I need....

[Matt]

....another project!!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1296&item=4546395627&rd=1

Not sure about the propshaft angle though, or the 100mph performance.

 

[Jon Fuller]

With that propshaft angle, and the depth at which it appears to be, I reckon there will be some outriggers somewhere, and some foils.

Doesn't say if it still has the Gnome with it.

 

[Adam]

Many years ago I was contacted by the owner at the time about doing some design work to improve the boat etc.

Very small budget and too much to do!

All very interesting though - but from what I know of the boat she was pretty un-stable. Think it went over once on testing. There was some pretty radical ideas on her - probably too many when just getting a gas turbine working (in those days) was a challenge enough.

Nice shaft angle too!

 

[Adam]

With that propshaft angle, and the depth at which it appears to be, I reckon there will be some outriggers somewhere, and some foils.

Seem to remember tha tthere was an aft foil that was a cross between a foil and a giant trim tab - did they call it a dyno-foil?

Anyway - it all looked very un-stable.

She was very narrow at the transom as well - which is generally not very succesful unless you only want to go in a straight line into a head sea.

She was sat for many years (early 80's?) on the Westlands site in Cowes - alongside the old B&W Whiskey gas turbine cat that Iain Nurse raced.

 

[hutchy]

got just engines,32 litre supercharged sea griffins,new fully marinized,approx£4000 each

 

[Captain Chaos]

only 32 litre!!!

I'm sure if they'd have been 33's..............Matt would have snapped'm up!

 

[hutchy]

2500 hp standard ,another 300hp if water inject superchargers.bought for tractor puller,but decided to use 5 x 2500 hp chevys.

 

[Matt]

If I had a hull that could handle 5000hp (and the bank account to feed em), that'd be a cool pair of motors.