Porsche Design

It's an attractive boat and certainly hints at Porsche design elements, but as Lars eluded to on a previous thread... engaging reverse will make an instant submarine out of it. Again, very sharp styling... but the short, needlenose bow will likely produce a wet ride while running into a quartering sea with wind.

Add a silver Cayenne as a tow vehicle and you've got a real head-turner.

I found a "Yacht " from Porsche

Here it is.
And not too expensive only 249 € thats a bargain for a Ship like this.

The 27' Porsche...

Was built & rigged by Tempest Marine in North Miami Beach on 188th Street in 1985-86. They were a (another) take off of the 27' Magnum hull, via the Signature 27' mold. Porsche designed the deck & were only available in silver metallic. Only a couple, I believe, were ever manufactured. They were powered by the the all-aluminum Porsche 928 engine w/Tempest surface drives. An entertaining & very knowledgable British chap by the name of Mike Nicholson(who now lives in Canada) engineered the marinization of the engine & drive system. Or should I say tried to. If you would like a more detailed synopsis of this past creation, you can contact Mike at his now famous, "GeoGraphics Motorsports" offshore powerboat painting & design studio in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His website and address is: www.coolgrafix.net I'm sure I have forgotten a few details over the years. William lll

i have found an interesting link about the kineo:
Porsche Powerboat Kineo
For Sale: Complete project including all copyrights, design,
related drawings, production documents, body moulds…etc
so i can't imagine that someone is selling "officially"a kineo??

I remember seeing that advert too! the website no longer works though! But I thought the boats in the advert were a lot bigger 70ft or so does anyone else remember that?

http://www.boatlocator.com.au/for-sale/trailer/11719

Just came across this.

Porsche

I don't know about you, but as far as I'm concerned. Porsche build cars & sunglasses. Go for a Riva aquarama if you want a top of the range speedboat. Or Rive sunglasses. They might even throw in a Riva car!

F.A. Porsche Design boat

Hi, The current rights on the design are at Rinspeed, a swiss company.

http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/marine/marine_kineo_e.htm

They also built a cayenne version called Chopster. Just in case you are looking for something really special to tow the thing ;-)

See what they can build here.

The interior on that thing is disgusting!

It appears to be powered by the 928 S4 motor, as the intake and air filter assy, along with the cam covers all look identical to the S4. It could be the Cayenne motor, which is built along similar technology, but uses siamese cylinder walls to become more compact. Both use the silicon aluminum cylinder bores, which make them almost totally wear resistant. Great engines! I drive one to work every day.

The boat, however, is an enigma. It's not the first time Porsche strayed outside of what they do best. A designer thinks he/she can design anything, and they certainly can "style" anything. However, boat design is something that should not be "stylized" witout paying the dues for the engineering and functional design too. This boat is highly stylized, an in that regard will he a head turner, but I'd rather have a Donzi, Riva, or Fountain than a poseur any day. While this one will "look good", I seriously doubt if it will run with the Donzi, Fountain, or even a Riva when it comes time to stop looking pretty and get out in the salt and do the deed.

Dogsharks

Porsche Design is a design studio owned and operated by the same Porsche Automobile Company who builds the great road cars. They style things like sun glasses and coffee makers (for Bosch), etc. The engineering arm of this company provides consulting for companies such as Volvo, back when Volvo ventured into the 4-valve cylinder head (back in the mid 80's when they first produced their 740 16v motor).

Interesting to see they're doing boats too. Also interesting to know that even though they sell their engineering talent to others, they have their Cayenne transmissions built in Japan by Aisian. They're good transmissions, I understand, except for the fact that nobody in the US or UK or anywhere else is able to work on them, and if you have a problem you have to exchange the unit for one sent in by the factory. Ouch!

To answer the gentleman's question, is this the same company as the auto manufacturer, the answer is "yes" (it is their design studio).

Regards, Dogsharks

Porsche Yachts

www.fearlessyachts.com

The Porsche boat in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCIXMpPfzZE