Boat in build pics (Squadron 78)

rafiki_ said:
JFM, a personal plea for you to keep this thread going, with detail on the final finishing and rectification up at Ipswich, trip down to the med, and how you get on with your new toy please?
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I agree and said as much to jfm and hugo at the show.

The beauty of this fab thread has been that everything is in one place and a quick click to last read gets you where you left off. It was a great idea to leave it running like it has.

I too would welcome its continuation until fully commissioned in Antibe
 
Sq 78/70 MATCH

Hello JFM , and everybody else on this FORUM .
I followed it for some time , and it is extremely interesting .
I was at LIBS on the preview day , and had the chance to see this masterpiece ...

I have a Fairline experience (T37/T48/T52/SQ58/SQ55) , and as you can see on my name , I have something FINE with that manufacturer of boats .
I have altough no attachments with Fairline , and my comments will be objective , purely as a customer .

This boat is an example of the skills at the factory , and at the same time it is amazing that a boat designed by a user , is getting so many standing ovations ... I saw about 14 SQ 78's .... But this is the best , and for sure the most up to date .

I could sum up about 100 positive things , and a merely one or two things that I would do different ....

I really look forward to follow all the details of the commissioning , and wonder about the effect of the stabilisers at low speed , with a force 3/4/5 .


Cheers to all of you boaters !!!!
 
Fairfine said:
Hello JFM , and everybody else on this FORUM .
I followed it for some time , and it is extremely interesting .
I was at LIBS on the preview day , and had the chance to see this masterpiece ...

I have a Fairline experience (T37/T48/T52/SQ58/SQ55) , and as you can see on my name , I have something FINE with that manufacturer of boats .
I have altough no attachments with Fairline , and my comments will be objective , purely as a customer .

This boat is an example of the skills at the factory , and at the same time it is amazing that a boat designed by a user , is getting so many standing ovations ... I saw about 14 SQ 78's .... But this is the best , and for sure the most up to date .

I could sum up about 100 positive things , and a merely one or two things that I would do different ....

I really look forward to follow all the details of the commissioning , and wonder about the effect of the stabilisers at low speed , with a force 3/4/5 .


Cheers to all of you boaters !!!!
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Welcome to the forum, Fairfine, and thank you for putting so much money into the British economy. We need every penny so please keep buying Fairlines:)
 
Yeah, particularly with all those guys around who don't care and buy Italian stuff instead... ;)

PS for Fairfine: Just curious, what do you mean by "Sq 78/70"? Oh, and welcome!
 
MapisM said:
Just curious, what do you mean by "Sq 78/70"? Oh, and welcome!
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Welcome Fairfine from me too. That's a nice history of Fairline boats you've owned (I had 2 Sq58s before this, and loved them). Glad you enjoyed seeing mine at LIBS

MapisM, "78/70" is how Fairline refer to my boat: model 78, hull number 70. It has nothing to do with squadron 70. So, Fairlfine knows his stuff in some detail :D
 
In reply to some points above, thanks everyone for the kind words written above after you saw the boat at LIBS. Needless to say, I'm totally delighted with her.

It was nice to meet lots of you and I am sorry that sometimes I couldn't give you undivided attention. It was incredibly busy and I had friends, clients, family, friends of friends, visiting the boat, sometimes all at once. BendanS especially, we had about 20 seconds conversation and I said I'd catch you later but then an hour flew by and you'd gone! Very sorry not to chat longer

Strakery, yep I see your point on the cupholders. It doesn't worry me as I will use them for cans or bottles, not glasses, so as long as the first swig has been drunk I don't think they will spill (much!) when angled at 20degrees or so

MRC I did consider curved ends. Convex curves would look ok but of course doesn't give me as much increase in the gap for one's thighs as a straight 45degress gives me. Concave curves look wrong (I have a p'shop pic of that but can't find it) imho. So I went with striaght. Too late to revise, as they're already made!

The boat seemed to survive the show very well. Only issue is the carpets got more use than I could put on them in a lifetime of owning the boat, and while they proved themsleves hardwearing the pile is a bit flattened, so Fairline will be re-carpeting it all

OK I'll happily keep this going as a single thread until the boat is delivered to Antibes. I can see the sense of keeping it all in one place as mjf says, until cruising starts. Next sunday I'm aboard as passenger for the Excel-to-Ipswich trip, and then the boat is in Ipswich most of February, then official handover to me, then maybe briefly in Essex, then on a ship in Southampton in mid March i hope, arriving Genoa early April, then a 100nm easy run westwards to Antibes
 
Fairfine said:
Hello JFM , and everybody else on this FORUM .
I followed it for some time , and it is extremely interesting .
I was at LIBS on the preview day , and had the chance to see this masterpiece ...

I have a Fairline experience (T37/T48/T52/SQ58/SQ55) , and as you can see on my name , I have something FINE with that manufacturer of boats .
I have altough no attachments with Fairline , and my comments will be objective , purely as a customer .

This boat is an example of the skills at the factory , and at the same time it is amazing that a boat designed by a user , is getting so many standing ovations ... I saw about 14 SQ 78's .... But this is the best , and for sure the most up to date .

