If anyone has a copy of that Bandit Babe drawing, I would really like to have one as a keepsake. I was very impressed with his "Bandit Babe" logo, which he claimed was an original drawing by a friend. The Time Bandit and the Hillstrands are my favourite boat and crew on Deadliest Catch and I. He suggested the "Lawless" name to complement his Bandit line and I ran with it. Loved it Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2016. The existing Twin Disc 516 gears are rated for up to 800 HP. ![]() The engine beds were beefed up and some alignment issues dealt with. New engine installation was relatively straight forward as the KTA19 and the QSK19 have similar footprints. Johnathan Hillstrand writes about a day when the boat's motor quit. The starboard-side QSK19 installed in the Time Bandit. We were long distance friends and he offered me a lot of encouragement when we were getting the drive business started. Brothers Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand are captains of the Time Bandit on Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch. The base of operations for the fishing fleet is the Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The show follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons. I was very saddened when he, quite literally, totally and rather suddenly disappeared, not just from the boat scene but apparently also from Vancouver. Deadliest Catch is an American reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005. ![]() Dorrien told me that he and a group of investors tried to buy K&B when it went on the market, but were outbid. Thanks to Dorrien and Jerry, we now ship our drives to over 30 counttries in the world and they continue to be used to set world records on outboard tunnels. The first person to see one was Dorrien, who immediately sent it to Jerry Dunlap, who proceeded to review it in an issue of Outboard Modeler magazine. The Bandit 28 is a small tiller-steered pusher fan designed to clamp quickly to the transom of any boat. He suggested that our shop could use cad-cam and our machines to make something more durable, so we set about doing that and came up wiith our own 7,5 outboard drive. My young employee was quite unhappy with the K&B drive after he accidentaly broke the skeg off by dropping it on his carpeted floor. ![]() My association with Bandit Boats and Dorrien Thompson, the owner and boat maker, came about when an employee of mine bought a Bandit 7.5 Killer Tunnel in about 1995, which came with a K&B outboard.
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