well it's about time

[mdm123]

it about time a boat forum was made,

so lets have it, what ya got.

i have a 18ft winner speed boat, 1979 with a 305 mercruiser

in the process of getting restored.

Edited by mdm123 on Monday 25th June 14:36

[tank slapper]

I don't have my own boat, but I spend loads of time sailing on a Leisure 27.

[weatherboard]

Not a power boat, but a 1959 Wooden Enterprise named "Little Nell" which have been sailing this season. Very good fun and a real blast in a blow.

By the way did anyone do the RTIR last Saturday?

We did it on a 31.7 Benateau, and had a real scream coming in around 190th. However got a DNQ for a collision with a Cat heading down to the needles (damm your eyes sir).

Will be back next year.

Jon

[ALawson]

Got a Westerly Oceanranger 38 foot, shes realatively slow but steady, kept in Ocean Village. Used most weekends of the summer to plunder the drinking holes of the solent, ie cowes, hamble, lymington. Every now and then Cherbourg, West Country and the Channel Islands are visited.

[kieranbennett]

Hobie 16 for playing
Hurricane 5.9 for racing

[Fittster]

weatherboard said:

By the way did anyone do the RTIR last Saturday?

We did it on a 31.7 Benateau, and had a real scream coming in around 190th. However got a DNQ for a collision with a Cat heading down to the needles (damm your eyes sir).

Will be back next year.

Jon

Had a fab day, think we were 590th.

[tomTVR]

Neither are owned by me but my dads which i use more than he does.

Bayliner 175 with 3.0 Mercruiser - now sold



Now have a Bombard Aerotec in grey with Yamaha 15hp - mostly we load it up with wine and beer and float it down the river in York stopping for more beer at the pubs.



Most serious boating we do in Poole or near St Austell in Cornwall

Edited by tomTVR on Monday 25th June 19:17

[toxic frog]

woohoo!

i've got a Rogers Whitbread 27 (bit like a Mumm 30).

i've now got a new home on the net!... as your resident pistonheads yachtbroker, i'll be here at your beck & call.

[Jubal]

Here's our plaything. Cobalt. 5L Volvo engine. Duoprop.

[tricky 100]

Had to sell my 17ft fletcher with mercury 200 O/B when the kids started to arrive , not safe for them apparantly . Now wondering if a Sea doo jet boat would be safe enough .

[Mahatma Bag]

Just sold my Laser (boo hoo).

Crewing on a cruiser-racer at the moment, doing Fastnet campaign.

[thewave]

Last year the family had one of these a P460 (although the pic is a P440 but they're the same other than the bathing platform.




Now we have one of these, for short fishing trips and the odd dash to Southwold for fish and chips.



The Princess was joint family owned, however, the splitting up of parents forced a sale. I am now saving for another one.....according to my calculations, I should have one by the time I am 47

[MOTORVATOR]

This for lazy days with a few beers



And this for when I want to do a bit of hooning

Edited by MOTORVATOR on Tuesday 26th June 19:03

[130R]

2007 Ribeye sports (6.6m) with a 150 hp Yamaha outboard

[Snoggledog]

Got 2 International 14's. Not being greedy am I?

[bga]

It's not mine, but my dad is halfway through a pilot cutter project:



That pic's pretty old as she's now back in the UK waiting for ballast, fit out & rigging.

Edited by bga on Tuesday 26th June 15:51

[jvaughan]

Last boat was years ago. These days, I drive my diving club's 6 Meter RIB.
Great for days out or getting wet in the chop and spray.

Need another boat soon though .. maybe a SIB or 21 ft Cuddy

[Mahatma Bag]

bga said:

It's not mine, but my dad is halfway through a pilot cutter project:



That pic's pretty old as she's now back in the UK waiting for ballast, fit out & rigging.

Edited by bga on Tuesday 26th June 15:51

Pilot cutters are my favourite type of boat!
Got any more pictures?

[bga]

Mahatma Bag said:

Pilot cutters are my favourite type of boat!
Got any more pictures?

I'll see what I can find, I have a nasty feeling they are on my other computer. I'll see if I can get my old man to email me some more recent pics.

She's based on Baroque but has had her lines tweaked a bit in line with what my dad wants. The frame, hull & decking were put together in Cochin & apparently the workmanship was excellent. She's now in a yard in Gloucester where there will be some more work done, I have been roped into shifting a few tonnes of ballast in a few weeks.

[Scooby_snax]

Well spent a few days running around the waters off Palma Mallorca in a Wally powerboat - the baby one just a cool £500k taking pix of boats like this
yours to charter for a cool €350,000 a week

Edited by Scooby_snax on Tuesday 26th June 21:54