the boat was built by a company called us marines (i Think) they are located in new orleans. the weigh is appprox 9000 lbs dry and my name is dave there are some pictures on the site.

I looked that boat over real good at the Smoke On The Water poker run this past June. What a great boat!!!

Classified, welcome to the OSO board. Give us some more details. Please!!! Your boat was my favorite of all the v-hulls at the run. You just have to like the big cats, but your v-hull is a great piece of hardware.

where's the pics at?

those boats are called socs special operation craft built by UNITED STATES MARINE here in new orleans worked there for a while. all kevlar, 1708, divinycell- weighed every boat and differed a pound or so between each hull. i belive they are on hull #88 or something, haven't been that way in a while. they also are building the roybovich spencer

sportfish hulls. i watched them pop the first one out the mold, awsome!! i think the v hull order with the gov is nearing the end i belive the contract was for 120. some of the first ones have been auctioned off. they actually drop every boat out of a plane . i remember they had built a prototype that was to cut through a wave the bow was like a wedge.it was the first 1 they built out of epoxy. needless to say they dropped that one out of a plane and when it hit the water the motors and drives kept going , right to the bottom of the atlantic ocean. cay you say "deessstroyed "

looks like this......

cockpit....

High Speed Boat

Length: 40 feet
Draft: 3 feet
Fuel: 400 gallons
Engines: 2 x 557 cubic inch displacement Innovation Marine gasoline
engines (580 hp per engine)
Drives: 2 x Mercruiser Super Speed Master Stern Drives
Beam: 9 feet
Disp: 14,6000 lbs. (+4,500 lbs. for payload)
Hull: Glass reinforced Vinylester Resin
Speed: 55 + knots
Range: 175 nautical miles
Fuel: MOGAS (88 octane or higher)
Endurance: primarily a single sortie craft
Refuel: any ship w/ 2.5" NATO fittings or any other size
pump nozzle
Ops: seas less than 10', winds less than 30 knots (guidelines only)
Accommodations: 3-man crew, 12 seats (for embarked, supported
passengers)
Weapons: 4 x M60 Machine Guns 1 x MK 19 40mm Grenade MG
1 x MK 5 Payro kit 1 x M79 Grenade Launcher
1 x 12 gauge shotgun 1 x 7.62mm Minigun

I believe this is the very boat that's featured in F&PB magazine.

Navy Seals Boat

Dave,

Someone said "maiden voyage"

You ran it at our event (SOTW) this summer

Did you change the power ????

This is one cool boat

If you like something different, Unusual,unique, and downright cool, This is the boat

you wont see 3 or 4 of these at any given poker run this boat is very unique

more pics we want more pics !!!!!!

thank you all for the compliments. I was at smoke on the water and was just dialing the boat in This summer i did take it from grand haven by trailer to Grosse Ile where it remains in dry rack storage Some additional pictures on Hotboat.com under classified. Check them out . Look under image center.