{"id":189,"date":"2014-10-29T10:17:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bugatti-trust.co.uk\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2022-02-28T10:13:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T10:13:15","slug":"bugatti-boats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/trains-boats-planes\/bugatti-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugatti Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"189\" class=\"elementor elementor-189\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-23b6a663 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"23b6a663\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4be9cfaa\" data-id=\"4be9cfaa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d186eca elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d186eca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Bugatti Boats<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30fee354 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"30fee354\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span class=\"bmSubhead\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/boat-3.jpg\" alt=\"Bugatti Boat\" width=\"402\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/boat-3.jpg 402w, http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/boat-3-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>In the 1920s to cross the Atlantic usually took at least 5 days. The age of safe, long distance flying was far in the future. Ettore Bugatti conceived an idea for an exclusive high-powered 8-passenger boat that would be able to cross from France to America in 50 hours.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This was an extraordinarily ambitious proposal, which in fact was never realised. The design was for a very narrow fully enclosed hull powered by six 15 litre, 8-cylinder petrol engines with a total output of 2400 horsepower.<\/p>\n<p>This boat design incorporated a submarine like conning tower and ventilation\/exhaust snorkels and was designed to be \u2018semi-submersible\u2019. The depth was to be controlled by hydrovanes so that, at speed, it could simply pass through large waves and be relatively unaffected by bad weather and high seas!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/boat-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/boat-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bugatti Boat\" width=\"382\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/boat-1.jpg 382w, http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/boat-1-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a>With modern applications this type of stabilisation is commonplace but whether such a system could have been made to function with the control technology available to Bugatti in 1925 is open to question.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, of course, the need for this type of transatlantic passenger carrier was superseded by the development of air travel but from the perspective of 1925 the ideas must have seemed relevant and exciting.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bugatti Boats In the 1920s to cross the Atlantic usually took at least 5 days. The age of safe, long distance flying was far in the future. Ettore Bugatti conceived an idea for an exclusive high-powered 8-passenger boat that would be able to cross from France to America in 50 hours.&nbsp; This was an extraordinarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":39,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7167,"href":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions\/7167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vsinternet.co.uk\/bf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}