Boats you've owned?

[Martin999]

Enterprise - Who Noes
Laser 3000
MGSpring 25 - Breath of Spring
Laser 4000
Laser 1
Hunter Channel 31 - Doobie
Maxi 1100- Andiamo

also sailed and raced on a few other boats

 

[Martyn13]

Hi Martyn

Indeed it is! I think the 290 looks good. I'm guessing the bathtub remark is related to the nearly-plumb stem and stern, which of course result in a LWL that many more traditional boats of 32-34ft LOA can't match. Overhangs look lovely, but they don't contain much usable space.

Anyway: I'm where you were a year ago, trying to snag myself a 290. I hope you have had some sailing in Deep Thought this year. If so, I'd love to hear how you have got on with her. I tried to PM you, but I think have hit the same problem you did - I don't yet qualify for that privilege.

cheers

Chris

Morning Chris,

Very happy with the 290 now called Corona???? , its very spacious for a 9m boat more like 10m. Sails very well and is indeed fast. We have managed just over 300nm , not bad for our first season. No problems at all. There have been 3 boats for sale but all went within a week and at asking price.

I did try a PM but not permitted.

happy hunting,

Martyn

 

[bitbaltic]

Bit of a necrothread but why not. I happily still own the only boat I have ever owned, Hanse 301 #160 ‘Karisma’ with ten years ownership coming up on 17th November. And many years more to come.

 

[LooseHeadPop]

Morning Chris,

Very happy with the 290 now called Corona???? , its very spacious for a 9m boat more like 10m. Sails very well and is indeed fast. We have managed just over 300nm , not bad for our first season. No problems at all. There have been 3 boats for sale but all went within a week and at asking price.

I did try a PM but not permitted.

happy hunting,

Martyn

Thanks Martyn.

If the ???? are replacing 'virus', you are one ? short of a pandemic. Or is it that you are undecided? Anyway, glad to hear you are enjoying the boat. As it happens, I'm having a beer with the previous owner tomorrow evening, to learn what I can from him.

Yes, I missed all three through being a bit casual. AAMOI, how do you know they went at asking price? My experience is that brokers won't say what a boat fetched.

cheers

Chris

 

[LadyInBed]

Nothing has changed since I replied in #5, but all a year or so older!

 

[Skysail]

Merlin 1711 Proctor Mk XVI Fearless
Merlin 2890 Ghost Rider Freelance Temp
Merlin Smokers Satisfaction Caroline of Ansbach
Merlin NSM2 Vampire
Merlin 1632 Star Rocket Telos
Merlin 3054 Smokers Satisfaction After Myth

Moody 336 Skyva 2
Jeanneau 43DS Philippa
Moody 36 Sofie

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Plywood Mistress
Westerly Windrush
9m Catalac
2.5 Ton Hillyard
Nicholson26
Neptunian 33

 

[seumask]

I think the thread should be include boats you have a strong family interest in, i.e you sailed and looked after with your family both Parents and children. By that measure from the age of 8 to current 50ish we are at
17 Sailing Dinghys,
4 Yachts
13 Windsurfers
2 Paddle boards,
5 inflatable tenders

Currently in the owned fleet
5 Sailing Dingy's ( Including 1 sailing tender),
1 Yacht
1 Rib
7 Windsurfers,
2 paddle boards
3 inflatable tenders!

H'mm that needs trimming down as I cant possibly use all of those in a year!

 

[NealB]

I think the thread should include boats you have a strong family interest in, i.e you sailed and looked after with your family both Parents and children.

I'll go with your suggestion......

If I go back to my childhood, Dad's first boat was a lovely 16 foot clinker built motor boat, with a small Evinrude outboard. Somehow, we managed to have weekends away with Mum, Dad and my two sisters all sleeping onboard. Never venturing far, always around the Crouch and the Roach. I loved it, but my older sister detested it (and still won't come out for even a couple of hours on our current boats, all these decades later).

After a couple of years, Dad decided that he really needed a proper yacht.

He did a part-exchange deal with Lewis Marine, in Wanstead, East London, and became the proud owner of a huge (20 feet oa), marine ply, Hurley Felicity, 'Minx'. She opened up a whole new world of long distance cruising, to exotic places like the Blackwater, the Walton backwaters, Harwich. Real adventure.

When I was ten, 'Minx' was sold, and Dad bought a lovely 32 foot converted pilot cutter. She'd been built in 1939, by John Brown on the Clyde, and then beautifully converted to a four berth bermudan sloop, by a woodwork teacher. She gave us real deep sea exploration, to strange foreign lands such as Calais and Zeebrugge.

 

[michael_w]

My list needs updating. Sold the Oyster Heritage and bought a Dehler 35 CWS. Nice to have a boat that points like a tourist again!

 

[seumask]

Some of the early days were spent sailing in Kenya, no Yacht then but safari with a laser on the landrover roof. A couple of very memorable trips to the coast north of Lamu and close to Somalia. Snorkling hanging off the back of the laser sailing along over the reef, that was amazing!
Going drift net fishing in the local 30 ft Dhows and being seasick when they stopped to haul in the nets and the Dhow rocked with no sail to steady it, not helped by the overwhelming smell of fish in the bilges! Same Dhow got rolled on the reef coming in the following day, fortuantely it was all wood and the sand bag ballast fell out when upside down and the boat floated into the shore to be recovered and rerigged the following day.

 

[Habebty]

My list needs updating. Sold the Oyster Heritage and bought a Dehler 35 CWS. Nice to have a boat that points like a tourist again!

If above a force 7, would you serve Oyster Heritage with Heritage carrots? ?

 

[cueball]

Vivacity
Westerly Merlin
MG335
Prout sirocco
Starlight39

 

[NealB]

If above a force 7, would you serve Oyster Heritage with Heritage carrots? ?

I guess I'm just too working class to get that one, Guv'nor: sounds proper posh!

 

[Manosk]

From 1985 onwards
Folkboat
Jaguar 27
Feeling 920
Dehler 34
Forgus 37
Nordship 32 and probably my lastboat
No wonder 1 am broke too