Hi Ken, best that I can recall, the official record for the “World Famous Fox .15 Hurl” is 209 ft. Held by Phil Granderson. The unofficial record is 239 ft.
After your disturbing lapse at the Hurl Leadership Council last month in Lausanne, Switzerland, and now this, I am beginning to consider a Rule 16, Paragraph AC, "Sanctions to be applied to the Commissioner".
While Phil is a Hurl Champion and Gentleman Competitor (as noted in Rule 67, "Special Designations for select Hurl Participants") and definitely embodies the towering majesty of The Hurl, he does not hold the record. The official record *is* 209" feet, by multi-time Hurl Champion Robert Harness. It's right there on the Wall Of Champions in the contemplation garden of Hurl Central Command.
Ken's claimed "50 yards" can be examined for unofficial record compliance, all we need is the date, time, altitude, barometric pressure, air temperatures, wet-bulb temperature, local sun elevation, hurl site latitude and longitude, launch azimuth, local normal gravity, local horizontal gravity component (unit vector and magnitude), raw theodolite readings, and the names of the certified witnesses. Just the usual stuff. This will permit us to compute the K-factor for your site and conditions, so the reading can be normalized with the canonical Hurl Site in Vacaville, CA. OF course this will only be unofficial, as no Hurl officials were present to administer the event, and (and I checked the records) no certified Hurling engines were issued by Hurl Technical Services.
For "a word to the wise" for aspiring Hurl competitors, it should be noted that the two longest "raw" Hurls, that is, the longest before the application of Geezer Points, Robert's record, and the previous "raw" record by a certain 4-time Hurl Champion (that modesty forbids mentioning), both used the "low angle skip and roll" technique, with rather unimpressive air travel but Brobdingnagian rolls. This can be clearly seen in analysis provided in the
"Annals of the Hurl, Volume 15". High arcing throws, while undeniably majestic, do not seem to provide the kind of scores that you need to be competitive at the highest levels.
Brett