Wooden-deck speedboat

A speedboat from directly above and slightly astern in Trailer 2: a planked timber foredeck, two seats, a screen on the dash, someone at the helm and a figure behind the seats with a long gun pointing astern.

The camera is directly above the boat and slightly astern, which gives an unusually complete look at a deck layout. The foredeck is planked in timber running fore and aft, with a flush hatch set into it and a fitting near the stem; a row of small chrome deck fittings runs along both gunwales.

The cockpit is open. A black dash carries a rectangular screen in the centre with round instruments to its right and a switch panel to its left. Two pale bucket seats stand side by side, and in the starboard one someone with short reddish hair and a dark top sits at the helm, an arm up at the dash. In the gap behind the seats a figure with long reddish hair, a dark top and pale trousers holds a long gun raised to the shoulder, its muzzle pointing astern; until 26 September this page had that figure leaning back across the aft bench. Two grey panels close off the aft deck, and the deck behind them is planked in timber to match the bow.

Wake spreads from both quarters, white and gold in the light. A police helicopter is off to the right in the same frame, and the blur of its rotor blade crosses the top of this crop; whether it is after the boat, a single frame cannot say.

How to recognise it

• Planked timber foredeck with a flush hatch and a bow fitting
• Aft deck with two large grey panels and planking behind them
• Open cockpit, two pale bucket seats, someone in the starboard seat
• A figure behind the seats with a long gun pointing astern
• Rectangular screen in the centre of the dash with round instruments to its right
• Chrome deck fittings along both gunwales

The frame it comes from

The frame is Trailer 2 at 2:27.30. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 806 by 1231 of it. Also in it: Vice-Dale County and a police helicopter.

How this was measured

These figures come from the dataset, not from the prose above. We measure everything and claim what counts. How we work

What we still do not know

• The name, and the manufacturer
• Whether the timber is real planking or a finish over moulded deck
• Who is aboard, and whether the helicopter is after the boat
• Everything measured: top speed, handling, price, where it spawns