OSO member C-Spray has a 28' boat of this design. Perhaps he will chime in, or PM him.

like Sydwayz said. do a search for user member C_Spray or batboat and you should find lots of info.



http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...hlight=BATBOAT

What would speeds be a 500 hp engine? What is the beam? Just wondering.

There was another OSO member with a 500EFI on the west coast. Tom A. is his name I thought.

Maybe he'll chime in.

The wings have a surface effect lift. one ran in A- class , years ago and dominated, then they outlawed the boat for that class. one use to run P-4 as well, and if he didnt have mechical problems did fairly well.

I was lucky enough to ride along in a poker run with C-Spray in his B-28. I'll try to answer the questions I know the answers to.

1) Docking wasn't too bad. He uses a very large ball type of fender places just in front of the wing to keep the wing away from the dock. And he uses a special fender that is made to slide over a swim platform for the wing. Chuck (C-SPray) makes docking and tying up look simple.

2) The wings on his boat are EXTREMELY sturdy. His is also a true Ocke Manerfelt design (Kevlar) Sturdiness depends on construction.

3) Chuck's boat doesn't have an easy way to get out of the water but I think I saw one advertised about two years ago which had a custom swim platform.

As for the wings I would have to say I believe they do create lift. The boat rides very light yet straight and safe feeling. On the occasion we caught air it did settle back in without a harsh back breaking landing.

I will try to scan in some pictures I have on film from the poker run. Here are a few off chucks web site. Check it out. There are multiple pages of pictures.


http://beta.communities.msn.ca/Power...at.msnw?Page=1

Here are a few I scanned in. Hopefully the quality is okay.