|
28-01-2010, 09:00 PM
|
#1
|
Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Engineering
Boat make: None, boo!
Engines: Turbines mainly!
Cruising area: The inside of my workshop!
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,646
|
What the hell is this??!!
Spotted this wierd looking craft on ebay... Any idea what it is, and if the history is true? I have no intention of buying it, or any other boat by the way!
Linky to ebay
James
__________________
|
|
|
28-01-2010, 09:05 PM
|
#2
|
Registered User
Country: Guernsey Channel Isles
Location: West Coast
Occupation: Hotelier
Interests: Powerboat racing
Boat name: Vodkatini,Cap Camarat,Easy RiderSuper Rider & Hirrondelle
Boat make: Phantom 21,Jeaneau 925 Avenger19.Lorne Campbell Slipstream Tremlett 21.Tigershark 21
Engines: Volvo 5 litre,Merc 115 Tower,Twin 250 Suzukis and 145 Mercruiser LX
Cruising area: Channel Islands and French coast
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: West Coast
Posts: 612
|
I first thought it was a Blagg but on closer inpection I reckon its a Cirrius
__________________
|
|
|
28-01-2010, 09:08 PM
|
#3
|
Registered User
Country: Guernsey
Occupation: Engineering
Boat make: None, boo!
Engines: Turbines mainly!
Cruising area: The inside of my workshop!
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,646
|
Interesting, know anything about them? I'm just interested cos I've never really seen anything like it, looks like it'd flip instantly if you attempted a corner!
James
|
|
|
28-01-2010, 09:09 PM
|
#4
|
Registered User
Country: shropshire england.
Location: oswestry
Occupation: Retired
Interests: Yodelling
Boat name: Veni Vidi Vici or Conked
Boat make: G.P.14
Engines: 4h.p. Mercury
Cruising area: Cap de Agde
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: oswestry
Posts: 1,311
|
Its a cirrus stiletto, i had one with a mod v.p. on it when i was your age,it was lethal
__________________
when in doubt trim outCARPE DIEM
|
|
|
28-01-2010, 09:15 PM
|
#5
|
Registered User
Country: shropshire england.
Location: oswestry
Occupation: Retired
Interests: Yodelling
Boat name: Veni Vidi Vici or Conked
Boat make: G.P.14
Engines: 4h.p. Mercury
Cruising area: Cap de Agde
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: oswestry
Posts: 1,311
|
1988 a lorne cambell creation,DONT BUY IT james,you got your hands full.
__________________
when in doubt trim outCARPE DIEM
|
|
|
28-01-2010, 10:33 PM
|
#6
|
The Doc
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 8,291
|
When I see it a few days ago, I thought it screemed of LC
|
|
|
29-01-2010, 09:49 AM
|
#7
|
Registered User
Country: UK
Location: East Mids
Occupation: MD hydraulic/engineering company
Interests: Fast cars, bikes,quads, boats, going fast...etc
Boat name: Cheetah
Boat make: Hunton XRS37
Engines: Volvo D6 with DPR drives
Cruising area: So'hampton
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: East Mids
Posts: 557
|
Ciros Stiletto
Quote:
Originally Posted by larby
Interesting, know anything about them? I'm just interested cos I've never really seen anything like it, looks like it'd flip instantly if you attempted a corner!
James
|
Hi James,
The boat in the picture is a Cirrus Stiletto Mk2 which differed from the Mk1 by making the side sponsins about 6" deeper with a view to trying to make the boat more stable, which i think totally fecked up the original concept.I had a mk1 hull & deck moulding purchased circa 1980/81 from a guy called John Moore creator of the original design. I marinised a group 2 RS3100 essex V6 with triple downdraft carburetors which i then mated to a volvo race sterndrive with a very low centre of gravity & around 280HP the boat performed extremely well.During the build i became quite friendly with the Moore family & they asked me to take part in their sales promotion video which i still have so if anybody knows how to transfer betamax to something we could view on here that would be great. Also back then i used to trail the boat to the south of france & delight in baiting the french & italians in a little boat that could punch way above it's weight.Only sold the boat about 5yrs ago.
