Boat in build pics (Squadron 78)

[Mr Googler]

To echo others, the very biggest congratulations on successful completion of the "Forum Ship"

Thankyou so much for taking us on this journey with you and best wishes for the many enjoyable miles to come.

 

[newWave]

Thank you for sharing Match with all of us.
Enjoy her to the fullest.

 

[EME]

+1

Congratulations:- Special Thanks to the Designer, Development Lead, Master Shipbuilder, Surveyor, Electronic Network analyst, Interior Designer, Fabricator, Photographer, LoadMaster, MCA Expert, Delivery Skipper and most of that with a broken leg .... oh, and Customer.

Thanks for the journey -- what do I do next winter without "Match"? I suppose a tad more work.

 

[John100156]

.....We had little fuel so went 70nm to Sant Carles de la Rapita, MDL’s marina in Spain. This is the entry to the marina

JFM

I was in SC a couple of weeks ago and heard you were visiting! We are back out there in May. I considered waiting......

Anyway, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all of your (and other) posts and have found them both informative and very interesting. Many thanks for taking the time and effort, much appreciated. She looks like a fantastic boat, I trust you will enjoy many years of trouble free and exciting cruises!

Don't suppose you can just pop back to SC in May for a private viewing? I reckon you should escort Jenny Wren and Warlock back just in case they get into trouble........;-)

 

[JAR]

Outstanding thread, outstanding journey, JFM your a lucky lucky man

Be good and be at good it !

 

[MYAG]

.......And then at about 1am we arrived in Antibes. Woohoo! Here is Match finally on here new berth in Antibes the next morning, all in great shape apart from needing a clean:

Looking splendid on her new berth JFM, superb effort to get her there safe and sound and on time. Happy boating.

 

[Kipper]

Many thanks for sharing it will be sad to end this thread but we all look forward to the final night time shot. A fitting end to an epoc thread.

 

[Lozzer]

John

Congratulations, months of toil finally finished, now a time to enjoy all the hard work you have put in.

Safe boating wherever you might be.

Regards

 

[Nautical]

J. Congratulations, fantastic journey you have taken us all on. Will be dropping by next visit to Antibies .

BTW is your berth next to that Pershing where a certain footballer used to have his ABS 47?

 

[BrendanS]

Great thread, up there with the best we've had on here. Congrats and enjoy her!

 

[longjohnsilver]

John, well done, bet you were sweating when she was craned off the ship, sounds as though it could have all come to grief if you weren't there!
Your fenders look small on the port side, presumably they don't need to be any bigger as they are set at the likely rubbing position with the boat next to you?
Excellent thread, I know you'll have a great time over the coming year until the next boat.............

 

[BartW]

Fairline and Essex Boatyards really have been fantastic and all my dealings with them have been exactly how you’d want your customer/boat supplier relationship to be. .

Especially like your give and take attitude John,
your cooperative approach, and really good to hear that your two main suppliers aswell as many of your small suppliers are cooperating the same way.This kind of approach has brought me very far with my own business, really like that !

And then again, you know I’m intrigued how you manage your work, your family, your boat build project and your endless answers, suggestions, advice, here on this forum, to polite or angry people, aswel as to the poor and to the rich guy’s…
Thanks for sharing such a interesting and beautiful project.
Looking forward to the moment that I can park my new little ship along or near Match , hopefully this summer or in the near future.
Congratulations !

 

[Bajansailor]

There is a wee note re Match's colour co-ordinated Laser on page 35 of the Yacht Builder digital magazine here :
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/215d5167#/215d5167/35

And an article about Match's stabilisers on page 41 here :
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/215d5167#/215d5167/41

It appears to be a very good on line magazine - and you can sign up for a free subscription.

 

[MapisM]

It appears to be a very good on line magazine - and you can sign up for a free subscription.

Yep, interesting, thanks for posting.
There's something to be said about the stabs article, though.
First of all, the statement "fins are buoyant, so effectively weightless in water": if that was a journo invention, fine.
But if he was reporting something a Sleipner guy told him, I would love to hear if he calls "weightless" also the whole 60T (or whatever) of the boat, by the same token.
Secondly, it would be interesting to hear from J about those 37 kts...

 

[SteveE]

Secondly, it would be interesting to hear from J about those 37 kts...

It mentions a Princess 78 doing 37 knots, what engines does that have?

 

[jfm]

Looking forward to the moment that I can park my new little ship along or near Match , hopefully this summer or in the near future.
Congratulations !

For sure Bart. Keep in touch about your itinerary for the Blue Angel delivery voyage/cruise to Marseille this summer!

