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Post by maxwell on Sept 8, 2008 14:33:28 GMT
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Post by Pete B on Sept 8, 2008 17:18:06 GMT
Almost certainly a one off. I have seen those motorized wheels on a rib at the Southhampton boat show, never the cat tracks though. Few quids worth there!
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Post by stevieboy on Sept 8, 2008 17:46:45 GMT
All that money and they had to nick the back doors off a wardrobe.  |
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Post by squideyebarnes on Sept 8, 2008 18:06:16 GMT
looks an awesome boat with no mooring fees worth its weight in gold!
Andy
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Post by codfather11 on Sept 8, 2008 19:07:59 GMT
looks like sumin out of a james bond film
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Post by squideyebarnes on Sept 8, 2008 20:05:17 GMT
looks like an aquafish hull?
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Post by Annie & Monk D'wally D'honk on Sept 9, 2008 13:54:23 GMT
Believe that belongs to or at least used to the chap who owns/runs Spitbank Fort. He had something the same anyway.. He also used to drive a little Suzuki rascal flatbed/pickup with a 20ft fiberglass cannon tied to the back - quite funny to see..
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Post by upfalls on Sept 12, 2008 20:11:34 GMT
He drives it up the beach at Gurnard and nips in the cafe!
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Post by fishhook on Sept 13, 2008 17:40:04 GMT
I saw this boat today whilst i was digging. The owner and builder lives at hillhead and drives the boat up over the beach, through a gate in to his garden shed. The boat is a one off, which took him 2 years 2 complete. He had got the idea from a RHIB manufactorer that makes somthing of a simular nature but with wheels. The hydrolics that run the power for the catapliers is powered by a 9hp motor on board. The owner is currently in the process of putting a bigger (20hp) motor in it to power the catapilla tracks which he hopes will improve the out of water speed. He is also designing a new powered steerable nose wheel. The nose wheel insidently completly folds into the bow, so when its running on the water, nobody would know it was capable of leaving the water. The first few times out, he said it was quite hairy approaching the beach as when the nose wheel touchs the sand, the crafts aft is still floating, so in effect has no steering untill the tracks are touching the bottom. The first few times he tried to land he ended side on to the surf  The nack to beaching it is to go at the beach and get high and dry as possible. I had quite a lenghty chat with him about the craft, but i couldn't pluck up the courage to ask him what it had cost. He probably thought i was a nosy T*@t for asking so many quetions as it was. |
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Post by peterpan3494 on Sept 14, 2008 9:23:13 GMT
i saw this boat yesterday at hillhead
seen it a few times now
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Post by pjl83 on Sept 14, 2008 21:15:23 GMT
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