Spot the (pretty unusual) boat

[MapisM]

Anybody?
Built in the SW tip of England in 1965, just to give a small hint...

 

[Whitelighter]

Hydrofoil of some kind?

 

[Boat2016]

Looks like Meteor III

 

[MapisM]

Looks like Meteor III

Congratulations, the virtual cigar is yours!
After googling for her name, I learned the rather intriguing story behind her.
Which is the reason why I brushed out the name in the above pic!
Did you also see her in flesh, or have you seen her mentioned somewhere?
I can't remember to have ever read of her in any magazine, or on nautical websites.
Below is the original pic, taken a few days ago...

 

[Boat2016]

I stumbled across her a while back after reading up about Hydrofoils, i have an interest in anything like this and like to read about our historic vessels.

 

[burgundyben]

I was going to guess a Gerald Pearn boat.

On the subject of Hydrofoils, a Volga was on ebay a while back, it did very well.

 

[Boat2016]

I’m sure I read that there was Hydrofoils used between Southampton and IOW a few years back although never personally seen one.

 

[burgundyben]

Indeed there was. Red Funnel ran Shearwater hydrofoils.

 

[Mr Googler]

I used to go on it a lot as a youngster.

Cramped, smelt of fuel, noisy and scary in all but dead flat seas.....I loved it!

You entered in the side of the main helm area and went to the front or back for seats. I remember the steering wheel was huge!

 

[Whitelighter]

Indeed there was. Red Funnel ran Shearwater hydrofoils.

Yep, and every now and again they’d run over a yachtie...

 

[Boat2016]

Yep, and every now and again they’d run over a yachtie...

No different to the current ferries then.

 

[Fishtigua]

Large ones used to run out to the Channel Islands too.