Unusual Toyota Boat Feature?

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 09/29/2016 at 16:53 • Filed to: Boatlopnik

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Or par for the course. I want a Ponam, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! because its literally the Land Cruiser of the Water*, or...well...Water Cruiser. Now I don’t know what “Ponam” translates to but after seeing some of the features on the Larger Ponam 35, I wonder if it has anything to do with tentacles.

Look Japan, you can do whatever you want out at sea, I don’t want to know about it.

*The smaller 31 features a pair of 3.0 diesel’s from the Prado, the larger one features a pair of 4.5 liter V8 diesel’s from the 79 and 200 series.

vicali > HammerheadFistpunch 09/29/2016 at 16:56

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Better not have that and Party-Mode on at the same time..

HammerheadFistpunch > vicali 09/29/2016 at 16:57

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Party mode is never NOT on.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HammerheadFistpunch 09/29/2016 at 16:59

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See, if it just said SPNKr, I’d assume that was the button to activate the rocket launcher.

Rainbow > HammerheadFistpunch 09/29/2016 at 17:08

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What is a virtual anchor? Like, the boat just pretends that it can’t go anywhere?

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > HammerheadFistpunch 09/29/2016 at 17:09

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Cool tech here. I’d forgotten Yota had a marine division. Virtual spanker (sail) keeps the bow into the wind. Virtual anchor holds you in one spot against wind/current.

HammerheadFistpunch > Rainbow 09/29/2016 at 17:10

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Holds the boat on a defined GPS fix with thrusters and props.

HammerheadFistpunch > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/29/2016 at 17:11

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I knew there had to be a legit Nautical term for spanker

Rainbow > HammerheadFistpunch 09/29/2016 at 17:29

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Huh. Neat.

If it’s anything like my GPS, though, holding it still would mean spinning it in circles and occasionally shooting to the side.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > HammerheadFistpunch 09/29/2016 at 17:32

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From the description I found it uses the main engines only.

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > HammerheadFistpunch 09/29/2016 at 17:34

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You can imagine the hits I got when googling virtual spanker. Fetish sites, ftw!

HammerheadFistpunch > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom 09/29/2016 at 17:36

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.....and thats why I didn’t do it at work.

VCeXpedition > HammerheadFistpunch 09/29/2016 at 18:14

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That’s probably Akio Toyoda’s boat, his ‘code name’ as a race driver is Morizo.

Brings back memories of when Toyota tried to be in the boat business in the US with the Lexus 4.0L V8. Too bad we couldn’t find a good hull maker. Twin V8 diesel! Yes please.

In all my trips to Japan I’ve only ever seen a handful of cars towing boats. To be fair, I’m not near the coast but I would think there would be a few around if it was a real thing there. Mostly ocean-going boats there too I’d guess, not a lot of small fresh-water lakes around.

HammerheadFistpunch > VCeXpedition 09/29/2016 at 18:20

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Thats rad, Thanks! These boats are outrageously expensive, but they are so cool in my opinion. Neat to think that its his personal boat.

HammerheadFistpunch > VCeXpedition 09/29/2016 at 18:20

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Oh I remember the Epic line, and the marinized 1UZ, it wasn’t a well loved boat in its time, but it has a cult following now. Shame about the hull though, its all people seem to remember about it.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > HammerheadFistpunch 09/29/2016 at 19:41

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international waters FTW