Peter
|
|
|
29-01-2010, 10:47 AM
|
#8
|
Registered User
Country: uk
Location: poole
Occupation: retail
Interests: sport and being lazy
Boat make: ring rib
Engines: merc xr2
Cruising area: bournemouth bay
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: poole
Posts: 1,681
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by peterunwin
I marinised a group 2 RS3100 essex V6 with triple downdraft carburetors which i then mated to a volvo race sterndrive with a very low centre of gravity & around 280HP
|
Now that sounds like fun, you sure do conjure up some great creations
Remember their was a Cirrus Stiletto knocking around Poole years back but their were more Blagg's about and I'm sure I seem to recall a ribbed Blagg version at my local boatyard, reminds me of a small version of this ...
http://www.icemarine.com/spec/35rib_spec.htm
that has also pretty much disappeared and I don't think many were produced
__________________
i can na give her any more captain
|
|
|
29-01-2010, 06:22 PM
|
#9
|
Registered User
Country: Germany
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 320
|
|
|
|
29-01-2010, 10:14 PM
|
#10
|
The Doc
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 8,291
|
looks very stapely
|
|
|
21-12-2015, 10:44 PM
|
#11
|
Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 1
|
this is my cirrus stiletto
bmw decals and a heavy 200hp ocean runner
|
|
|
22-12-2015, 08:47 AM
|
#12
|
NickGT40
Country: UK
Location: Christchurch
Occupation: Builder
Interests: Boats, cars, motorbikes, RC Models
Boat make: Ring 21
Engines: 200 mercury
Cruising area: poole/christchurch
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Christchurch
Posts: 62
|
ive owned two blaggs one with a 115 yamaha and one with a 150 merc great boats very strong and corner out of this world
__________________
Current powerboat:
Ring 21 with 200 mercury
Old Powerboats:
Phantom 23 (one of three ever made with lightweight hull )
Phantom 18, Crusader 21, Avenger 21, Avenger 16, Ring 16, Marshan 16
|
|
|
22-12-2015, 06:07 PM
|
#13
|
Registered User
Country: Canada
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 40
|
I had the Cirrus Stiletto in Poole years ago. Black with stripe and a Merc outboard. Used to keep it at Poole boat park and take it out in the evenings with my brother.
Fantastic cornering boat. It was the mark 1 hull that they extended the sponsons on before using it to make the mark 2.
Seem to remember buying it From John Moore at a farm over Whitchurch way?
I was out one evening in it ,my brother had just come off the ski and I was picking him up when a microlight flew overhead. For some reason we both looked up in time to see the microlights prop come off and rip through the canopy.
The engine was screaming and part of the aeroplane started falling towards us including the still spinning prop which struck the water a few yard away.
The pilot managed to crash on the beech under the cliffs so we shot over to him to see if he was ok. He climbed out of the wreckage stood up and started shouting to us........................."Did you get my propeller!"
|
|
|
19-02-2021, 05:24 PM
|
#14
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 1
|
How that Cirrus Stilleto design was born in Southwold.
Well actually Chaps!.
The designer was Charles Rogers, my former fellow director in Diamond Marine Engineering.Ltd
Not all Tricuspid designs are by Lorne Campbell. The original cold molded timber boat was built in a small shed in Southwold, Suffolk. And was lost hitting a floating object offshore at high speed while testing.
So back to the shed somewhat damp to make another, which unlike the earlier castles in Monty Python's Holy Grail didn't sink. So by this time the financier of the project a Mr Moore, was invested more heavily in it than he appeared to want to be, so we showed the second cold molded boat at the East Coast Boat Show in Fox's marina Ipswich, that I was, at that time the Chief Engineer of. And demonstrated it to a very good reception indeed. We actually wanted to build a 36 foot boat ourselves for the class one offshore effort, of hopefully Ted Toleman. And to use the little Stilleto as a hull proving and testing platform and showed it to Gary Toleman RIP. Who thought it was fab and his father who unhappily for us, had decided cats where the only way to go and had very much put his money where his mouth was with Cougar, effectively asked me. When I asked if the twins could have a class one size version, as to weather I wanted to go and enjoy sex and travel, so I did.
As my Uncle Robin had just moved his business making aircraft floats and wheel fairings and windsurfer hulls from Key West, to St Thomas USVI.
Anyhoo! to cut a long story short, we finally made one, never raced it officially sadly. it became a King of a middle east nation, that shall remain name less's family boat. He used her to blast past the Cigarettes and myriad of other fast vessels in his vicinity. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...20000..&type=3
|
|
|
29-03-2021, 10:37 PM
|
#15
|
Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 98
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by larby
Spotted this wierd looking craft on ebay... Any idea what it is, and if the history is true? I have no intention of buying it, or any other boat by the way!
Linky to ebay
James
|
I also think it's a Cirrus
|
|
|
26-05-2021, 08:59 PM
|
#16
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2021
Posts: 27
|
that's interesting, I've never seen anything like it
__________________
|
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
» Recent Threads |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|