Mark I PBRs Vietnam Era Gunboats

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History channel doing a special on the gunboats used in vietnam, these were very cool boats, extremely fast, could do a 180 in a phenomenal short distance/time, could maneuvre in very shallow water, wondering if they are still around, would make an awesome diveboat:) zeN
 
Id be interested only if they throw in a m-60. Other than that, no deal.
 
I'm pretty sure all of the MK1 boats went to the Vietnamese. There were a few MK2 boats that didn't get shipped. The one for sale was never fitted out.

I'd prefer something big enough to hold a 20mm. I can break a lot more stuff with that than a 7.62. A .50 would be considerably easier to get ammo for than a 20mm, though.
 
Don,

I was on Cape Cod, MA a fwe weeks back and there is a guy that has one all blakced out - all he need is a potato gun for the mount up front. Thing looks sick.

Eric
 
Yeah Don i saw that, it's pretty much just a hull, from reading about them they semed like very well made boats, suprised a few morearen't arond zeN
 
There are many of those hulls around.

It's a 31 foot Uniflite with obscene amounts of power sent to two jet drives. I'm sure some PBR engineer could tell you who made the pumps and engines.
 
One of the old timer treasure hunters in Sebastian, FL had a PRB which worked great for backing into the shallow water, anchoring to keep the boat in position, then he'd let that water blaster blow off the sand. It worked great. Unfortunently, one night the batteries in his boat died and the bilge pumps didn't work. Next morning the boat had sunk at the dock. Amazingly, after raising the boat, changing the oil, plugs and a new generator, it fired right up. Neat boat!~
 
Didn't a few of those go to Israel (until the Salinity of the redsea rotted the hulls) ?

I'm pretty sure I dived one off Coral beach in Eilat
 
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