"...a Porsche and a Hallberg-Rassy...."

I have the combination of Porsche and Corribee: they both work well for me, even though they're total contrasts in design ethic: one's cheap and cheerful but gets me afloat, while the other's almost over-engineered but a delight to drive.
 
Daydream believer said:
You have clearly never experienced the joy of driving to the boat in a brand new Morgan
But then i would class a halberg rassey as an overpriced product so to each his own i suppose
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BWAA... after the trip, you can clean your teeth with tooth picks originating from the chassis?

I was lucky... I had a 911 (993.. last of the air cooled cars) but the RS Club Sport version. It was terrific.. just wish I had kept it. Now worth north of a 1//4 Million.... no HR but a good oldie/goodie for our RTW.

:-)
 
Tranona said:
As with 2 earlier posters have a Morgan. The only sensible toy to have. probably better to look at then to drive if you want high speed and good roadholding, but gives wonderful feel good feeling.

Coupled with my new Bavaria 33 gives an unbeatable combination and driving to the club for a good day sail on a nice summer day is as close to perfection as I can get (in boat and car terms anyway).
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The one thing about my new morgan ,which i certainly could not say about my new boat ,is that after 4 years i sold it for 50% more than i paid for it.
Somehow i wish it was the other way round
 
In my youth I quite fancied the idea of driving a sports car, as my sister did. At a motor show, possibly the only one I ever went to, I sat in a Morgan. It was so uncomfortable, sitting bolt upright a couple of inches from the wheel, that my dream, weak as it was, dissipated into thin air. A few lifts in sports cars since then have not helped, since they were equally uninspiring.
 
chinita said:
I can understand your sentiment, and agree to a point.

But something changes when you actually own one. Don't know what, or why, but it just happens.

Having said that, the biggest and most expensive HR pales in comparison to my all teak Cheoy Lee Vertue hand built by Hong Kong shipwrights in 1963.
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Perfect ..... sailing Nirvana! I've had 15 + sailing boats since the 60s, some of them quite big and roomy but the one I always wanted - still do - was a Cheoy Lee Vertue. Never got one though. Motor boating in the S of F these days but still got that hankering ... I've got a spare pontoon which would just suit a Vertue!
 
DJE said:
The Swedes also make fast boats. ;)

http://www.scanyacht.se/
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HRs are not especially slow, though some of their owners sail in, shall we say, a relaxed manner. The old 35s were somewhat under-canvassed and can be slow, though some later ones had a taller, double-spreader, mast. The old 29s go well, and current designs have long waterlines and are good passage-makers, if a bit livelier than the '90s Frers designs. My 34 almost kept up with a Hanse 41 tacking to windward in about 15kn true wind recently, but was rapidly passed by a Dehler 36.
 
johnalison said:
In my youth I quite fancied the idea of driving a sports car, as my sister did. At a motor show, possibly the only one I ever went to, I sat in a Morgan. It was so uncomfortable, sitting bolt upright a couple of inches from the wheel, that my dream, weak as it was, dissipated into thin air. A few lifts in sports cars since then have not helped, since they were equally uninspiring.
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Not any Mog driving position I recognise. We've had several different models and I'm the thick end of 6'3" and I've never felt close to the steering wheel. They're a pain the backside if used for daily transport but for occasional fun the 3.9 litre injected V8 was fantastic.
 
I drove a +4 once in the Algarve, confirmed what I had always thought. No different to the 1935 MG PA I drove when 16. Nice to look at.... Hard on the kidneys.
 
chinita said:
I can understand your sentiment, and agree to a point.

But something changes when you actually own one. Don't know what, or why, but it just happens.

Having said that, the biggest and most expensive HR pales in comparison to my all teak Cheoy Lee Vertue hand built by Hong Kong shipwrights in 1963.
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The first yacht that I (half) owned was a Cheoy Lee Folkboat (also named I think a Frisco Flyer!!). Built around 1970 with one of their early fibreglass hulls, but lots of teak elsewhere and carved dragons inside. Tough little boat, perfect for first timer learning.
My car at the time was a fire-engine red MGCGT, so I considered myself a lucky boy with the right toys!
All this in Hong Kong, around 1975.
Peter
 
Surely an HR is the nautical equIvalent of a Mercedes car - comes in various sizes, from small to very large, all very efficient, comfortable and expensive (a few also extremely powerful/fast, but the vast majority merely adequately so).

A cruising yacht equivalent of the Porsche would be more like a Swan or X yacht - or perhaps more the Wally superyacht style?
 
johnalison said:
In my youth I quite fancied the idea of driving a sports car, as my sister did. At a motor show, possibly the only one I ever went to, I sat in a Morgan. It was so uncomfortable, sitting bolt upright a couple of inches from the wheel, that my dream, weak as it was, dissipated into thin air. A few lifts in sports cars since then have not helped, since they were equally uninspiring.
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Not my experience. I am 6ft6ins & had a 2 inch wood spacer behind the wheel to bring it nearer to me. One does not drive a morgan with arms out straight. But it was one of the few cars that i could put my legs out fairly straight. It takes a few K miles to learn how to drive one
I do recall being in london and a porche driver admiring my morgan so that has to be a plus
 
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