Smart Boat

Unless the exchange rate has really gone to hell, the MSRP over here is $12,000.

http://www.cardata.com/smart_car_showroom.htm

and I very much want one

 

Journalis says:

"cette coque à déplacement, doté d'un V très marqué, à la particularité de ne pas déjauger, la carène n'ayant pas obligé de doubler sa vague pour éviter le slamming"

which translated English, might be:

"this displacement hull, with a very pronounced V, has the particularity to be a not planing hull, it did not have to double its wave to avoid slamming"

 

Pretty boat.

 

5 years have passed since the OP, and the link http://www.smartboat.fr is dead now.
Guess it tells something about the faith of the boat too.

 

Smart Boats are not every boats, they have been designed by the prestigious French VPLP Architects Firm (Van Peteghem - Lauriot Prevost) www.vplp.fr, also known to have designed maxi multihulls for high sea racing, boats multi awarded also...
Unfortunately, The company of Smart Boat was too small with no suffisent solid financial, suffered the shortcomings of its Turkish subcontractor in a first time (near to bankruptcy) and moved production to a factory in Poland, but it was not enough to face the international crisis in 2011-12.

February 2015, I have been in contact with Hedy Kardous, Founder and Director of SmartBoat, he told me he were expected a resumption of his company by professional investors...


On the picture, Hedy Kardous, Founder and Director of SmartBoat

Here is a nice Video for those who don't know the SmartBoat 23:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUijw6HnJY

 

Thanks for that info, HB. I guess quite a few members have lived this or a similar story in the recent unfortunate years.
So I wish Mr. Hedy Kardous good luck and hope that we shall see again his (and many others') nice boats around in the years to come.
Cheers

 

Heh ... one of my observations about the Smart Car, in light of the many potholes and expansions joints in American Roads, is that with that short wheel base, small wheels and apparently stiff suspension (IIRC) that it's drivers may need back braces the way that old time chopper riders often do now.

Maybe that's part of how they justify "Smart Boat"?

 

Oooh ... I did not notice the necroposting! Thanks for the heads up.

 

SmartBoat-23 Specifications

For those interested to know more about the SmartBoat 23, please check here after her specifications:

SPECIFICATIONS
Length overall 6.99m
Waterline overall 6.99m
Overall beam 2.55m
Depth 0.70m
Hull draft 0.40m
Motor draft 0.80m
Vertical clearance 1.50m
Weight without motor 820 kg
Engine 1
Optimal horsepower 115 hp
Maximum horsepower 200 hp
Fuel tank 135 litres (30 gallons)
Fresh water tank 50 litres (11 gallons)
Ballast volume 300 litres (66 gallons)
Crew cat C/9 - D/11
Beds 2
Architect VPLP

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzSxSzDvdE8