best rough water boat

**pantera1** · 04-26-2003, 09:58 PM

Id have to say this thing goes pretty good in the chop..

**Terminal Velocity** · 04-28-2003, 09:35 AM

Nothin' smashes the rough stuff quite like an Apache! Great Pic!

**PIT BULL** · 04-28-2003, 08:49 PM

In the rough you want to be level, like this.

**mr.clean** · 04-29-2003, 06:31 AM

i think you would have to say apache makes a pretty good cat as well.

**Cookee** · 04-29-2003, 12:54 PM

Over in the UK we race offshore in up to Force 7 occasionally and reguarly in force 4 to 5 - The boat below was built by us in the UK. I am the driver and the photo below was also captured on video and we estimate that we travelled in excess of 35 feet.

The boat is called a BananaShark, is 24' long, and is powered by a merc XR2 - 200HP V6 2.0 litre.

We compete in National European and World Championships against hard boats, and are currently ranked fourth in the World.

I would be confident of taking on any boat I know in rough conditions - with the 150 Litre bow tank filled she goes upwind very well indeed!

**PIT BULL** · 04-29-2003, 09:06 PM

Billy, Thirsday about 5:30 am to PA. You comin???

**lyle** · 04-29-2003, 11:05 PM

nice pic of drambiue look for barcidi silver 188 mph same throtle man as drambiue my vote apach 47 triple 1000 nice ride at 100 mph in 5to6' seas and affordable boat was a 32' sunshine it handled 18' seas pretty well

**Cookee** · 05-01-2003, 04:06 AM

Pit Bull - how many do you want - I make them!

Click on the little www at the bottom and check out the website - new one coming soon though - it's last years!

**pantera1** · 05-01-2003, 02:56 PM

Whats the advantage of having the inflatable sponsons down the sides.. Weight , stability, both ???? Nice looking boats

**Cookee** · 05-03-2003, 04:05 AM

Pantera - it's just the design. The tubes actually weigh very little. When it gets a bit out of shape and it lands on the side a bit, they bounce us back straight again though!

**PIT BULL** · 05-03-2003, 07:30 AM

If the price is right. How much is a hull ready to rig?

**Cookee** · 05-05-2003, 06:31 AM

Pit Bull - We couldn't do 20! They are one at a time raceboats built to stand up to racing hard in english waters - to give you an idea, we have destroyed 3 lifters on these boats - 1 only lasted about an hour. All of these were sold as ok for much more HP than we are running - and ok for racing!

To answer your question, a bare hull complete with tubes (sponsons) would be about 17,500 english pounds plus shipping. If you wanted to race it or run offshore with it I would recomend a bow tank which we can fit for you. We are only a 2 man outfit running 2 raceboats and doing a plug for a leisure boat - all at the same time! so time can be a little short!

There are only 2 of these boats in existance so far, but we are currently placed 4th in the world Championships, and have won National and European races, so the boat isn't a dog!

Email address is on the (last years and soon to be updated) website: www.bananasharkracing.com

**PIT BULL** · 05-05-2003, 09:17 AM

How much in American??

**Cookee** · 05-05-2003, 10:22 AM

That would be about $28,000 depending on the rate at the time plus shipping. Probably sounds expensive, but there is a lot of work in them and the tubes (sponsons) are $3,200 a pair!