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There are people here who own boats worth over £300K. There are also people with boats worth less than 1% of that figure. I have never seen anyone criticised for their wealth or lack of it.

But the question you ask is totally impossible to answer. You want an investment, a place for clients to stay the night, a object to impress clients with your sober good taste. None of these are remotely reasons for buying a boat or a description of a type of boat. Your only criterion appears to be a rather large lump of money to throw at it.

This is indeed an incredibly helpful and well informed forum. Give them something to go on.

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Haw-Haaaaw! Snapper Whipper, you az eem by zee short vonz now! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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It appears I may have posted this on the wrong message board and so I will copy it over to the motor boat message board, please excuse my stupidity, but it is my first visit and I didn't notice there was a different board.





Greg
 
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Oh come on guys....

A first post of the nature above is so laughably a troll its untrue....

Its so laughable as its not even a very good troll..... the best ones are way more subtle than this effort...

So please don't feed him... he might keep coming back....
<span style="color:white">just a little bet with myself..... will now ask what a Troll is...</span>
 
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"A first post of the nature above is so laughably a troll its untrue...."

Maybe not - it was far too polite and well-written to be confused with any of the usual suspects IMO. And proper trolls don't come back so quickly, they let it brew in their absence /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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Nice yacht Morgana I just took the liberty of looking at your blog and while I have tied myself in knots working all hours for years I see you have been enjoying life.

Is that your wife & kids they look happy with the boating life.
 
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I just googled internet troll and don't see how this applies to my original post, it seems many of you are all very sceptical and could maybe do with some time away from your computers.



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A sign meaning 'do not feed the troll'.An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]
 
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Nice yacht Morgana I just took the liberty of looking at your blog and while I have tied myself in knots working all hours for years I see you have been enjoying life.

[/ QUOTE ]Oh yes.... i've enjoyed every minute of it... as have my family thankyou.... its amazing how i've managed to afford such a lovely boat by watching other people work hard, while i've done so little isn't it... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
<span style="color:white">just a little bet with myself..... I bet the response to this is "ah well.... if you're going to be horrid on here, i'll go somewhere else... may be this boating thing isn't for me after all" </span>
 
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"A sign meaning 'do not feed the troll'.An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2] "

Which is exactly what happened isn't it? You posted on a forum dedicated to other matters - if we had that kind of money to spend most of us would let the engineer sort out the problems instead of DIYing it.

Deliberately or not, you came into an unfamiliar pub and stepped into the bar and not the lounge. It's not surprising the local yokels gave you the eye /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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It would appear that the consensus of the forum is that if you really propose to spend £300k on a first time boat without any previous experience of owning a boat - or sailing a boat as the skipper - then you may be about to make an exibition of yourself. The sea is quite big and has not read your CV or bank statement.

But if and when you go ahead please may we all come and watch?
 
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Buy once, buy well.

Invest in a quality product and it will retain it's value.

We all have different starting points.
 
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It would appear that the consensus of the forum is that if you really propose to spend £300k on a first time boat without any previous experience of owning a boat - or sailing a boat as the skipper - then you may be about to make an exibition of yourself. The sea is quite big and has not read your CV or bank statement.

But if and when you go ahead please may we all come and watch?

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Actually, despite the sarcasm, this is the best answer yet... /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
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PBO is practical baot owner, which should mean that they nearly build the boats they are on (out of bits of string etc)

Try Motor boat site they should and will be more friendly.


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Oops sorry I didn't know this was a raggy only forum, I'll get my hat n coat by by. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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Grand Banks 45 or thereabouts.

The perfect complement to the Land Rover, arguably the Range Rover too. Sophisticated, comfortable and satisyingly strewn with real teak , keeps its value, reassuring to clients, doesn't tip with the elements, space for your office and private quarters, good for a trip to the Channel Islands / Cherbourg in anything but today's weather!

There are other motor boats in this category, similar looking - just as with the Range Rover series.

Within your budget too. Not cheap to run, but anything that meets your more discerning standards will attract some costs.

How's that for a composed response? And I'm a stick and handkerchief man myself, but a dreamer too...

PWG
 
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