[Gaz Posts: 2387 Status: Offline Cruising around Cornwall WWW]

...After they raise the thousands needed to put it back to a serviceable condition 
 
Good luck to them and I hope that it makes an enormous difference to there efforts to help others

[Alan Orchard Posts: 31 Status: Offline WWW]

It definitely was Hoveraid that acquired it. They sent out an email message to supporters asking for funds to be donated for them to be able to bid on the craft.
After their successful win Andy Mayo of Hoveraid issued the message "We are extremely grateful to everyone who donated or pledged support over the last 24 hours - we managed to secure the Griffon 375 for £10,100 and your pledges and donations totalled £10,233."
Good news, I think, that it will be put to very good work.   

[Gary Firth (Gazza) Posts: 3117 Status: Offline hovernerd WWW]

offered my pilot services.

[penfold Posts: 434 Status: Offline]

Good oh; if so it's going to do rather more worthy work than it would have in my hands.

[Russ Hudson Posts: 349 Status: Offline WWW]

£10.1k; anyone here owning up? If you want to hover commercially it's still a bargain even if it went beyond my budget.

By the looks of it (from Wouter's post) on Facebook it was Hoveraid that had the winning bid.

[penfold Posts: 434 Status: Offline]

£10.1k; anyone here owning up? If you want to hover commercially it's still a bargain even if it went beyond my budget.

[penfold Posts: 434 Status: Offline]

Well that's trotted beyond my 'fun stuff' budget; good luck to whoever's taking a punt on it.

[implanecrazy]

Very similar stats as the explorer

[Mustang Hovercraft]

Some basic specs & a picture of a 375TD in operation..


 

[Trev Posts: 1485 Status: Offline WWW]

so it is !!! ..must have a new seat and be 2 lots of pics taken at different times

[joncurtis Posts: 2078 Status: Offline]

how come in some of the pics, the seat cover is grey and in others its red?

[Kip]

Still well worth looking at.
 If it cost 10 Grand and you spent 10 Grand on fixing it up,
it would still be a viable commercial proposition.
 
 Kip

[penfold Posts: 434 Status: Offline]

Oh and i,m only going on the craft survey by Griffin

Could I have a copy of this? It'll be interesting reading and might give me an attack of sanity.

[Trev Posts: 1485 Status: Offline WWW]

Trev, are you going to Dundee for a look?

No I dont plan to Philip its a bit OTT for me, and still have to fix my Dinosaur 

[Bryan White Posts: 622 Status: Offline]

This craft was 75 grand new. So perhaps another perspective.
Buy a 20year old Porsche. Looks good but its only 3 grand. It drives and the wings are a bit rusty. Spend a hundred quid and patch them up..... Nice.
On closer inspection it blows out lots of blue smoke, has a noisy tappet, dosn,t go into top gear very well, window leaks, speedo dosn,t work, fuel gauge is faulty, exhaust blows, needs a new front tire, stone chip on the wind screen.
Get my drift.
Oh and i,m only going on the craft survey by Griffin