DESIGNED FOR YOUNG MEN NOT THOSE THAT BUY THEM

[penpal]

Have you noticed how motor cruisers are designed in such a way that you have to be a young man to be able to jump off and on! did the designers not think that the ones who can afford these machines are middle age men who are not so agile as they used to be. Most new models you can only get on from the bathing platform, and mosgt of those taper away from the sides so you have to leep off at afunny angle.

My boat is 33 years old,i get step off from the side with dignity and without jarring my back or breaking my knees. When will they design boats for the buyers.

 

[duncan]

most are designed for stern to mooring - simple as that.

 

[tcm]

Hm. Most powerboats are built with a primary design requirment of shagging about 6 women at a time, then having a massive lunch and drinking a fridge full of booze whilst another fridge full of booze is cooled down and more wimmin called on board.

I supose things woulds be a bit neater if the wimmin could be chucked on/off the boat a bit more quickly, so i agree that this is a design issue that should be addressed asap...

 

[David2452]

Some is, some aint, yer pays yer money, yer takes yer choice. Mines 10 months old and falls into the some aint category.

 

[Whitelighter]

Haven't come across a situation where I need to exit the boat from the foredeck anyway. Much safer to have everyone leave/enter via the cockpit.

 

[jforgan]

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Hm. Most powerboats are built with a primary design requirment of shagging about 6 women at a time, then having a massive lunch and drinking a fridge full of booze whilst another fridge full of booze is cooled down and more wimmin called on board.


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When I bought my boat that's exactly what the Ancasta salesman told me. But I've been down at Hythe since 7:00 this morning and haven't been approached by a single bird even though I've stocked both fridges with Red Bull and Pepperami's

Have I got grounds to get my money back?

I don't know about the boat being difficult to get on/off, but I broke a nail trying to vault off the pontoon onto the hard. Didn't get much sympathy, just told to lose weight /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

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Wrong time of year. Try the same thing in July.

dv.

 

[hlb]

Must have never got out the marina then. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Loads of places. Harbour walls, alongside ships, trawlers, indeed alonside most anybody.

But I agree, the getting on and off of boats seems to have been left off the design spec. These days there all designed for stern to mooring. But I for one have hardly ever moored stern to in my life. Even then, I've never been able to get off that way. The swim platform has the dinghy in the way and if you get passed that there are ropes waiting to snare your legs because of the daft 45% arse end of newer boats.

 

[Frontier]

I have the dinghy on my stern too. In the summer (being marina dwellers) I usually put her in bow first so we can sit out back with a bit of privacy.

I can get off at the side just after the radar arch but the fingers are short at our marina so I can’t get to the bathing platform when I am bows in. Which is a pain as the gas shut-off is in a locker there.

 

[duncan]

cripes hlb - you're surely not suggesting that boats are designed to actually leave the marina?

gulp /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[hlb]

Oh. Mine designed to leave the marina. Just not actually be in one! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

I dont have problems cos I insist on an along side berth and always had one. Dont visit other marinas less totally desperate. There not very nice places are they.

 

[Whitelighter]

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Must have never got out the marina then. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Loads of places. Harbour walls, alongside ships, trawlers, indeed alonside most anybody.


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Not at all. Marina berths everyone can step from the cockpit to the swim platform and onto the pontoon. High quays, there are steps from the cockpit which allow you to exit onto something maybe up to 1m from the water. more than that, or another boat, easily onto the side decks and over the low rails (at the mid point rails are only 20cm above the deck).

What have I missed?

 

[hlb]

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[Whitelighter]

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[hlb]

Sorry I meant.

Haven't come across a situation where I need to exit the boat from the foredeck anyway. Much safer to have everyone leave/enter via the cockpit.


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[Nautical]

Dunno what the problem is, everyone seems to think you can't moor stern to in the UK /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I always moor stern to on the toon and a bit of adjusty with the warps and I am a foot from the toon from the swim platform, step on, step off, step on, step off to your hearts content even old wrinkley's can step on and off cus the platform is exactly the same level as the toon, big benefit for us of course is we have a tender garage so no rubber duck plonked on the platform just a nice 8' X 3' clear space right at toon level.

Now older boats, what a pain, usually no swim platform so you either have to jump off three foot up from the side deck or do some leg over contortions from the cockpit.

I mean you'd need to be a cripple not to be able to get on and off on ours (furry nuff not quite as close as I normally would have her but you get the drift), even when I am further away just go al a med style /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif.....remote control in me pocket, push button... out comes 8' foot of passerelle (can see door just under VP mans left foot) and hey presto your own personal boarding gangway /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Lakesailor]

So, was this part of the purchasing brief that Lady D agreed with your good self when buying said power-cruiser-motorey boat?

 

[pheran]

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do some leg over contortions

[/ QUOTE ] How very dare you............. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif And not at my age you don't! And is that actually your boat? 'Cos your bio sez Absolute 39 and that one sez Absolute 41? Nuffink if not observant /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Nautical]

Er well, if you check my link on bio you'll understand /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif, currently have three, 39 in IOM, 41 in Hamble and a 45 in SoF but the 39 is actually the one I use myself mostly.

The 41 in the picture is the one MBY tried to break on a shoot out test but didn't ...ha ha /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif they did manage however to launch it so far off the photo boat wake at thirty knots (a Phantom 50) that he knocked all the trips off on landing, spectacular splash though! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif.