"Dreadnought" bowed stinkboat in the Solent yesterday

[Hard-Drive]

Out sailing in the Solent yesterday, and as a rag and stick man, passing through one of the yacht fleets downwind would normally hold my attention, looking at some very nice boats and very nice gybes! But this amazing looking stinkboat came through...dreadnought bows, power plant that sounded like a gas turbine, very clean wake...just an amazing looking thing.

Looked a bit like the "VSV" from a few years ago...anyone know anything about it? It was one hell of a machine!

[Simpo Two]

Not knowing what a stinkboat is I googled and found this; most nice

[Pothole]

Palmer-Johnson 170??

http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f...

Edited by Pothole on Monday 16th August 19:20

[N Dentressangle]

Simpo Two said:

Not knowing what a stinkboat is

Me neither.

Google would suggest that it's a perjorative term for a motorboat, most often used by people who favour wind powered yachts.

Every day's a schoolday, eh?

[Hard-Drive]

Yep, stinkboat is one of those stinky smokey ones that wobble the rag and stick slow pukey wet ones when they go past.

Nope, wasn't a PJ170 or any of the other boats on that thread. Was probably about 70' long, quite Wallypower-esque at the stern, slightly higher superstructure, with this mad "wrong way" dreadnought bow.

Very, very cool for a stinkboat.

Edited by Hard-Drive on Monday 16th August 20:07

[Hard-Drive]

Ah, managed to google it. Very, very nice.



http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/boat/very-slende...

[swanny71]

N Dentressangle said:

Simpo Two said:

Not knowing what a stinkboat is

Me neither.

Google would suggest that it's a perjorative term for a motorboat, most often used by people who favour wind powered yachts.

Every day's a schoolday, eh?

Yep a derogatory name for a motorboat, though more usually 'stinkpot'

[Mike Random]

The motor boat equivilent of WAFI

Mike

[maser_spyder]

Didn't start out too nicely, but what a beautiful day on the water yesterday.

F4 almost all day, and perfect for up and down the Solent.

Didn't see that boat though, we must have missed it.

[DJFish]

I was holidaying on the island at the weekend and think I saw the same boat blatting past in the distance.
Also saw this little beauty in Yarmouth which I liked very much:

Edited by DJFish on Monday 16th August 22:59

[Todzilla]

Simpo Two said:

Not knowing what a stinkboat is I googled and found this; most nice

That's a Halvorsen isn't it? Saw quite a few of these (admittedly smaller ones) growing up in Sydney - not a bad way to see the harbour!

[ktcanuck]

Hard-Drive said:

Ah, managed to google it. Very, very nice.



http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/boat/very-slende...

Surely, there's no way that could be considered "nice"?

[ApexJimi]

That's exactly what I thought too.

Aside from the colour being "wrong", I reckon the proportions out of whack too...

[toppstuff]

It seems that the yard that built the boat is in Cornwall.

It is a specific kind of boat - a wave piercer. Rather than smash through waves like a displacement, or plane over them, it using wave piercing through a very slender hull. It's clever stuff and very efficient.

See here: http://www.multimarine.co.uk/VSV.html

I found this video of it..

http://www.multimarine.co.uk/MCLmovie.mov

I love it when British blokes in sheds produce world leading stuff like this. Keeps a tradition of innovation in design and manufacture going.

Edited by toppstuff on Tuesday 17th August 13:01

[Spoons]

DJFish said:

I was holidaying on the island at the weekend and think I saw the same boat blatting past in the distance.
Also saw this little beauty in Yarmouth which I liked very much:

Edited by DJFish on Monday 16th August 22:59

www.c-boat.co.uk

[Hard-Drive]

ktcanuck said:

Hard-Drive said:

Ah, managed to google it. Very, very nice.



http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/boat/very-slende...

Surely, there's no way that could be considered "nice"?

It's nice, but not in the "pretty" way that a J Class, Riva, or Fairy Swordwotsit is nice. It's "nice" in the way that an Open 60 with tuna booms or a hacked about UK Cherub is, functional and fast to the end. I also think that any stinkboat that you could paint grey and write Royal Navy on the side of and get away with it is also cool. I was looking at the Paragon Motoryachts in Lymington at the weekend...also very functional in appearance and also very cool for a stinky!

[RegMolehusband]

You'll enjoy this then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qfibvmuJlw