Boating aspirations?

Firefly625 said:
Mike... well I know I said 1m will do... but if someone was feeling generous I might swap the Hardy 42 for a new Nordhavn 72...., just over half the size of the 120, but still lovely.. and I think I could just make it up to Mercury with that! :D
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Yup, I think it was the 72 we saw a few months ago at Nordhavn's open day at Hamble Point. It's absolutely enormous inside and looks like a battleship. OK if youre going to limit me to £10m, I'll settle for the 72:)
 
z1ppy said:
i do love dreaming on a friday!

seeing as i have always wanted the boat i now have im not sure i would buy anything different at the moment!

how about using the money so i can work 4 days a week rather than 7 and then get more time to use the boat??
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:D +1 (Awesome boat too! :))

As a 'newbie' boater I get almost as much enjoyment 'tinkering' as being out there on the water. Sufficient funds would more likely see me semi-retire and restore boats rather than splash out on something that needed 100+ hours work a week to run! Hence the question - curious as to what others aspire to and how a big cash injection would change their outlook. Too many gloomy, sniping threads lately so also felt a bit of fun was in order... :rolleyes:

I would probably learn to sail too (Shhhh! :o) - probably wouldn't be as enthusiastic as with the mobos, but having the time to try would be nice!
 
Deleted User said:
Yup, I think it was the 72 we saw a few months ago at Nordhavn's open day at Hamble Point. It's absolutely enormous inside and looks like a battleship. OK if youre going to limit me to £10m, I'll settle for the 72:)
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Mike you are just fickle, a few years ago a Flemming 55 was your dream boat. Or maybe you wouldn't fit on that any more.........:D
 
I suspect that those who say that they will be restrained may act differently if it ever happened. I am genuinely amazed at what I now spend on cars, meals, flying (PPL), holidays, and a boat (hadn't even thought of one until about a month before we bought it), when I think back to my upbringing on a Cooncil estate where we got one 'big' present at Xmas, turns each.
On the other hand, maybe now that I have it, I see no reason not to enjoy it.
 
AllanJ said:
I suspect that those who say that they will be restrained may act differently if it ever happened. I am genuinely amazed at what I now spend on cars, meals, flying (PPL), holidays, and a boat (hadn't even thought of one until about a month before we bought it), when I think back to my upbringing on a Cooncil estate where we got one 'big' present at Xmas, turns each.
On the other hand, maybe now that I have it, I see no reason not to enjoy it.
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As they say, you can't take it with you!

I'm reaching that age where friends and colleagues are beginning to fall away. My oldest standing friend lost a thirty year battle against MS a couple of months ago. A neighbour who could not have been much older than me dies of a brain tumor just before last Christmas and a colleague just a few years older than me is likely to go before this Christmas with another brain tumor.

So, while we still have the strength to sail, we are going for it full-tilt. We've traded in our little Ranger, sold some shares and cleared out a couple of accounts and we expect delivery of our brand new SO33i mid-October. My old school friend had no living close relatives, so he's left me a nice legacy - that will go to kit out the new boat with all mod-cons and a decent level of electronic bling...

If business holds up for the next three or four years, the 33i will be traded in for a 509! :-)
 
maby said:
As they say, you can't take it with you!

I'm reaching that age where friends and colleagues are beginning to fall away. My oldest standing friend lost a thirty year battle against MS a couple of months ago. A neighbour who could not have been much older than me dies of a brain tumor just before last Christmas and a colleague just a few years older than me is likely to go before this Christmas with another brain tumor.

So, while we still have the strength to sail, we are going for it full-tilt. We've traded in our little Ranger, sold some shares and cleared out a couple of accounts and we expect delivery of our brand new SO33i mid-October. My old school friend had no living close relatives, so he's left me a nice legacy - that will go to kit out the new boat with all mod-cons and a decent level of electronic bling...

If business holds up for the next three or four years, the 33i will be traded in for a 509! :-)
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that's the spirit!

..My mum & dad still sail regularly at 81 years young on their tod on a whopping great Contest 46... all 19 tonnes of it.. But he's going to the boat show... I think he still believes there's another boat still left...
 
AllanJ said:
I suspect that those who say that they will be restrained may act differently if it ever happened. I am genuinely amazed at what I now spend on cars, meals, flying (PPL), holidays, and a boat (hadn't even thought of one until about a month before we bought it), when I think back to my upbringing on a Cooncil estate where we got one 'big' present at Xmas, turns each.
On the other hand, maybe now that I have it, I see no reason not to enjoy it.
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My goodness, you even say 'council' poshly now; what on earth would you be like if you won that mil or 10? ;)
 
Maby, thats so sad but as you say...to a great extent we all have to live for the day coz you never know when your time is up. I'm so grateful to have found a passion in boating. It brings such a fantastic quality to life.
 
longjohnsilver said:
Mike you are just fickle, a few years ago a Flemming 55 was your dream boat. Or maybe you wouldn't fit on that any more.........:D
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I'll have you know that I've shed a few pounds recently and thats not just from my wallet. I am a svelte toned new man now (well, a bit):)
Yup, the F55 used to be my dreamboat but no longer I'm afraid. For sure it is a gorgeous boat built to the highest standards but it has a couple of issues which are big minus points for us. First off, the master cabin is still in the bow when virtually every other builder of similarly sized trawler yachts is managing to fit palatial full beam master cabins amidships. Having met Tony Fleming at SIBS last year, he explained that this arrangement meant that you could access the cabins without tramping thru and over the pilothouse but I still think its a downer. The second issue is the small size of the saloon. When the F53 begat the F55, all they did was extend the cockpit which means that IMHO there's far too much space given over to the cockpit and too little given to the saloon. But then Fleming are still selling as many F55s as they can build so what do I know?
The Fleming we really like is the F65 but having rummaged down the back of the sofa several times, it doesn't look as though we'll manage to raise the £3m we need to buy one of those:(
 
Yes I looked at the same boat at LIBS this year and was also surprised at the lack of an aft cabin. Presumably the 65 has one? Otherwise they are great looking boats with top notch fittings with great attention to detail.

Only £3mil, time to sell the MIL, wife, kids, grandkids, great grandkids....:D
 
longjohnsilver said:
Yes I looked at the same boat at LIBS this year and was also surprised at the lack of an aft cabin. Presumably the 65 has one? Otherwise they are great looking boats with top notch fittings with great attention to detail.

Only £3mil, time to sell the MIL, wife, kids, grandkids, great grandkids....:D
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The 65 has a choice of layouts with either forward or midships master cabins plus the saloon feels much bigger than the extra 10ft in length suggests.
That lot wont fetch 3 quid let alone 3 million:(
 
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