matm
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Congratulations, looks absolutely stunning. You must be over the moon. How you manage the day job when this is going on in the background I don't know. Think I'd probably have a boat building sabbatical for a while!
Boat in build pics (2013 Fairline Squadron 78)
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Alchemy2665
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WOW, what can be said that hasn't already, simply stunning, love the anchor cam idea. The lights under the stairs will look amazing. How on earth you have managed to keep track of all the details is beyond me, we'll done!
I'll definately be over to Ipswich to see her afloat. Are you planning to cruise her to swanwick?
I'll definately be over to Ipswich to see her afloat. Are you planning to cruise her to swanwick?
henryf
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Tee hee! One of these days we'll have to make a truce over this Solent/Med stuff Henry. Let's discuss it over a glass of wine as EJ and M2 are gently bobbing at anchor one starlit evening in Villefranche, next summer
Now there's a man who speaks my language. I can picture the scene. The last cruise ship heading off, flashes from the occasional camera as they take a final picture before heading into the cabin to get ready for dinner. Meanwhile there's a waft of something delicious from your flybrige grill and smoke from mine as Sharon cremates something else that gave it's life in vain
I might even get to take my hat and gloves off
Hopefully we can meet up before then.
Henry
Cardo
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She looks stunning. Even a dirty raggie like myself can appreciate what a fantastic boat she is.
Sadly, we will already be on our way to the Med when she's displayed at Swanwick, otherwise we would have loved to take a peek. Saying that, SWMBO has said she wouldn't mind taking a detour to the SoF on our route from Spain to Greece later on in the summer, if you'd be willing to show us around then.
Sadly, we will already be on our way to the Med when she's displayed at Swanwick, otherwise we would have loved to take a peek. Saying that, SWMBO has said she wouldn't mind taking a detour to the SoF on our route from Spain to Greece later on in the summer, if you'd be willing to show us around then.
Cardo
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... and smoke from mine as Sharon cremates something else that gave it's life in vain
LOL
You're a brave man.
jfm
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I'll be on board prob every weekend that she is in Ipswich so just drop by. It might look a bit of a mess of course becuase there is a list of jobs to do. And yes, I'll cruise round to Swanwick. But after they have finished in Ipswich she will go to Essex for 2 weeks of work first, and after that work she will go from Essex Boatyards to Swanwick in the few days before the boat show.
While she is in Essex, Allen the GRP master in Essex is going to do some cut n shut GRP work on the transom door to create a recess and flange for a bonded square-cornered window to be fitted. This will then match the windows on the hull side. The standard transom door window is a catalogue Lewmar hatch and doesn't match the other windows, and frankly looks a bit rubbish imho. Falcon, the nice company that makes the hull windows for Fairline are making me a custom sized square cornered bonded window for the transom door. (OCD-ism as a lot of you guys know is quite a burden to carry isn't it?
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jfm
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She looks stunning. Even a dirty raggie like myself can appreciate what a fantastic boat she is.
Sadly, we will already be on our way to the Med when she's displayed at Swanwick, otherwise we would have loved to take a peek. Saying that, SWMBO has said she wouldn't mind taking a detour to the SoF on our route from Spain to Greece later on in the summer, if you'd be willing to show us around then.
Yes for sure drop in on SofF and join the forum SofF mob for dinner and drinks. If you're doing a big cruise with loads of time it would be a great shame to miss seeing the cote d'azur, and report back to henryf on how no-one has gloves and a hat becuase he doesn't believe me
. It's not much of a detour, and also it is a good stop off for then crossing to beautiful corsica (100nm). You would be crazy to miss Corsica and Sardinia. Try to time it for a mistral and get a nice downwind 100nm from Marseille to antibes. Though try to avoid crossing Golfe de Lyon in a Mistral, lol
Jonmendez
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JFM I have been on the water in the cold for a few days - Motala going great, but this is beyond inspiration. Congratulations cant wait to see it in the flesh!
Jon
Jon
matt13
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I keep checking back on the forum mainly to see if there was any update to this thread, finally some more pictures!. Definately worth the wait though, stunning boat and its not even finished yet!
