{"id":22012,"date":"2012-02-11T22:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=22012"},"modified":"2016-05-02T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:05:36","slug":"fpb-97-the-wicked-one-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fpb-97-the-wicked-one-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"FPB 97 – The Wicked One Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe 83ft-long (25m) wave-piercer\u2026could easily be mistaken for the spawn of the Royal Navy with its unpainted battleship grey, all-aluminum body. But that day, in those conditions, it was the only boat that I would have wanted to climb aboard to face the English Channel.\u201d <\/em>
\n\u2013Motor Boat & Yachting<\/em><\/p>\n

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The sun has set, the chimes have struck, we dally no longer. The FPB 97, the Wicked One, stands revealed.<\/p>\n

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It comes across the waters bearing gifts: comfort, speed, great strength, and agility with which to wend its way. Those singing its song leap for joy with their good tidings.<\/p>\n

The FPB 97 follows the path blazed by its forebearers, Wind Horse, Avatar, Sarah Sarah, Iron Lady and Osprey,<\/em> combining their strengths into an entity destined to cross oceans in a manner unlike any other: easily, with but a small band of people, leaving the lightest of trails behind.<\/p>\n

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As a direct descendant of those mighty ketches of cruising lore,\u00a0Sundeer<\/em> and Beowulf, <\/em> with\u00a0a history stretching three decades into the dim past, <\/em>know that this one, as was the wont of those that went before, is destined to break new ground.<\/p>\n

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Tonight, the fires grow dim, the singers weary. But before we depart you shall be regaled with numbers, preliminary though they may be.<\/p>\n

Length on deck – 97.5′ \/ 29.9m<\/p>\n

Length waterline – 94′ \/ 28..8m<\/p>\n

Beam on deck – 20.4′ \/ 6.26m<\/p>\n

Extreme beam to outside of belting (rub rails) 21.33′ \/ 6.5m<\/p>\n

Displacement full load – 135,000 pounds \/ 60,000kg<\/p>\n

Draft full load – five feet \/ 1.5m<\/p>\n

Cruising speed – 11.7 knots<\/p>\n

Range (approximate) – 5000+ nautical miles<\/p>\n

Top speed – 13.5 knots<\/p>\n

Fuel Capacity – 5000 US gallons \/ 18,900 L<\/p>\n

Fresh water capacity – 2000 U gallons \/ 7570L<\/p>\n

Air draft (excluding whips) – 31.5′ \/ 9.65m<\/p>\n

In days\u00a0to come much more will be revealed, and all shall stand in awe at the miracles this Wicked new FPB 97 can work.<\/p>\n

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Should your pulse quicken, your breath catch, your need be insatiable, contact Sue Grant (Sue.Grant@Berthon.Co.UK.) and she will impart what must be known to join with us in the series of FPB 97s.<\/p>\n

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