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    Friday
    Jul042014

    Bet you never saw a personal watercraft like this one before!

    It's from Strand Craft who has dubbed this beauty the V8 Wet Rod luxury personal watercraft. I've never owned a PWC, but this one is 16' long, which was the nearly the size of my first boat. And this one has more horsepower, 300 of 'em with a 5.7 liter V8 engine. The top speed is said to be 65 mph and it offers carbon fiber / epoxy construction. About the only thing that seems 'the same as' other PWC is that the propulsion system is a water jet. There's a waterproof luggage box (perhaps for bitcoins?) and an ice box under seat (for champagne and caviar maybe?). All that for a price that starts at just $49,000. You can run the tab up higher with a sound system, wood inlays, an engine chrome dress up kit and wood inlays. It's said to be out in the fall of this year, 2014. The fact that the video on the company website just shows what looks like 'artist conceptions' with no V8 Wet Rod in the water actually running, I think perhaps they're waiting for paid orders before they built them. That's my thought anyway. But they are slick and very James Bond-like, as you'll hear in the background music of their video presentation. 

    http://www.strandcraft.n.nu/supercars

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