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Stephen Lediard - 5 years ago

The German 'E' boats had diesel engines and I think this made them, I should imagen, a bit less risky.

Nick Walter - 5 years ago

Nice to see we had mixer taps back then.

Charles Tellis - 5 years ago

Sailing on type 12 frigates, this is awesome.

Nutvalley 0 - 5 years ago

When the kids bully you at school, but it's beach day tomorrow.

Pincer88 - 5 years ago

What a marvellous job on the restauration of this magnificent boat! Too bad the original engines could not be restored, but imho that is compensated for by the sound of the turbo diesels and the increased safty that comes along with that.
Can't wait to see it perform as the backdrop for a WWII epic film about the young men that went to war in boats like this and th MTBs.

Jeff Keith - 5 years ago

Beautiful craft.

Arc Light - 5 years ago

Get the advantages of the diesels but it's a pity they couldn't get the supercharged petrol plants in there.

Tony Bletas - 5 years ago

'Unlike any boat I've drive'; um gears and throttle! Wow, what have more modern boats have, warp-drive from the USS Enterprise? This guys a fucking tool! These current-issue poms are a bunch of nancyboy fags!

TheRealUnconnected - 5 years ago

Ugh replace epic petrol engine with boring diesel. No thanks.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

Boring? You pay for the avgas at 10 gals a minute.

10. comment for MGB 81 | Review | Motor Boat & Yachting

Darryl Haines - 5 years ago

Sham Restomod. PoorHull

Ewan Bennett - 5 years ago

Try playing war thunder and you can do the depth charge vs ship thing for real

nosaltadded - 5 years ago

The boats were heavily armed not heavily armored like the presenter says. There is a difference between armament and armor.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

He never said they had armor. Just those deflectors for the gunners. Not much more protection than the helmets.

T484 - 5 years ago

That was brutal to listen to. He... Pauses every... Few... Words to.... Milk the fact.... It's a.... Small boat... Yes... We get.... It so.... Please talk like... A normal person.

gibsondrummer - 5 years ago

Here in the USA a similar boat , A PT boat was restored and they installed real .50 caliber brownings and a real 20 mm oerlikon cannon all demilitarized but teal nonetheless why cant they do that in england ?
I do believe the US NAVY PT 689 still retains its three packard v12 aircraft engines which is fortunate

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

You do realize you can not just slap guns on boats or Warbirds. They are all non functional. The also are deadweight.

Jeff Keith - 5 years ago

UK law doesn't allow real guns to be used. It's not a museum piece, it's a demonstration craft.
In my country you couldn't even get away with the replicas they are using on that one. The presenter said something about the owner being the Portsmouth Naval Base, I guess that's how they can use the replicas they have. But unless it's a commissioned Royal Naval vessel, no guns.

Kizz This - 5 years ago

Looks like the wooden PT109

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

Same designer made both boats. The 109 is a 80 foot version of the Original 77 foot boats. The UK prototype was 70ft. Electric Boat company then Americanized the Paine design into the PT.

Jonny B - 5 years ago

Don't think you got the guns usages right. Let alone Oerlikons are cannons, not machine guns. Those were your AA guns. And the Lewis guns weren't AA, they were anti personnel. You couldn't hit or do shit with those Lewis guns on such a platform. Not reliably.

Prubbs - 5 years ago

And the fore gun is a 2-pdr pom-pom, not a 3-pdr.

51WCDodge - 5 years ago

Peter Scott- Battle of the Narrow seas. Scott commanded MGB's and Steam Gun Boats, fantastic illustrations by him as well.

2011metalmaniac - 5 years ago

Ramming speed!!!

Andreas Müller - 5 years ago

A bit over half the power and no turbo charger now ... that´s sad. Very lovely restauration work and apropriate for today but still sad that she lost part of her power i the process.

20. comment for MGB 81 | Review | Motor Boat & Yachting

Dave Pawson - 5 years ago

Where's the other 2800hp?

Randy White - 5 years ago

One bad ass boat

BlazerBrass - 5 years ago

WHAT?! You replaced the engines with less powerful versions of what it had more than 70 years ago?

Kirk Claybrook - 5 years ago

And toy guns, a flick mixer tap and a chemical toilet.

Nuke Em - 5 years ago

Would it be PILOT the boat! NOT drive.

