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Old 21-01-2008, 08:18 PM   #1
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Cheap 30ft boat

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/30ft-Nortech-P...QQcmdZViewItem
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Old 21-01-2008, 08:20 PM   #2
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That used to be gas powered, belonging to the guys in poole who were the gas conversion agents.

I think it sank at Cobbs Quay at one point.

Was called 'Brown Trousers'.
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Old 21-01-2008, 08:34 PM   #3
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Must be quite a quick boat. Could do with superchargres tho
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Old 22-01-2008, 07:04 AM   #4
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I would say, very low 60's
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This is one of the absolute first boats that Trond and Nils built while they still were building boats in Sweden, this boat could actually be the very first.

It was sold to a swedish family named Mannheimer who later sold it to Germany. It did about or just over 70 miles when it was new.

The company name was "High Tech boats" and they built this one, the HighTech 3000 and also the HighTech 5000 wich still are in production under the name Nortech 5000.
When they moved to Florida they started the company NorTech powerboats and began building the 38´and 42´ and later the supercats and superyatches.
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Old 22-01-2008, 08:15 AM   #6
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I believe this boat had 7.4Ls when it was in Poole (rather wildley claimed as 330hp, more realistically 280/290) I would be very surprised indeed if it did much over a (real) 60mph TD would know more about 'Brown Trousers' as I think he knew the crowd that had it.

Of course, it may have had a Searay Speedo.

BTW, I believe they were a Cig splash of some sort.
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I wouldn´t put up a fight about the speed, we didn´t use any GPS at the time, late 1980:s and early 1990:s we mainly used pressure speedos and the accuracy is questionable at those speeds.

well its not all a cig splash, this boat is a Magnum 30 hull splash and the deck is a cigarette bullet 31 splash shortened to fit the magnum hull.

Theese molds are still around here in Sweden in the shape of a Sportfisher and sold under various names like HighTech 30, HighTech 9000, Saltö 890 or Benotti 30´
Nice looking boats but it´s very hard to get any real speed out of it.

The early HigTech 30:s is nowdays often renamed HighTech 3000 in order to connect to the newer NorTech:s wich are named that way.
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An Apollo Duck ad says this:
"With a top speed in excess of 60 mph this boat has held a world speed record in the past."
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Old 22-01-2008, 09:19 AM   #9
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An Apollo Duck ad says this:
"With a top speed in excess of 60 mph this boat has held a world speed record in the past."
I wouldn´t agree about about any world record, in the early 1980:s me and my brother pushed our smuggler 17´ just above 70mph and this was no record breaking speed as far as I know.

But there is some people who claims world record for just about everything, maybe 60mph is a world record for a 1990 HigTech 30 with a yellow stripe on it with twin big block engines!? who knows?
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Suspect it was a gas powered world record.
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Suspect it was a gas powered world record.
Yeh, it was a gas powered world record, and I believe the speed was obtained between the Piers at Bournemouth, although I don't believe it had official time keepers etc. I think it had John Walker onboard to verify the claimed speed.
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Old 07-02-2008, 07:14 PM   #12
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hey thats my boat,interesting to find out a bit more history , its still for sale no sensible offers refused ,call me direct ,chris 07867686032
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