HSL102

Restoration of HSL 102

FILMING IN THE SOLENT

CMHT were asked by Mr. P. Clabburn to crew RAF 206 (the RAF Craft associated with T.E.Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). The vessel to provide facilities fo the Film Crew for high speed filming of the Star of the film, HSL 102. We left Buckler's Hard at dawn click here stopped off at Cowes for fuelling, thence to Gun Wharf Quays at Portsmouth to meet up with the film crew.

We moored in front of the Star and swapped boats taking her to sea with the film makers to put her through an hour of manoeuvres at full speed, we were then joined by the other craft when a further two hours were spent flying around the Solent at break-neck speed. click here

The film crew were a charming bunch, none more so than there Narrator, who turned out to be the Star of the TV series Red Dwarf.

HSL 102 and RAF 206 will provide the viewer with an historical perspective on the change of design to powerboats before the second world war and the large part played in it by these two craft. It has been said that all modern powerboat, even the plastic variety seen throughout the world, owe their shape, their speed and their stability, to these boats.

The film to be shown in mid February 2010.