Detective work Needed

I am new and Yes on the sponge from a forum.

But if i can help please ask I have been a french polisher for over 30 Years so finishing wood is my thing



Can you help me identify this Jet boat

All i can say it has a P P jet Drive

it is 14 feet long

it was RED

had a 1300cc Ford cross flow car engine in it and its in the UK











and Yes my Boss and i are totally restoring it


Sorry if this is in the wrong place Admin people

 

I like it, looks like fun. more pics please.

 

You have a Windermere registration number on it. Ring them --they must have the make in the registration application.

Ive seen the boat before, I can't recall what it is, when I read the post I thought it was a going to be a Datline bikini but they use a Granada V6 with PP,-- yet you have twin exhaust on the transom --or did have. It may have been re engined!!.

It could be a 'Seafire' or 'Star craft'

 

yes it did have Twin exhausts and 1 was blanked off so you could be onto something ..

Big thanks anyway ill pop up more pictures up as we go .

we spent 1 whole day striping her to bits . boss has got a new 1600cc cross-flow with twin webbers , he is a black smith and never dose anything by 1/2, i take pictures and do the rubbing and "OPS" bits .

 

my first thought was a dateline bikini too, had one, but think it was a bit bigger and without the indent in the stern
sure is fun but even restored the boat is to small for open water; at wot you go real wet, been there done that
inland waters just about all have speedlimits and even back in topnotch condition this boat wont be a money maker

 

Thanks yipster. Yes omen water a no no . This is just a bit of fun and money is not the game . It's what my boss has been after . Hense the 86 year old right hand drive model T in the back groun.

I'll keep pluging away . Thanks for the replies people

 

I looked it up in my UK slang dictionary which goes from spondulicks to spoof and from on the scrounge to on the take without telling me what on the sponge means.

Picton speed boats come in 14, 15 and 16' lengths, maybe it's of that persuasion...

 

"to Sponge = Soak up all your thoughts and Knowledge "

a few more pics My lover



And this is me ok

 

Where I come from on the sponge is closely related to on the scrounge and often picking the brains is a lead into getting ones hands onto the hoarded collection-
Spotted that old rag top in the photo, was suspecting it might have been an Essex.--Geo.

A yacht is not defined by the vessel but by the care and love of her owner

 

"to sponge" is also "to bludge" borrow with no thought or intention of returning. Living on the goodwill of others "go an get a job ya bludger"

 

Sponge means to aquire for free, as in can I sponge a beer. Im not a sponger I buy me own beer.

Or,-- do you want a beer --no thanks Im not a sponger. Or--is that beer going for free im not a sponger but i'lle drink it.

Or --Ive no money today lads , im on the sponge --get the beers in then.

 

Ok iv found out now its a SIMMS SUPER V .

I could have just said nothing like 90% of people that use forums but I thought is be straight with you .

 

Yes yes thats it. 100% sure.

 

Crikie-- me bitter mug is empty again and me Super V is acting up --could ye give me an and ere---

 

Vell, Ve haff vays...