anyone wanna go fishing
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anyone wanna go fishing
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Don't know if any of you have come across this story:
A 2,000 HP, Outboard Inflatable - not your typical trolling fishing boat.
It allegedly zapped across the English channel three times per week and was just a blur on the radar of the British coast guard and needed a specialized chopper to catch it
And when they caught it discovered on board 300 kg's. of pure cocaine!
That was three years ago when Richard Davison, the managing director of Crompton Marine, and his girlfriend, Ellen George, were arrested after Spanish authorities conducted an anti-drug smuggling investigation.
The operation seized a number of boats sold by the company and reported them to British customs officials. The two were suspected of using Crompton Marine as a front for supplying high-speed inflatable boats to illegal drug merchants, advertising them as "high-speed, uncatchable craft that have a low radar signature."
After the couple's arrest, a third party, Ian Rush, allegedly carried on their underground boat trade under the name Nautexco Marine and was also arrested. Evidence presented during Rush's trial this month indicated that Davison and George (and later, Rush) were making secret deals for boats like the one pictured here: craft between 30 ft. and60 ft. long, costing as much as £350,000 ($680,000 US), and featuring up to eight 250-horsepower engines (with a total fuel storage capacity of 15,000 litres) which enabled them to outrun pursuers at speeds up 60 knots. The craft were designed with low profiles (to avoid radar detection) and were painted grey or black to make them difficult to spot on the water.
Watch this space... too late - it's gone....
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/att...-drugboat1.jpg
Don't know if any of you have come across this story:
A 2,000 HP, Outboard Inflatable - not your typical trolling fishing boat.
It allegedly zapped across the English channel three times per week and was just a blur on the radar of the British coast guard and needed a specialized chopper to catch it
And when they caught it discovered on board 300 kg's. of pure cocaine!
That was three years ago when Richard Davison, the managing director of Crompton Marine, and his girlfriend, Ellen George, were arrested after Spanish authorities conducted an anti-drug smuggling investigation.
The operation seized a number of boats sold by the company and reported them to British customs officials. The two were suspected of using Crompton Marine as a front for supplying high-speed inflatable boats to illegal drug merchants, advertising them as "high-speed, uncatchable craft that have a low radar signature."
After the couple's arrest, a third party, Ian Rush, allegedly carried on their underground boat trade under the name Nautexco Marine and was also arrested. Evidence presented during Rush's trial this month indicated that Davison and George (and later, Rush) were making secret deals for boats like the one pictured here: craft between 30 ft. and60 ft. long, costing as much as £350,000 ($680,000 US), and featuring up to eight 250-horsepower engines (with a total fuel storage capacity of 15,000 litres) which enabled them to outrun pursuers at speeds up 60 knots. The craft were designed with low profiles (to avoid radar detection) and were painted grey or black to make them difficult to spot on the water.
Watch this space... too late - it's gone....
#4
Re: anyone wanna go fishing
I can honestly say I would be scared as hell driving that thing all out. We came up with a idea once (a little high and a little intoxicated) to build small unmanned subs that work off gps to smuggle drugs. Seemed workable, but as with many dreams it went up in smoke
#5
Re: anyone wanna go fishing
Originally Posted by doug684
I can honestly say I would be scared as hell driving that thing all out. We came up with a idea once (a little high and a little intoxicated) to build small unmanned subs that work off gps to smuggle drugs. Seemed workable, but as with many dreams it went up in smoke
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