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21-01-2008, 08:18 PM
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Country: Essex
Location: Great Stambridge Essex
Occupation: Director Paving company
Interests: Boating/Squash
Cruising area: Essex Marina/crouch southeast coast
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Cheap 30ft boat
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21-01-2008, 08:20 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
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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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21-01-2008, 08:34 PM
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Country: Essex
Location: Great Stambridge Essex
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Must be quite a quick boat. Could do with superchargres tho
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22-01-2008, 07:04 AM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
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Location: South
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I would say, very low 60's
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22-01-2008, 08:00 AM
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Country: Sweden
Location: Uddevalla
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: Boat Design, Boats in general
Boat name: M/Y Doris
Boat make: Storebro IV
Engines: Twin 6 Cyl. Diesel, 212hp
Cruising area: Swedish west coast archipelago
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Uddevalla
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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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22-01-2008, 08:15 AM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
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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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22-01-2008, 08:53 AM
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Registered User
Country: Sweden
Location: Uddevalla
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: Boat Design, Boats in general
Boat name: M/Y Doris
Boat make: Storebro IV
Engines: Twin 6 Cyl. Diesel, 212hp
Cruising area: Swedish west coast archipelago
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Uddevalla
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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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22-01-2008, 08:58 AM
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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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22-01-2008, 09:19 AM
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Registered User
Country: Sweden
Location: Uddevalla
Occupation: Boat Designer
Interests: Boat Design, Boats in general
Boat name: M/Y Doris
Boat make: Storebro IV
Engines: Twin 6 Cyl. Diesel, 212hp
Cruising area: Swedish west coast archipelago
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Uddevalla
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Quote:
Originally Posted by olli
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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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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22-01-2008, 10:40 AM
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Suspect it was a gas powered world record.
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22-01-2008, 12:24 PM
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Registered User
Country: Job Centre
Location: In a box
Occupation: Chaos's gofer
Interests: Skiving
Boat make: Spectre 30
Engines: 2 x Promax 225
Cruising area: In the bath
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: In a box
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt
Suspect it was a gas powered world record.
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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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07-02-2008, 07:14 PM
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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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