Yellow-decked offshore race boat

A long offshore boat coming at the camera with its bow clear of the water, a pale yellow deck over a dark green hull and a maroon swoosh across the flank. There is a word in script on the flank under the cockpit, and it does not resolve.

An offshore boat under power, close enough that it fills the crop: the bow at the right, lifted clear of the water, and the stern running out of the left side into the spray. The deck is pale yellow, and along the sheer runs a thin blue pinstripe with a narrow yellow-green band under it. Below that the hull is a deep green that reads almost black where the light does not catch it, and a broad maroon swoosh sweeps down across the flank from the sheer by the cockpit, dividing the yellow aft quarter from the dark bow.

Two people are in the cockpit behind a low wraparound screen. The one on the left is wearing sunglasses; the one on the right is turned away. A small pale oval fitting, perhaps a vent, sits on the dark flank just under the sheer.

On the yellow flank below the cockpit, aft of the swoosh, there is a word in maroon script with a flourish underlining it. Its lower-case letters are just tall enough for this site to read, and they still do not separate: the script is joined and slanted, and the spray along the hull covers its start, so the strokes run into one another on the true pixel grid at six times as at one. We do not guess at it. Whether it is a model name, an owner’s name or a sponsor, the frame does not say.

How to recognise it

• Long offshore hull with the bow lifted clear of the water
• Pale yellow deck over a deep green hull
• A thin blue pinstripe along the sheer, with a narrow yellow-green band under it
• A broad maroon swoosh down the flank, yellow aft of it and dark green ahead of it
• Low wraparound screen with two people behind it
• A word in maroon script with an underlining flourish on the flank under the cockpit, joined and unread

The frame it comes from

The frame is Trailer 1 at 0:23.27. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 760 by 345 of it. Also in it: the container port and BTN Delmar.

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 word on the flank. It is there and its letters do not separate. Whether it is a model name, an owner’s name or a sponsor is open.
• The whole stern. Engines, drives and transom are all out of this shot, and on a boat of this type that is where the class is decided.
• Whether this is the same boat as any other go-fast on this site. Nothing here settles it.
• Everything measured: top speed, handling, where it spawns