Cardo
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Yes for sure drop in on SofF and join the forum SofF mob for dinner and drinks. If you're doing a big cruise with loads of time it would be a great shame to miss seeing the cote d'azur, and report back to henryf on how no-one has gloves and a hat becuase he doesn't believe me
I think we may take you up on your suggestion. We'll be staying in Sant Carles through July however may pop round to SoF on our way to Greece in August. Would be nice to see the area. Hopefully there'll be some nice anchorages we can stay in. We're on a budget, ya'know.
scubaman
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Congratulations JFM, she'll epitomize in every way what OCD can produce at it's best! Absolutely beautiful machine! The white caulking looks fab, as does the interior woodwork color (love it), grey sunbrella and everything, really.
A few minor q's on details if I may: will there be arm rests on lower helm seat, as the steering wheel looks quite low so would add to ergonomics? About cockpit: do the lower wedges on the outward side walls run water into the cockpit (shown mid left on pic #9), as they do on the Phantoms?
Absolutely beautiful machine! The white caulking looks fab, as does the interior woodwork color (love it), grey sunbrella and everything, really.A few minor q's on details if I may: will there be arm rests on lower helm seat, as the steering wheel looks quite low so would add to ergonomics? About cockpit: do the lower wedges on the outward side walls run water into the cockpit (shown mid left on pic #9), as they do on the Phantoms?
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jfm
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Here are some more pics from the same set. These are strictly for detail geeks :--)
Below is the flybridge crane. This thing is rated at 300kg with the arm fully extended but it will be lifting 59kg of Laser so it can look forward to a charmed life. I kept the 300kg spec for resale value – a tactic that paid off with Match1 because one of the buyer’s conditions was that I removed the Laser and installed a jetski. I hope they see the error of their ways one day and get a sailboat :--)
This is engine room looking at stbd side and shows the auto engine room vent closers nailed to the ceiling. These are a custom spec item. I still think a big thing you should de-risk in a boat you plan to do biggish cruises on is fire, because it is just about the only imaginable thing that could make you need to get into the liferaft quickly, which would be pretty grim at night even in the warm Med. These gizmos (there are 6 in total) auto close in a fire and also can be closed, incidentally, when the engines are shut down (in which case they open electrically when ignition is turned on). They are integrated to the Sea Fire engine shut down system. Their main benefit is to allow the FM 2000 to work. If you get an e/room fire, the SeaFire will shut your engines down and the boat will turn sideways to the wind. If you have open vents you’ll get a wind thru e/room that will flush out the FM2000, potentially before it has finished its job. These basically stop that happening and keep the FM2000 in the e/room
Still in e/room, here are the main engine strainers
Below are the stab fins just delivered in a crate (92 is my hull number)
The two pics below show the fly bar unit. This is standard spec, except I have an avonite not teak countertop to the forward piece (I can’t see the point of raw teak on a countertop tbh) plus I have had the edges of the drawer fronts lipped in 5mm x 15mm teak strip. These drawer fronts are teak plywood and on the standard build the edge is left exposed which looks rubbish in my book. I suppose it doesn’t rot because all the ply layers are teak but it is still a bit 6/10 in my book. They look much nicer properly lipped. These will prob be finished in teak oil. The bar unit contains a sink and electric barbeque grill thing, plus a deep drawer bottle fridge and an icemaker, and a couple of drawers for glasses or whatever and a trash bin
These are the fly dash switches. Back illuminated in red, including the writing. The one labelled forward white lights is an interrupt switch that cuts off power to the 3 forward-most side deck lights each side. A lesson learnt from Match1 on which I specced double the usual quantity of side deck lights, in white, to make the boat glow white at anchor: at night guests all want the side deck lights on with good reason, but when you are driving the boat the front 3 lights each side, at the foredeck, blind you a bit. So this switch allows me to isolate the forward set of lights when driving from upstairs, and the folks moving around the boat can have the deck lighting on oblivious to the fact I’ve disabled the front-most ones
Below just shows detail of the split in the boxes under the fly helm seat boxes. This gap is what allows anyone in any of the 3 seats to get in/out of their seat without climbing over anyone.
