MedDreamer
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Big Spring clean today but will get around to meet everyone sometime over the weekend. Btw beautiful day here in Cala D'Or today.
Sorry for the thread drift.
I wish Fairline all the best
Fairline Boats purchased
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Big Spring clean today but will get around to meet everyone sometime over the weekend. Btw beautiful day here in Cala D'Or today.
Sorry for the thread drift.
I wish Fairline all the best
DougH
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Hi Jeremy, Martyn, Rick,
Any chance you could take a few photos of the marina works and dredging and post them on the forum.
If possible without showing the sunshine.
All I'm getting is photos from Steve Hookings showing the bottom of the boat in Adriano. Very grateful for the photos but I can see the sunshine around the edges and it is only making things worse.
I'm not really envious
Doug
Any chance you could take a few photos of the marina works and dredging and post them on the forum.
If possible without showing the sunshine.
All I'm getting is photos from Steve Hookings showing the bottom of the boat in Adriano. Very grateful for the photos but I can see the sunshine around the edges and it is only making things worse.
I'm not really envious
Doug
MedDreamer
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Doug
I would happily do that but I have no idea how to post a photo on the forum these days especially from an iPhone.
Was in the marina this afternoon, the sky was cloudless and had a look over to the forumites pontoon but there was no sign of life so wandered down to Portofino and had a coffee and probably the best carrot cake I've ever eaten.
Another day of cloudless skies forecast tomorrow, hey ho it's a hard life.
Martyn
DougH
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You can go off people.
petem
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I'm so glad the Fairline brand has been resurrected to give you lot a thread to arrange your social lives on!
MedDreamer
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Well not entirety unconnected, one of us has a Fairline and I once bought a boat off the new Fairline MD !
Anyway just giving you a feel of Med boating Pete ?
petem
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You tease!
Russell's a nice guy isn't he, as is Jimmy down in S.Mallorca? I buy a boat from them without any hesitation.
DougH
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Well get off your butt Pete and buy a boat (even a Fairline if you must) and come and join us in Cala d'Or.:encouragement:
You never know even Mike (Hurricane) might join us one day. He spends most of the summer in Mallorca.
Whitelighter
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Just to add to the thread drift, how easy/practical is it to get a 15m visitors mooring for a few days in August in Cala D'or
DougH
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In Cala d'Or there is normally room and not many get refused but as always booking ahead is advised.
If you are a Mallorca boat the marinas do give you preference if they recognise the boats name.
CLOUD9
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Will do Doug. I will take some after sunset for you. Im back in Cala d'Or on Tuesday.
boatingdave
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Hope you don't feel like that with every Fairline Owner? Boating is great fun, doesn't matter what you have (and that includes sail or power) - good luck to you.
No no Pete. It's them nasty Fairline owners that are picking on me.
They don't believe in boating democracy and freedom of speech.
I'm just suffering from winter blues (for the first time) and cannot run to the warm weather in Mallorca.
Boat is on the Hard and will not be ready for 10-14 days so until then the Fairline owners will have to put up with my grumpy posts.
Next time your in Mallorca your very welcome to come along to Cala d'Or and i'll show what a real boat looks like.
DougH
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Hope you don't feel like that with every Fairline Owner? Boating is great fun, doesn't matter what you have (and that includes sail or power) - good luck to you.
Jeez get real Dave.
It's called BANTER, fun and banter.
I don't give a dam what make or model of boat anyone has after all they are only lumps of floating GRP with names on.
Do you own a Fairline by any chance?
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boatingdave
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Not wanting to read the entire thread. That'll teach me to try and be kind. I understand 'banter' but there are folk on these forums that go too far.
petem
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Forums eh? Easy to misinterpret someone else's comments. I'm sure neither of you meant any offence.
DougH
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All OK Dave,at least we kept the Fairline thread going a little longer for Pete.
:encouragement:
petem
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All OK Dave,at least we kept the Fairline thread going a little longer for Pete.
I think people have got the idea by now!
I'm more than happy for this thread to fade until there's some proper news, i.e. new models.
boatingdave
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All OK Dave,at least we kept the Fairline thread going a little longer for Pete.
Aye, all Ok. ?
admillington
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Three new Princess Motor Yachts all supplied by boats.co.uk at Berthons Lymington yesterday - all three replacing Fairlines! Close on to £6m of new boat. There is only a few Fairlines left in the marina.
I wonder when Fairline might wake up and engage with the customers who have purchased Fairlines in the past - in almost all businesses it is easier to sell to previous customers than finding new ones. Maybe they are missing the point who the customer is - end customers buy boats - not the dealers.
It will be a great shame if Fairline fail again due to lack of a capable sales plan - they can blame market forces and competition but a lot is down to selling and they have strong competition on that front, boats.co.uk are the best in the business by a country mile.
Surely when they purchased the business, they ended up with the warranty records detailing the end user customer - maybe a series of factory visits plus showing their plans and engaging with customers - far cheaper than any boat show. Maybe they are thinking that the big opportunity is the forth coming boat shows - guess what all your competition are there as well and they know who the Fairline customers are as they sold to them and have a relationship.
As I have only purchased 7 new Fairlines, I don't appear on their radar!
I wonder when Fairline might wake up and engage with the customers who have purchased Fairlines in the past - in almost all businesses it is easier to sell to previous customers than finding new ones. Maybe they are missing the point who the customer is - end customers buy boats - not the dealers.
It will be a great shame if Fairline fail again due to lack of a capable sales plan - they can blame market forces and competition but a lot is down to selling and they have strong competition on that front, boats.co.uk are the best in the business by a country mile.
Surely when they purchased the business, they ended up with the warranty records detailing the end user customer - maybe a series of factory visits plus showing their plans and engaging with customers - far cheaper than any boat show. Maybe they are thinking that the big opportunity is the forth coming boat shows - guess what all your competition are there as well and they know who the Fairline customers are as they sold to them and have a relationship.
As I have only purchased 7 new Fairlines, I don't appear on their radar!
jfm
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Yep I agree they are making a big mistake here. I have bought plenty of new fairlines (not as many as you haha!) yet the new dealers after BCU, bates wharf or whoever they are, have never made any contact let alone bought me a pint or sent a boat show ticket. Pretty crazy. FWIW, I'm in touch a bit with factory folks but those longstanding customers who aren't must be feeling pretty unloved by Bates and the factory. As you say, easier to retain existing customers than find new