How I got ere.

[oldgit]

First proper boats ie.mine
16ft orkney fisherman type thing with bluddy unreliable selva outboard.
Unidentiflable speedboat with bluddy unreliable mercury outboard
13ft yellow speedy boat with 40 hp suzuki
16 ft Picton GTS speeedboat with 65HP suzuki.
15ft Simms speedboat with 55 hpsuzuki
23 ft Regal with twin Petrol 130hp on legs(ARghh) Cost me a fortune in Mercruiser bits.Worst boat of lot but sometimes in the odd moment it went like stink.
25ft Princess25 single V6 petrol
33 princess with 2x 140 diesels
1 X ??????????????????????????????

lets go over there I am sure I saw a blue bit of sky

 

[andyball]

10' rubber dinghy(old & leaky) with yam 4hp fourstroke (super).

12' fibreglass cuddy boat (previous owner used the "papier mache" technique to repair it, so when you removed the drain plug,bits of old newspaper came out.

16' cabin boat (similar to orkney) '88 suzuki 8hp (horrid) then '88 seagull 6hp (OK 'til flywheel fell apart &fuel pump became intermittent) then new Yamaha F8 (super).

22' Crestliner "sports fisher" (we use the baitwells to store the fenders) with suzuki DF115 .

next?: likely something 35'-40' in Dutch steel .

 

[Col]

21ft Fletcher Arrowbolt / AQ311 V8 went like stink (if you could keep it in the water) /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

23ft Well craft Nova / 260hp Mercruiser /forums/images/icons/frown.gif

25ft Binliner /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

27ft Sunseeker Monterey 2XAQ211 V8's /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif ( now for sale )

38ft Sunseeker Martinique 2X AQ41's (currently being mended)

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[hlb]

Re: How I got ear

Old 16ft speed boat that I borrowed but bloke did'nt want it back. So lent it some one else who did'nt bring it back.

25 Holidays on the Norfolk Broads.

8ft dinghy that could be rowed sailed or outboard. Did none of it well.

Bought a National Ospray racing dinghy. Did'nt know it was a racing boat. Only that it looked bigger for fitting two kids, Tutts and a large dog in!! Got a bit of a shock, Learning to sail it on Ullswater.

An American Imperial boat. Bit like a Binliner with equally bad build qualities. Needed a jig saw to service the V8 Petrol

A P33. At last starting down the right track.

Now my P35. Cant fault it apart from the V**V*'S!!

No one can force me to come here-----------
----- I'm a Volunteer!!!

Haydn

 

[BarryH]

Ohh umm....nicked the old mans boat when I was a kid, then he realised and nicked it back and sold it.

After that it was a fletcher with a 115 hp straight six, damn fast and juicy,

Then she got preggo so we needed, well I did, the Tremlett.

Next, dont know yet, depends how much I can con the taxman.

OK, to hell with it. Unbolt it and we'll use it as an anchor!

 

[EME]

-First trip in a dinghy . Age 7- with Val Howell --remember him?
-Uncle bought unidentified b**** quick speedboat so I could learn to ski (pose) in Wisemans/Amroth etc
- Uncle and I bought mega fast/powerful speedboat (needed bigger posemobile) - learnt how to replace dislocated shoulders and overhaul 2 bloody big Johnsons(?)!!
-Big Gap
- RYA Day Skipper courses etc (needed ICC for next step)
-Chartered most bareboats in SOF over last 7/8 yrs
- Joined this forum to get expert advise from you guys on what to purchase
- Now totally confused
- AND I've only been on a boat twice this year on short sea 'Tests' (someone take me out!!)
...that's how I ended up 'ere on this forum at this time of night


I'll get one soon.......

 

[tripleace]

Re: How I got ear

Mirror sailing Dinghy Called Bon Ami
International Moth sailing dinghy called Hippy Potty Moth
Moth called Lotus Blossom
Laser Sailing dinghy called Boobs
Laser Sailing dinghy called Thunder Thighs
Micro Cupper Called Smiler
Regal 233 called White Cystal
Sealien 365 called Triple Ace

guess the ones I named......

Am I a raggie then??