 

[jfm]

There is a wee note re Match's colour co-ordinated Laser on page 35 of the Yacht Builder digital magazine here :
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/215d5167#/215d5167/35

And an article about Match's stabilisers on page 41 here :
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/215d5167#/215d5167/41

It appears to be a very good on line magazine - and you can sign up for a free subscription.

Bajan, thanks for those links. Interesting stuff. Ronny, the guy pictured in the stabs article, (looks like Jeremy Clarkson) is a director and shareholder of Sleipner (as is his father). He is an experienced boater as well as engineer and has taken a strong personal interest in the stabs project on my boat. He has been on board several times but he flew down from Oslo last week to try some mods to the software on my stabilsers, and we were "lucky" enough to have strong winds and big seas. Normally i wouldn't have gone out in those seas but we did it to try the stabs. We had breaking waves on the beam, big ones, and the stabs were just amazing. I could have done a hundred miles in those seas. Jack Haines from MBY was on board and he was amazed by how good they were too.

 

[jfm]

the statement "fins are buoyant, so effectively weightless in water": if that was a journo invention, fine.
But if he was reporting something a Sleipner guy told him, I would love to hear if he calls "weightless" also the whole 60T (or whatever) of the boat, by the same token.

I don't think that's right Mapis. The analogy with the 60T boat that you make is not logical. The stabs add weight but they add hull volume too, so they are indeed weightless so far as the boat is concerned. i mean, they do not make the boat hull sit any lower in the water. Normally when you add hardware to a boat the existing hull volume has to support it, so the boat sinks a millimetre or two into the water. So I think his point is valid, if you see what I mean. (IMHO!)

 

[jfm]

It mentions a Princess 78 doing 37 knots, what engines does that have?

I suspect that is just a mistake, unless there is a model of V78 (with the 1800hp CATs? I dunno off hand...) that does 37kts. AFAIK Princess have fitted stabs to V78 as well as flybridge 78. I think Princess have fitted 5 or 6 boats with these stabs now, or something like that, the smallest being the 72 flybridge. This is my general hearsay understnading; others might have more precise info

 

[jfm]

Thanks everyone for the good wishes. As this thread is drawing to a close I thought it might be nice to finish it off with some pics of the boat cruising in her natural habitat. All these were taken last weekend and the weekend before. Some were taken by guests on the boat and are pretty high quality photos, and copyright remains with the photographer so please do not use them for any purpose other than just looking at them on here

We cruised a bit in company with Hurricane’s m/y Jenny Wren, and also m/y Warlock which has been pictured on this forum before. They or I might write a proper trip report with more pictures later, so I won’t make this post a full report on the cruising.

The first weekend was spent on the Cote D’Azur. Here is the boat anchored in Villefranche

The douanes stopped us for a paperwork check but couldn’t find anything wrong with my (or JW’s and Warlock’s) paperwork so they said good day and let us go. They didn’t ask for my VAT invoice but saw it in the ship’s apers book and told me jovially “You are mad – there is no need to pay all this tax monsieur!” when they saw I had paid VAT on the boat and was running on tax-paid fuel (I must be in a goody-2-shoes phase of life). They were actually very nice and just did a routine check, no trouble at all.

All three boats anchored overnight in Villefranche. This is Jenny Wren silhouetted against the lights of Villefranche town, and look away now if you don’t like u/w lights...

This is us leaving Villefranche

Jack Haines and "Borcher" (aka Chantal) from MBY came along. Here they are hard at work (Hugo look away now please)

And Borcher driving the tender (in the open ocean by the look of it?? No wonder we ran out of petrol the next day!)

Some brave folks went swimming while we anchored of St Jean, Cap Ferrat (the water was a bit cold...)

Below are a couple of running shots, the second one with JW in foreground

Ready for dinner between the Lerins Islands, off Cannes

And Monaco:

Then we blasted down to Corsica. JW and Warlock had gone ahead so we found them nicely anchored off Calvi (NW Corsica) as we came round the corner past Calvi’s citadel

Then we parted company and Match headed south to Bonifacio, but stopping at Scandola nature reserve en route

We finally arrived in beautiful Bonifacio. One of the top-10 port entrances to sail into on the planet imho
Here are the amazing cliffs as you enter the port...

And here we are berthed at the top (east end) of the harbour

Finally we spent a day (last Saturday) in the Lavezzi islands, between Corsica and Sardinia. This is the area depicted in the 3-D chart I have hanging in the boat’s saloon, for those who saw it at LIBS. This anchorage is one of the most beautiful anywhere when you have bright sunshine.

That’s kinda the end of this story! (till next time )