Chinook versus C43 - May 2009 MBY review - Thoughts ?

[RIMCOas01]

I have read the article and there were some details omitted in the comparison I feel (although was in the bath with a couple of Tesco's sausage rolls and my tird glass of wine before the mag got a soaking and reading was interrupted due to swell !)

1. How come the Windy only now seems to be a good buy
- 4 months ago the pound got you 2 more norwegian kroner so now you are paying 15% more at least.

2. The Windy has bigger tanks and weighs approximately a ton more
- personally I like the idea of an extra 50-90 miles in the tank

3. The Windy will have a much higher residual value without question (Sessa over here are not rated as proper boats)
- we just had a boat show in Oslo, admittedly these models were not on show, but Sessa build quality (IMHO) is considerably less substantial than Windy.

Thus the Chinook has even more going for it
- says one dreaming of a used Windy as a "new" boat this summer (but sad to say not a Chinook).

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PS.
It was suggested this would be better here than the Lounge

 

[gjgm]

I think its a question of what they get to test, and what can then "fit" as a back to back. Seemed, price (ish), hartop, 43ft...
I suppose it depends on how flexible your criteria are, but either you want two or three cabins, surely,given the compromises?
I didnt know it was a new boy designing the hull, though, on the Windy. What I do like about the Chinook is that its obviously a Windy, which I dont think you can say from this size upwards. The hardtop certainly doesnt open the boat up like the Princess hardtops do. I wonder how the fatter hull delivers, compared to Windy's slimmer boats?
Just need to get the cherry back in vogue , and ask them to make a two cabin version/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Nautical]

I am probably not the right person to answer this /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif but 'personally' I don't agree Windy is the epitiome of absolute quality in every sense. Sessa if a very well put together boat and the equal of anything I have seen of Windy or others, indeed one Windy I have seen at a show the 44 (maybe it was the first one) was a bit ropey in some areas, not bad just not what you would expect of Windy.

I don't understand why you would say Sessa are not proper boats ? , the 46 is a brilliant piece of design and a very capable boat indeed won Motorboat of the year award beating Fairline, Sunseeker, Absolute et al. If you are talking outright upwind performance against a narrower hulled Windy well maybe but that is not comparing like for like, I doubt the 44 is any better or worse than the Sessa 43 .

Mind you if you want the fastest and most fuel efficient of the lot in that size range there is only one winner , the IPS powered ABS 43 at 42.5 knts

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

Sessa has improved dramticialy to say it can match any builder on quality today...
I dont know about the C43
I seatrialled a C46 in Force 5, 6-7 feet deep waves and I can say it is the one of the best IPS boat I have come across so far
what will make me choose the Windy versus the Sessa is only the 3 cabin layout, the rest I have to see the better