I could sum up about 100 positive things , and a merely one or two things that I would do different ....

I really look forward to follow all the details of the commissioning , and wonder about the effect of the stabilisers at low speed , with a force 3/4/5 .


Cheers to all of you boaters !!!!
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Fairfine, welcome. Please tell me the one or two things you'd do differently. I'm very interested, and don't mind at all to hear your thoughts and different ideas or critiques on this. BTW, I would do a few things differently too if I did another 78, but they are not big enough items to worry me.

If you thought the flybridge table was too big, and made the corridor too narrow (I mean the corridor between the port edge of the table and the bar unit), I agree with you. The table is being re-made 250mm narrower

Where in the med is your boat? I couldn't guess which port from your Avatar pic
 
MapisM said:
Yeah, particularly with all those guys around who don't care and buy Italian stuff instead... ;)
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Hey, I'm just doing my bit for the Italian economy. You guys are in a worse state than us:)
 
jfm said:
Welcome Fairfine from me too. That's a nice history of Fairline boats you've owned (I had 2 Sq58s before this, and loved them). Glad you enjoyed seeing mine at LIBS

MapisM, "78/70" is how Fairline refer to my boat: model 78, hull number 70. It has nothing to do with squadron 70. So, Fairlfine knows his stuff in some detail :D
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John, you forgot to mention the Phantom 42.
 
jfm said:
OK I'll happily keep this going as a single thread until the boat is delivered to Antibes. I can see the sense of keeping it all in one place as mjf says, until cruising starts. Next sunday I'm aboard as passenger for the Excel-to-Ipswich trip, and then the boat is in Ipswich most of February, then official handover to me, then maybe briefly in Essex, then on a ship in Southampton in mid March i hope, arriving Genoa early April, then a 100nm easy run westwards to Antibes
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We'll all be following every stage with avid interest - lots more pics please! :)
 
Sorry to miss LIBS this year and devastated that I must be the only forumite to have missed meeting you again and of course seeing Match.

Still, all's not lost. I'm back in UK this weekend so can make the ferry trip Excel to Ipswich with you if you need another pair of hands.

Shaddup the rest of you, it was my idea first.
 
Hello JFM , I am cruising all over the med , but the boat is in Croatia at this time .

About the remarks , it is indeed the fly table little too big , and also some thoughts about the helm on the fly , which is quite high ... I was wondering if the helm from Sq 55/65 wouldn't fit ??? For the rest quite some switches & other controls in the stbd panels when you enter the saloon .... But they are minor things , compared to the magnificent result ! And all the rest is purely personal taste .
I saw your 58 last year in Antibes , you also modified a lot on that boat I read in the MBY magazine ...

The good thing about the 78 is , that it is a trouble free boat after all this years .... And hopefully you can boost the sales for Fairline ... I guess they are happy with the extra attention you gave them .... Good to hear from other forumites that they were well received at the stand .... This is valid for all the brands these days , I experienced , and one of the few positive points of a crisis !!!


Regards
 
Fairfine said:
Hello JFM , I am cruising all over the med , but the boat is in Croatia at this time .

About the remarks , it is indeed the fly table little too big , and also some thoughts about the helm on the fly , which is quite high ... I was wondering if the helm from Sq 55/65 wouldn't fit ??? For the rest quite some switches & other controls in the stbd panels when you enter the saloon .... But they are minor things , compared to the magnificent result ! And all the rest is purely personal taste .
I saw your 58 last year in Antibes , you also modified a lot on that boat I read in the MBY magazine ...

The good thing about the 78 is , that it is a trouble free boat after all this years .... And hopefully you can boost the sales for Fairline ... I guess they are happy with the extra attention you gave them .... Good to hear from other forumites that they were well received at the stand .... This is valid for all the brands these days , I experienced , and one of the few positive points of a crisis !!!


Regards
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You are very observant Fairfine! Regarding the fly helm, I thought the Recaro seats had thicker base cushions than they turned out to have. So your bum is 100mm lower than i thought it would be when I designed the dash. To fix this, we are going to raise the seats 100mm (we will make on modified support brackets) and that will solve the problem. I know that dash is big/high, but I did that deliberately to get all the instruments the way I wanted them, and the 15inch Garmin screens

And yes those switches in the saloon are a bit messy. I just had too much to do when speccing the boat to turn my attention to them. It's a personal thing, but I don't really mind them :-)

Croatia in a Sq55 sounds great. Did you have the sq58 that was based there (near Split, or Trogir, or Zadar, I think) in 2007-8? I was in chartered Beneteau in Summer 2007 near Mljet and you drove past me. There is/was also a charter s74 there, Illusion. I chartered in Croatia this summer too and several posters on this forum visit or are based there. I will be bringng 78/70 to Croatia and Montenegro for about a month, in 2012.

Yes I had the Sq58 in Antibes and it was modified quite a lot. Thread here. Very nice boat, and now based nearby in Cap ferrat with new owners who love it
 
JFM , there are a few 58's there , but it is possible ... I was there in 2006/7 .
Let's stay in contact , I can pass you a valuable list of very good restaurants in Croatia than , for your 2012 trip .....
 
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