One for the petrol heads.

[Keith 66]

Last weekend on holiday in Norway we went to the Risor traditional boat festival. The star of the show was Sveridge S1 a brand new racing powerboat straight out of the 1930's.
35ft of gleaming varnished mahogany. Powered by two rolls royce meteor V12's, twin superchargers on each engine & 24 open stacks. She was doing speed trials outside the harbour & was a sight & sound to behold, only got up to 50 knots or so as it was a bit choppy. I have never seen a more outrageous boat in my life, simply stunning, film of her on trials here,

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[brightspark]

 

[Keith 66]

I had the speakers turned up but it seemed a little quiet.................. only joking!

 

[norlander]

that boat looks and sounds awesome-spitfire and Lancaster skimming the waves (okay I know they are not Merlins but still evocative all the same).

 

[Keith 66]

The meteor V12 was used in Swedish army tanks, i may be wrong but i think they were a normally aspirated version of the Merlin, same capacity at 27 ltr. Sveridge's engines appear to have twin superchargers fitted & there have been several versions tried out. If you have to ask how much?
It would not be polite to ask!

 

[the snooper]

it looks out of place that type of boat with those engines in it and I don't think it will handle too well cornering due to the shape of the hull, we have class one power boat racing on the humber and the class ones have 2 v12 lamborghini engines in them I was gonna race them but they had a few more horses then my 80hp
so I moored up in the middle and watched

 

[Wedg1e]

I'm not a boat fan but there are some nice lines on that (and the engines aren't bad either )...

I used to regularly see a boat at Pompey that resembled a WW2 torpedo boat so I did some digging and it turned out to be a Vospers hull powered by three gas turbines - it was clocked doing 50+ knots across the Channel in the 1960s!
Last heard of looking sad for itself moored at a jetty near Southampton...

 

[Keith 66]

Heres another clip, Miss America 9, note she only has modern V8's, I bet the crews ears were ringing afterwards,