https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-mtraBA2qA
Ok, ok not my engines but I can dream can't I?
https://goteborg2023.com/uploads/202...Ystad_stor.jpg
Imagine pulling up to a Marina with this.....
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06-04-2022 07:59 AM #1Senior Member
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Startup of my new engines and WOT take off
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06-04-2022 09:03 AM #2
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Coast guard would think twice before safety inspecting that thing
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06-04-2022 11:50 AM #3Senior Member
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Re: Startup of my new engines and WOT take off
I think that Hatteras actually one boat with turbines ,way back in the 1960's .
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Re: Startup of my new engines and WOT take off
News to me. Know anything else about it?
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06-14-2022 01:03 PM #5Senior Member
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Re: Startup of my new engines and WOT take off
I think this may be a reference to the Navy prototype Vietnam river patrol boat which was water jet driven but not turbine powered.
See page 128 of Hargraves book for more info.
DAN
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06-14-2022 01:18 PM #6Senior Member
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Re: Startup of my new engines and WOT take off
I thought I had seen an ad in one of the boating magazines back in the 1960’s . Reminded me of the Chrysler car that was turbine powered. Chrysler built a few of these cars and loaned then to people around the US . it was pretty cool but never produced. Turbines were the rage back then .
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06-14-2022 05:26 PM #7
Re: Startup of my new engines and WOT take off
I'm a Chris-Craft history nut, having restored 4 of them. I know the one you're talking about and it was a Chris-Craft with two reduction-geared turbines in it. You can be forgiven for thinking it was a Hatteras, the Roamers at first glance look a lot like the Hatteras tri-cabins.
The turbine engines were optional power for a year or two in the early 70's but they were so expensive, plus the obvious problem of where do you get it serviced, that nobody ordered them. They eventually killed the program and repowered the factory demo unit with Detroits and sold it off.
If you believe the factory hype from back in the day, they were more fuel efficient, faster, and quieter than diesels.
New Turbine Chris‐Craft a Purring Tiger - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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06-14-2022 05:39 PM #8Senior Member
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Re: Startup of my new engines and WOT take off
Cool ! I was also going to guess UNIFLITE !