LUCKY,LUCKY GLUDY

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maybh1

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Skived off the day yesterday and went to the Boat Show. We were saying that there was nothing that was really grabbing us and then we went aboard the Marlow.

Oh my God - how beautifull is that boat.

As HWMBO said WOW!! factor for the boat with built in OW!! factor for the price.

Wish we had $1.9 million - a lot of money - but worth every single cent in our opinion.

Gludy - If you need a crew - just shout.
 
Thanks for that.
There is already an open invitation to forum members to come on board my new boat for a drink and nosey when I get her. .... I know you lot do not drink much so the bill should be small /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I think the Marlow is going to be the killer boat on the UK market for anyone wanting an SD largish boat. My 72 ELR is over 20 foot beam and 77 feet long and the base price for that is just over $2m plus VAT - I am adding another $1m in extras including thjird engine, at rest stablisers, pro night vision systems etc etc so say it comes to $3m - that is less than a Trader 64 at a fraction of the size.

In fact the base price of the Marlow is almost the same as my old Trader is on the market for now!!

However its not the price - its the quality, I just wish I had not stopped by at Emsworth on the way to Florida to see my first Marlow.
 
Niope - a 300 hp Yanama/

The boat needs 120 hp to drive it at 9 knots plus battery charging and stabilisers say !40p - so ooperating at about 45% load all the time.
Saves on service intervals and glazing of main engines which will be c18's.

The boat has a waterline length of 66 feet so displacment speed about 10.8 knots so 9 knots has little load. It also has a wave piercing protusion at the bow to smooth waves and reduce drag.
 
Stopped by the Trader 42 (I am the Trader fan on the forum) Tony told me he had sold Ocean Deep for asking price two weeks ago. I have to say hand on heart that the Marlow left Trader dead in the water.

Given the exchange rate at the moment the Marlow on show came to much the same price as being asked for Ocean Deep but the finish was so far out in front as to be out of sight.

Its a pity they do not do anything a bit smaller than 62 foot (Model 57 Euro)
 
Gludy, please advise when you get your boat and where she will be. I wish to receive engraved invitation, (nothing less would do) for drinks on board. You can serve mine in the salon and my husbands in the engine room
 
Well his asking price was £50k more than the price I paid for her when ordered in January 2005!

So someone has purchased Ocean Deep for over £1m - all I can say is wow - the best of luck to them. Tony has managed to get an extra £50k plus VAT .... again wow! Maybe he can pay me the stack of post dated cheques a little earlier now? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Its not just the finish that is out in front -Marlow actually attach their engines properly to the boat - a Halyard joint is standard. Marlows can dry out without legs! Some boats cannot manage that with legs. The Marlow is in a totally different class in every single area.

Well it takes all sorts to make a world, I am just glad to be almost out of the Ocean Deep saga.

The Marlow on show was also a much bigger boat - in length, beam and volume. The bow is much higher, a vastly superior sea boat.

Marlow do make the prowler to the same standards - about 40 footish and costinf just over £200k at current exchange rate. That does 50 mph.
 
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Marlow do make the prowler to the same standards - about 40 footish and costinf just over £200k at current exchange rate. That does 50 mph.

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Gawd bless the exchange rate /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Prowler

I too am looking forward to an invite, that should be quite a launch party. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
When I get my Marlow I will be doing my long hel ambition to circumnavigate the UK - so there will be lots of opportunity as I will spend 6 months doing it calling at most ports.

U will get the chisel out to start working on the invite carved in stone if that is OK /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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Thanks for that.
However its not the price - its the quality, I just wish I had not stopped by at Emsworth on the way to Florida to see my first Marlow.

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Never really thought of Emsworth as being preferable to Florida................


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There is already an open invitation to forum members to come on board my new boat for a drink and nosey when I get her. .... I know you lot do not drink much so the bill should be small /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[/ QUOTE ] If you call in to St.Kitts I'll buy a drink.

What name will you give it?
 
maybh1, the Trader 42 at SIBS had a very pronounced spray rail under the bow, almost like a shelf. Is that a recent mod introduced to counter the spray problem highlighted in the boat tests?
 
Rum Pirate
Can I hold you to that because we do plan to cruise over there with her either crossing the Atantic or putting her on a boat and spending 6 months over there.
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You see - you should never offer a free drink unless you mean it.. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Mike F - Yes it is but Tony Chappel did point out that the Boat test the magazine did was in a Force 6/7 and he had various print outs to prove the wind speed, wave height etc etc on the day, even though the conditions were described in the magazine as " a balmy day out in the Solent"
 
SWMBO is working on a name now - we have about 6 but the list is changing all the time.

The first one after all the problems of the past was 'Free to Go' but that was always just a name used between SWMBO and myself and no more.
 
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Yes it is but Tony Chappell did point out that the Boat test the magazine did was in a Force 6/7 and he had various print outs to prove the wind speed, wave height etc etc on the day, even though the conditions were described in the magazine as " a balmy day out in the Solent"

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So its a case of who do we believe the boat testers or Tony Chappell?

After a recent cheque in the post saga, I know who I believe.

The photos look as though its very mild out there. What did the mag do – photoshop out the waves? On top of that why would Tarquin state that they are fixing a problem which now they seem to dismiss as non-existent!!!

Then there was the episode of my old boat with Osmosis, Tony Chappell claimed it had pre-osmosis and would cost £15k to fix - the result was Ocean Deep went to the boat show but lo and behold ...... The osmosis treatment was claimed to have been done in 4 days flat!!!! Yet when I bought her back it was clear there was no treatment and never had been any Osmosis.

Any way. Not to worry – if the cop out is to change the weather on the day and tell everyone that the testers ‘a balmy day out in the Solent; was in fact an f6/7, then so be it. I had a few years of that rubbish, a few years of totally denying problems that stood out like beacons and were proven to be there no matter what denial was issued.

No doubt the photograph of the water pouring in through the canopy and soaking the helsman was in actual fact water flowing out and just looked like it was water flowing in!!!
 
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Mike F - Yes it is but Tony Chappel did point out that the Boat test the magazine did was in a Force 6/7

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According to the boat report itself the conditions were:

"Wind SW'ly, force 4, sea state slight."

You can also see a yacht in the background of the main picture in the review with its mainsail and genoa up, no sign of a reef and it looks like it is hardly heeling. Unlikely to be a Force 6/7 as claimed surely?
 
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