400hp Rolls Royce outboard

[codprawn]

Very light in weight and sounds awesome!!!

And it runs on fuel that costs 52p per litre.......

http://www.texs.com/magazine/tsg_13.htm

[Nasher]

Where do I sign?

[Nos4r2]

I want two.

[Limey Linda]

I will take two.
Afterthought: what happens when the prop comes out of the water?

[Nasher]

Originally Posted by Limey Linda

what happens when the prop comes out of the water?

lift - Flight - crunch - Death

[Limey Linda]

Originally Posted by Nasher

lift - Flight - crunch - Death

I do not think you can put a rev. limiter on a gas turbine. So what happens when the prop. comes out and the load is removed. Also turbines have a throttle response delay of about 2 secs. going up and down. That could be scary.

[Bigmuz7]

Bet it sounds cooool

[Cookee]

Originally Posted by Limey Linda

I do not think you can put a rev. limiter on a gas turbine. So what happens when the prop. comes out and the load is removed. Also turbines have a throttle response delay of about 2 secs. going up and down. That could be scary.

They are almost common in larger boats - they run with a disc over run brake and Outerlimits do a 53 footer I believe, there are Youtube videos of it running - very impressive! MTI are another US company that do them:

[ollyit]

probably still not fast enough for mr cookee

[BogMonster]

Cool but if anything like every other gas turbine the fuel consumption will be epic!

Coming soon to those big RIBs that cross the Straits of Gib with cargo