http://videos2view.net/PT658.htm

Now that's a boat.

Very cool story http://www.savetheptboatinc.com/

Here is their want list off the site

Wanted List
1. 37mm automatic gun M4,M9 or M10(aircraft).

2. Mark 31 Torpedo Director.

3. (14) 10 inch USN brown bakelite 3 way divided plates.

4. Farnsworth USN BN IFF transmitter unit.

5. Donation for new roll up main door for boat house (~$8,000).

6. (5)Kidde brass&copper fire extinguishers WW2 vintage (CO2 type - 5 pound)

7. New/used gun safe for rifles ... etc.

8. (2) M1919A4 de-mil 30 cal Browning machine guns

9. 5.5 KW 24V Auxiliary Electric Generator (Cole Electric Products)

My 47' was made by the same company ELCO, they started making electric boat in 1896 and still do today. The PT boats ran 80mph and used 160gal of fuel an hour
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There's some Sutphen affiliation there as well, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Launch_Company

I'm raising the BS flag on that one.

This is very close to correct
If I remember correctly the PT boats were based on Huckins Quadrasonic hull design which was accepted by the Navy and was farmed out to Huckins Yachts, Elco, and Higgins???
Huckins only built a couple of dozen and many hundreds were built by the other two.
They had 3 turbo'd aircraft V12's at 1200hp and increased in power as the war aged in the end when they were running upper 70's and used like 450-500 gph
The nickname was candlesticks as they were made of wood and carried a lot of very high octane av-gas and munitions.
I know a guy who's the hugest fan of these as he has a completely restored Huckins sportfisher with the same hull design, she'll come on plane at less than 10 mph. He told me all about the similarities of his and the PT boats
His boat is nearly 70 years old and is wicked quick for the age and the weight.
There have been several big HP diesel sportfishers he's embarressed running through Galveston Bay using 2 stock 330hp
454's

Glenncal thanks for the link, that was very cool!!!

See ya,
Kelly

I just googled pt boats and this is an awesome link
Wish I had time to read it all now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT_boat

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq60-5.htm

41knots design speed = 47mph

I never knew that, if its the same family, that is really cool. I met Richie Sutphen at a race back in 1998 or 99. He found out I was a Funeral Director and he said that his family had built wooden caskets back in the day... He was a nice guy to talk to!!

Incredible. What a great loto boat.

They had 3 Packard V 12's Supercharged designated the 4M-2500. They actually displaced 2490 cubic inches. The PT boat was based off of a Vosper designed hull (British) that was then modified. The original trials were called "the Plywood Derbies", Huckins and Elco built them in Louisiana and I think Alabama. There was a third builder too.

The saddest part is they BURNED most of them at the end of the war....