A Marauder for JFM

Bajansailor

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I posted a copy of my Mystere catalogue a while back, and I remember jfm admitting then that he used to lust after her big sister the Marauder in the 70's..... I had forgotten that I also had a catalogue on the Marauder, and it turned up recently, so I thought I would scan and post it as a change from the stereotypical melted 21st century look that most powerboats seem to have these days.

Marauder was a division of JCL Marine in Brundall - my brochure is from July 1976, and the basic price of a new Marauder then was GBP 88,600 ex VAT, which seems to me to be very expensive relatively, when compared to similar sized boats today.
The Builders mentioned that they could only offer the vessel with a pair of Ford Sabre 210 hp engines - no alternative engines were available, which seems a bit odd.
They were apparently built on a production line (I wonder how many were built?) and they could offer delivery within 12-14 weeks of the order being placed.

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Some very comprehensive stuff about on the interweb about JCL.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.hayward/Pages/JCL.html
What goes around comes around,a very innnovating design which departed from the existing me -to-stuff on the market at the time and dare one say it exactly what Sealine are up to at the moment.
You can just imagine the 1970s pipe and slipper brigade throwing up ther hands in horror and tut tutting on the Forums just as the "melted blob" mob are doing now .:)
 
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Not a bit of gold / brass on show either!

Or any of those dreadful little naff lightshades with tassles all round the bottom so beloved of Broom owners. Urghh....a bit Posh and Becks as seen in Argus Furnishings catalogue bad taste section ?
 
AndieMac said:
Some of the interior colours are making a come-back also.
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Precisely my thought, looking at the pics with light wood panels and dark tops!
I'm tempted to show them to swmbo. My theory is that anything which isn't fashionable anymore has a good chance to become fashionable (again) sooner or later. But she never trusts me when I tell her that as a consequence she shouldn't throw away anything from her wardrobe just because it's "out of fashion"... :)
 
MapisM said:
Precisely my thought, looking at the pics with light wood panels and dark tops!
I'm tempted to show them to swmbo. My theory is that anything which isn't fashionable anymore has a good chance to become fashionable (again) sooner or later. But she never trusts me when I tell her that as a consequence she shouldn't throw away anything from her wardrobe just because it's "out of fashion"... :)
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It's no good fighting it M, they were born to shop :).......we know the feeling though, like going into a well stocked chandlery when they have a big sale on ;)
 
Further to Andy Hayward's link posted above by Oldgit, I did a bit of trawling through the archives and found this thread started by Andy where he was looking for info on all of the 'M' yachts built by JCL, and the Marauder in particular :
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22257

And Andy posted this link to Marauders in the above mentioned thread :
http://www.moonraker.dk/danish/om_moonraker/marauder46.htm

Here is the thread from 2 years ago with my Mystere catalogue - http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181878

I must admit that the Mystere was / is probably my favourite of the 'M' range - I like the angular styling, especially when compared to the melted stereotype Sunseeker styling which everybody produces these days - and Sealine are now going back to this angular look again.
Maybe the 70s will be in vogue with boats again soon!
At this rate maybe flares, hot pants and shaggy hair styles might return as well......... :)
 
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MapisM said:
Hi darling, so you tell me that you're going to sleep and you're actually posting on YBW as AndieMac? :eek:
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You don't who's lurking in the corridors of YBW late at night........mostly pretty safe though, usually just a Welsh poet/boat fixer/instructor and the odd Tasmaniac, trying to be politically correct :D
 
AndieMac said:
You don't who's lurking in the corridors of YBW late at night........mostly pretty safe though, usually just a Welsh poet/boat fixer/instructor and the odd Tasmaniac, trying to be politically correct :D
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Looks like we are a motley trio lurking in the corridors tonight of an eloquent Cymru poet, a PC boatmad Tasmaniac and a scruffy Bajan.
Hi Guys! What havoc can we cause before the rabble turn up in the morning?
 
Only just seen this Bajansailor - I was away last week and behind on PMs. Thanks for posting that - it was a great look/read. I have never seen that brochure before - I remeber writing to them to ask for one, but my 10 year old handwriting probably gave away the fact that I wasn't a customer for such a boat, yet, and I got no reply. So, thanks for posting it

The first pic is taken off Cap Ferrat in France, I think.

I remember thinking (mid/late 70s, and I was a kid) the boat's exterior lines were stunning. They still pretty good, though now it does feel a bit De Lorean. Interior is awful though.

The technical part of the brochure is interesting. I'm surprised how full of techy stuff it is, but it's mostly bollox engineeringwise I reckon. I would think engineers of the day would have felt the same. Howver the underwater gear write-up caught my eye. On first techy page, 3rd-last para under "1. Hydrodynamics", it says the prop shafts don't have P brackets., Anyone know how they did it?
 
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JFM said :
"Only just seen this Bajansailor - I was away last week and behind on PMs. Thanks for posting that - it was a great look/read. I have never seen that brochure before - I remember writing to them to ask for one, but my 10 year old handwriting probably gave away the fact that I wasn't a customer for such a boat, yet, and I got no reply. So, thanks for posting it"

Ummm yes, handwriting does give away a lot...... I was 14 at the time, and I am sure that if I had written a letter by hand, I would have never received any response - so I used to borrow my Dad's old typewriter and laboriously bash out (with one finger) typed letters to all the major boat building companies - I think it helped a lot as well that I had a Christmas present of a pack of printed letterheads with my name and address on the top!

And remember how the adverts in the magazines very often used to have little coupons that you could cut out, fill in your name and address, and return, asking for a catalogue?
I used to abuse these with a passion....... :)

And I agree re all the bolleaux techie stuff in the brochure! But I am sure it must have seemed to be very impressive at the time to many aspiring customers (like us....) :)
 
It is 01/01/20 and I thought I would resurrect this thread again, after seeing the thread in the link below posted by Oldgit last week.

JCL Boats and Moonraker. The History.

Sadly Photobucket threw a hissy fit after I refused to pay them extortion money, hence why the scans of the catalogue above have been deliberately blurred.
But no worries, with this new forum it is very easy now to add attachments, so here are copies of the scans instead.

I shall also do the same for my Mystere catalogue in this thread -

Mystere 43 catalogue - another blast from the 70s

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