Recent content by Dave_Snelson

I have many happy memories of my 1986 Windy 8800 moored at Porthmadog. The fun part was deliberately taking the boat out in high winds and rough seas with gun metal skies - its what it did best! Quite a few of the yotties in the local club would like to come along for the ride! It was a basic...

That is simply superb. If I was in boat sales, I would be off down the model shop to buy one. What a great way to show a boat off to a prospective buyer. You say it will range a 1000M, I reckon it would do more, not that you need the range to be that far! Like you, I fly models; fixed wing at...

So what was your harbour like this Christmas?

l Lovely boat. I bought one years ago with a view to use it on Windermere. In my ownership, it never saw water as shortly after, our first child was born! Booger! ;)

Well then Dave, restorations are big interest generators here on the MoBo forum; you won't be short on watchers or contributors. I do hope you will drop in regularly with photos and updates on your Sims. PS - it'll go like sh*t off a stick with an 80 Yam on the back!!

Me too!

a Well I don't think the Cobra looks awful but I am with you on the Sunseeker, it also seems to have a more useful cuddy. The cuddy on the Cobra (I've been on board the one I was looking at) has two sideways on bucket seats with seat belts (goodness knows why anyone would want to be below...

A very beautiful machine indeed.

Wow - you have a fab boat, good luck with the restoration. I remember well the stir that Sims made when they launched the Super V. It was the must have boat of the day and it's styling has held up well. The package for the new one with 50 Tohatsu is good at just north of £11k. Can you tell I'm...

Yeah, y'know people knock Bayliner unfairly in my opinion. Out of the millions of boats they have ever made, there are bound to be some ugly ones or poor in design, but on the whole they are good. There is a fact about Bayliner and it goes like this "Bayliner have put more people new to boating...

I'm with you on the small speedboat thoughts. There is a saying that goes something like "the enjoyment of a boat is in inverse proportion to its size" and I guess that applies to dinghies as well. I've seen many a happy face on a mirror dinghy in Portmadog estuary. Probably a little bit large...

Maybe about right as a head sea almost always means a head wind as well. Mind you, on the other hand, in nice calm weather, I'm tempted (more than tempted) to "open her up", so my fuel consumption rockets ;)

In the harbour "Go dead slow, look like a pro. Go too quick, look like a d**k" Anytime "There's always plenty of work to be done on a boat" "There's no such thing as enemies at sea" In rough seas "It ain't the big green wave in front of you that's the problem, its the dark green trough behind...

Well do you remember in Porthmadog there was a "Brown Eyed Girl" as well? When CI is restored, she will be cruising in the north sea - Buckden on Ouse, IIRC.

There is a new user on this forum goes by the name of "Coney Island 8800". He sent me a PM regarding my old Windy 8800 which was called Coney Island. This chap (I assume it's a he not a she) has bought my old Windy and is restoring it from top to bottom. I wish him well with the project as...