Fantasy boat

My 42 ft fantasy boat would have-as I ruefully calculated- an annual outgoing of at least £45k in depreciation, maintenance mooring and gentle upgrades over a ten year period .
Even with the man maths turned up to eleven on the calculator. 🤩

But as footballer George Best quipped, fast women and fast cars aside, he blew the rest of his money !
 
E39mad said:
Easy - a toilet seat incorporated into the pushpit!
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My Corribee had a bucket. Drilling a large hole through the hull below the waterline and installing a complicated and temperamental pump arrangement is quite a complicated and dangerous solution to a problem that didn't trouble Nelson's Navy, or even Minoans 5000 years ago.

(Yes, I know.)
 
newtothis said:
Weren't the original 'heads' at the front of the boat, to be downwind of the bulk of the crew.
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This is part of nautical history that gets forgotten but sailors must have crapped ,officers and lower ranks and did they have toilet paper ?On the trawler I worked onthe toilet sat over a pipe one Ted directly to the sea and in rough weather one had to avoid getting an anemia!
 
Wansworth said:
This is part of nautical history that gets forgotten but sailors must have crapped ,officers and lower ranks and did they have toilet paper ?On the trawler I worked onthe toilet sat over a pipe one Ted directly to the sea and in rough weather one had to avoid getting an anemia!
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Paper? King Neptune’s cleaning arrangements not good enough for you
 
Chiara’s slave said:
Paper? King Neptune’s cleaning arrangements not good enough for you
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……..so prior to the battle of Trafalgar our matlots were scampering about washing shite off their bottoms than heaving up a bucket of seawater to rinse off then flush the deck, quiet tricky with the extreme toumblehome…….its like western movies the heroes these little factors of life are forgotten!
 
Wansworth said:
……..so prior to the battle of Trafalgar our matlots were scampering about washing shite off their bottoms than heaving up a bucket of seawater to rinse off then flush the deck, quiet tricky with the extreme toumblehome…….its like western movies the heroes these little factors of life are forgotten!
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An experience soon to be repeated on your Dufour 24 if what you have said about you ambitions to install a Porta Potty are anything to go by.
 
Fr J Hackett said:
An experience soon to be repeated on your Dufour 24 if what you have said about you ambitions to install a Porta Potty are anything to go by.
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Yes,we had a porta potty in the Vega was ok.Where we are now in a marina number twos will have to be in the toilet block ,the pee can be transfer to a bucket and poured down the wc……..
 
benjenbav said:
Self-applicating antifoul, of course…
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Well, if we're allowed self-applicating paint, antifoul and varnish - and self-sanding brightwork ...

iu


I might be persuaded to settle for ordinary paint, etc, if I had the income to keep her in the style to which she is accustomed
 
Already considering the move to the dark side in a couple of years time. Marex look like a good boat and a friend has the 310 but find ourselves being pushed upwards to the 375 for the space we like. Going to look down the back of the sofa and see if I dropped half a mill down there.
 
Stemar said:
Well, if we're allowed self-applicating paint, antifoul and varnish - and self-sanding brightwork ...

iu


I might be persuaded to settle for ordinary paint, etc, if I had the income to keep her in the style to which she is accustomed
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Very nice, do you know the name? I’m interested to google more!
 
Stemar said:
Well, if we're allowed self-applicating paint, antifoul and varnish - and self-sanding brightwork ...

iu


I might be persuaded to settle for ordinary paint, etc, if I had the income to keep her in the style to which she is accustomed
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That would only work in the med in your fantasy house there.
In the uk it would go grey, green and grimy.
 
What an interesting thread. I'm surprised so many have mentioned alu boats like Garcia, Boreal, Bestaever, etc.

My fantasy is well developed as I had a moment, just before the pandemic, when I thought I could afford to build a custom boat for myself. Fortunately I had not spent too much money on this fantasy before the pandemic slaughtered my business.

Nothing which you can buy series produced suits my needs, which are: long distance, high degree of autonomy, suited for high latitudes.

I was working with KM Yachts (the producer of Bestaevers) in Makkum, and a Dutch naval architect.

The boat would have been:

Aluminium, unfinished, like a workboat
65' LOA
Pilothouse with Refleks stove and indoor helm position
Rather narrow beam for that length -- 16'
Three watertight compartments, with all the through hulls in the watertight, separate, walk-in engine room -- like the Dashew Sundeers.
Chain locker at the mast base -- like the Sundeer
Generous sail locker behind the anchor locker
Lots of deck storage
Ketch rig
Half the hull volume given to storage and technical space, including a workshop.

The owner of KM Yachts strongly suggested that I would want a lifting keel with this. He also suggested I would want Selden in-mast furling, like what I have on my Moody, and a self-tacking jib with jib boom, like he has on his own boat, which he showed me. I was leaning towards conventional full batten main with lazy jacks.

Ah, how sad the pandemic blew up those plans.
 
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