Recent content by bazobeleza

Yup, at 2800 rpm ford lehman 140hp in a flat sea with a clean bottom, Nauticat themselves give fuel consumption figs up to 13knots, never done that though. Optimum fuel v speed for Beleza seems to be 9.5 knots. When I brought her down to portugal non stop, liverpool to Lagos, she motorsailed...

I've spent my life sailing, starting of with a kayak on the canal as kid, through sailing dinghies, to a half tonner racing around the irish sea. I now have a Nauticat motorsailer, I've had her for ten years, the best decision I ever made, she's roomy, the size of a small house in fact, she...

Poppycock! Enter the breakwater at Portimao go up the river and pick up a mooring at Ferragudo on the starboard bank of the river, there are a few good restaurants there and they have a tin can type catarmaran that that will take you ashore if you give them a shout, or use your dinghy and tie...

I travelled via Calais to Portugal and was hauled in by Customs?? anyway they asked if I'd got any knives> yes I said a whole load of chefs knifes for the boat,under all that stuff in the back of he Landrover. Oh, Ok then. The conversation then turned to my two dogs who were travelling with...

No! Still stuck here sorting the bloody will out:mad::mad:grrrrrr Hopefully heading out on the 24th. Go on, enjoy yourself! I'll get my turn:D:D:D Knicki sez get some fags for her:D:D:D

Has anybody any experience of this company, delivery times etc? I'm about to venture into a new anchor purchase and they are very competitive.

I'm with Graham on this, make covers, I have a 7 yr old suzamar from new,6 years in the algarve and is a sticky unpleasant mess. I wish I'd made covers for it when new, but I'm going to get a wavline like Grahams and then nick his covers, they real are superb:D:D:D:D

another point in favour of a Mobo would be the fact that if you were buying in the uk and you travelled to he med via the canals, you would gain valuable experience in boat handling in a relatively safe environment and due to the low speeds on the canals your fuel bill is likely to be much...

A semi planing Trader 50' mobo I helped deliver used a tenners worth of diesel every mile at 14 knots. Ouch! and that was five years ago. My Nauticat 44 motorsails at 10 knots and 4 litres an hour. I find her a good compromise between the sail/mobo conundrum. I sail when I can for nothing but a...

Rather than assign 'unashamed' blame to Greece, first look at the moneylenders who were responsible (in the sense of cause and effect) for creating the debt, and who's only remedy is for Greece to take on even more debt. Classic loan-shark tactics. +1

I won't fit any cos my raggie genes tell me my boat is beautiful enough already. a bit like if your gf has 40D's paying for implants is a bit overkill, Just think Jordan:D

I could not agree more. It also teaches the kids the true relationship between burger on the bun and the cow in the field. Priceless in this supermarket age. I find the kids like to catch fish, but its me that despatches and cleans and cooks them. Other things to amuse myself on board...

I wasn't superstitious till a mate rebuilt his Norton Comeandgo, changed the colour from blue to green, first time out he totalled it, rebuilt it again still green, we stood back admiring the newly rebuilt bike, and watched as it burst into flames.:eek: He rebuilt for a third time, this time blue.:D

My boats had a huge variety of names over her thirty two year life from Lady Babs, through Zygosis to finally the name she had when I bought her 'Beleza' Portugese for Beauty and she certainly is, aren't all our boats? So lazyness and superstition made me keep the name.:)

Cheers, it was me reading the table incorrectly, I mistook the width of the births as the lengths up to.:o:o:o:D Now swmbo definitely wants to pay a visit