VancouverCanucksRock - 5 years ago

It would be Pilot* Not "Would it be"

SIXPACFISH - 5 years ago

I doubt if anyone else could have made such an exciting boat seem so bland and boring. Great job, Mr Excitement!

geoff burrill - 5 years ago

Nice mgb. Shame couldn't have had original engines.

Wojciech Sawlewicz - 5 years ago

Diesels... It's not restoration but rather demolition... Sad...

Dan Sneyd - 5 years ago

The packards were taken out and scrapped many years before the restoration. Sourcing 3 new supercharged packard v12's would prove to be a bit tricky I reckon

Meat Bag - 5 years ago

Disappointed in the guns

Joe H - 5 years ago

Typical UN cuckery.

burants - 5 years ago

I saw 1 in Edinburgh,
Made from wood and glue and they are exceptional craft of the generation

joe jitsu - 5 years ago

Here's what a geek I am. I start watching a video about a WW2 Motor Gun Boat and my eye is drawn to the boat in the next dock. Why, I say to myself, that looks like a twelve meter with a cabin on it. It seems that it is Sceptre, the failed 1958 challenger for the America's cup. Who the hell would notice something like that? Only a complete boat geek. Oh, and the MGB is massively cool, too.

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Vic McLaglen - 5 years ago

I imagine you'd run the center engine only for normal cruising, and the outers for slow speed maneuvering. Undoubtedly the diesel replacement has significantly increased fuel economy; been a while since I've seen the numbers but original gas (petrol) PT boats used a positively Enormous amount of fuel. Totally impractical for any sort of recreational use. One centerline 800HP diesel ought to be plenty for a nice easy 13-15kts until you want to show off with all three.

Vic McLaglen - 5 years ago

@WALTERBROADDUS True, you couldn't just stop and fill up even if you did carry the bank around with you.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

Worse, they use avgas. Try finding 3000 gallons in a marina?

rockets4kids - 5 years ago

Why no tour of the engine room?

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

You saw it. There is only room for like 2 men back there.

Mike383HK - 5 years ago

They took a great boat and made it into a real fake POS!!!!

Dan Sneyd - 5 years ago

How did they do that? The original engines were scrapped years before the restoration. I suppose they should of called up Packard and asked for some new ones

_Riot - 5 years ago

I'd hate to be the one paying for fuel

Tobby Martin - 5 years ago

Talk about cutting the nuts off.

Ian Norris - 5 years ago

I remember the initial restoration of this boat back in the late 80s by Guy and Art Webster, who if I remember correctly rescued it from being a rotting run down houseboat!. A significant amount of the plywood hull was replaced then and I believe the intention at that time was to fit outdrives, whether that was ever completed I don't know. Good to see her still going though.

Nalle - 5 years ago

https://youtu.be/2FxeOkEtDTw
This is real power boats

Fernando Marques - 5 years ago

it was a bad presentation of the boat, I did not realize very well how the boat is, one thing I understood ..... I was more worried about presenting an old glory of the united kingdom, ... by the way, it came to say the length of the boat ? width, .weight etc ... should change the title to "a boat that I admire a lot" .... and would not have wasted my time

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

Oh, good Grief. OKAY, you go get the camera and do the story.

Thomas Autengruber - 5 years ago

The boat is 71 feet and 6 inches in length

sam zanco - 5 years ago

Can't believe they didn't restore those packard 12s, what a shame

Kizz This - 5 years ago

WALTERBROADDUS thanks for the info!

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

@Adrian Larkins Dude, be reasonable. The parts and companies are long gone. They use pricey avgas to run on. Most have bee long since used up by boat racers decades ago. Airplanes are the same way. Pratt & Whitney stopped making radial engines decades ago. That is why turboprops are used so much.

Scott Helms - 5 years ago

@Serveck : He wants them to poop the motors out their Colin.

Mike Justice - 5 years ago

@Serveck, anything made during/prior to WW2 can be machined/manufactured. Anything. They may not have wanted to dump the money into the resto, and I see the benefits of the new engines, but yea... It's not a full resto unfortunately.

Konine - 5 years ago

Merlin engines no longer certified for flight would be sufficient for a boat, however they are extremely expensive even then. Also the modern sink in the kitchen is a sore for the eye. They didn't do a decent restoration unfortunately...