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[DepSol]

Nab 17 shared with fisherman friend did pots and trots around Herm thats how I got to know the navigation around that area.

Bought Cruisers Int 224 Holiday AQ171 traded it in for....

Jeanneau Leader 805 with KAD 43 next....Jeanneau Prestige 32 or Salpa 32.5.

BTW this is my 1000 post and I have been on this forum since 6/10/2001 ;-)

Dom

I am boating again ;-)

 

[oldgit]

And only one did not mention S****n

lets go over there I am sure I saw a blue bit of sky

 

[DepSol]

And my 1000th was it!

Dom

I am boating again ;-)

 

[Geoffs]

Dad had a centre cockpit Chris Craft on Thames in 1950's

I bought little 16ft plywood thing in 1966, Johnson 6hp. Used on River Wey.
Then Dolphin 19 plywood with 18HP Crescent outboard.

45ft Narrow Boat with 16hp Petter diesel.

Freeman 22 kept at Radcot on the Thames.

Nearly bought an MG27 rag boat, did day skipper etc., but third child put an end to that.

10 years without a boat and bought current Fletcher 19 GTS in 1999, kept in Poole.

Quite like the look of Galia 777, or Camargue 44 if I win the lottery!




Old Chinese proverb 'Man who sail boat into rice field, soon get into paddy'

 

[ccscott49]

10' rubber duck, selva outboard,
27' wooden Maurice Griffiths "kylix"
Numerous small mboats for diving
10' McNulty wooden dinghy (still got)
34' twin screw wooden motor boat
57' wooden ketch motor sailer.
Plus extensive worldwide sailing on brothers 47' gaff yawl and 33' gaff racing cutter.

 

[markc]

Dad had in the 70's a Project 31, then a new 30' thing he designed and was built on Thames, An RLM 33, Ranger 36 then I left home & he did boating in med so didn't get to go along.

Me from 95 - Bayliner 2755 for 10 months (cheap!), Fairline 40 and now Fairline 43/45

M

http://www.geocities.com/jinto100/Jintopics.html

 

[Bejasus]

By mistake!!!
Logged on to the wrong site.
Was looking for Young Black Women
Or was it Young Boys Wanting
Or perhaps Yellow Boots - Wellington
Oh, Bugger it.

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."..........I think????

 

[boatone]

While still at school played sailors in cadets and Grey Funnel Line let me play with their kit - even a submarine!
Then a well known oil company let me loose on their boats for ten years or so - nothing too big, only around 250 metres.
Moved to Hamble River and swallowed anchor. Bought 18' 6" Caprice (nice little classic raggie boat - mine had been transatlantic more than once !) and mooring in mudberth at Deacons. Loved singlehanding out to Hill Head and heaving to to sit in sun reading paper and drinking coffee.
Seem to remember that , with others, got involved in making a bit of a fuss so's Warsash Sailing Club got a bar...now look at 'em !
Moved up to Hurley 22 and new mud berth just below Bursledon Bridge and later Tomohawk 25 originally in Itchenor Reach but then piles at Hamble when reached top of waiting list (Bliss!)
Then life went skewift and finished up boatless for several years before walk down River Wey and watching boats round Papercourt Lock got the old rope-ends twitching again so Norman 32 river cruiser started sharing bank balance and mooring on River Wey led to exploring Thames. The swmbo turned into swbmtb and Princess 32 became current source of heartache and joy!

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[RayB]

We have been boating for one year now:

August 2001 16ft Orkney Strikeliner
September 2001 20ft Orkney Orkadian
April 2002 Fairline Targa 29
September 2002 Fairline Targa 37

So we must like boating!

Or are we just mad?

"Hopefully that won't be too expensive to fix?"

 

[ccscott49]

OK you got me, SWBMTB?

 

[DavidJ]

Sealine 195
Sealine 240
Sealine S37

Sealine always send me free boat show tickets, I wonder why
David
let's try it /forums/images/icons/smile.gif Oh yes it works

 

[Geoffs]

He's told us many times

She Who Bought Me The Boat.

Sounds like a good deal, where can I get one of those?

Old Chinese proverb 'Man who sail boat into rice field, soon get into paddy'

 

[ccscott49]

Obviously not enough times! Doh!