Below is the caulk in the aft fly stairs
First pic below shows the “kink” I had to put in the spine of the aft fly stairs. This was discussed above. Without the kink, the whole staircase top part would have to be further back to miss the glass door, and that in turn means more aft deck footprint space is used up if you keep the same angle, or if you keep the same bottom step landing point the stairs would have to be made steeper. So I went for the least evil, which imho is this kink. The second pic is a close up of the weld. This was done by Dave Steel’s team at www.aquafabs.co.uk and I gotta say I’m blown away by the neatness of this welding. Every one of the many fillet welds in these steps is complete perfection and OCD build detail geeks who come and see the boat in Swanwick will be very impressed I hope. Even DJEfabs, who is a bit of an expert and aficionado on this subject, will be very impressed I bet :--)
Below is a view of forward half of the fly. The gap in the U shaped seating on the port side has a fill in trapezium shaped cushion so as to make a sun bed for 2 people. On the standard s78 build they put a table here on electric hilo but I didn’t like it so deleted it
This is that glove box showing the insides. The fusion is on an angled panel (made by essexboatyards team) for ease of operation, and the left hand side accommodates the usual junk plus 3.5mm jack and 12v socket. On this boat unlike Match1 the downstairs B+O aux out is wired to the aux in of this fusion plus to the lower aft deck via a separate B+O amp, and the Fusion also feeds its own flybridge subwoofer amp + speaker. So you can have the same music, in party mode, in the saloon with subwoofer, on the fly with subwoofer, and on the lower aft deck
Random shot of hull…
This is the lower helm switch panel…
Here’s a close up of mast hardware. Radar is 12kw. The spare mount just inside the wind whirler is for an Echomax dual band radar target enhancer antenna as recommended by Piers and Play D’Eau
Here’s a better shot of the rather strong bathroom floor colour! Fairline haven’t done this colour on a sq78 before but I reckon it will look ok. Plan is to have colour in the towels. A purple set and a turquoise set, maybe, though chilli red, strong yellow and lime green are all candidates too :--)
Finally this shows the cupboards at forward end of aft crew/utility area. My potting shed zone. Big cupboard up top goes round to left beyond fridge so is about 5 ft long, and allows me to store bigger stuff like pieces of plywood, rolls of materials, whatever. The lower pair of cupboard doors will be my day to day tool store.
Below is the flybridge crane. This thing is rated at 300kg with the arm fully extended but it will be lifting 59kg of Laser so it can look forward to a charmed life. I kept the 300kg spec for resale value – a tactic that paid off with Match1 because one of the buyer’s conditions was that I removed the Laser and installed a jetski. I hope they see the error of their ways one day and get a sailboat :--)
This is engine room looking at stbd side and shows the auto engine room vent closers nailed to the ceiling. These are a custom spec item. I still think a big thing you should de-risk in a boat you plan to do biggish cruises on is fire, because it is just about the only imaginable thing that could make you need to get into the liferaft quickly, which would be pretty grim at night even in the warm Med. These gizmos (there are 6 in total) auto close in a fire and also can be closed, incidentally, when the engines are shut down (in which case they open electrically when ignition is turned on). They are integrated to the Sea Fire engine shut down system. Their main benefit is to allow the FM 2000 to work. If you get an e/room fire, the SeaFire will shut your engines down and the boat will turn sideways to the wind. If you have open vents you’ll get a wind thru e/room that will flush out the FM2000, potentially before it has finished its job. These basically stop that happening and keep the FM2000 in the e/room
Still in e/room, here are the main engine strainers
Below are the stab fins just delivered in a crate (92 is my hull number)
The two pics below show the fly bar unit. This is standard spec, except I have an avonite not teak countertop to the forward piece (I can’t see the point of raw teak on a countertop tbh) plus I have had the edges of the drawer fronts lipped in 5mm x 15mm teak strip. These drawer fronts are teak plywood and on the standard build the edge is left exposed which looks rubbish in my book. I suppose it doesn’t rot because all the ply layers are teak but it is still a bit 6/10 in my book. They look much nicer properly lipped. These will prob be finished in teak oil. The bar unit contains a sink and electric barbeque grill thing, plus a deep drawer bottle fridge and an icemaker, and a couple of drawers for glasses or whatever and a trash bin
These are the fly dash switches. Back illuminated in red, including the writing. The one labelled forward white lights is an interrupt switch that cuts off power to the 3 forward-most side deck lights each side. A lesson learnt from Match1 on which I specced double the usual quantity of side deck lights, in white, to make the boat glow white at anchor: at night guests all want the side deck lights on with good reason, but when you are driving the boat the front 3 lights each side, at the foredeck, blind you a bit. So this switch allows me to isolate the forward set of lights when driving from upstairs, and the folks moving around the boat can have the deck lighting on oblivious to the fact I’ve disabled the front-most ones
Below just shows detail of the split in the boxes under the fly helm seat boxes. This gap is what allows anyone in any of the 3 seats to get in/out of their seat without climbing over anyone.
