This is a weekly posting with GURPS vehicles (and the like) to the GURPSnet mailing list. I grant the permission for all non-commercial redistribution of my work, but I would like to know if you put it on a website or the like. With a slight delay, old vehicles appear at http://omeyer.gmxhome.de/GURPSnet_files/summary.html Onno Meyer, 2005-12-19
Speedboat GF82 "Waveskimmer" v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL5/TL8) Copyright 2005 by Onno Meyer Dinomn (1912 Spinward Marches) has a major starport, but most ships are just refueling on their way to or from Regina. In the undeveloped hinterland, the farmers and herders make do with 'locally sustainable technology' and a few black-box imports. The Waveskimmer is owned and crewed by a man called Eneri Smith, who earns his living with small delivery jobs between the downport and the Gilligan Falls area. The boat has a wooden hull and a small, imported outboard engine. She may look battered, but the surprisingly powerful engine can bring her up to 30 knots. The boat can carry Mr. Smith and five passengers, or an equivalent amount of cargo stacked between the plain benches. There is no enclosed cargo hold. At routine travel speeds, the engine burns 1.2 gallons of diesel or 1.44 gallons of alcohol per hour. A full tank is $4.8. The boat costs approx. 520 Imperial Credits. Subassemblies: Body +3, Pod +0. Powertrain: TL8 40-kW hydrojet [Pod]; TL8 40-kW ceramic engine [Pod]; TL8 2,000-kWs advanced battery. Fuel: 20 gallons diesel (fire 10). Occ: XNCS, 5 XNS. Armor F RL B T U Body: 2/2 2/2 2/2 0/0 2/2 Pod: 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 3/5 Equipment Body: TL8 medium radio. Statistics Size: 18'x5'x4' Payload: 1,320 lbs. Lwt.: 2,500 lbs. Volume: 124 cf Maint.: 278 hours Price: $5,172 HT: 9. HPs: 56 Body, 12 Pod wSpeed: 35 wAccel: 6 wDecel: 2(5) wMR: 0.1 wSR: 4 Draft 1'. Flotation 3.42 tons. Design Notes Body is 120 cf. Pod is 4 cf. Body structure is TL5, extra-light, standard, with mediocre hydrodynamics. Pod structure is TL8, light, standard. Body armor is TL5 standard wood. Pod armor is TL8 standard composite. Waterproofed. Fuel tank is TL5. Mechanical controls. There are 11.03 cf of empty space. Empty weight is 1,180 lbs. The vehicle uses TL5 and TL8 components with the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd printing, Dec 2004 errata], VXi and VXii (including the armor volume) with the text format from Vehicles Lite. Next Week: A TL9 cavalry vehicle by Gareth. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
