[gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 631 - Traveller TL8 Airboat

[Onno Meyer]

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  Onno Meyer, 2006-11-26

Kelso Starworks HydroSled v1.0 (GURPS Traveller TL8)
  Copyright 2006 by Onno Meyer

  With a boat hull, two retracting skids and a 200-kW prop engine, the 
Hydrosled is equally at home on snow, ice and shallow waters. It seats 
two passengers in the hull and one helmsman in front of the engine pod, 
where he can scan for underwater obstacles and channels through swamps 
or marches. 
  At a routine travel speed of 30 mph on snow and 11 knots over water, 
the engine burns 6 gallons of gasoline or diesel per hour. A full load 
of diesel is $60.

Subassemblies: Body +2, Pod +1, two retractable Skids -1. 
Powertrain: 200-kW aerial propeller; 200-kW turbocharged ceramic engine; 
  4,000-kWs advanced battery.
Fuel: 50 gallons diesel (fire 6).
Occ: XNCS, 2 XCS.   Cargo: 5 cf.

Armor     F    RL     B     T     U
Body:    2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2
Pod:     2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2   2/2
Skids:   3/5   3/5   3/5   3/5   3/5

Equipment:
  Body: 0.1-mile depth finder. Pod: Medium-range radio; crashweb. 

Statistics
Size: 12'x6'x8'   Payload: 1,000 lbs.   Lwt.: 2,000 lbs.
Volume: 100 cf    Maint.: 189 hours     Price: $11,160

HT: 10.   HPs: 47 Body, 19 pod, 3 each Skid

gSpeed: 80   gAccel: 10   gDecel: 5   gMR: 1   gSR: 3
Ground Pressure Low. 1/3 Off-Road Speed.

wSpeed: 35   wAccel: 5   wDecel: 10(12.5)   wMR: 0.5   wSR: 3
Draft 0.9'. Flotation rating 4,332 lbs.

Design Notes
  Body is 76 cf with mediocre lines. Pod is 24 cf. Skids are 3.8 cf. 
Structure is extra-light and standard . Armor is cheap and composite. 
Waterproofed. Self-sealing tank. Mechanical controls. 31.23 cf empty 
space in the body. Empty weight is 1,000 lbs.
  The vehicle uses the design rules from Vehicles [2nd edition, 3rd 
printing, Dec 2004 errata] and VXii (the armor volume rule) with the 
text format from Vehicles Lite. The Traveller rules affect the 
background but not the technology of this design.


Next Week: Not completely sure yet.