Below is the caulk in the aft fly stairs
First pic below shows the “kink” I had to put in the spine of the aft fly stairs. This was discussed above. Without the kink, the whole staircase top part would have to be further back to miss the glass door, and that in turn means more aft deck footprint space is used up if you keep the same angle, or if you keep the same bottom step landing point the stairs would have to be made steeper. So I went for the least evil, which imho is this kink. The second pic is a close up of the weld. This was done by Dave Steel’s team at www.aquafabs.co.uk and I gotta say I’m blown away by the neatness of this welding. Every one of the many fillet welds in these steps is complete perfection and OCD build detail geeks who come and see the boat in Swanwick will be very impressed I hope. Even DJEfabs, who is a bit of an expert and aficionado on this subject, will be very impressed I bet :--)
Below is a view of forward half of the fly. The gap in the U shaped seating on the port side has a fill in trapezium shaped cushion so as to make a sun bed for 2 people. On the standard s78 build they put a table here on electric hilo but I didn’t like it so deleted it
This is that glove box showing the insides. The fusion is on an angled panel (made by essexboatyards team) for ease of operation, and the left hand side accommodates the usual junk plus 3.5mm jack and 12v socket. On this boat unlike Match1 the downstairs B+O aux out is wired to the aux in of this fusion plus to the lower aft deck via a separate B+O amp, and the Fusion also feeds its own flybridge subwoofer amp + speaker. So you can have the same music, in party mode, in the saloon with subwoofer, on the fly with subwoofer, and on the lower aft deck
Random shot of hull…
This is the lower helm switch panel…
Here’s a close up of mast hardware. Radar is 12kw. The spare mount just inside the wind whirler is for an Echomax dual band radar target enhancer antenna as recommended by Piers and Play D’Eau
Here’s a better shot of the rather strong bathroom floor colour! Fairline haven’t done this colour on a sq78 before but I reckon it will look ok. Plan is to have colour in the towels. A purple set and a turquoise set, maybe, though chilli red, strong yellow and lime green are all candidates too :--)
Finally this shows the cupboards at forward end of aft crew/utility area. My potting shed zone. Big cupboard up top goes round to left beyond fridge so is about 5 ft long, and allows me to store bigger stuff like pieces of plywood, rolls of materials, whatever. The lower pair of cupboard doors will be my day to day tool store.
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jfm
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Hi K. I thought hard about arm rests for the lower helm chairs becuase they would obviously provide comfort when you're in the chair. Problem is, the gap between the two chairs is narrow, maybe 300mm, and two arms would reduce this greatly , to a point where you'd have to squeeze to get past. I pass thru this gap several times a day to operate stabs and the switch panel, even though I very rarely drive from the lower helm. Also Fairline built one with "my" chairs plus arm rests recently, for a california customer, and I went on this boat to feel how much these arm rests narorwed the gap, and it was too much imo. So I decided noCongratulations JFM, she'll epitomize in every way what OCD can produce at it's best!
A few minor q's on details if I may: will there be arm rests on lower helm seat, as the steering wheel looks quite low so would add to ergonomics? About cockpit: do the lower wedges on the outward side walls run water into the cockpit (shown mid left on pic #9), as they do on the Phantoms?
