Not sure what to say...

[lukewhiting]

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...d=261822387157

[willk]

Don't laugh - it has a value...

London Metal Exchange: Aluminium

[HughN]

Can you actually get checker-pattern flexible material suitable for tubes or is that just lots and lots of some sort of Max Power stick-on-carbon-fibre sticky-backed-plastic stuff?

The aft end of the starboard tube looks like its been sealed like a can of Pringles.

It would probably show up like an aircraft carrier on radar...

I bet he's really pleased at the number of views his item's getting.

[paulbrown22]

I remember looking at some similar completely aluminium RIB's in a garden in Kingston/Richmond 12+ years ago. I forget the company name, but was a very small custom one man band builder, doing hulls from 4-7.5m from memory. I recall on the smaller boats he liked fitting the Mercury jet drive outboards (25hp I think?).

[Poly]

Rigid tubes are the future...

[ashbypower]

surely its a RRB not RIB !!

[TUFTY]

Originally Posted by paulbrown22

I remember looking at some similar completely aluminium RIB's in a garden in Kingston/Richmond 12+ years ago. I forget the company name, but was a very small custom one man band builder, doing hulls from 4-7.5m from memory. I recall on the smaller boats he liked fitting the Mercury jet drive outboards (25hp I think?).

Thanet Craft was a company producing aluminium "ribs"

[HDAV]

Looks like some kind of bat boat !

[treerat]

Originally Posted by HDAV

Looks like some kind of bat boat !

I nearly bought one a few years ago. Liked the idea and cost wise was pretty good.

Decided the North coast of Cornwall wasn't the place for solid tubes.

Somewhere in Gloucester was making them.