Challenger Excel speedboat.

[Rockey]

any one no of the brand 17 ft ski boat looks almost like a dateline
bounty

[Jon Fuller]

Looks very 'Dateline', as you say. never heard of them though. Chaos might have, as he's an oul 'speedboat nerd'!

[Jon Holmes]

Dateline, Sunsport?

[Captain Chaos]

I always thought they were a rehash of a Driver 500, approx same proportions, different deck & topsides altered.

[Captain Chaos]

perhaps a stretched Picton 159?

[charlie]

Rocky

Its a waverider. One of the last models they produced.

Check out this site www.dsv.su.se/~klas/Boats/home.html and click on the link "other waveriders".

rgds


charlie

[Captain Chaos]

well I'm pretty sure waverider & driver/ streaker had a crossover at the end so its seems abot right.

[charlie]

Hi Captain Chaos

I remember something about the driver hull being used but can't think why. I mainly remember them knocking out those rehashed shakespears, (classics back in the day).


rgds


charlie

[Captain Chaos]

Well as far as I was aware. Driver ran as a bonafide business for years (440,500,560) then the last 10 years came to see a transition of models (510 etc), various builders, poorer quality etc.

Meanwhile Waverider had moved (perhaps only some) of the building to Essex (Oldenburg Sports, Mustang etc) and then I think entwined with the peeps that were doing the Drivers at that stage.

The the Driver derived stuff such as 'Streaker' popped up as well.

[charlie]

Captain Chaos

Thanks for firing up the memory banks.

My father and I looked at the Waverider Mustang at Earls Court one year but went for a Picton in the end. Our previous boat ( a Glastron SSV) we bought via Kite marine in Essex (John Stanton?) who I thought had some involvement with Waverider but its all a bit hazy as it was such a long way back.

rgds

charlie