SUNSEEKER MANHATTAN 74


Thank you to David Wilkinson for his article and photographs of his Sunseeker Manhattan 74

Please find attached photos of the model which was built from a Graupner kit of 1::20 scale Sunseeker Manhattan 74.

The Manhattan boat is still in Sunseeker's brochure however, Graupner have dropped it from there list of models.
Model Specification
Length =1280mm
Beam = 300mm
Draught = 55mm
Height = 400mm
 Displacement = 7.6kg
Top Speed = 20km/hr
The full size boat has twin water jets and bow thrusters the same as the model.

Power for the model:
Graupner twin Speed 700 BB Turbo Neodym 12 volt electric motors
Eleotronyze Fx 40 14xan [forward drive only]
Reverse buckets used to improve steering.
6 channel Futaba 2.4 GHz

The model took about 700 hours to build.
My present project is a Trent class Lifeboat 1::16 scale using a Model Slipway Kit and if anyone has built one then a few pointers would be helpful ?

Thanks and best regards
David Wilkinson