Spider Boat? What the heck is a ‘Spider Boat’?
06 Nov 2006
What the Hades is that thing? 100 feet long and 50 feet wide. Powered by twin diesel engines. Inflatable catamaran pontoons.
Mr. Completely has more pics.
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Spider Boat? What the heck is a ‘Spider Boat’?
06 Nov 2006
What the Hades is that thing? 100 feet long and 50 feet wide. Powered by twin diesel engines. Inflatable catamaran pontoons.
Mr. Completely has more pics.
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November 6th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Cutty Sark, she ain’t. We must presume that there is some reason for it’s odd appearance, but I certainly can’t guess what it is. I bet it’s as unsinkable as a battleship though. We could mount the big 16′ guns on it…
November 6th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
I’ve got it. It’s for assisting Ted Kennedy from or to the Kennedy family yatch during vacation periods……..
November 6th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Looks to me like a great design for a mine sweeper.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:10 am
It certainly is the strangest boat I’ve ever seen! Thanks for the link! …… Mr. C.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:22 am
‘It’s for assisting Ted Kennedy from or to the Kennedy family yatch during vacation periods……..’ Maybe it has a special winch for pulling cars from the ocean by Chappaquidic.
November 7th, 2006 at 8:31 am
It looks like it would stratle a submarine and off load cruise missiles and supplies. Maybe it would actually be stationed in parts on a large mother ship then assembled and loaded out then move at high speed to meet up with a sub out at sea and then back to the mother ship. Wild Bill
November 7th, 2006 at 11:41 am
I am with James Either MINE SEEPER or SOF Stealth Insertion veichicle of some type if military if not military a cheap observation boat that could confortabley (stable catermaeran) take tourest to site then deflate legs to dip into the water to look through viewing holes in the bottom. Who knows it is definatley wierd. Kinda reminds me of a cheep copy of the Northrup Stealth Boat that looked like the F-117. You tear all that railing and useless corners off the ship and it would be pretty hard to spot on a radar.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
MO, You know I’m going to ask, so why don’t you find out beforehand whether the thing can fight in space?
November 7th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
GL: Well, the diesels won’t work in space, but if you just reverse the polarity you might be on to something…
November 7th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
Toejam I thought of that but could’nt remember how to spell Chappaquidic….. Seriously it has to be ’some’ kind of special cargo handler. I don’t think it’s for nuke boats though, if I remember they only do that inside controlled enviroments.
November 7th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Looks to me like somebody just built a giant mock up of a water strider.
November 25th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Mystery Spider Boat More photos and some info too. http://etsell.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=98460f4e09dbddbe5f17b261ef8c83b4&topic=6.msg13
September 7th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Spider-boat, spider-boat, does whatever a spider boat does… (sorry, couldn-