Venturer Returning to Southampton after RB8

Mark Wildey · 08-03-2009, 06:49 PM

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in July I had another go today and got it onto YouTube. Taken with my Canon G9 in video mode ,handheld, it shows Andy M's boat popping up on the plane and charging along.

An amazing boat and an amazing experience

Cheers

Mark

hunton69 · 08-03-2009, 10:31 PM

And i thought RB8 was hard for you guys.

Like driving a Bentley

TECKNO 40 · 09-03-2009, 10:06 PM

Reminds me of the good times spent going round Britain, racing from Naples to Monte-Carlo also the 2 Cowes Classics we won, fantastic boat.

lain · 10-03-2009, 08:23 PM

Sounds nice, what speed did you get up to?

Mark Wildey · 10-03-2009, 09:25 PM

Can't quite remember as I was facing the wrong way most of the time but mid 60's, early 70's ( knots ).

It's one hell of a ride and Nick W. ( although it was Andy S. during that film )really understands how to throttle the boat to get the best out of it.

I wish I had the camera when we came into Edinburgh as we were doing similar speeds in much bigger seas and that would have been awesome to see on film.

Top blokes and a frigging unbelievable boat.

TECKNO 40 · 10-03-2009, 11:01 PM

Best we ever had out of it was 93 mph, started to chine abit then

Mark Wildey · 10-03-2009, 11:06 PM

I understand that with the bi-turbo's it does get a bit lively at the top end.