Concorde Fiesta manual

[Warpa]

Anyone know where i can find an owners manual for this boat, to buy or to download, i would like to learn more about it and its history

 

[PCUK]

Afraid you won't find one as there is no such thing. Boat builders (especially small back-shed firms) until recently never produced any sort of manual. Best to ask specific questions and build up your own portfolio.

 

[Warpa]

Afraid you won't find one as there is no such thing. Boat builders (especially small back-shed firms) until recently never produced any sort of manual. Best to ask specific questions and build up your own portfolio.

Thats a shame I would like to get the boat back to standard condition. Some one has done a hidious attempt at carpentry and built a box for the battery, but to access the terminals you need to pull the seats out to slide it forward and up to have enough clearance to open the lid, a radio has been fitted where there should have been dials (for what i dont know, maybe speed and revs)

There are wires under the throttle lever doing nothing too. Its a nice 80's boat that i plan getting as near to mint as possible this winter, and would like it in its original form.

I would have thought some info would be hidden somewhere on the intrawebnet

 

[MikeA]

The Concorde range of speedboats were built by Dudley Marine in Milford Haven during the seventies and eighties. I used to have a Concorde Florida which was virtually identical to the fiesta although a little larger at 17'6". I think towards the end of the eighties some of the moulds were rented out to someone on the south coast, but don't know much more than that. The owner of Dudley Marine was Lyn Dudley and his wife, they also owned a fishing/watersports shop in Milford Haven. IIRC Lyn's main job was a woodwork teacher at a local comprehensive school. I'm pretty sure there was never a manual for these boats.

Mike

 

[Warpa]

The Concorde range of speedboats were built by Dudley Marine in Milford Haven during the seventies and eighties. I used to have a Concorde Florida which was virtually identical to the fiesta although a little larger at 17'6". I think towards the end of the eighties some of the moulds were rented out to someone on the south coast, but don't know much more than that. The owner of Dudley Marine was Lyn Dudley and his wife, they also owned a fishing/watersports shop in Milford Haven. IIRC Lyn's main job was a woodwork teacher at a local comprehensive school. I'm pretty sure there was never a manual for these boats.

Mike

Very informative What size engine did you have on the Florida and how did it handle? Just curious how it will behave if crossing to the IOW

 

[MikeA]

We had a Merc 100 on it and it went like stink, the hulls are quite narrow and the handling on ours was great but at full throttle there was next to no boat in the water so she used to start to hop and move about a bit. The boats were built for speed more than stability although we used ours mainly for skiing.

Dudley Marine also ran powerboat trips out of Saundersfoot during the eighties using a one off 20ft version, coincidentally it's just been sold on ebay (item 120613228273). Ours, like yours was one of the later models as the earlier ones didn't have the stainless rail behind the screen. Be careful with that, the boats are made to be thrown around at speed but a good wave over the bow and the screen tends to break against the stainless as it's not able to flex fully - we went through 3 screens on ours!

Mike

 

[Warpa]

We had a Merc 100 on it and it went like stink, the hulls are quite narrow and the handling on ours was great but at full throttle there was next to no boat in the water so she used to start to hop and move about a bit. The boats were built for speed more than stability although we used ours mainly for skiing.

Dudley Marine also ran powerboat trips out of Saundersfoot during the eighties using a one off 20ft version, coincidentally it's just been sold on ebay (item 120613228273). Ours, like yours was one of the later models as the earlier ones didn't have the stainless rail behind the screen. Be careful with that, the boats are made to be thrown around at speed but a good wave over the bow and the screen tends to break against the stainless as it's not able to flex fully - we went through 3 screens on ours!

Mike

Sounds like you had a barrel of fun it also sounds as though at sensible throttle it should be good to handle a bit of rough sea, im not talking North sea in winter, just a swell in the summer

My old inflatable with a 4.5 on the back could take a lot more than maybe it should, if i were alone it had no weight and could take a right pounding...ill find the limits of the fiesta

 

[PCUK]

When you find the limits - stay just this side of them!!!