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I wonder what it's really used for! :shock:

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I saw this photo somewhere before with the explination along the lines of used for crossing the English Channel. Unfortuanately I don't remember the need for all that power, but it must produce quite a ride.

Harvey
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I'm guessing 2000 Horsepower can move a lot of contraband ashore or from one country to another pretty quickly! :wink:

Even the Homeland Security people have only about half that power on board! :sad

Would make for a pretty wild ride pulling a tube and rider! :lol:

Joe. :teeth :thup
 
Must be fun at the gas pumps too! :crook

Just looked at the link. 238 GPH at full speed. My boat would be out of gas in 37 minutes!! :roll:

Charlie
 
Actually, this is the true story.

Drug running RIB manufactured by a boat builder and sold to a very limited clientel. Pretty cool. :twisted: What's illegal about selling "high speed uncatchable craft with a low radar signature"?

I 'spect it could sure haul grass!

Don
 
We anchored about 100 miles out of Gibrlater on the Spanish Coast. About dusk, a jeep, with radar on top, and towing a trailer with two off road cycles pulled onto the beach, and behind some old ruins so just the radar was showing. We went ashore to talk to the "Marines". They were watching for smugglers. The next day, we saw both the smugglers and revenuers in Gibralter. Both sides had Fountain or Cigarette boats, with two 750 hp I/Os and and three 300 hp outboards mounted on the transoms. There was also a ramp, for a Zodiac to be launched over the motors and pulled up on the deck. All mat grey paint. The only way you could tell the good guys, was a small emblem. We saw some similar Spanish boats up the coast by the Portguese boarder later in our voyages.

They left the docks about the same time, and sped off into the night. The cat and mouse game went on every night. Of course the smugglers could not be arrested in Gibralter, because the contraband went from Africa (Morocco) to Spain. The British go fasts were captured smugglers boats.

The same thing happens off our coasts. When going from Dry Tortugas, to Key West, at night, I picked up a radar target, which "hid" behind a nav aid. As we passed, this black boat running dark shadowed us for about half a mile, and then the boat which was sailing with us, about a mile behind. Then they sped off into the night. These were our DEA guys. We saw them leaving Key West the next night. They run every night out of the keys--and look for suspicious boats. Very fast, and stealth.
 
Don-

Would you be interested in (as an alternative), buying a surplus Russian submarine and going into the transport business? (I understand you are familiar with submarines....)

(My dad used to say "Where there's a will, they're a way....!"

Joe. :lol: :thup
 
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Just think of changing the oil! :cry :lol:

Charlie
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I think you mean: changing the oil, changing the oil, changing the oil, changing the oil, changing the oil, changing the oil, changing the oil, and changing the oil.

8)
 
go fast boat are being replaced with sub type craft. they are boats that are sealed and only stick out of the water a few feet if that much. some are even unmanned now.

they come up the west coast and meet other boats that take the drugs ashore. then they sink them.
 
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