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Rosborough RF246

LOA: 25’0”

Beam: 8’6”

Draft: 2’0”

Weight: 5,400 lbs.

Power: (2) 90-hp outboards

Fuel: 115 gals.

Rob Russell didn’t get a youthful start in boating. He never owned a boat as a young man. Instead, his thing was flying.

“I’ve been a pilot and aircraft owner ever since my father taught me to fly in our 1941 Piper Cub J5 when I was 16 years old,” the 68-year-old, semi-retired forensic psychologist says. But after owning a handful of airplanes and logging thousands of flight hours crisscrossing the continent, he was looking for a

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