Trojan ??

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:18 pm

A down under trojan ??

http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1983/Tr ... /Australia

koviak · Post by **koviak** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:36 pm

Looks like they streched an 11 meter to accomadate the diesels. I think it would be hard to do 40 knt. as they claim.

DOUGNASH · Post by **DOUGNASH** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:41 pm

OK lets talk about this one.

I might be wrong but this thing is a total custom boat.

Somebody put some big money into this vessel.

I think it started out as a 10 meter.

It looks like they put the motors in the lower cockpit.

Arneson surface drives!!!! that is crazy, major investment here. I found an old quote from 10 years ago to convert my inboards to surfaces drives, it was like a 60k investment, they wanted around 15k for EACH 5 blade prop!

did they extend the length of the boat?

Its really hard to tell what is going on from the pics..

gettaway · Post by **gettaway** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:40 pm

300 hp ford sabres driving surface drives?

hmmmm

RWS · Post by **RWS** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:40 pm

too bad there are no more photos.

This is definately a stretched 10 meter, ot an 11.

Wonder hoe (exactly) they extended her?

Sectioned?

Still, not enough photos to be sure.

RWS

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:09 pm

28 knots at 1200 rpm ? on plane at 1000 ? big lie or broken tachs LOL

DOUGNASH · Post by **DOUGNASH** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:12 pm

can someone swing by the marina and take some more pics???

LoL

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:13 pm

28 knots at 1200 rpm ? on plane at 1000 ? big lie or broken tachs LOL

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:03 pm

g'day! toss back a VB and enjoy the surf! then watch a game of footy.
okay, now that that's over with.... i like how they did the hard top. mike kulp, there is your design.

larryeddington · Post by **larryeddington** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:47 am

Something is amiss, states single diesel obviously two engines (diesel/gas?)

Mike Kulp · Post by **Mike Kulp** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:06 pm

I do like the hard top, seems like a lot of work was put into this boat but I doubt the top speed.

RWS · Post by **RWS** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:17 pm

Clearly no one here on the Forum noticed the MR. FUSION adapter on top of the engines.

Once you get the 1.21 gigawatts from the Mr. Fusion, everything will fall into place.

Just not too sure about the prop pitch...

RWS

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:34 pm

larryeddington wrote:Something is amiss, states single diesel obviously two engines (diesel/gas?)

Diesel for sure . Twin Ford Sabre diesels that are turbo and after-cooled

Stripermann2 · Post by **Stripermann2** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:40 pm

RWS wrote:Clearly no one here on the Forum noticed the MR. FUSION adapter on top of the engines.

Once you get the 1.21 gigawatts from the Mr. Fusion, everything will fall into place.

Just not too sure about the prop pitch...

RWS

Actually I did notice that. But, I swear it's a thermo equalizer, coupled with a zeon cathode propelled by inert gasses compressed by the exhaust turbine, otherwise commonly known as a turbo. However, the waste gate linkage is probably loose at the knibbly pin...thus lowering the whole thrust factor to a minus 44. In which case, the boat will never do 28 knots at 1200 rpm!