Final Sq78 comes off Fairline production line

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Thats a lot of big boats! Kudos to them and sure they have provided many thousands of hours of collective enjoyment!

Went past the new facility at Hythe last week on my way to the vets. huge building and looking forward to seeing what comes out of there.

Might apply for a job there. Could be their shipping office!
 
Thanks Mike Kinda sad day. Yes that was quite some design to have a market lifetime of 15 or so years. Several owners bought 2 (not just me) and this last boat #115 is also going to a customer who has bought multiple s78s. It has cream/beige gel coat, the only non-white one ever built (though a few have retro painted blue hulls). It's to match its mother ship Dilbar and I expect it to turn up in Antibes shortly where its predecessor is still coated and listed for sale

I still love the design and the build quality and will keep mine a bit longer. It's no longer possible to buy a UK built 24m with such a level of factory customisation offered by the builder.

Mike, SL82 is the only one I can think of in this size category with similar production run
 
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jfm said:
Kinda sad day. Yes that was quite some design to have a market lifetime of 15 or so years. Several owners bought 2 (not just me) and this last boat #115 is also going to a customer who has bought multiple s78s. It has cream/beige gel coat, the only non-white one ever built (though a few have retro painted blue hulls). It's to match its mother ship Dilbar and I expect it to turn up in Antibes shortly where its predecessor is still coated and listed for sale
I still love the design and the build quality and will keep mine a bit longer. It's no longer possible to buy a UK built 24m with such a level of factory customisation offered by the builder.
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How many had the internal staircase and fins like yours?
 
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How many had the internal staircase and fins like yours?
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Internal stairs- all models till,about #40 when they stopped, and after then there were my two plus one other I know of. Fins: my hull 70 was the first ever s78 with fins, and of the subsequent 45 boats one had gyros, about 35 had fins, and the rest were base spec with no stabilisation. Shows how fins really became a big deal/must have option around 2010. I suspect same at other builders of 24m boats: c3/4 new builds have fins post 2010-2012.
I love the new ferretti 920 which has Sleipner fins AND two sea keepers. That's the future. Better still when the gyro+fin electronics are integrated (which isn't yet happening).
 
jfm said:
Internal stairs- all models till,about #40 when they stopped, and after then there were my two plus one other I know of. Fins: my hull 70 was the first ever s78 with fins, and of the subsequent 45 boats one had gyros, about 35 had fins, and the rest were base spec with no stabilisation. Shows how fins really became a big deal/must have option around 2010. I suspect same at other builders of 24m boats: c3/4 new builds have fins.
I love the new ferretti 920 which has Sleipner fins AND two sea keepers. That's the future. Better still when theleectronics are integrated (which isn't yet happening).
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Wow I didnt realise how much of a trend you started on the Sq78 with the fins. Yes Ferretti seemed to have ditched ARG for Seakeeper now and got into bed with Sleipner. The UK Ferretti dealer speaks highly of Sleipner
 
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http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/fairline-squadron-78-leaves-factory-66637

115 boats since 2002. Thats one hell of a production run for such a large boat. Well done to Fairline and all good fortune for the new facility at Hythe

Anyone know of any boats of similar size that have had a similar length of production run? The San Lorenzo SL72 comes to mind but nothing else I can think of
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As you say impressive run of boats at that scale. I am proud to have been a Fairline owner. Loved my time on them both particularly my Squadron.
 
z1ppy said:
Thats a lot of big boats! Kudos to them and sure they have provided many thousands of hours of collective enjoyment! & employment

Went past the new facility at Hythe last week on my way to the vets. huge building and looking forward to seeing what comes out of there.

Might apply for a job there. Could be their shipping office!
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:encouragement:
 
Whitelighter said:
Is that 115 74s and 78s or just the 78s (I thought the 74 and 78 shared a hull)
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For both. The 78 was a good move though as they put customization to another level around the time when they introduced it.

Mangusta 80 has been going on since 1993 (still in production), they arrived at hull number 70+ if I am not mistaken. Could have been 100 plus if not for what happened in Italy 2012 to 15, the Monti years.
Changed in a few bits first years with forward nearly vertical looking radar arch, change to back looking in 1998, then in 2008 HT version similar to the 92.
Mangusta 72 also going on since 1999 and still in production. This one has changed very little, again 70 plus units sold. Same as above.
San Lorenzo 72 was launched in 1997 hull one which had a similar interior to the 70 it replaced. Little modification accept for the SL versions which had slight larger windows. About 40 sold till 2016.
San Lorenzo 82 first hull was launched in 1996 again and produced till 2015. I think 50 sold.

Longest running production Ferretti is 53/530 (2004-) 1997 till 2006 as far as I am remembering off my head over 100 units sold. Second sold Ferretti of all time behind the 460 (2004 till 2008) which sold 120.
 
