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Originally Posted by spartacus
It's going to have been meticulously kept.
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It's going to have been serviced and cleaned by the book. It's also going to have been started and run at WOT from cold EVERY time it's been used.
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Originally Posted by spartacus
Not cheap to run, but what a boat.
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Indeed. They eat those Detroit engines on a regular basis (or at least our local units do). When they're running, the boat does about 17kts at WOT burning a MASSIVE amount of fuel - I have no idea how much but refuelling conversations employ tons, not litres!
Inside they are cramped and noisy, there is no head or galley. They were originally designed to be self righting but after deployment it was discovered that they were only "mostly" self righting, and so a self righting bag was strapped to the rear compartment, rigged to a "Jesus!" button in the main wheelhouse.
As a rescue vessel - very good indeed although dated.
As a pleasure craft - nasty.
Sula
Still a hell of a boat,your own seagoing Tank 
