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03 April 2009, 16:07
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Country: USA
Town: Fairbanks
Boat name: Medved
Make: Solar
Length: 4m +
Engine: 50 Tohatsu
MMSI: 007
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This has GOT to be a Photoshop deal.
No way this thing is for real, right? 
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03 April 2009, 16:46
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: stramash
Make: Tornado
Length: 5m +
Engine: Etec 90
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Its real alright ... do a search for crompton marine .. or drug running.. should turn something up 
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03 April 2009, 17:40
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Country: UK - England
Town: Up Norf
Make: Avon SR4,Tremlett 23
Length: 4m +
Engine: Yam 55, Volvo 200
Join Date: Apr 2007
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It was meant to be super fast and undetectable to radar for cartain reasons, I don't think it was either and never made it to the customer.
Its on here somewhere?
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03 April 2009, 17:52
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Country: UK - England
Town: Midlands
Boat name: SR4.7
Make: Avon
Length: 4m +
Engine: Mariner 60 EFI
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Heres the photoshopped version  . Not sure who posted this originally. But I've seen and been emailed that original photo so many times 
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04 April 2009, 01:28
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Crompton did some great boats - sold them to the goodies and the baddies!!!
Here is a little one with only 4 engines - nice cargo.............
And here is one of the proper beasts in action - I think they used a Land Rover for the cabin - my ideal mixture.
British engineering at it's best!!!
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04 April 2009, 06:04
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Country: USA
Town: Fairbanks
Boat name: Medved
Make: Solar
Length: 4m +
Engine: 50 Tohatsu
MMSI: 007
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thanks
for the info. anyone have any word on how fast it really was/is? If a second prop adds only 50%, a third must be a tad less, and .... an 8th?
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04 April 2009, 09:47
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Country: UK - England
Town: yorkshire
Boat name: little vicky
Make: avon ex RNLI
Length: 3m +
Engine: tohatsu
Join Date: Mar 2008
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[QUOTE=chewy;289226] It was meant to be super fast and undetectable to radar for cartain reasons,
What with all that amount of aluminium at the stern ,lol
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04 April 2009, 12:12
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: stramash
Make: Tornado
Length: 5m +
Engine: Etec 90
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Was this the one that conked out half way through a drugs run because they filled its tanks with diesel ? 
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04 April 2009, 12:38
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: Yanmar diesel
Join Date: Feb 2002
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here's another, scanned of an origional photo i have these are v8 's too!!
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04 April 2009, 19:11
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
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Look more like V6s to me but the photo is very bad.
I used to wonder about the sense of this - 2 big diesels would be a better bet - until someone pointed out it would take a lot of shots to knock out all 8 engines!!!
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05 April 2009, 08:18
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Country: UK - Scotland
Boat name: imposter
Make: FunYak
Length: 3m +
Engine: Tohatsu 30HP
MMSI: 235089819
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 11,622
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Originally Posted by codprawn
Look more like V6s to me but the photo is very bad.
I used to wonder about the sense of this - 2 big diesels would be a better bet - until someone pointed out it would take a lot of shots to knock out all 8 engines!!!
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and 2 big diesels would take up a lot of cargo space.
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05 April 2009, 09:19
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: Yanmar diesel
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in the 80's OMC made a v8 2 stroke, never really took off, i wonder why... (li per hour prehaps!!)
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05 April 2009, 19:29
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 12,791
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Yes I would love one of those old V8s - same weight as a modern 225 2 stroke but with 400hp - awesome or what???
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05 April 2009, 20:32
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Country: UK - England
Town: Gloucestershire
Boat name: Osprey
Make: Osprey Vipermax
Length: 5m +
Engine: E-tec 300 G2
MMSI: TBC
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 4,020
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Yes I would love one of those old V8s - same weight as a modern 225 2 stroke but with 400hp - awesome or what???
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I thought they were 250HP?
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06 April 2009, 02:07
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 12,791
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They were 300hp as standard but many racing ones were 400 or even 450hp. They thrived on very high revs and lots of petrol!!!
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