Volga Hydrofoils Messageboard

Hi Georg, No so bbaddddd news here..... just been a hell of a lot of other work the last time. There were even NO Volgas on water here last year, even if there are several just to launch. This is unforgivable, yes I know it. But something new has been done, a completly new Nevka. Only original, is t...

Hi Georg, Just a short comment to the price of restauration of my Volga 2000. The wood work will take for two men about 6 -7 weeks, which means around 500 h. Price / h 30- 35 € .... so we end up far over 15k€ for work only. material 2-3 k€ and we are up over 20 k€ for that. Seats, engine ,gear and o...

Hi Maurits, The boat on your build-plan has rounded sides at stern, I have one of them, the Bresnev Volga, with normal Volvo. This my last boat has flat sides and the layout is different. It is built in Batoumi 1984 with original Volvo turbo 130 hp. As far as I know there was only built 10 boats of ...

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Anybody seen this type of Volga? Built -84 with original Volvo turbo engine and flat sides at stern.
Just arriwed here from the Black Sea.

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Hi, About the weight and materials, we use ordinary mahogany and teak. The deck material is about 9 mm thick, and when sanded and finished about 8 mm. Epoxy we use on the mahogany about 5 kg. Teak will be only oiled or left grey. Mahogany is at first darkened with brown coloured betz.Then epoxy one ...

Hi, Showing here some pictures of one of the Volgas under restauration at the moment, our project called Volga 2000. This is a hull from 1984 in very good condition. After soda blasting, the aluminium hull looks like new at outside. At the moment we do the wood work, deck seats, hatches and so on. T...

Hi, About the protection of aluminium hull, in our area we use in saltwater magnesium on the aluminium, and zink on the stainless. This seems to work pretty good.Without the magnesium the corrosion is big, there will be big craters within some years. I have some experience from my bigger vessel 17 m...

Hello, If spares needed for different GAZ engines, I may have something on stock, or then get them from Russia rather fast. Regarding Nevka, I do not belive ZF can offer any replacement for this from any standard series. See enclosed picture of drive. It is a "High tec" russian design of a...

Hi everybody, Just got a new Volga into my fleet. The seller said it has been used by Leonid Bresnev when he had his summer palace at Black Sea.It had a nawy register in begunning, so it could be right. The boat is in reasonable good condition due to stored mostly inside. The boat has original hard ...

Hello sandflite, Yes y are right about engine, there are no new marine engines GAZ 53 for sale, but the price is about 2000 usd at the cheapest dealer. For that price I cannot overhaul an engine to like new, when taking in acount that this price include a complete engine with starter, carbutator etc...

Hi everybody, Summer has gone fast an been very busy, but something has happened on my Volga restauration. At the first I have 2 Volga 70, of 6, on water and one NEVKA which I sailed from Petersburg one mounth ago. So now the hydrofoil fleet has grown to 7 vessels. Nevka is bigger, 11m long with epo...

I have been driving Volgas since 2001, when i pulled the first one from Petersburg to Finland. Now I have 6 boats which will be restaureted during the next few years. One boat is with 6-cyl russian side valve engine, the other with v-8 gaz 53. Will come back later on with pictures. Learn More: Repli...