fairline 41/43 v fairline 38 fantom

[Nauti Fox]

There is forumite on the Medway who has a similar boat located not far upstream from the boat I suspect you may be looking at.
He might pick this up thread.

Mine is a 43-45 which is a bit bigger all round with 71B's so not much help (although sold to me as a 41-43 !), where is the one you're looking at on the Medway?

Ah, just seen pictures of it, it's at the Marina next door to me, the figures seem all wrong, giving a wot speed of 22 knots, cruise of 16, as already mentioned, fuel capacity, but also water capacity is wrong.

 

[Dino]

I currently have a Broom Crown with Volvos so it would be ideal for some European cruising but it’s a little slow for long passages at sea. I think the Broom 38/39/395 is an ideal boat for this sort of thing. Low aircraft, 16-18 knot cruising speed and great accommodation. However, some say they are not ideal for the Med but I think I could live with it.

 

[fred247]

Mine is a 43-45 which is a bit bigger all round with 71B's so not much help (although sold to me as a 41-43 !), where is the one you're looking at on the Medway?

Ah, just seen pictures of it, it's at the Marina next door to me, the figures seem all wrong, giving a wot speed of 22 knots, cruise of 16, as already mentioned, fuel capacity, but also water capacity is wrong.

You are quite correct all figures incorrect at
wot 2800rpm = 30 knt
Cruising 22/24 knt
Fuel 1454 ltrs
Water 591ltrs
Weight 11 tons
Length 44.3 ft
Cruising height everything up 4.88mtrs -16 ft

 

[fred247]

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[Seastoke]

I have a 41 /43 and I would not advise that trip, with the arch folded it is still higher than the flybridge screen so would have to come off. height is an issue, so is the draft, a hot summer and you could be on the bottom. much less stressful to transport it there. it was one of my planned trips until I bought the 41/43 now not worth the hassle it will not have 3000lt, just replaced my tanks and they or 750ltrs each there is no room for larger tanks. Also 435's

Could you explain what job it is to do the tanks.

 

[fred247]

Could you explain what job it is to do the tanks.

Expensive
There are two ways to achieve this, one is to remove both engines !

We chose the alternative - removing the internal furniture, which involved cutting out some of the cabinature, this included the port settee, the bar fridge cabinet. All the portside paneling in the salon which is only screwed in.

The starboard settee, and the starboard side fibre glass moulding, which has to be cut out. lift all floors and remove all under floor steel support beams. These just lift out

Cut the wooden floor support beams out from both sides above the fuel tanks.
Now the fun bits the tanks are 60 mm to long to come out so have to cut out in situ,

Replacement SS Tanks made 60mm shorter to enable installation ( a loss if about ten gals of fuel per tank)
Re install is a reverse of removal except cutting the tanks
Yard did this in two weeks at a cost of 10k
100 man hours labour plus cost of SS tanks
Thats the a bridged Version