On 15 Mar 2007 18:11:57 -0700, "Tim" wrote:

On Mar 15, 4:40 pm, Fredo wrote:
Did you see the fast boat busted ferrying drugs across the English Channel

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/drug-runner-boat.shtml

It has 8 250hp Yamahammers on the back.

Fredo

" ... Given the lack of any collaborating evidence, it seems
reasonable to conclude that, although the boat shown in the photograph
may well have been used to smuggle drugs, the description of the drug
bust included in the message may be false or inaccurate. ..."

I would have to agree with the disclaimer in the article.

1) I don't see how a craft like that could avoid becoming airborne at
a high speed, Especially such a high speed that it would be a "Blur"
on a RN Coast Guard radar.

To be a blur on radar would require speeds significatly higher than 8
250 horse Yamahas are going to produce.

4) The boat builders being arrested for selling a boat to a drug
kingpin?

I don't know if you remember this, but back during the Iranian Hostage
Crisis, the Iranian "navy" harrassed shipping in the Straights of
Hormuz with gun boats that looked suspiciously like 24 foot Mako
center consoles powered by engines that looked suspiciously like
Mercury 250 horse outboards.

Of course nobody ever admitted it.

I looked at that photo and have to wonder if it's been Photoshopped. I
have my suspicions about short shaft outboards being very effective in
terms of speed on that boat.