Was there a knock off of this boat - TEMPEST XPE-27

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01-07-2014 | 04:42 PM

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More on the "Tempest" version here... http://www.tempestyachts.net/packs/xpe27.pdf

01-07-2014 | 04:43 PM

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78CIG - thats in MUCH better condition than the one I had found... It was in the "tempest" yellow color rather than the porsche silver.. I have the thing printed out somewhere will scan and share..

I have some pics of it here also, if I recall correctly Tempest built one copy of the Kineo 27 and pretty sure they built one more that was longer (30+??) and had Twin Porsche 928 V8s in it. I will see if I can dig up the pics of that.

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Dave

01-07-2014 | 04:45 PM

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Tempest 32 Sport... "The first porsche powered boat in the USA" based on what the video says... Nice looking boat!!

01-07-2014 | 04:48 PM

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Tempest 32 Sport... "The first porsche powered boat in the USA" based on what the video says... Nice looking boat!!

Yep, that was the longer one.

Here is a later pic of the Porsche/Kineo 27..

01-07-2014 | 04:56 PM

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I always thought the "flip out" swin platfrom was a great design...

01-07-2014 | 05:04 PM

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Dave,

The Porsche/Kineo boats with the 928 engine were Berkley style Jet boats. Pretty sure they were also made of Kevlar.

I have lots of different pics and info if anyone is interested. I also have a couple of friends that have some of the marine kits for the Porsche V8. One of them is using part of it for a retro tunnel boat project with a Porsche 16V V8 engine in it.

Cheers,

Dave

That is an American Turbine unit not a Berkeley in the picture. what boat is that?

01-07-2014 | 05:07 PM

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Yep, that was the longer one.

Here is a later pic of the Porsche/Kineo 27..

The boat is a bit too big for that Berkeley pump even if it has a AA impeller in it. Nice boat though!

01-07-2014 | 05:12 PM

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pretty high on the "gee-whiz" scale but that had to be a slug at a 28 foot single with three hundred hp and a Berkley. That tunnel should draw small crowd looks cool

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