[PCW] Sea Sled

[info at eastcapemarine.com]

>From further investigation, It turns out the vessel I saw was an inverted V 
designed by Hinkman. It was called "Model 28" built by Sea Sled in 1928.
It was by all accounts quite a good performing boat back in her day. They 
mention that they were to labour intensive to build. The Model 28 came with 
200 hp in a sedan top, and sold for $8,500 USD.  I heard the Hinkman was 
playing with Surface drives around this time, and this cat may have been 
fitted with them. The performance of the engines and drives still pushed the 
inverted V hull over 30 knots. Considering the weight of the timber planking 
they used back then, and more so the weight of the engines, I think they did 
a pretty good job to do over 30knots with 200hp in 1928.

Regards, Noah Thompson
www.eastcapemarine.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georgs Kolesnikovs" <georgs at powercatamaranworld.com>
To: "Power Catamaran List" <power-catamaran at lists.samurai.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 2:52 AM
Subject: Re: [PCW] Sea Sled


> >I have an issue of " Motorboat" national trade journal dated June
>>1928. On the first page is an advert from "Sea Sled" and in the
>>advert is a power catamaran about 30 feet long doing about 30 knots
>>over some waves. Simply amazing.
>
> Is Sea Sled a catamaran or an inverted V?
>
> There's a lot of conflicting information posted on the Web:
> http://tinyurl.com/yopk34
>
> --Georgs
> -- 
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