Lovely boat at the slip. Any ideas ?

[QBhoy]

Hi all
consider myself fairly up on U.K. boats of most types. But sure this isn’t from here. She is stunning. I have nothing other than these pics. Anyone any ideas ? It’s got a few of us wondering. Drive shower and brace, would make me think she has a fair lump in the back of her. Lovely thing. Keen to hear what we think ?
Should also mention. This is Loch Lomond Scotland. Very rare to see a thing like this here.

 

[briangcc]

Old 60's / 70's jet boat that's been converted to more modern drive. Pop the engine cover off and imagine a built 350/400/455 with chrome headers popped up in the air attached to a jet drive.

Just a shot in the dark without any manufacturer markings on it. What's the placard on the transom? Port side...

 

[ahicks]

I did something like that with a mid 70's vintage 20' Sanger Catalina a LONG time ago. Boat was kind of a cross between a what is known today as river boat (smaller) and a flat bottom (bigger, heavier, shallow vee hull). 427 Chev, Casale v-drive w/10% over gears, Turbo 400 transmission with locked up torque converter for extra fluid capacity, 18qt fully baffled oil pan for long wide open blasts in any kind of conditions you had the guts for, and just barely visible on the transom is the cross bar for the full width cavitation plates. There was also a turn fin mounted in the bottom like a lot of inboard ski boats use. This is because it was built to be a ski boat! A very civilized daily driven 75mph ski boat. It had a very expensive fully built engine with huge valves, but we put a cam from a garbage truck in it so it had huge torque on tap from rpm 1. When a skier said "hit it" they had better be hanging on. There was NO flat spot on the bottom end.

Originally all open with 4 bucket seats, I built the interior and decked over the engine to give it kind of sleeper appearance - and quiet some of the mechanical noise. Carb noise was terrible originally.

Sorry for the poor quality of the pic.... -Al

We saw a few boats like that around back in the day - w/factory big block Chevies and Merc I/O's. Spectra is one company that built quite a few of them back then.....

 

[Beagleville]

Whatever it is, it doesn't appear as though those two fellows are very comfortable with it.

 

[QBhoy]

Whatever it is, it doesn't appear as though those two fellows are very comfortable with it.

Thought that myself. I think they are trying to tie it off by the bow, not having fenders for the side. Making some effort at it anyway