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03 September 2009, 18:38
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Country: UK - England
Town: Fareham
Make: Avon Adventure
Length: 5m +
Engine: Merc 90
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Osprey viper
Hi, a guy down the road from me has just offered me his 1993 Osprey Viper 5.2m rib, it seems to be in good condition, has anyone had experience of this model?
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04 September 2009, 00:37
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: West Wales
Make: Vipermax 5.8, SR4.7
Length: 5m +
Engine: 150 Opti, F50EFi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Nice boat, designed for the 90s dive market, so usually fitted with a single jockey console. DM on here has had a few of them and rates them very highly, as do Pete7, Chris and many others. 
What motor does it have?
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04 September 2009, 07:44
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Country: UK - England
Town: Fareham
Make: Avon Adventure
Length: 5m +
Engine: Merc 90
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Originally Posted by Downhilldai
Nice boat, designed for the 90s dive market, so usually fitted with a single jockey console. DM on here has had a few of them and rates them very highly, as do Pete7, Chris and many others.
What motor does it have? |
It has a Suzuki 115, I am going to have a good look at it tonight
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04 September 2009, 08:03
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Country: UK - England
Town: Gloucestershire
Boat name: Osprey
Make: Osprey Vipermax
Length: 5m +
Engine: E-tec 300 G2
MMSI: TBC
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 4,021
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Great boat, it will go well with a 115 ! I got 40+ knots out of mine with a 115
The centre console is a good one although the standard place where the helm is fitted puts it a little low especially if you like standing at the helm when its choppy. It is fairly easy to get this moved and you can see what I did here...
http://rib.net/forum/showthread.php?...ny+boy+surgery
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04 September 2009, 09:44
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Country: UK - England
Town: Margate / Ramsgate
Boat name: Bumbl
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: Yanmar diesel
Join Date: Feb 2002
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they are a very good sea boat, i would have an osprey again anyday and in the real rough stuff, it would be my boat of choice.
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04 September 2009, 10:06
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Country: UK - England
Town: Bromsgrove
Boat name: Kick-Ass !
Make: PAC/Artic 22
Length: 6m +
Engine: 250hp Yamaha
Join Date: Nov 2003
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as every one else says, excellent boat would be confident going out in any weather and feel secure with one,
as opposed to many others i have helmed
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04 September 2009, 18:43
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Country: UK - England
Town: Fareham
Make: Avon Adventure
Length: 5m +
Engine: Merc 90
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This is the boat, it looks tidy for its age and comes with alot of extras, my local outboard man is going to give the engine a check over, he is going to let me have the rib for £3500
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04 September 2009, 19:13
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Country: UK - England
Town: Cornwall
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Martin
That's much better value than the Ribtec. If the engine's good grab it!
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04 September 2009, 21:08
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Country: UK - England
Town: Fareham
Make: Avon Adventure
Length: 5m +
Engine: Merc 90
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kernow
Martin
That's much better value than the Ribtec. If the engine's good grab it! |
The engine did start first time and sounded ok but my local outboard man is going to check it out in the week, he know alot about the problems and the electrical quirks with the suzuki's, it has a 1991 DT115
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06 September 2009, 22:47
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Country: UK - Wales
Make: Osprey
Length: 7m +
Engine: outboard
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Ospey Viper
The Viper is a great boat, brought mine in 1994 and still have it, it is as good as the day we collected it!
It was once described as 'very big small boat' and I think I know what they meant!
I have the original report from Diver Magazine printed in 1993 where Colin Jones raved about it. I can post if allowed to?
Anyone know what happened to the Osprey Owners Association?
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07 September 2009, 00:28
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Country: UK - England
Town: Fareham
Make: Avon Adventure
Length: 5m +
Engine: Merc 90
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Originally Posted by Viper
The Viper is a great boat, brought mine in 1994 and still have it, it is as good as the day we collected it!
It was once described as 'very big small boat' and I think I know what they meant!
I have the original report from Diver Magazine printed in 1993 where Colin Jones raved about it. I can post if allowed to?
Anyone know what happened to the Osprey Owners Association?
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When did they start to make the Viper? it would be good if you do have that magazine review
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01 December 2009, 13:25
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Country: UK - England
Town: Gosport
Boat name: April Lass
Make: Moody 31
Length: 9m +
Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 4,951
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Quote:
Originally Posted by martin33100
When did they start to make the Viper? it would be good if you do have that magazine review
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Martin, Viper hull number 1 was Oct 1992.
Now that Osprey you want to look at, did it have a combined bottle rack and seat so if you removed the seat you could use the frame to store dive bottles? Engine used plastic cups rather than a key? black HD non slip deck. Mattery master switch on starboard side of console? Cheap b/w eagle echo sounder and probably eagle or Ultra GPS? Fuel tank 20 gallons/90 litres?
Elephants trunk fitting has been repaired with 6" x 70mm of grey plastic drain pipe to hold the trunk on?
Pete
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21 January 2010, 00:25
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Country: UK - England
Town: north west
Length: no boat
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 10
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Viper
The Viper is a great boat, brought mine in 1994 and still have it, it is as good as the day we collected it!
It was once described as 'very big small boat' and I think I know what they meant!
I have the original report from Diver Magazine printed in 1993 where Colin Jones raved about it. I can post if allowed to?
Anyone know what happened to the Osprey Owners Association?
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hey viper could you let me have a look at that post from colin cheers The wolf
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