Bought Beneteau Antares 30 Fly - Seamotion

baldyash said:
Also as an owner I whole heartily agree with the previous comments!:encouragement:
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I have used mine the past 3 weekends and am getting used to it(and like it) more and more. I am very happy with the boat so far. I am in the middle of carrying out a few jobs prior to the good weather arriving to make it a bit more useable. The 2KW :DVictron Inverter arrived last week which I intend to fit next time home together with 4 x new AGM 140ah batteries(3 x hotel & 1 x engine). I have already got rid of the useless bin inside the huge galley cupboard and fitted a shelf so increasing the storage 3 fold. The flybridge cover I had made fits really well and is also piece of mind for next autumn and those damn leaves. I had it designed to fit with the flybridge table erected so allowing for all the cushions/sunpads to be stowed up there out of the way. I have the cockpit table on order and will also be fitting that in about a fortnight when I get home. I will post some photos as soon as the work has been completed. i have photos already on my phone but my techo skills prevent me from putting them on here !!
 
Dinks66 said:
I have used mine the past 3 weekends and am getting used to it(and like it) more and more. I am very happy with the boat so far. I am in the middle of carrying out a few jobs prior to the good weather arriving to make it a bit more useable. The 2KW :DVictron Inverter arrived last week which I intend to fit next time home together with 4 x new AGM 140ah batteries(3 x hotel & 1 x engine). I have already got rid of the useless bin inside the huge galley cupboard and fitted a shelf so increasing the storage 3 fold. The flybridge cover I had made fits really well and is also piece of mind for next autumn and those damn leaves. I had it designed to fit with the flybridge table erected so allowing for all the cushions/sunpads to be stowed up there out of the way. I have the cockpit table on order and will also be fitting that in about a fortnight when I get home. I will post some photos as soon as the work has been completed. i have photos already on my phone but my techo skills prevent me from putting them on here !!
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I'll be interested to see the pics of your battery and inverter installation. I've worked out my battery requirements and calculate 1 x 220Ah AGM will be enough working on a 50% discharge rate. I hope it will fit next to the existing engine start battery, but I think the battery box will need to be removed to make room. I'm visiting Paul on Romans 8 today and I'll take a measurement while I'm there.

Which brand battery are you going with, I'm looking at Victron energy?

Anders
 
Anders_P42 said:
I'll be interested to see the pics of your battery and inverter installation. I've worked out my battery requirements and calculate 1 x 220Ah AGM will be enough working on a 50% discharge rate. I hope it will fit next to the existing engine start battery, but I think the battery box will need to be removed to make room. I'm visiting Paul on Romans 8 today and I'll take a measurement while I'm there.

Which brand battery are you going with, I'm looking at Victron energy?

Anders
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The 140 AH batteries I bought are identical in size to the OEM ones so 2 will be a direct replacement in the battery box. I have made 2 brackets and a marine ply shelf above these for the other 2 batteries which should fit quite nicely. I am unsure what type of charging the alternator will put out but I was told (by a so called battery expert) if it is only single outlet then with the engine running it will only ever charge the batteries to the capacity of the smaller of the 2 (or 4 in this case). That is why I decided to keep all batteries the same size. He reckoned that due to the shore power charger being a twin outlet then that would be ok for different AH batteries but not when charging by engine alternator. I am no battery expert so have to take what advice I can get !! As far as the inverter is concerned, I intend to fit it under the lower helm position as far to stbd as possible. I can just about get into the space but it will be a tight squeeze when I come to drill holes and actually install the unit. Not looking forward to this bit. I have already sorted out a switch unit for SHORE/OFF/INVERTER which will be sited right next to the incoming shore breaker/RCD in the Lazarette. The invereter will feed directly into this shore breaker/RCD leaving the boat wiring intact. The only other issue should then be the fwd consumer unit under the helm position. I will need to fit another breaker into the consumer unit so that I can split the sockets and battery charger supplies which are currently on the same breaker(you cannot have an inverter trying to charge it's own supply batteries so the charger will need to be switched off when on inverter power). The immersion heater is the other breaker in the fwd consumer unit which can be switched on and off as required as this will flatten the batteries in no time(1200w). I just bought the cheapest AGM batteries which have good warranty and I am also not looking forward to lifting them into position. I will hopefully have all the work completed within the next 3 weeks so will get some photos on here for you as soon as !!
 
Anders_P42 said:
I'll be interested to see the pics of your battery and inverter installation. I've worked out my battery requirements and calculate 1 x 220Ah AGM will be enough working on a 50% discharge rate. I hope it will fit next to the existing engine start battery, but I think the battery box will need to be removed to make room. I'm visiting Paul on Romans 8 today and I'll take a measurement while I'm there.

Which brand battery are you going with, I'm looking at Victron energy?

