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Motorboat Monday: The Military Houseboats of the River Deben
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As people search ever harder for affordable housing it is hardly surprising that living on water is becoming more and more popular. Houseboats have been a thing for centuries, but as they increase in number they increase even more in variety from purpose built barges through to converted hulks. Generations of hulls have seen out…
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Motorboat Monday: Riding Superstar- An Ambition Realised in a Classic English Speedboat.
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I was eight years old and she was seventeen, and I’ve been besotted ever since I first saw her. I was on vacation with my parents in the West Country, it was a holiday romance that never happened and I’ve been returning every few years in the hope of seeing her again. She’s now 43…
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Motorboat Monday: Class A/B Sport Utility boat mixes fun, terror and awesomeness.
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We quite often start an article with a pre-ramble about what makes for a Hooniverse kind of vehicle and it’s generally accepted that anything goes, assuming it’s either exciting, beautiful, technically bewildering or soulful, or a mixture of all of the above. There’s also, though, a special place set aside for the gloriously insane or…
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Motorboat Monday: Boesch 510 Competition- Grumpy Back From The Dead
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The Classic Motor Boat Association stand was in a fairly remarkable location at the 2015 London Boat Show, standing directly in the shadow of towering white GRP edifices with million-quid price tags. Fairline yachts are generally accepted as Very Nice Indeed, the brand together with Sunseeker and Princess are seen by people like me as…
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Motorboat Monday: Inspired By Cars- The Moonfleet Aquilla
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Motorboat Monday is still a thing here in the Hooniverse. Always has been, always will. It seems to me fair to put it out there, though, that car people and boat people seem to be drifting farther and farther apart. Certainly, in Britain in the ’60s boating was far more the “everyman” activity than…
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Motorboat Monday: SEALEGS:- The Boat With Wheels.
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By now we all know the score with amphibious vehicles: to whit- duality of purpose usually means a massive compromise. The Amphicar, for example, was pretty wretched on the road and didn’t make a terribly good boat, either. The astonishing Gibbs Aquada was hugely better in every respect, but was also toweringly expensive. Though a…
