any idea on how fast this boat can run?
 

sorry if this has been posted before: my bro's bass boat has one 250 hp motor...and that thing can scoot! what about this rig?


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1249327151.jpg

70mph?

seems a little suspect to me.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1249330685.jpg

This little jewell was seriously quick. I can only imagine what that beast can do.

Speed of light, at least.

Most likely owned by the US Govt. because no one in their right mind would want to pay the fuel bill. Bet it cost close to $200K just to rig the thing and I would guess it's not better than 60 kts. There comes a point where the stuff hanging in the water defeats the added power.

Either that or it belongs to some a$$hat w/ more money than brains!

i didnt want to post the back story, because it may not be true...apparently the story with the boat, is that it was making multiple runs across the english channel. authorities had to bring in a special high speed helicopter to catch the boat...that was full of drugs. until then it was just a high speed "blip",.

i dont know squat. any truth? who knows..i didnt even know there was a huge drug movement across the channel.

Could it be a test platform for a dealer/mfg? Or used as a tugboat? Gotta have mad torque....

70MPH
http://www.snopes.com/photos/boats/drugrunner.asp

so i was pretty close...

i figured a boat that short/wide can't go to fast, no matter how much power you add, at some point it won't go faster then it does

Special, 75 mph helicopter...

you guys are good!

damn, a bass boat can do that...

I think the special helo was to go that slow, no biig deal for a copter to keep up with that, just media BS.

depends, maybe it's not about chase speed, but intercept speed

Let's assume they crossed at one of the narrower sections of the English Channel, and they are not detected right away on radar...
How fast does a chopper have to be , to get there fast enough before they are back on dry land (i also assume the thing can be hauled out of the sea rather quickly)

Yikes.
It was a joke...

Same thing.

That boat would probably run the same speed with half those engines. Between the extra weight, drag in the water and the prop cavitation from all that hardware kicking around back there.

That was my first thought.

what about running with a super heavy cargo..like several hundred pounds of special delivery from "white powder MA"?

Here's the fast boat I want. What do you think, Vinny?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1972-CENTURY-ARABIAN-440-V8-INBOARD_W0QQitemZ250474458696QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPo wer_Motorboats?hash=item3a5170ee48&_trksid=p4506.c 0.m245#ht_711wt_1028

Speed, I would have thought the current deal with that boat would have been Torque?
The hull design is not conducive to speed.

Marine outboard HP costs $100/hp so that’s $200k spread out there at aft!
I figger that boat was either a tug or a stump puller :D

If they were smart (instead of rich), they would've built something stealthier...

http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/data/500/909Ss4.gif

http://kolyan.net/foto2006/mart/25/stealth_boat_01.jpg

http://www.hmsneo.org/tulsa2k5/47.jpg

Denis, that boat is gorgeous! I love older boats.