Disco Volante

[ValleyForge]

Don't know if this if for here, the lounge or ships monthly but saw the end of Thunderball yesterday, Largo's yacht, the Disco - they must have had a packet of fun making that 'convert' - according to Wiki it was a hydrofoil ferry from Puerto Rico & modified for the film - any anecdotes out there from the crew or the film set ?

 

[rickp]

For one minute I thought you were talking about Whitelighter's favourite boat - but I've just noticed that they've changed its name from the Seacamper Disco Volante, to the equally enticing Stromberg 46!



She's a real beaut, oh yes!

 

[Whitelighter]

Oi,

Im not the one selling a boat that can be found using a google search for a 'Disco Volante'.

Favourit boat indeed, cheeky git...

 

[rickp]

You set 'em up, I'll knock 'em down...

Ahem, I present the jury with the following evidence, taken shortly after we visited the Disco Volante stand at Düsseldorf.....

I rest my case...

 

[Whitelighter]

I see, take me to Germany for the weekend, get me drunk and take compromising pictures will you...

Double Git!!!!!

 

[rickp]

I've been waiting all year to use that photo - and you gifted me an unmissable opportunity

 

[Mr Googler]

Bit of info hear

http://d6751420.u103.surftown.dk/Front.html

I used to travel on the Red Funnel Hydrofoils as a kid. Sure many more on here did too.

Great memories of walking past the skippers and taking pot luck whether someone would be sick in the front cabin or rear cabin! Always got it wrong!

 

[jfm]

Don't know if this if for here, the lounge or ships monthly but saw the end of Thunderball yesterday, Largo's yacht, the Disco - they must have had a packet of fun making that 'convert' - according to Wiki it was a hydrofoil ferry from Puerto Rico & modified for the film - any anecdotes out there from the crew or the film set ?

Dunno about the boat used as DV but in the "sequel", Never Say Never Again, the boat was "Flying Saucer" (geddit?) and was of course the 80-odd metre Bennetti that's now Kingdom 5KR, moored in Antibes. In the Jamnes Bond Movie's days it was Kashoggi's boat, then called Nabila