize that the language barrier is sometimes difficult (thank you the rest of the school and "Matilda").

Then we went to see the team "The Judge", the opportunity to meet an old knowledge Frans Kloosterziel. A "gentleman" and a name that we knew from very young (the team with an average age of 28 years). At the time when our family (Lucifer, Obélix) started on Pulling (1987) We start to exchange with him. It's always a pleasure to speak French with him. A team has received in his workshop and then around a meal at the restaurant. Moments famous. After the meal, we returned to Rotterdam, full of joy and new ideas.

On Saturday morning of this adventure, we find the team René de Bruijn, "Gompie". As for "Backdraft", we are in a V12 Rover team whose work is of great beauty and technique. Time spent on the team to understand and learn. This makes the humble work that remains to be done.

And then it’s already time back, we go back in the truck with a lot of times in the head.

We see these meetings with the gaps between our countries. The teams here work seriously and are able to mount beautiful projects with time for reflection to design their own monsters out of joint as Boost control of the Judge, the preparation of the engines of "Backdraft" and "Gompie". We should welcome this work. Our approach and our work for 3 years towards this. We seek through our journey and our work we also develop the value of perseverance to find new ideas or solutions. And even if there are more sponsors in France, there are movements away from a more industrial system as small artisans working with small mechanical works of art.

We have learned a lot from these meetings. They will undoubtedly serve to advance our own mechanics. The changes that we know will undoubtedly related to those encountered during this week. We will maintain trade with these teams that we welcomed as friends. We meet again to "Ahoy". And perhaps they will also visit us in the future. Thank you to all teams
John, Herman, Marcel, Peter Ko, Arend, Jan, Gerard, Jeffrey, Frans, Theo, Jan Alexander, Helmer, Geert, Antonie and all other people we could have forgotten the names.