{"id":17130,"date":"2022-11-27T14:53:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T13:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/?p=17130"},"modified":"2025-08-20T19:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:16:14","slug":"thunderstorm-costas-paracos-impressive-rib-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/thunderstorm-costas-paracos-impressive-rib-built\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm &#8211; Costas Paracos&#8217; Impressive RIB Built"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4wL2QPC1q_U\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What a Cool Name: Thunderstorm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/ribsonly2.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RIBs ONLY Facebook group<\/a> member Costas Paracos, shared in a video the story of his home-built RIB, Thunderstorm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building your own RIB is quite a challenge. The images show the different stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vented RIB has a 200 hp Mercury Optimax outboard and reaches speeds in excess of 60 knots. It&#8217;s fuel economy is 0.7 &#8211; 0.8l \/ NM at cruise speeds with light load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dimensions are: length 6 m, width 2.27 m, weight 650 kg (without engine, battery, equipment, liquids etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations Costas for doing such a great job!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This video was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ribsonlydotcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the <strong>RIBs ONLY<\/strong> YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interested in more DIY projects? <a href=\"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/category\/diy\/\">Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a Cool Name: Thunderstorm In the RIBs ONLY Facebook group member Costas Paracos, shared in a video the story of his home-built RIB, Thunderstorm. Building your own RIB is quite a challenge. The images show the different stages. The vented RIB has a 200 hp Mercury Optimax outboard and reaches speeds in excess of 60 knots. It&#8217;s fuel economy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,66,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mercury","category-how-to","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ribsonly.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}