2nd July...the date fixed for del of my new Boat

[bigmoose]

i just couldnt keep me gob shut any longer and the waiting is now killing me ....
2nd july is the fixed and absolutely non changeable date that i have been giving by sunseeker for the del of my new manhattan 56

basic spec
owners cabin amidship
2 x cat 3406e
blue hull
and all the other bits that one usually has

i must thank thank all the people who advised in my last thread and must say i have met a few very nice people(you know who you are)

and also as with the good folks there will always be the bitter souls who try and make life more complicated than it needs to be
(you know who you lot are)

anyway those of you who would be in the area (poole )on 2nd are most certainly invited to come up and see us ..

few things i would like yr advise on ...
1. echopilot...was planning to have one fitted before the boat returns to the water ...is it worth having? any particular problems?

2. i will be keeping the boat in poole for abt 8 to 10 weeks before i take her away to goa ...i dont plan to sleep much on the boat so have been looking for an apt as a standby for that time in poole ..anybody know of any leads in this dept ....all help will be much appreciated ...all favours will be returned using cold beer

3. as i have no certificated qualification...i have contacted a few people with regard to the day skipper course leading to coastal ...anybody have any input on this maybe from past experience ...yr comments will be much appreciated

am trying to post a pic of the boat from the seatrial ..somebdy pls help if its not here ...

hope to meet more of you all then
my best to all as always
chetan timblo





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[boatless]

Re: apartment.

Give me some exact dates, and I'll 'phone a friend...

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[stefan]

Congratulations! You have three long weeks ahead but then!
As to Echopilot I have had Echopilot Gold for two seasons. Works fine except for the repeater on the fly that turns black and unreadable as soon as there is some sun. However Susan Phillips of Echopilot informed me that they have a new LCD available that works in daylight and I returned my repeater to them last week to change screen. - So see to that your fly repeater gets the daylight screen when ordering.
Unfortunately I cannot tell you about the performance of the new screen yet but I hope the information given by Echopilot is accurate.

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[tcm]

hi

I am not at all sure you will find an appartment quite as nice as your boat! Why not stay on board?

Regards training, if thisis yr first boat, i wd try and find a person who will concentrate on how to control the thing, especially in and around marinas. A ten year old can drive it in open sea. The RYA quals are good, but if you had five days, for example, i wd have 4.5 driving and controlling the boat in and around marinas, and another for everything else. The RYA courses (for a beginner in a big powerboat) will sort-of assume you are in a sailing boat with lots of space and can just moor up no prob because it's not so big, and has keel, so goes where you point it - but this does not apply to powerboats under 5knots. RYA has far more early-stages concentration on navigating with pencils, wortking tides which ain't a huge deal in a fast powerboat away from the english channel. Spose what I'm saying is get a man (or woman - poster "powerskipper" is a professional powerboat training person who posts hereabouts and might be ideal) to show you how to drive the thing in and around marinas, and the quals can come later. Put another way, you could get your dayskip and still really be confident in a marina, and that's usually where the damge happens.

For international use, I think you really want an "ICC" (international certificate of competence) and for powerboats this is more straightforward than dayskip or coastal skipper AND has international recognition.

Having taken delivery of the boat, and with the thing right there in Poole, make sure you are a bit picky. This means being shown how everything works, and get a "snag list" of everything that doesn't. It's a big and complex thing. Blast water at the windows to make sure they seal, use all the showers, and so on. These are easy things to sort so close to sunseeker, a whole load less easy when a few thousand miles away.

I think an echopilot purports to tell you the depth beneath and perhaps slightluy in front of the boat. I have something that charts the seabed like this, total waste of time i'm afraid. I just look at the depth. A map/chart will show you depths round and about, the depth guage will confirm where you are. The echopilot won't stop the boat shortly before hitting the rocks. Have it if you want, but it's not the greatest gizmo and probably requires yet another hole in the bottom of the boat - not the best things to have lots of unless really necessary.

have fun!



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[Dave_Snelson]

Congratulations on your new boat Chetan, tcm has this summed up nicely in that out at sea its relatively easy, providing you know where you are going and how to navigate to get there. It's close quarters manouevering that really needs to be worked on. Do get an ICC and don't forget to have all your papers safely stowed aboard and up-to-date.

Good luck.

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