Yes, as is usual on this sized boat, all spray that enters the side decks runs back to the aft cockpit instead of going over the side before the aft deck, as it usually does on smaller boats. This is the price you pay for walkaround decks. It isn't a problem tbh. If you are getting spray on side decks in this sixed boat the sea is pretty bad anyway and some extra water on aft deck just doesn't matter. It's exactly same on say BartW's BA
erik_plus8
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Jfm, thanks so much for sharing - it is absolutely stunning reading and viewing of the pictures. The level of detail has been mentioned before but I must say it is truly, really impressive. There are so many carefully thought out details, you must have had a notebook lying in M1, constantly making notes of all things you wanted to improve/change for next build
A question: In your picture post above there is the "random shot of hull". If I remember correctly on M1 you had raised the teak hand railings going ~midships and backwards. In the picture above, although it is not easy to see from the distance, but the railings seem to sit a bit lower? If so, what is your reasoning for this?
A question: In your picture post above there is the "random shot of hull". If I remember correctly on M1 you had raised the teak hand railings going ~midships and backwards. In the picture above, although it is not easy to see from the distance, but the railings seem to sit a bit lower? If so, what is your reasoning for this?
Alchemy2665
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Can't wait drop by and have a look, I'm not sure it could ever look a mess! When you leave Ipswich I'd like to make sure I'm on the water so I can take some photos of her maiden voyage for the forum, I'm sure everyone would like to see her underway down the Orwell and sea.
STEVEDUNSTABLE
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Hi JFM....... yes i,m one of your detail "geeks" and hope to shake your hand at Swanick...LOVE the "details" of the WHOLE BUILD......i,m DESPERATE to get a closeup of your "wind whirler"!!!!!!!!................ sorry, but that did make me laugh !!!!!!...............(yes , i did have to lookup how to spell ANEMOMETER)........ i,ll get me coat !!!
scubaman
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Sorry, I actually meant when the canopies are up and the boat is in the port. But must be the same thing. A very small price for the luxury of walkaround decks, of course. I was just curious as the wedge below the decorative side panel runs water into the cockpit on my phantom even when the canopies are up.
Can't wait to see the interior textiles you mentioned earlier, I'm sure they will look fantastic. The metallic colors would probably work well in the bathrooms as well
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MapisM
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LOL, did THAT make you laugh?
What about the radar target enhancer on such a ship, then...?
...and with AIS transponder, of course.
Talk about going OTT!
djefabs
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First pic below shows the “kink” I had to put in the spine of the aft fly stairs. This was discussed above. Without the kink, the whole staircase top part would have to be further back to miss the glass door, and that in turn means more aft deck footprint space is used up if you keep the same angle, or if you keep the same bottom step landing point the stairs would have to be made steeper. So I went for the least evil, which imho is this kink. The second pic is a close up of the weld. This was done by Dave Steel’s team at www.aquafabs.co.uk and I gotta say I’m blown away by the neatness of this welding. Every one of the many fillet welds in these steps is complete perfection and OCD build detail geeks who come and see the boat in Swanwick will be very impressed I hope. Even DJEfabs, who is a bit of an expert and aficionado on this subject, will be very impressed I bet :--)
Yes JFM this is an excellent job by Dave Steel's team. I do know the skills that are required to produce this excellent standard of work and it really is outstanding. But I am blown away by the whole of Match2, I do have just have the smallest idea of the amount of time that this process takes and also imagine you have a very busy 'day' job just how do you find the time ?? I guess sleep is optional
Yes JFM this is an excellent job by Dave Steel's team. I do know the skills that are required to produce this excellent standard of work and it really is outstanding. But I am blown away by the whole of Match2, I do have just have the smallest idea of the amount of time that this process takes and also imagine you have a very busy 'day' job
just how do you find the time ?? I guess sleep is optional
jfm
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I think it is a bit of an illusion in that pic Erik, though I see what you mean. The railings are definitely higher. The standard teak hand rails sit on 100mm high posts, and on both Match 1+2 they are specced 50mm higher. Pic below illustrates this - the boat on the left is hull#91 with normal rails, and the boat on right is my #92.
By the way I think this is a very nice mod. Imho the standard sq78 rails are too low, and this extra 50mm just makes them feel right. i know 50mm isn't much, but it does make a difference. The other thing is, I can fit an electric mouse sander in the 150mm gap so I can sand the underside of the teak as part of the maintenance routine. You cannot fit an electric sander in the 100mm gap