I wish F/L all the best for the new facility. If they come up with worthy successors to some of the great models they have produced - of which the Sq78 is certainly one - a lot of people will be very pleased.
 
Whitelighter said:
Is that 115 74s and 78s or just the 78s (I thought the 74 and 78 shared a hull)
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115 in aggregate for both. Same hull, only hull difference is Hilo swim platform added for 78. They did a new interior (saloon and galley) at almost the same time. They switched from 74 to 78 around hull #35 ish

The also built a 74 around hull number mid80s, in c2013, for an owner in USA who wanted the old stern with tender garage and no hilo platform. They never changed the moulds to remove the garage door in the transom so all 78s had a door that got glassed in invisibly. So the option was always there to order a 74 rather than 78, but only this one USA guy did so. Likewise they kept all the moulding details for the staircase after its deletion around hull #35 so anyone could order it in the future (twice, if they felt like it :D).
 
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For both. The 78 was a good move though as they put customization to another level around the time when they introduced it.

Mangusta 80 has been going on since 1993 (still in production), they arrived at hull number 70+ if I am not mistaken. Could have been 100 plus if not for what happened in Italy 2012 to 15, the Monti years.
Changed in a few bits first years with forward nearly vertical looking radar arch, change to back looking in 1998, then in 2008 HT version similar to the 92.
Mangusta 72 also going on since 1999 and still in production. This one has changed very little, again 70 plus units sold. Same as above.
San Lorenzo 72 was launched in 1997 hull one which had a similar interior to the 70 it replaced. Little modification accept for the SL versions which had slight larger windows. About 40 sold till 2016.
San Lorenzo 82 first hull was launched in 1996 again and produced till 2015. I think 50 sold.

Longest running production Ferretti is 53/530 (2004-) 1997 till 2006 as far as I am remembering off my head over 100 units sold. Second sold Ferretti of all time behind the 460 (2004 till 2008) which sold 120.
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Interesting PYB. So are you saying there is no other boat in the 22-24 m segment that built 115? Only squadron 78?
 
Out of interest, how many boats can you get out of a mould? Appreciate theres probably a lot of factors.

Did they do 115 from the same mould?
 
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Wow I didnt realise how much of a trend you started on the Sq78 with the fins. Yes Ferretti seemed to have ditched ARG for Seakeeper now and got into bed with Sleipner. The UK Ferretti dealer speaks highly of Sleipner
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Yep, there was a sea change in % of c24m boats ordered with fins around that time. Became a must have. My first S78 made a small contribution but the trend was gonna happen anyway. No wonder the CEO of Sleipner has invited me to his big birthday party in Norway this summer. :D

The Sleipner product is clearly the best in this segment engineering wise imho. They are now exclusive or near exclusive supplier to ferretti, ssker, prin, fair among the big volume builders. Their R&D effort (CEO led- he is an engineer first and manager second) far outstrips the others and their pipeline of innovations (on which I'm sworn to secrecy on details) is seriously impressive. Lots of innovations to come in next 10 years I think. Assuming mobos don't get banned Mike!
 
FARSCO said:
Out of interest, how many boats can you get out of a mould? Appreciate theres probably a lot of factors.

Did they do 115 from the same mould?
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Yep same mould for all 115. It gets damaged but they can keep repairing it. Some awkward customers pay to have the moulds changed (e.g. 3extra windows) than changed back. You can play around with moulds a lot because Grp is so easy to cut n shut.

I think you can get a few hundred boats from a single mould if you keep it repaired

Incidentally s78 just nudged ahead of the s58 classic. Iirc they built 109 of the s58 classic. A big number but not the winner in that bracket. Azimut 55 did over 200 for example ( it was an excellent boat especially the Evo model).
 
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jfm said:
Interesting PYB. So are you saying there is no other boat in the 22-24 m segment that built 115? Only squadron 78?
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AFAIK yes. Azimut and so Sunseeker sold a lot in these sizes over the years (since the mid nineties). But I am not sure they had a model which lasted this long to sell so much units.
Sanlorenzo was a very much a build to order builder during the Janetti years (till 2006) building the most 20 boats of year and even that was a rare occurrence, the average was about 10.
They would not even prepare a hull before an order came in.
 
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Yep same mould for all 115. It gets damaged but they can keep repairing it. Some awkward customers pay to have the moulds changed (e.g. 3extra windows) than changed back. You can play around with moulds a lot because Grp is so easy to cut n shut.

I think you can get a few hundred boats from a single mould if you keep it repaired

Incidentally s78 just nudged ahead of the s58 classic. Iirc they built 109 of the s58 classic. A big number but not the winner in that bracket. Azimut 55 did over 200 for example ( it was an excellent boat especially the Evo model).
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Thanks John.

Reminds me of this:
 
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