What boat is this? Stealthy?

[DPH]

Tuned up in Port Solent. Anyone now what it is?

 

[Nick_H]

I think its the new Absolute, the "Absolute Monstrosity"

 

[petem]

Something Halmatic I guess.

Pete

 

[nordic_ranger]

I think it used to live in Kip Marina or there was one very like it. Don't know what it is tho.

 

[gwennols]

looks like a home made Wally or the prototype

 

[Nautical]

Actually I'd say thats a serious bit of kit, suprised you didn't get hauled off by plod for taking pictures. Someone mentioned there was a prototype something very military around Solent that last week or so and was going at some incredible speed..... like..... loose your fillings type fast.

 

[No1_Moose]

yep, that looks just like the RN thing that went zooming past me at mach 3.2 in Poole Harbour last winter, I was in the rib at the time, all 3.1m of it and I was no more than 50ft from the thing when it went abeam me.

I want one.

 

[PeteCooper]

The one from Kip is still about, and it's not quite as ugly as the one shown here.

 

[benjenbav]

That's the one I saw.
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Goes like whatnot off a whatnot.

 

[mjf]

Need to know basis I'm afraid!

Your camera will self destruct in 3 days time.

You have been warned.

 

[goochie]

It's not the new 'wave piercing' thingy being built for Mr and Mrs Dean & Reddyhoff is it? Remember an article in MBY about them a few months back.

 

[stelican]

Halmatic have been building boats similar to this for the SBS for several years they were originally using Fabio Buzzi designed hulls and 2x700hp sea-tek diesels I dont know if they still are.
They did manufacture 2 wave piercing boats about 13m a few years ago that were regularly out in the Solent.The bows on these were vertical and very narrow hulls

 

[sarabande]

Nice new Kit !

Interesting looking hatch on the foredeck. Seems to be associated with a drain lower in the hull. Probably for some popup armament . Bet it rolls like anything when not moving fast.

At least 2 6man liferafts, so space for specialised crew; and the stern looks as if it is a garage for a RIB (transom appears to fold down to water level as a ramp). Uffa Fox had a similar idea back in the 60s.

"Conning tower" hinges down, so the whole boat might fit into a Herc or Globemaster.

Probably a covert intercepter craft against drug runners, or MDL's new marina fees collection service ?

 

[benjenbav]

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Crikey. And it's at Port Solent so maybe MDL and Premier are sharing the technology.

Message to berth holders: Be afraid, be very afraid. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[DepSol]

The one in Kip is a RIB

 

[Nautical]

VSV's they were called (Very Slender Vessel) and had a very low radar image almost none at all. Designed in the Isle of Man /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif and licensed out around the world.

Here is their latest offering...be afraid, be very afraid! you won't even see it coming at 70 mph and it carrys 12 combat ready special forces troops to blow the bejesus out of you before you knew what happened.

The earlier version was always sea trialing out of Douglas, used to scare the crap out of you, it would just appear out of nowhere at incredible speed whizz around you and take off again. Something to do with the camo markings made it incredibly hard to see on an overcast typical Irish sea day.

 

[PeteCooper]

No it isn't.

 

[CLion]

Looks like a squadron 55

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[boatbuilder]

That one is still in build, went past the shed today, Look at Multimarine Composites site.