What is this boat please

[MissMax]

 

 

Is this just a one off or are there lots like this? Looks like a cross between a wide beam and a hovercraft

 

Edited July 19, 2016 by MissMax

[junior]

FUGLY.

[W+T]

looks french.

[valrene9600]

Where did the internal video come from. Is there no information at the video source.

[MissMax]

I subscribed to the 'Boatshedboats' channel on YT. It just says 'Unkown'

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/boatshedboats

Edited July 19, 2016 by MissMax

[matty40s]

It's one of the top floor penthouse flats of a building in Paddington basin blown off last winter in the gales. It landed on a CRT work flat and the family have not been rescued yet. They keep thinking they are safe and then the CRT boat does its usual steering thing and flummoxed everyone.

[Nickhlx]

Looks like a hydrofoil of some sort - with a big engine !

[nbfiresprite]

The boatbuilders mistake!

[WotEver]

Are those internal walls unfinished OSB? What an odd choice of material for a fit-out.

[Nickhlx]

Maybe its a prop for some boatbuilding project - e.g. " Build a boat in a week" - or something that's been thrown together to blow up in a film ?

[Suzie_q]

Maybe its a prop for some boatbuilding project - e.g. " Build a boat in a week" - or something that's been thrown together to blow up in a film ?

So Mr Bond. You have discovered my escape pod. For this you will have to die........

[WotEver]

For this you will have to die........

... very slowly...

... by a very complex method...

... after I have left the room...

[johnmoly]

Seen something very similar in Florida.

[MankySteve]

Are those internal walls unfinished OSB? What an odd choice of material for a fit-out.

Its all the trend thanks to a house that 100k built

[WotEver]

Its all the trend thanks to a house that 100k built

Yuk

[MtB]

It's very worrying.

 

Only my immaculate internet manners prevent me from saying that boat looks like a skip, only less attractive.

 

So I won't.

[AMModels]

Im thinking American, the pylons in the back look similar to those across Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana.

[Texasboater]

Im thinking American, the pylons in the back look similar to those across Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana.

Probably a home build. Not glitzy enough for an American houseboat builder........Anyway, the fridge is waaay to small! and Beko is a European brand, not very prominent here.

[frangar]

That's a beautiful boat with amazing lines when you compare it to most "fat" Narrowboats....

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[pquinn]

Why is it that wide beams are often refered to as ''fat'' boats on here in a vaguely sneering and derogatory fashion, outside the fact that it is childish it always smacks of snobbery with a liberal dose of envy thrown in.

And dont bother with the ''because they are fat boats'' disingenuous rubbish, you know what i mean..

[Athy]

Why is it that wide beams are often refered to as ''fat'' boats on here in a vaguely sneering and derogatory fashion, outside the fact that it is childish it always smacks of snobbery with a liberal dose of envy thrown in.

And dont bother with the ''because they are fat boats'' disingenuous rubbish, you know what i mean..

Why, pray, should one not bother with "because they are fat boats", when that is obviously the principal reason for the use of that phrase? It is generally not employed to describe boats which were built to be broad and handsome, such as Dutch barges or péniches; it is specifically used top refer to the paradoxically-named "widebeam narrowboats" which do look like narrowboats which should have kept a check on their diets. How about, "because they are like narrowboats, but fatter"?

[pquinn]

Why, pray, should one not bother with "because they are fat boats", when that is obviously the principal reason for the use of that phrase? It is generally not employed to describe boats which were built to be broad and handsome, such as Dutch barges or péniches; it is specifically used top refer to the paradoxically-named "widebeam narrowboats" which do look like narrowboats which should have kept a check on their diets. How about, "because they are like narrowboats, but fatter"?

Yeah right.

[Athy]

Yeah right.

I'm pleased that we now agree.

[spadefoot]

An awful lot of them do look like fatboats. Especially the ones with very curved roofs and short front decks. Almost as if someone inflated a narrowboat with a high pressure air line.

[RLWP]

An awful lot of them do look like fatboats. Especially the ones with very curved roofs and short front decks. Almost as if someone inflated a narrowboat with a high pressure air line.

 

Pretty inevitable really. Making what is a narrowboat front to back and top to bottom, but twice as wide is always going to look a little odd. There are other solutions to this problem that don't try to look like a narrowboat

 

Richard