Adaero
Well-Known Member
Before we start, yes I'm currently a raggie looking at possibly converting over to a mobo!!
I say the term raggie quite loosly because people like us are even shunned by most of the general raggie brigade as I currently own a multi. We have a 46ft catamaran which is also 25ft wide that we collected from Cape Town in 2008 and we are now in Croatia so with over 9000 miles under our belt we can honestly say we have sailed a fair bit. Our original plans of completing our Med tour followed by moving on the Carib has unfortunately taken a bit of a set back to due work commitments so a complete change could be on the cards.
Back to discussing the thread title. We have been out and had a look at a few 50ft Fly's namely the Sealine T50, Manhattan 50, Princess 50 and will hopefully complete the British line up by looking at the Phantom 50. Most of the time onboard it's just the two of us but we also get a number of guests so it has been decided (SWMBO) that we do need 3 cabins. My preference would be a mid 40's fly but after having so much space on the cat its very difficult find one with 3 cabins and decent internal space. As an example the owners cabin on our cat is 30ft long and 6ft wide with 6ft 5" headroom throughout so you can see her point.
I have a few questions that I need some help with: -
1. Engines. The majority of the boats we are looking at are 2005 to 2008 boats but the engines are quite varied. From Volvo we have seen D9's, D11's, D12's and from Cat we have also seen C12's. My question is, how does the servicing cost, running costs, availability of spares (especially in the Med) vary with these engines?
2. We are looking to continue our Med tour from Croatia so if we buy a UK boat we need to freight it but if we buy from the Adriatic our even anywhere in Italy we can move it ourselves. During our seach of this Med area a few other manufacturers have come to light such as the Azimut 50, Carnevali C160, Cranchi Atlantique and a couple others that I can't remember. How do these boats stack up against the British competition named above?
3. Inverters. I can't believe that none of the boats we have looked at use an inverter from the house batteries. We currently have a 2.5kw inverter on our Cat and if we want to boil an electric kettle, charge a laptop or swmbo's hairdryer we just turn on the inverter. It seems daft to have to start the genny just to do any of these simple tasks? We do have a genny on our cat but we only ever start it when we want the aircon or anything with a major amp draw.
Thanks
I say the term raggie quite loosly because people like us are even shunned by most of the general raggie brigade as I currently own a multi. We have a 46ft catamaran which is also 25ft wide that we collected from Cape Town in 2008 and we are now in Croatia so with over 9000 miles under our belt we can honestly say we have sailed a fair bit. Our original plans of completing our Med tour followed by moving on the Carib has unfortunately taken a bit of a set back to due work commitments so a complete change could be on the cards.
Back to discussing the thread title. We have been out and had a look at a few 50ft Fly's namely the Sealine T50, Manhattan 50, Princess 50 and will hopefully complete the British line up by looking at the Phantom 50. Most of the time onboard it's just the two of us but we also get a number of guests so it has been decided (SWMBO) that we do need 3 cabins. My preference would be a mid 40's fly but after having so much space on the cat its very difficult find one with 3 cabins and decent internal space. As an example the owners cabin on our cat is 30ft long and 6ft wide with 6ft 5" headroom throughout so you can see her point.
I have a few questions that I need some help with: -
1. Engines. The majority of the boats we are looking at are 2005 to 2008 boats but the engines are quite varied. From Volvo we have seen D9's, D11's, D12's and from Cat we have also seen C12's. My question is, how does the servicing cost, running costs, availability of spares (especially in the Med) vary with these engines?
2. We are looking to continue our Med tour from Croatia so if we buy a UK boat we need to freight it but if we buy from the Adriatic our even anywhere in Italy we can move it ourselves. During our seach of this Med area a few other manufacturers have come to light such as the Azimut 50, Carnevali C160, Cranchi Atlantique and a couple others that I can't remember. How do these boats stack up against the British competition named above?
3. Inverters. I can't believe that none of the boats we have looked at use an inverter from the house batteries. We currently have a 2.5kw inverter on our Cat and if we want to boil an electric kettle, charge a laptop or swmbo's hairdryer we just turn on the inverter. It seems daft to have to start the genny just to do any of these simple tasks? We do have a genny on our cat but we only ever start it when we want the aircon or anything with a major amp draw.
Thanks