Adrian Larkins - 5 years ago

@Serveck I bit of research and I reckon one would fine 3 Merlin engines which could be marine converted. I agree with Colin Johnston. Without those famous, fabulous engines the boat is a "fraud".

Colin Johnston - 5 years ago

@Serveck lol they don't exist anymore? All 14k made during the war have all disappeared??? Sure they have.

Serveck - 5 years ago

@Colin Johnston they dont exist anymore, what do you suggest they do?

Colin Johnston - 5 years ago

@Serveck that's not the point. It's a vintage boat, it doesn't matter how good the engine is, it's not original.

Serveck - 5 years ago

They were long gone by the time this owner got their hands on it. Those cat diesels are reliable, economical and make plenty of torque

george waite - 5 years ago

I think that you will find that the Oerlikons were cannons not machine guns.

george waite - 5 years ago

@WALTERBROADDUS Indeed it is a boat review.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

@george waite But the posters are taking it almost personally. As if the guy knocked the 10 Commandments over. It's a boat review. Not Jane's Defense....

george waite - 5 years ago

@WALTERBROADDUS Really, well you learn something new every day. The reason for any correction is to make sure that the error does not become the accepted wisdom (as so much has recently) Journalists and lawyers are the worst perpetrators of this kind of thing as they already assume that they know everything.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

Your nitpicking. It is a boat review. Not Guns & Ammo magazine.

Michael Naisbitt - 5 years ago

I suppose it was near impossible to pick up three Packard Merlin’s on today’s market and the diesels would be cheaper to run if down on power

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

Market? 1. Not Merlins. 2. Boat racers used the supply decades ago. 3. Pointless putting motors you can not get parts for. 4. They used leaded avgas. Not much avgas in a marina.

Brian. - 5 years ago

Fantastic, great work.

Titan Mechanism - 5 years ago

20% less Engine Power is pretty significant in my mind, would this have been my project, i would've put equal or more power in.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

Well, break out the Visa card......

William Thompson - 5 years ago

I was privileged to command the U.S. Navy "Nasty" PTF - powered by twin 3100 HP Napier Deltic engines. Those were originally Norwegian built and later versions were by John Trumpy in Annapolis, MD. The total responsiveness and awesome performance of such boats is an experience like no other. Your report exuded that. Thanks.

Prubbs - 5 years ago

Napier were engine wizards through and through

Dan Hillman - 5 years ago

@Doge Maverick All the Napiers, most anyway, were crazy machines and it's no small wonder they even were able to work at all.

Doge Maverick - 5 years ago

Looking up Napier Deltic engines, what kind of fuckery is that?!?
Freaking mind plowing!

Island Aerial - 5 years ago

Nice video. Too bad the presenter can only speak in one word sentences.

Eddie 308 - 5 years ago

To bad it doesn't have original motors but still a very nice boat

Paulzypaul - 5 years ago

its not a restoration its a restomod

Clifford Bryan john Wilson - 5 years ago

It's also kind of a demod since none of the guns works which kind of makes me wish they'd either have the Navy/Coastguard recommission the ship or have it sold to an American collector which would allow the guns to be functional.

David - 5 years ago

Fake 3lber is fake, Fake engines are fake. Fake boat is fake.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

DAVID your a fake.

JMP.T28B - 5 years ago

The boat is real not a replica.

kunekune - 5 years ago

What a beautiful craft!

colintraveller - 5 years ago

They should make replica's powered with 3 v12's and include some sleeping space .. they would sell IMHO .

50. comment for MGB 81 | Review | Motor Boat & Yachting

GoofyLeo3 - 5 years ago

Nifty, but in those colors; it looks totally 80's Soviet.

TheFastfreddie54 - 5 years ago

WHEN MY BELOVED COUNTRY WAS WHITE

Lee - 5 years ago

The British Empire, of which this is contemporary, was not white either.

just - 5 years ago

something wrong with you? are you sick? i feel uncomfortable the way you talk and feel disgusted on your body language

Roland Jönsson - 5 years ago

Not original engines on a boat like that, that's everything! You don't swap engine in a Ferrari, do you? Take a look at the Swedish T26.

sixfootbear - 5 years ago

You would to find three Packard Merlin engines,the later MGB's had 4, to power her.I think 3 turbo derv drinkers give you at least a taste of her power. Read Motor gunboat 658 or Dogboats at war.

