F11 mobo video - sea sick .......... ooh

[oceanfroggie]

Spotted this over on cpb posted by Shep Smyth

Video Mobo + Pilot boat in F11-F9 off Cork

 

[Nautical]

Now if I could just get Raoul Zunino to design a sexy looking HT sportscruiser lid and power it with IPS 600's and subby the interior out to Seafor in Italy I reckon thats about as close to perfection one can get in a boat.

Hmmm, now where is that number for Safehaven again /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MaltaBob]

Shaken and stirred I think!! Feel a change of underwear might be required /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
But , brilliant!

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Thats the problem is'nt it? If some builder could marry the obvious seakeeping strengths of these boats with a sexy exterior and interior at a competitive price, they'd be on to a winner

 

[Wiggo]

If nothing else, it gives you some idea of the incredible buoyancy in the bows of a planing mobo. I wouldn't want to do it deliberately, and I know that the interior would look like a bomb had gone off, but at least the structure of the hull would hold up.

 

[Dave_Snelson]

Fabulous - wouldn't you just love to be there in a capable boat.

 

[Nautorius]

Their Catamaran looked very safe and secure. Did not roll as much as the mono hull!

Great Video of serious sea going craft!

Paul /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[akirk]

The Dublin Pilot Boat was in the Solent about a week ago - must have been blown off course /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

The more that you see this kind of capability, the more tempting an ex-lifeboat / pilot boat becomes - the landrover of the sea, you feel that you can tackle anything even if you only use it for the school run (poottering around in still waters!)

 

[Malcb]

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The Dublin Pilot Boat was in the Solent about a week ago - must have been blown off course /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif



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I saw it in Weymouth on 9th June. They way those guys did some close quarters manouvering onto the pontoon was a joy to watch. I understood it was on a delivery

 

[TigaWave]

They were probably on their way to the Seawork boat show in Southampton 12-14th June...this was one of the pontoons as we were setting up stands, several very good looking pilot boats there.

 

[powerskipper]

now here a question.


if you down size the boat say to a 30 ft and then down size the seas in the same proportion, so it would be a 2 or 3 m wave, I think you would get the same feeling.

 

[oceanfroggie]

One wonders how the thinner GRP hulls of leading leisure makes would stand punishment like that. Methinks they could split wide open with pounding and slamming like that, or at least the internal joinery would not like it. OK so none of us are going to deliberately go out in that sort of sea, but it would be nice to know if our GRP hull was up to the job if we got caught out. Agree the cat seemed quite stable in the conditions. I've seen some of their earlier videos, but this compilation says a lot about true 4x4 capability on the water.

Don't know Trevor if the comfort and styling of a merc could ever be married to the ability of a land rover defender!
/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Agree it would sweep the mobo market if such a combo was possible.

 

[Sneds]

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Fabulous - wouldn't you just love to be there in a capable boat.

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No thanks, I think I have a dental appointment /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Kawasaki]

Thanks for that.
Very enjoyable from the comfort of me pute chair .
Dunno if I'd wanna be in the driving seat of any of those boats.
Looked like they were coping ok though.
Nice vid
Ta!

 

[carlton]

Now that's "manly" boating. Nice one Froggie.