Spike, if the steering station is inside the cabin behind the windshield....it seems she is a wet ride at speed. How to keep all the sea spray from entering the cabin if you are keeping the door open for wench controls and adjusting steering auto pilot? Or is the autopilot verbotten (forbidden) on high speed runs like this? Can a husband wife deal with such a big kitty?
@timh11875 жыл бұрын
68 is such a big boat. Really like the 55.
@bclauss3 Жыл бұрын
Now that you should have a great time on
@trentbrady88293 жыл бұрын
That’s evil 🤟
@mosca32894 жыл бұрын
Gunboat provides beautiful film of the boat ripping and spume gloriously flying. And the comments complain it’s a wet boat. OMG it’s like complaining your Ferrari is too load at 9k rpm.
@pred79492 жыл бұрын
nah that's really not the same, your comment is a confession that you do not have much experience sailing or living on the water for extended periods of times.
@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus Жыл бұрын
@@pred7949 If you don't like all the flying spray, you can always reef. If that beautiful cat was bobbing along at 6 knots instead of smoking along at 20 I doubt the spray would be flying the length of the boat. That said, I think it's glorious. In a "dry" boat you can only go slow or slower. This beautiful cat is like having a fast car, you don't have to keep your foot to the floor all the time.
@alfreddaniels38172 жыл бұрын
With foresails this low over the “deck” and this much heeling how are you supposed to see around ? So when can you use those foresails ?
@eliottlombard46885 жыл бұрын
I am 16 right now but I will definitely be one of your future clients, especially for your gunboat 68😉
@spikeabram94165 жыл бұрын
Yes Eliott. You know where we are when you make it!
@eliottlombard46885 жыл бұрын
👍Are you from Gunboat?
@spikeabram94165 жыл бұрын
@@eliottlombard4688 yes! spike@gunboat.com
@robinhodgkinson5 жыл бұрын
You'll be wanting the foiling version then...
@eliottlombard46885 жыл бұрын
@@spikeabram9416 Okay cool! I am in an international school and I target HEC/EDHEC. I do regattas on hobie sixteens! It's the perfect boat! By the way, can you maneuver it alone if you are a good sailor or do you need a crew?
@ZoneTelevision5 жыл бұрын
A f*^kn men. 🙌🙌
@malgraham351 Жыл бұрын
Is that Slingshot
@ciderpress66565 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a good video. What speed did she reach?
@spikeabram94165 жыл бұрын
33 knots with the owner driving during seatrials.
@alansmith22034 жыл бұрын
@@spikeabram9416 I bet the owner had jizz in his pants. I know i would. I hate Gunboat pornography like this. I won't sleep for a week. Which bank to rob, what relative to kidnap...you know...the usual get rich/go to jail schemes.
@jamesaron19672 жыл бұрын
@@spikeabram9416 Is this a confirmed figure?
@pred79492 жыл бұрын
@@alansmith2203 ew
@alee52402 жыл бұрын
Gunboat !!!!
@aerospacenews5 жыл бұрын
Really buries the downwind hull in a breeze but what a boat!
@bizeigel4 жыл бұрын
yeah, no . hull gon get wet some
@jamesaron19672 жыл бұрын
Wave piercing bow design built for speed to limit climbing over waves and pitching.
@aerospacenews2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesaron1967 Oh ya, I understand. Just commenting on the drama when moving at speed.
@sviorek42765 жыл бұрын
Sailing her like that, what are the breakage costs?
@spikeabram94165 жыл бұрын
Because she is designed and built right =zero!! to date after 9000nm.
@Mahalo_835 жыл бұрын
Spike Abram how are you involved with Gunboat? You just seem to be answering all the comments.
@spikeabram94165 жыл бұрын
I worked as owners rep on the build and now work out of the Newport office-brokerage, service and technical to the fleet.
@00godlovesus5 жыл бұрын
Sexiest cat ever;)
@spikeabram94165 жыл бұрын
100% !!
@WILDFOTOPaulThomsen5 жыл бұрын
I'd say "Life is too short to sail a fast boat" but yah.. i'm a bit silly really.
@acemax11245 жыл бұрын
gunboat..…..?????? O.o
@forte25235 жыл бұрын
Having to have music on the vid because you can't hear anything in a carbon cat. I can just imagine the deafness when the hull slaps.
@spikeabram94165 жыл бұрын
Im not sure people want to hear the rotating helicopter blades vs music! Come sailing, I think you will be surprised (no helmets or earplugs required!)
@GUNBOATCATAMARANS5 жыл бұрын
The Gunboat 68 is built of foam core and has an inner liner with an air gap in-between, so the hulls are essentially double-glazed, keeping the inside extremely quiet! Thanks for the comment, now you can have your fast carbon cat without the noise!
@AquaMarine10004 жыл бұрын
Wet boat - poor bow design.
@mosca32894 жыл бұрын
It’s sailing 3x faster than any “dry” boat you could name.
@robertohaubold7524 жыл бұрын
It has wave-peircing bows. They're designed to drive the boat efficiently through the waves rather than scrubbing off all its speed with violent pitching motions. All displacement sailboats that can do these speeds are wet