BennyTheWoo - 5 years ago

What a gun, boat.
Wonderful stuff, thank you to the men who served.

Adrian Tallpoppy - 5 years ago

The restorers have insulted the boat. Pathetic toy guns, below power diesel engines and non genunine fixtures and finishes. Do it right or DON'T.

Doge Maverick - 5 years ago

@WALTERBROADDUS They didn't entirely vanish and normally a motorboat comes with a set of motors.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

NOBODY flies planes with real guns either. Stop whining.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

@Kizz This It is a gunboat. Not a torpedo boat. A separate design and unit.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

@Doge Maverick OEM? Your talking 70 year old tech not on any shelf. Boat racers used them all decades ago before going to turbines.

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

Well break out the checkbook big guy...

Jeff Keith - 5 years ago

Tall poppy indeed. Go buy it and do it 'right' yourself. She's gorgeous.

Clifford Bryan john Wilson - 5 years ago

There is no way under British law you could put real guns on the boat.

Adrian Tallpoppy - 5 years ago

@Kizz This Idiot, do you read the rubbish you write ?

Kizz This - 5 years ago

yes! where's the original flamethrowers? The original nuclear torpedo tubes?

B W - 5 years ago

Fucking chill.....

Serveck - 5 years ago

The original engines were LONG GONE before the owner got their hands on it as it was rotting away in a yard, 3 cat diesels are economical reliable and make adequate torque for doing tours around the isle.

Edward Blake - 5 years ago

I'm just happy that all the structural work has been done and the hull is not rotting. Sorting that that out would have been an enormous undertaking.
You can put the original engines in anytime you want. It becomes a bit difficult to do if the boat is sunk or scrapped. Which is a fate most of these boats have suffered. The maintenance and upkeep of these boats is mind-boggling.

lefthandedluke - 5 years ago

@nudibanches Have a look here, it's the 2 pounder in a battery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QF_2-pounder_naval_gun

nudibanches - 5 years ago

@lefthandedluke Still looks a bit "odd"? Or something from the 1890s :)

lefthandedluke - 5 years ago

@nudibanches I think it might be a 40mm auto cannon, or a 2 pounder ?

David C - 5 years ago

theres no deafening turbos which makes this build completely pointless and a disgrace

burants - 5 years ago

Adrian Tallpoppy
I think the Annual maintenance is too much for what you suggest

nudibanches - 5 years ago

@Benters Huh? A comment about the three pounder looking odd and we get to this? Try and increase your medication mate, it's clearly not working.

Tom Duke - 5 years ago

quite right, a better restoration would have been just to remove the guns all-together.

Doge Maverick - 5 years ago

@Efoxx ok Where the hell do you take your junk?!? These prices are ridiculous. If you take it to a yachting supplier, maybe.
Go for industrial grade crap, don't outsource unnecessarily easy tasks to "professionals" and you are at like 500 grand tops with slightly de-tuned oem powerplants.

I don't know about UK gun law, but machining a replica or getting a demilitarized thing shouldn't be impossible. I really hope it's a work in progress and the diesels are just placeholders.

Efoxx ok - 5 years ago

Adrian Tallpoppy so Packard Merlins runs about $1million in needs overhaul condition, and overhauls would add another $150k each. That ups the cost over 3.4million right there.
And I'm pretty sure 3" deck guns aren't just lying around, or even legal to buy, sell, or own. Not to mention the tons of weight they add.
I'm sure YOU have those kind of resources lying around, so why don't you contact the owner and offer your services.

Benters - 5 years ago

@nudibanches So you would rather let it rot? Dick Head.

X CrankyOldMan - 5 years ago

I have zero problems with the restoration... the cost involved must have been astronomical. a full restoration would have been way more money. to replicate the engines alone would cost millions.

BennyTheWoo - 5 years ago

The owner has undoubtedly made it usable for himself as it is HIS boat.
May I suggest once you own your own, do as you wish with it.

nudibanches - 5 years ago

Yes that three pounder on the bow doesn't look "quite right"?

Stephen Duller - 5 years ago

So how fast is she now ?

Chuck Just Chuck - 5 years ago

THey manned it with smaller people....

rx7dude2006 - 5 years ago

Wish you could have demonstrated the movement of the guns.Maybe they are not functional?

