Pascoe SY10 PRICE £378,534 TOP SPEED 61 knots 0-40 KNOTS 8.2 seconds
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hink about what you can get done in 30 seconds. Fire off a quick email? Clean your glasses? Change a lightbulb? In the same time that it might take you to do those
things the Pascoe SY10 has gone from a standing start to 61 knots. Zero to 31 metres per second in the time that it takes you to put a shirt on in the morning. This is a staggeringly quick boat, there are
some fast boats in this test but this is on the edge, teeth gritted, palms sweating raceboat fast. If you are doing 30 knots and fl oor the throttles it will take you 2.3 seconds until you’re doing 40 knots and then, scarily enough, it still has 20 knots left in the tank. The boat feels alive in your
have no real perception of speed. This is like driving a Ferrari, you need to know what you’re doing to get the best out if it.” As the boat began to hop from chine to
chine as we reached 60 knots I could see what he meant. It’s then that you realise that the gulf between driving a boat well at 40 knots and driving a boat well at 60 knots is vast. The upshot is that this boat is so quick and capable that cruising at 50 knots is perfectly achievable. It’s exceptionally expensive but you
hands, it responds to every minor adjustment and you can feel every ripple of the water’s surface charging up and down your spine. You feel plugged into the machine, the seat pods force you close to the dash, the steering wheel is thrust into your chest and the throttles are placed high on the dash but just in the right place to give you maximum control. It’s visceral and heart pumping, the water
chatters away beneath the Ocke Mannerfelt racing hull as you carve over it with no perceptible change in ride harshness no matter what the size of the waves. As racing legend and company founder
Mark Pasoce put it: “Some fast boats are like driving a fast Bentley, it feels safe and you
fast – it whips from 30 to 40 knots in 2.3 seconds, and has 20 knots left in the tank
Staggeringly
can feel the work that’s gone into it. The mouldings are works of art, the Silvertex upholstery is gorgeous and each pop-up cleat is £400 a piece. That eye-watering price does also include superyacht requirements like an electric folding A-frame and there’s more AV power on it than in your local branch of Dixons. For absolute speed demons
who want to taste fast RIB racing at its best, this is the
stallion for you. This boat is not here to be tamed but learn how to drive it properly and you’ll have some of the best heart-leaping- out-of-your-chest fun you can have on the water. It also clearly has a home as a superyacht tender being luxurious bow to stern, remarkably fast fun on the water and every inch the über glamorous stead. The Pascoe SY10 demonstrates just how
far the humble RIB has come. It’s bonkers money, it’s frighteningly fast and it’s one of the most excessive boats I’ve ever been on but it’s utterly, utterly brilliant. Jack Haines
A lesson in helm ergonomics: throttles are perfectly placed for maximum control
THE DATA SPECIFICATIONS
LENGTH 32ft 8in (10.0m) BEAM 9ft 4in (2.85m)
DRAUGHT 3ft 3in (1m)
WEIGHT 2,750kg
FUEL CAPACITY 480 litres
ENGINES Twin Mercury Verado SCi 350hp
MAX SPEED ON TEST 61 knots
0-30 KNOTS 5.9 sec 0-40KNOTS 8.2 sec
PRICE FROM £336,600 inc VAT (twin Mercury Verado SCi 350hp)
PRICE AS TESTED £378,534 inc VAT
CONTACT Pascoe International. Tel: +44 (0)1489 564588 Web: www.
pascoeinternational.com
Impeccably fi nished and searingly fast
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