Greatings from Sweden (+video) Dial up Beware

[MagnusL]

Hi everybody!

Still lot's of ice here in Sweden but in a few weeks we'll be in the water again! Until then I'd like to share some fun moments on the water from last summer:
http://members.chello.se/fjord...2.mpg

Luckily my Rude was the fastest, but the OptiMax-guy has spent a lot of time working on his hull finish this winter, and he also bought a new lift so there's a risk that he'll beat me once we're out on the water again.

Enjoy!

[Jason Phillips]

Now that is a cool video.

[lak100]

Magnus: thanks for sharing this, great clips, good angles and edits. Hope your 2006 is fun and safe.
Larry

[F150owner]

Thanks for the video!!

[RUSTY63]

Great Video!!!!!!!

Dial up beware, this will take some time to load.

[jimh]

Thanks for the link to that movie. The quality was excellent. The boat design is quite interesting, too.

[MagnusL]

Thanks everybody for the nice comments!

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jimh &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The boat design is quite interesting, too.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Fjordling 17 HT (hard-top) is a Norweigian boat built in the 60's and still very popular in Sweden. Replicas are being built today. It work's well as a family daycruiser in our climate that is a bit on the cold side. It's perfect to keep the kids under the roof and also two persons can sleep overnight under the hard-top.

The best thing though is a light and well designed hull with a 24 degree V-bottom and lifting strakes - which was quite innovative in the early 1960's! Design made by Jan Hermann Linge who has designed numerous motor and sail boats and also designed a famous motor-torpedo-boat, named NASTY, a fast patrol boat used by several NATO-navies.

The Fjordling 17 HT won many long distance races in Sweden in the 60's, often equipped with twin merc ( ) high-towers.

A few years ago a crazy guy modified the hull to 28 or 30 degrees and mounted a compressor V8 i/o. After taking the engine from Sweden to Florida and back for trimming and blueprinting he managed to reach about 82 knots!!! (thats about 94 mph! In a 17 ft family pleasure boat! )

Typical speed with a V6 smallblock outboard is around 50 knots. With the right setup you get close to 60 knots. A few guys uses bigblock V6 and can reach above 60 knots but the boat gets too stern heavy and driving performance suffers.

I'm running a 175 Ficht from 2000. Would love to switch to an E-tec 150 H.O. soon, but will have to wait before my wallet allows it.






Modified by MagnusL at 12:19 AM 4/5/2006

[MagnusL]

Here's a nice view of the hull of my friends boat. Photo taken at the same occasion as the movie shooting.



And here's a pic from 1966 with a twin-engine setup on a promotion tour by the swedish Fjordling agent (same agent as for the black things).



My boat, below, is from 1969. By then there was a new agent that was not on the dark side, so mine has been powered by Evinrude all the way, except a few years with a Johnson.




Ride on!





Modified by MagnusL at 12:21 AM 4/5/2006

[MagnusL]

Put the boat in the water sunday, first time this year. After five minutes, struck something (on deep water though!) that damaged prop and anti-ventilation plate. Gear oil coming out too...

Gear-case is now in the shop for repair, but it's the busy time of the year...

[Eagle670]

Magnus ! i have som other bad news for u, our buddy/w the black (and better enginge) beat our topspeed today we have to fix our boats and give him a match

//Peter

[MagnusL]

Cold water is fast water!!!

Blue will beat black when my gearcase is fixed!

[gadgettr1]

That's a great video and a nice looking boat. Would make a nice "sleeper" ride over here, no one would expect a boat that looks like that to run that fast. Keep the vids coming.

Chip

[rudetech1]

I can see right now that I need a trip to Sweden!!!!!

[Eagle670]

some of the highspeed section i of Magnus is taken from the ugly boat in my avatar that sleeper i capable of 55+ knot ( 64mph) and i have a house on it

[Stwal]

Peter the correct name should be Eaglebay 670

Stefan Walden
Nacka, Stockholm, Sweden

[cfieldbasser]

That's shaggin-a$$ for a houseboat!!
Dan

[Eagle670]

hi stefan! nice to see u on BBC, Eaglebay 670.... yes thats correct, but my boat was sold under the name Eagle a couple of years soo i take that name
any news about your 2006 175 E-tec yet??

[Stwal]

Hi Peter

No hasn’t talk to the dealer yet, I will call them on Tuesday since it closed on Monday.

Looks like the engine will arrive in late June, so I thinking of putting back my old engine.

So I can use the boat.

http://www.bbcboards.net...age=3

[jimh]

I just watched the video--for about the fifth time. It is great. Thanks for the information on the classic old boat. It sounds like the "Boston Whaler MONTAUK" of Sweden.

[Eagle670]

U now im' only 1,5 knots behind you and w/ my new speedrails on, u gona look in your mirror , for the big house pushed by the dark forses