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

Prop guns.

steven burgess - 5 years ago

No mention of Phil clabburn and the volunteers of the original British military powerboat trust who originally restored this boat nice to see my old Carley float on board
For interest the man diesels that we’re in her are going into hms gay archer a restored 1950s British torpedo boat kept up and running by the child’s family

Bill Franklin - 5 years ago

Agree, Phil C should have got a mention. Went or a trip with him on this fabulous craft when he had just restored it, awesome! Glad the MANs are being reused, no one could afford enough fuel to wear them out!

Kefmans - 5 years ago

Nice review. Where can I buy it?

That guys vette - 5 years ago

absolutely Gorgeous

Mark Chippendale - 5 years ago

I always found these, and their sister craft, the MTBs to be the most beautiful vessels of all time! What I would give to own one! Certainly, I'd need to refit her substantially as a civilian craft but to share the sight and experience of her blasting across the waters is unsurpassed!

Morrigan Ravenchild - 5 years ago

Lovely to see this restored and working. Thanks for the video.

Bill Van Raam - 5 years ago

Fantastic video!

Richard Orsulich - 5 years ago

That is soo cool, pity about the Packhards

Richard Wales - 5 years ago

What a beautiful boat. If I had the money, I would have 2 of them. Well done to everyone involved and thank you for this presentation.

Doge Maverick - 5 years ago

they always look better in backs, don't they?

mick coomer - 5 years ago

Diesels shouldn’t sound that good.

Stan Batten - 5 years ago

I was the coxswain of the Last 'D' Long Boat (110 feet) Gun Boat based at HHS Hornet until it's closure in 1956. There were four long boats in our squadron, I was also the squadron diver. We lived on board, I had toilet in the sick bay which doubled as my cabin. Our engines were four high octane Packard (US) petrol engines - (Rolls Royce) UK onward.
The only other craft at HMS Hornet during that time was the MTB (Short Boats) they did not live aboard
at the time.

i always considered it a privilege to have been selected, we enjoyed a faultless camaraderie.

Mike Barktic - 5 years ago

Stan Batten - I was going to comment that I'd love to see a Dog boat cutting the briney. I read a D-class memoir many years ago, & it really stuck with me, proper boats those.
Cheers.

Mark Bozz - 5 years ago

Hull looks like a classic Carolina sport fisher. Niiiice!

Elliott Hall - 5 years ago

I’ve been onboard this boat and it’s beautiful in its own way, the craftsmanship and simplicity is amazing when compared to modern boats. Surprisingly spacious inside too.

David Farmer - 5 years ago

Thanks or sharing MBY , I have been reading MBY for all my adult life..... the first one I bought was in 1977.

I think the young guys who worked these boats were not so much brave but just had a different ethos. We all helped each other in those days.

The current malais did not exist in those days (IMO of course).

I pity about the metric gremlins creeping in but thanks you for not saying any thing was "iconic" or you were "gutted" about something.

David Farmer - 5 years ago

12:51

come off it chief, what's with the litres??

David Farmer - 5 years ago

10:50

There were no loos on board MTBs

you stuck your rear end out out the back.

I dont know about MGBs

David Farmer - 5 years ago

the packards gave 2000 hp each

800 should be good enough

hmmmm.......

Doge Maverick - 5 years ago

@WALTERBROADDUS If you want a party, you gotta bring it my dude...

WALTERBROADDUS - 5 years ago

@Doge Maverick That is a lot of Avgas in a wood boat.

David Farmer - 5 years ago

@Edward Blake the figures are scary. What ive never worked out is if Mr Hitler had knocked out our petrol supplies we were have been snookered.

Edward Blake - 5 years ago

A 1000 extra horsepower to haul the weight of of the fuel required for the range. For petrol engines you need twice the fuel for the same range.

Doge Maverick - 5 years ago

What about going all in with some Rolls Royce Griffon 101s, packing about 2.4k hp each while propably weighing in at like a half of the Packards...

David Farmer - 5 years ago

@Alec Blunden Knickers......there were 3 packards. 1200 hp ea. yes.

Poppy S - 5 years ago

No. There were three parckards. Watch again from about 1:30

Alec Blunden - 5 years ago

@Poppy S There were two Packards replaced by three diesels.

