If memory serves right, this is the last in a series of Legoland sets that didn't feature a minifigure with it.

That's alright as that lack of minifigure just opens the possibilities of what one can do with this set and how to use it in a larger scenario or to pull apart and use the pieces for other MOCs.

This set is very similar to Set 1069 (Black and Red Speedboat) but to me this looks to be the top-end model. Smooth white hull with a red band on the hull with white forepeak and deck complete with tinted blue sports-style windshield and small cockpit follow the same lines as the other set (1069) but this speedboat also features a large black and yellow outboard motor mounted on a tilting bracket on the transom. Also fitted to the transom are two small black and white antennae.

No minifig is supplied with this set, perhaps this indicates it could be a hire boat or perhaps on display outside a marina office for sale?

Again, this set can be used in many different ways, grouped together in a marina, as part of a speedboat hire fleet, as a tender to a larger boat or yacht, on a trailer behind a car it goes on … Again it’s simple yet so pleasing and can be the base of many future boats.

Designed to look sleek, modern and fast in the traditional Lego colour combo of red and white, this little set also has the appeal of a James Bond prop - minus a mini-fig that could have been James Bond himself! Which begs the question: "Mini-fig overboard?!"