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    LICENCE TO THRILL

    Nov 12, 2021 6 minutes
    WORDS STEFFAN MEYRIC HUGHES
    PHOTOS JOE MCCARTHY

    Can you swim? This way please… mind the step.” Sean Connery is perfectly gentlemanly to his unwanted passenger, right up to the moment he stands him on the gunwale of the Fairey Huntress he has commandeered and pushes him into the sea. “Just isn’t your day, is it?” he mutters as he pushes the man overboard. With extra fuel tanks on board, he and Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) decide to push on from Istria for Venice. However, the evil organisation SPECTRE has lined up a fleet of larger Fairey motorboats with bazooka-bearing baddies to intercept him, among them a number of Huntsman 28s, they defining model of the Fairey powerboat range.

    THE FAIREY TALE

    The 28 is, according to Charles Lawrence, author of the Fairey bible Fairey – , “the perfect archetype of the British offshore powerboat… a family cruiser, which also happened to do very well competing against purpose-built racing boats in the Golden Age of British powerboating from 1960 to 1974.” A total of around 600 motorboats were

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