Poppy S - 5 years ago

Alec - me thinks thy math is off just a bit. 3 packards @ 1200 each = wait for it...... that's right 3600. oops

Alec Blunden - 5 years ago

I heard 1200 for the Packards, 850 each for the new engines. That means 2400 originally, 2550 as refitted- a reasonable substitute.

Andrew Pitt - 5 years ago

Beautiful boat. Not sure why they didn’t go for more power...

daDuke42 - 5 years ago

$$$

Thats why

cageordie - 5 years ago

People who want to know how these things were used should read "The Battle of the Narrow Seas" by Sir Peter Scott. Funny what he was doing before he was famous for bird watching. Double diagonal mahogany and 100 octane fighter fuel. Brilliant combination. I am glad they have put decent engines in her, if I was rich I'd have donated them myself.

My friend John MacDonald from the Back of Kepoch, Arisaig, Invernesshire was on minesweepers in the channel in WWII, he thinks he was 14 when he joined the RN when they called up his fishing boat. He wasn't seeking trouble the way these guys were, but he was out in the same sea at the same time. Reading the book gave me a different view of the quiet old lobster fisherman I knew.

Mark Stafford - 5 years ago

Fantastic !!!

Jeremy Murfitt - 5 years ago

My father was with Air Sea Rescue during the war based on the Hamble and also on the Gold Coast.. He was on a number of converted MTB's picking up either sailors or airmen. He used to say that flat out they could just nudge 50mph.

Mark Davis - 5 years ago

Small correction, the refit didn't replace the Packards, they went decades ago! During her restoration over 10 years ago, she was fitted with MAN diesels.

Nicholas Seidel - 5 years ago

I actually started weeping about 10 seconds into this when I realized what it was. Been following the rebuild at Berthon. If anyone is interested I highly recommend Adrian Rance's Fast Boats and Flying Boats. It's the story of Hubert Scott-Paine and the British Power Boat Company. Just a fascinating story.

Steve Parker - 5 years ago

WHEN MEN WER MEN, AND SHEEP WHERE FRIGHTENED...

Noah L - 5 years ago

Steve Parker many men are still men, sheep are just more common nowadays.
When China puts their army of 2.5 million to use we will once again be majority manly.

Timo Galeon - 5 years ago

As you say, magnificent! A great tribute to the sailors of the day. So very grateful that this superb restoration has been carried out and I very much look forward to seeing her out and about in the Solent. Well done and thank you, to everyone concerned!

mev202 - 5 years ago

We owe so much to those brave young men who fought for us.

who cares - 5 years ago

Dont you just. Pity the powers thst be betrayed the UK and sold it out to the EU. Now 17M voted leave and the powers once again are trying to sell the people out. I for one would be very annoyed to have my head blown off in 1943 for this shite.

wingding028 - 5 years ago

@Nicks lol

Nicks - 5 years ago

You owe everything to your dad for shooting his sperm up your mothers twat

jbss7382 - 5 years ago

+Motor Boat & Yachting,
Here is the link to my previous message?

https://youtu.be/LXqCzD38zX0

Land-Locked Pirate - 5 years ago

Breaks the 6knot speed limit on most UK waterways at tickover

I like it... A lot!

Poppy S - 5 years ago

the 110ft patrol boat I served on clutched in at 12 kts. Meant a lot of single engine ops or clutch in / out when entering crowded harbors.

John Garvey - 5 years ago

But a very high chance of getting pulled for that just because they want a closer look

Russ B - 5 years ago

Nice boat :-) You could have got the video clips sorted, lol...Like you said your doing 30 knots, Then the camera guy pans round and your in the marina, lol

Tim Daniel - 5 years ago

Oh dear! There's no pleasing some people!

jbss7382 - 5 years ago

+MotorBoat&Yachting,
Hello guys? Awesome video. As you have reviewed Scandinavian boats in the past, I hope you can take a trip Sweden? They have The Veterans Flotilla at Ystad. They have one MTB with Italian engines(diesel) and they are twin 5,000hp each!!! yes 5,000 horse power EACH!!!
It is capable of 50knots +!!!!
It would be great if you could review it as a comparison. We must keep the history of the last 70 years alive.
Many Thanks
Jonathan Seth-Smith