Anders
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Sorry Anders I may have confused the issue now that I have read my post. The battery capacity thing will only come into effect if you have different sized batteries parallelled up. So basically if you parallel a 220 and 140AH battery together you effectively end up with 2 x 140AH batteries.(well that was how it was explained to me anyhow). Our boats have seperate circuits so the engine and hotel batteries supply different circuits so you should be ok with 1x 140(engine) and 1 x 220(hotel) battery. Clear as mud LOL !!!!
 
Dinks66, I measured up the battery compartment at around 47cm wide so the Victron 220Ah battery will sit along side the exisiting 140Ah Exide battery if the battery box is removed. Both batteries will still use the oem straps which is suppose is better than nothing.

I planned to have the Victron wired slightly differently.

- The 240V cable supplying the consumer unit under the helm will be used to power the Victron.
- There are two 240V outlet from Victron, one that is only live when shore power is present - this will feed 240V immersion heater, so no chance of batteries going flat if heater is left on.
- Existing consumer unit re-located to forward bulkhead, this could be used to protect 240V immersion heater
- The 240V inverter output will be connected to the existing 240V circuit via a second consumer unit

This set up will allow seamless operation between shore power or the inverter. If I unplug shore power, the Victron will switch to inverter power with no break in 240V to the outlets and the 240V immersion heater will be disconnected at the same time. The boats batteries will charge when ever there is 240V connected to the shore power connector - whether marina power, or a small Honda generator to boost batteries if out for an extended amount of time.

I'd like to say a big thank you to Paul and his family who showed great hospitality during my visit on their boat yesterday. I was treated to a surprise cruise on the boat which was a great experience and the first time at sea rather than boat sat in the marina. I was pleasantly surprised at the noise levels in the salon given the engine is a few inches below the floor and the ride was very smooth.

Lunch was served when we got back to the marina, big thanks to Paul's wife for a never ending supply of rolls and cups of tea :D

Haslar marina was a pleasant surprise, its location seems much better than Swanwick with more local amenities and £2K cheaper per annum. The only downside I can find is the lack of storage facilities on shore - Swanwick offer storage units that would be perfect for fishing tackle, sun pad cusions etc when not in use.

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Alex Page berthing master at Haslar Marina has replied
" Ah that's brilliant!! �� nice words there as well for Haslar! Maybe I should explain that we do have storage facilities! ��"
 
Paul, here's some vid of Romans8 taken on Ashley's phone. She looks great at speed, when you first approached us we thought it was a much larger boat heading towards us.

Anders

 
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Thanks Anders great to see boat at speed!
Only a few weeks before you take delivery of your New Beneteau Antares 30 Flybridge - then we can go out in convoy.
 
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Hi Anders, I have finally fitted my folding cockpit table. Sorry the photo isn't that great. Next job is fitting 2 extra speakers to the flybridge and the LED's in the cockpit. I also need to Semco all the deck wooden strips.
 
Looks great :) I won't have table fitted until after the Flexiteek goes down end of July.

I bought one of these for sound on flybridge, it runs on batteries and you can stream music from an ipad, iPhone or other Bluetooth enabled device. It has aux input too, so you can plug headphone output from TV to give a boost to sound. It has surprisingly good bass for size.

Anders
 
Dinks66 said:
Cracking idea that Anders !!
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Now completed about 60 hours
Brilliant boat!
Best of all worlds as ex RIB owners - fly bridge allows us to enjoy RIB conditions open air spray when choppy!
Inside cabin comfort with heated cabin, lots of different spaces for all our family age ranges
Fourteenth boat we have owned
All family rate it the best!
Just did a fuel test for economy
Took boat on plane throttled back to 2700 revs stayed on plane over to Cowes at about 16 knots up medina river returned to Gosport used about 38 litres just over 30 miles trip
Brilliant economy
What a boat��
 
"what a brilliant boat"---I concur!Had a very interesting trip on ours, w/e before last. Left our temp. home to take her back after a month & all was fine.Got rougher & rougher , slower & slower.Boat was fine we were a little shaken not stirred but OK.It was a typical wind over tide ,Thames estuary short chop. Spray over the top, wipers constant. Boat never once faltered. :)
 
romans8 said:
Now completed about 60 hours
Brilliant boat!
Best of all worlds as ex RIB owners - fly bridge allows us to enjoy RIB conditions open air spray when choppy!
Inside cabin comfort with heated cabin, lots of different spaces for all our family age ranges
Fourteenth boat we have owned
All family rate it the best!
Just did a fuel test for economy
Took boat on plane throttled back to 2700 revs stayed on plane over to Cowes at about 16 knots up medina river returned to Gosport used about 38 litres just over 30 miles trip
Brilliant economy
What a boat��
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16 knots is a little fast for the medina;)
 
I agree too fast for Medina - we went from Gosport to Cowes at 16 knots - up the Medina to Folly inn at 4 knots!
Then back to Gosport at 16 knots against the wind!
Great trip
Great boat!
 
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