NOT A TROJAN, JUST COOL STUFF...PERSHING W/ SURFACE DRIVES

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:24 pm

saw this on youtube today.... 48mph in a pershing 52 with arneson surface drives. LOVE the rooster tail!!!
enjoy.
aaron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIrHy6RI ... =endscreen

~DarkNemesis~ · Post by **~DarkNemesis~** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:01 pm

Damn!!. Good day for jet sking.....

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:19 pm

~DarkNemesis~ wrote:Damn!!. Good day for jet sking.....

i know, it's frakin awesome!! i cannot get over how great that boat sounds when the throttles are advanced. wooooofffffffffffffff
aaron

todd brinkerhoff · Post by **todd brinkerhoff** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:21 pm

Ahh, but there is a Trojan connection. Filvio De Simoni, who is the sole designer of these beautiful Pershing yachts, also designed the Trojan 10.8 Meter Express and the Carver Trojan 440. He designed the first Pershing at about the same time Trojan recruitef him for their redesigned International concept. Cool stuff.

Tri-Guy · Post by **Tri-Guy** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:13 pm

A friend of mine has a 58 magnum with twin 1500 hp Duetz (Mercedes benz) diesels with surface drives. The boat is pretty fast 46 knts on the pins and burns a $hit load of fuel. Not my type of boat but pics to folllow.

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:52 am

todd brinkerhoff wrote:Ahh, but there is a Trojan connection. Filvio De Simoni, who is the sole designer of these beautiful Pershing yachts, also designed the Trojan 10.8 Meter Express and the Carver Trojan 440. He designed the first Pershing at about the same time Trojan recruitef him for their redesigned International concept. Cool stuff.

wow..... sort of a '6 degrees of separation' thing going on. interesting information todd. i should have recognized the naval architect's name. still in a pain med induced fog i guess. i've always been fascinated by the surface drive system, but, looking at the assembly, it looks rather complex. love the multi blade (turbine type) prop. what makes it more 'efficient' than standard drive systems? personally i'd rather have a water jet system.
aaron

k9th · Post by **k9th** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:18 am

Nice looking footage. Awesome boat.

Bobbo · Post by **Bobbo** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:27 pm

That's amazing I just past one of those on the Detroit River yesterday as I was taking my boat to it's winter home. What are the odds?

captainmaniac · Post by **captainmaniac** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:00 pm

Related to this, I have 2 favourites.

Similar to the Pershing, I have seen a Mangusta. 108' long. Surface drives. The guy who owns Second City comedy clubs (but really made his money from Bingo dabbers as I hear it!) used to keep his Mangusta in Port Dalhousie, near St. Catherines, Ontario. Watched him one day when he decided to go to Toronto for a coffee - about 40 miles away. As this monster left the dock it looked pretty cool. When they hit the throttles, all you could see from behind was a wall of water from the rooster tail. Awesome!

The second favourite : a boat called My Way that runs out of Gananoque Ontario (Thousand Islands). People familiar with the Thousand Islands probably know the boat, and Americans near Alexandria Bay NY probably know it too. Powered by twin Lycoming helicopter turbine engines coupled with surface drives, I think he has broken 200 mph. I have personally taken video of him from a mile away, throwing a rooster tail 50' in the air and at least 200' long. He almost died this year in a near crash (lost it coming off someone's wake), but the boat and its rooster tail - and its sound - are freaking awesome. Google 'my way boat'. You will find a bunch of hits.

The owner - Bill Tomlinson - has been doing this for many years and can handle the speed as well as any professional racer. I felt sick when I read about his crash this summer.

ready123 · Post by **ready123** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:59 am

Saw this 72' one UNBRIDLED at Little Current and Benjamin's in the North channel 2009. Running at speed you could hardly see the boat because of the bow spray... the rooster tail was the key to where it was!

Note how one still has to get on one's knees during anchor retrieval on a big fancy boat too

gumper · Post by **gumper** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:32 am

captainmaniac wrote:Related to this, I have 2 favourites.

Similar to the Pershing, I have seen a Mangusta. 108' long. Surface drives. The guy who owns Second City comedy clubs (but really made his money from Bingo dabbers as I hear it!) used to keep his Mangusta in Port Dalhousie, near St. Catherines, Ontario. Watched him one day when he decided to go to Toronto for a coffee - about 40 miles away. As this monster left the dock it looked pretty cool. When they hit the throttles, all you could see from behind was a wall of water from the rooster tail. Awesome!

The second favourite : a boat called My Way that runs out of Gananoque Ontario (Thousand Islands). People familiar with the Thousand Islands probably know the boat, and Americans near Alexandria Bay NY probably know it too. Powered by twin Lycoming helicopter turbine engines coupled with surface drives, I think he has broken 200 mph. I have personally taken video of him from a mile away, throwing a rooster tail 50' in the air and at least 200' long. He almost died this year in a near crash (lost it coming off someone's wake), but the boat and its rooster tail - and its sound - are freaking awesome. Google 'my way boat'. You will find a bunch of hits.

The owner - Bill Tomlinson - has been doing this for many years and can handle the speed as well as any professional racer. I felt sick when I read about his crash this summer.

This is Bills other boat " Her Way" That must of been a sad day.

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:34 am

inside my way cruise at 173 mph..... and i LOVE THE SOUND OF THE TURBINES !!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPw14lQl1yU

my way, before and after crash 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syuYUHmf ... re=related

my way docking..... hear the sound of the turbines!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&featu ... EM_HJRdQ0w

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:00 am

more turbine boat footage.... pretty interesting...... again, love the sound of the turbine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFc_YvKf ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... Qx-XI&NR=1

ready123 · Post by **ready123** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:23 am

This summer's crash of My Way 3...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRNWnCk ... re=related

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:39 am

gumper wrote:
captainmaniac wrote:Related to this, I have 2 favourites.

Similar to the Pershing, I have seen a Mangusta. 108' long. Surface drives. The guy who owns Second City comedy clubs (but really made his money from Bingo dabbers as I hear it!) used to keep his Mangusta in Port Dalhousie, near St. Catherines, Ontario. Watched him one day when he decided to go to Toronto for a coffee - about 40 miles away. As this monster left the dock it looked pretty cool. When they hit the throttles, all you could see from behind was a wall of water from the rooster tail. Awesome!

The second favourite : a boat called My Way that runs out of Gananoque Ontario (Thousand Islands). People familiar with the Thousand Islands probably know the boat, and Americans near Alexandria Bay NY probably know it too. Powered by twin Lycoming helicopter turbine engines coupled with surface drives, I think he has broken 200 mph. I have personally taken video of him from a mile away, throwing a rooster tail 50' in the air and at least 200' long. He almost died this year in a near crash (lost it coming off someone's wake), but the boat and its rooster tail - and its sound - are freaking awesome. Google 'my way boat'. You will find a bunch of hits.

The owner - Bill Tomlinson - has been doing this for many years and can handle the speed as well as any professional racer. I felt sick when I read about his crash this summer.
This is Bills other boat " Her Way" That must of been a sad day.

what in all that is holy happened here? did the gantry fall on the yacht? how does something like that even take place? was she a sunseeker or pershing?