American Speed boats are OK......Yea Right.....

[oldgit]

Tale of a old 25ft 1978 Regal powered by 2 x Mercruiser Petrols.
Cos the cabin roof flexed it broke the plastic cabin window surrounds which let water into the cabin.
Which caused the furry fabric cabin fabric liner to fall down.
Which caused the building grade particle board floor to rot.
Which dripped into the bilge and soaked into the absorbant foam filling the bilge.
Which rotted out the bottom of the Alloy tank.
Which was resting directly on top of the bare non marine ply non glassed in ribs.
Which caused the not marine ply wood in the transom to go all sqidgy.
The jolly old raw water cooled engines rotted from the inside and blocked all the cooling channels so the engine overheat at speed.......and blew of the riser houses.
Thats of course when it was actually running....................
Of course they are much better built now of course................... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BrendanS]

Troll...Yea Right.....

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Of course they are much better built now of course

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Have you tried comparing cars built 30 years ago with the way they are built now. Things move on.

 

[oldgit]

Re: Troll...Yea Right.....

Yee Haa.Goody Buddy.
Thort that would bring you out of the woodwork Brendon.
Is it permissable to mention that when I sold it my 1980 P..........ss 25 it was as sound as a drum and its gorgeous little swedish petrol engine purred like Pauline with a new pair of shoes. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bandit]

1978 let me think my Morris Marina of the same vinatge is now baked bean tins in South Africa, my 1983 BMW is now razor blades in poland and my 1985 Range Rover is now beer cans in Australia.

How does someone expect a budget boat that is 26yrs old to be like a connoiseurs Ferrari that has lived in a temperature and humidity controled garage and only goes out on bakn holidays in the dry?

I hate smileys and emoticons !

 

[whisper]

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[oldgit]

Warning.\"This Product must not come in contact with water.\"

Perhaps a placard stating the above should be screwed to the dash.
Please do not use nasty cheap quick insta-stain fast-rust self tappers from Wal-Mart this time.

 

[milltech]

Re: Troll...Yea Right.....

Speaking personal, I really want to own a Chris Craft Capri one day. One day soon would be nice. Like this -
http://www.classicboat.com/classic-19Capri-Chris-Craft-22d.htm

 

[Roy]

Re: Troll...Yea Right.....

Been meaning to ask this... What is meant by a 'troll'?? What constitutes a troll?

 

[LittleShip]

Re: Troll...Yea Right.....

Hmm thinking of joining the classics are we??? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[BrendanS]

Re: Troll...Yea Right.....

One of the best definitions is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

 

[Roy]

Re: Troll...Yea Right.....

Cheers Brendan - think i understand it now and can now think of some posts in the past that would be termed as such. Thanks again. Roy

 

[oldgit]

So Regals are budget boats are they and the boat was only around 15 years old when it dropped its hook into my bank account.The local Mercruiser guy must have thought he had won the pools after the first couple of leg rebuilds along with the yearly replacement of leg rams etc etc .

 

[gjgm]

but Regal dont build outdrives,so now its American engines and legs that are crap too? You really need to buy something Scandinavian I can see !

 

[milltech]

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I've always, well almost always, been a wooden boat man. I have a view that we like the things best that we knew in our impressionable years. For me this means classic Chris Craft, Healey sports boats, MG TD and TF, (mainly TF), E types, and of all the sports boats of the time the Capri is the prettiest by far. See off a Riva for looks any day IMO.

 

[oldgit]

You pays your money......

Seem to recall on an colonial boaty forum Mercruisers referred to as "Black Anchors".
Having had two boats of similar vintage,think that each boat reflected the attitude of the different builders.
One was built fast and cheap with minimum consideration to longevity using second rate materials and the other was built not like that.
Leave folks to decide which was which and which boat they would prefer to have lying on the their mooring.

 

[britemp]

It would not surprise me to find that US boats are crap, though I have no direct experience of them, simply because US cars are just about the worst in the world - why should the boats be any better? The manufacturing ethos is surely the same: build lots as cheap as possible because the market demands maximum flash for minimum cash.

 

[hlb]

I had a merican boat once, long before I new much about boats. V8 and 20 gallon fuel tank!! The carpet was stuck down over the engine and it leaked through every orifice. Upwards that is!!

 

[oldgit]

warning this post contains minor use of emoticons.(At the very end)

I have great respect for the USA.Having enjoyed the warmth of the welcome many times and the fact that they dug us out of serious poo on more than one occasion but the obsession with external appearance over internal content.Ferrinstance boats,cars and an even better example cosmetic surgery, is in marked contrast to the "Old Europe" way of looking at things.
Realise that this a gross generali z ation. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Alistairr]

Re: warning this post contains minor use of emoticons.(At the very end)

/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif Oldgit!!

 

[britemp]

Re: warning this post contains minor use of emoticons.(At the very end)

Pah! I don't buy that grateful for WW2 nonsense! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

They owed us big time - we invented their country and if 1000's of British soldiers hadn't given up their lives protecting their colony from the french in the 100 years leading up to their traitorous war of independence, they'd all be cheese-eating surrender monkeys now! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif