Feeling yact owners association

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Having noticed there are several threads relating to Feeling Yachts, some may be interested that there are new plans afoot to initiate an Owners Association.
I have just returned from a somewhat diminished London Boat show & was speaking to the new distributors of Feelings in the UK (North Sea Maritime), & had a very welcoming conversation from a lady from North Sea Maritime, whose name I have sadly failed to remember.
She would be happy to hear from interested people at www. info@northseamaritime.com.:)
 
Laurie, are they now the sole distributors in they UK? Having seen them a lot in France, I love the lifting keel, I think it will be my next boat.
 
I believe so...............(email:info@northseamaritime.com). The 32 at the show shows a very neat lift keel design, entirely hidden within by a very neat galley/saloon table design, but outside its a development of the system on the Kelt/Feeling 850/29DI, insomuch as there's a cast iron shoe incorporating 2 small bilge blades & the lift keel. This provides ballast & hull protection. Unlike the Kelt, the 32 utilises twin rudders.
 
Thanks for the information Laurie, I've done a lot of research on the net about Feelings - and there is not actually that much, we've seen several of them in Brittany and I've had a look at them when the tide was out.

I'll drop North Sea Maritime an email and see if I can get some technical information from them, being an engineer I need to satisfy myself on the technical stuff!
 
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Gorf said:
Thanks for the information Laurie, I've done a lot of research on the net about Feelings - and there is not actually that much, we've seen several of them in Brittany and I've had a look at them when the tide was out.

I'll drop North Sea Maritime an email and see if I can get some technical information from them, being an engineer I need to satisfy myself on the technical stuff!
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Did you contact them? Did you get a reply? I only ask, as I have yet to hear back from them, after their request I contact them.....it may be coz they've been busy at London?
 
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Did you contact them? Did you get a reply? I only ask, as I have yet to hear back from them, after their request I contact them.....it may be coz they've been busy at London?
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Yes I did drop them an email and had a reply. :D

I expect they have been busy with the show.

Thank you for your posting, it was very timely; I can now explore the best route to get my next boat. :D:D
 
Thanks Sneaky Pete, as ever the more information you can gather the better.

Where about on the Clyde are you?
 
At the risk of repeating myself, please accept apologies; I for one, have emailed the above awhile ago, also without response or reply..................:confused:

Perhaps I should change my soap?
 
Gorf said:
Yes I did drop them an email and had a reply. :D

I expect they have been busy with the show.

Thank you for your posting, it was very timely; I can now explore the best route to get my next boat. :D:D
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May I ask to whom you addressed your enquiries, because despite 2 emails, I've not been so fortunate?
 
Awhile ago, long after emailing them; I got an email from North Sea Maritime again on this subject, with a view of forming a database of interested parties. Having done so for another assoc., I offered my help, but that was a couple of months ago, maybe more, but for those interested, nothing has been heard since.........
 
Hi Gorf,

Thanks for that. I did look at their site, admittedly awhile ago now, so that info.has sneaked in since!! Ooops!! Well done them........

Be interested to know what happens, hope those that can go have a good time!
 
Alliaura Marine, manufacturer's of Feeling Yachts in liquidation

Sad to hear today from the UK distributor North Sea Maritime that Alliaura Marine, the manufacturer’s of Feeling Yachts, are in liquidation. As well as those Impacted at Alliaura, it is a shame for North Sea Maritime who it seems to me have put much enthusiasm into marketing the Feeling brand since taking it over.

As a very pleased owner of a Feeling 39 since last year, I would certainly be interested in hearing from other owners and in an owners association if it can get off the ground.
 
As a new owner of a (2nd hand!) 286 (have yet to sail her!!), having traded up from a much loved Jaguar 27 (wanted more space, not size!); I offered the distributors my services in collating a directory of persons/owners interested in an Association. After several attempts I had no reply.
I would be more than happy to help in some way, but having just left the Jag Owners Assoc. which I set up, with help on the website bit, and then ran on my tod for years, I am reluctant to do the whole thing again. If someone would take on a website side of things, I would be happy to get a membership database going. It would also need someone with desktop publishing capabilities, so as to be inclusive of those without web access?

Well that's two of us........
 
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Feeling Yachts

I have a Feeling 44.

Fabulous, fast, a joy to sail, a wonderful cockpit and table, and brilliant down below. The lifting keel works a dream. The only down side is that, because they have twin rudders, there is no prop wash so they are poor at manoeuvering astern...hence we have a bow thruster.

Ovnis are good, but slower, and, in my opinion, not so pretty.

Allures are really designed for blue water cruising.

Southerlys are good, but amazingly expensive for no reason that I can detect.
 
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