Slow Saturday, some strange boat pictures.

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Bubba1235

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So you want to build a house boat, here is one for the DIY guys

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Waves? Rough Seas? We don't care!

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Tis a sleek hull but getting the crew to flap those wings is tough.

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No, it won't tip over in a turn dear.

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I said I wanted a boat that could plane, not a "plane" boat!

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If the mouth closes we are in deep do-do.

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Campylobacter

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Re: Slow Saturday, some strange boat pictures.

Unfortunately, boat #4 (formerly called the Earthrace) is no longer with us. It set a world circumnavigation speed record, then was donated to the anti-whaling group the Sea Shepherds.

Here it is with its new name, the Ady Gil
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It is (was) a carbon fiber hull powered by diesel engines that could maintain 50 knots.

It met its end in a confrontation with a Japanese whaling ship

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I won't get into the politics of whaling, but if you watch the video there is plenty of idiocy to go around

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/06/andy-gil-anti-whaling-catamaran
 
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wingatesl

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Re: Slow Saturday, some strange boat pictures.

I hate to say it, because I don't like the whaling either. They got what they deserved. They intentionally ran in front of the ship. If I owned that "research" vessel I would have tried to get them to repaint my hull where the impact occured.
 
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Re: Slow Saturday, some strange boat pictures.

Shoulda sunk 'em..then went back over to make sure.There stupidity can cost lives, attacking the ship is like someone attacking one of my carpenters because they dont like the house design..idiots
 
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Re: Slow Saturday, some strange boat pictures.

There were enough threads on the whaling topic when the event occurred. Lets keep this one on the "strange looking boats" topic.
 
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Campylobacter

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Re: Slow Saturday, some strange boat pictures.

ezmobee said:
There were enough threads on the whaling topic when the event occurred. Lets keep this one on the "strange looking boats" topic.
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Sorry about that, I didn't mean to jack the thread. I just wanted to give some background on a truly "strange looking boat". If you read about its earlier life as the Earthrace, it is a pretty cool piece of technology. It circled the globe 60 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes, all on "biodiesel". I must have missed the earlier posts about the whaling nonsense.

Anybody got any back ground on any of the others? I am especially interested in the one with the nose sheared off, perhaps the garage was too short
 
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Re: Slow Saturday, some strange boat pictures.

boat number three is "a green machine" electrically powered propolsuion "pods" one on each side (you can see the arm stretching out under the one side) powered by the solar panels on those "wings" and those wings act as hydrofoils/sails to sail the boat under wind power, so it is completly self reliant and "green" if you will lol. there was an article i read about it about a year ago, ill try to find it
 
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H20Rat

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Re: Slow Saturday, some strange boat pictures.

so anyone know the story of that boat with 8 outboards? photoshop? an engine test mule? they look so close together that even turning them slightly would end up with contact.

**nevermind, found it!**

yep, drug smuggling boat apparently. the best part, 4000 gallons fuel capacity!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/boats/drugrunner.asp
 
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Re: Slow Saturday, some strange boat pictures.

smokingcrater said:
so anyone know the story of that boat with 8 outboards? photoshop? an engine test mule? they look so close together that even turning them slightly would end up with contact.

**nevermind, found it!**

yep, drug smuggling boat apparently. the best part, 4000 gallons fuel capacity!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/boats/drugrunner.asp
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thanks for the link sc, never actually read the whole story about this boat, pretty crazy eh... and hmmmm i wonder how long that 4000 gallons would last at 60 knots haha wow
 
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