give up driving... well i am for two years! but im only going to be on a 34ft yacht, sailing one that is, oh and somewhere hot hot hot!
when you are out and about it's amazing how meny superyachts you see, allot with brit flags aswell!
if i saw that yacht i would sex wee in my shorts!
oh.. my.. god.. I would GIVE UP DRIVING if i could own this!
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Yeah, the smaller type boats (rather than tankers etc) take an enormohugeness amount of power compared to whats being shifted in order to move. If you took that power and put half of it each through 2x 48 ton trucks, the driver would be a red smear at the back of the cab by 60mph...
(well ok, maybe not, but the acceleration would still be in the supercar range - the turning motor's got about as much as the average artic). Water's a whole lot thicker than air after all, and there's no proper friction between screw and sea, unlike rubber on stone.
I remember being on a RIB such as what that yacht has stowed upfront there ... with a 40hp yamaha outboard on it (3 unreliable cylinders of pure 2 stroke NOISE). We managed about 15 knots maximum speed, in calm water. Out on the menai strait, where the water can run at up to 10 knots when the tide's shifting. We ended up against it, making jogging pace vs the land with as much power as i've just used to hit 80mph.
and yes ... im not one for watercraft neither ... but you could put that in a blender and sell it as an impotence cure. looks fantastic, and is probably bigger than my house. in all three dimensions.
(bit poncy description wise though - and "Wally Power"?
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one word: wow.
(well ok, maybe not, but the acceleration would still be in the supercar range - the turning motor's got about as much as the average artic). Water's a whole lot thicker than air after all, and there's no proper friction between screw and sea, unlike rubber on stone.
I remember being on a RIB such as what that yacht has stowed upfront there ... with a 40hp yamaha outboard on it (3 unreliable cylinders of pure 2 stroke NOISE). We managed about 15 knots maximum speed, in calm water. Out on the menai strait, where the water can run at up to 10 knots when the tide's shifting. We ended up against it, making jogging pace vs the land with as much power as i've just used to hit 80mph.
and yes ... im not one for watercraft neither ... but you could put that in a blender and sell it as an impotence cure. looks fantastic, and is probably bigger than my house. in all three dimensions.
(bit poncy description wise though - and "Wally Power"?
one word: wow.
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