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Re: Riva Aquarama - the definitive answer

Agree with you, Dave. Saw one at sea yesterday at it looked fab. If I owned one I'd lick it clean every morning

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Re: It\'s not just the wood

Yes the venturi was at the highest point of the flow so anything that did drain in that direction would have been tiny given the size of the the main pump piping.

The pumps, one for heat exchanger cooling and one for the bilges were both on a separate shaft driven by a series of fan belts off the front of the engine in the usual way.

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Re: Riva Aquarama - the definitive answer

I agree, along with 1950's Chris Crafts, (not the motor cruisers but the speedboats).



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Re: It\'s not just the wood

This is a link to Williams and Smithells where the new owner has put her up for sale again, I think at Port Grimaud. Unfortunately it looks like the Aga has gone, it was where the tea towels are hanging in the saloon picture.

Now, anyone who tells me that ain't a lot of boat for around £70k is being miserable. So she cruises at 6 knots and is flat out at a shade under 8, gives you more time at sea!

http://www.yachtworld.com/core/list...sting_id=42024&url=&hosturl=wands&&ywo=wands&



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Pics, second attempt at link

This is a link to Williams and Smithells where the new owner has put her up for sale again, I think at Port Grimaud. Unfortunately it looks like the Aga has gone, it was where the tea towels are hanging in the saloon picture.

Now, anyone who tells me that ain't a lot of boat for around £70k is being miserable. So she cruises at 6 knots and is flat out at a shade under 8, gives you more time at sea!

This may work better, click <a href="http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/pl_boat_full_detail.jsp?slim=broker&boat_id=1127452&hosturl=wands&&ywo=wands&&units=Feet¤cy=USD&access=Public&listing_id=42024&url=&hosturl=wands&&ywo=wands&">here</a>





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Re: Pics, second attempt at link

"Bu***r, well someone will tell me what I did wrong, you'll just have to find her the hard way!


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Re: Pics, second attempt at link

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/pl_boat_full_detail.jsp?slim=broker&boat_id=1127452&hosturl=wands&&ywo=wands&&units=Feet¤cy=USD&access=Public&listing_id=42024&url=&hosturl=wands&&ywo=wands&">>http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/pl_boat_full_detail.jsp?slim=broker&boat_id=1127452&hosturl=wands&&ywo=wands&&units=Feet¤cy=USD&access=Public&listing_id=42024&url=&hosturl=wands&&ywo=wands&"></A> - hell of a lot of boat; beautiful.

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Re: Not you, BB

Who you calling a nerk? Care to step outside?

Of course its a motor yacht, its a pleasure boat and its got no bloody sails has it? huh?

Its got style, is undoubtably a classic, it may have fablon but it does not have acres of white GRP and definately no leopard skin pattern acrylic fluff anywhere.





<hr width=100% size=1>Sod the Healey - I think I'll buy an E-Type.
 
Re: Not you, BB

Argueably a laaarrrnch

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That\'s done it!

She Who Must Be Obeyed was raving about an MFV we saw yesterday; if she catches sight of one with an AGA aboard my sailing days are over for sure!

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Re: That\'s done it!

Her sister ship is in Lymington, even nicer. From some angles Nordic Star is pig ugly, too much deckhouse I think is the problem, but everything on board is too much.

The whole story of her acquisition and conversion make interesting reading and is essentially:
Jack Bevan reading Observer supplement one Sunday reads story by Eric Newby on Pentland Firth. Story features pictured MFV. Jack thinks any boat good enough for the Pentland Firth will do him so drives to Scotland and buys it. Eight years and 18,000 hours labour later "Nordic Star" is registered in Manchester.

Jack had only solid stainless deck equipment and the very best of everything everywhere, and when you see the size of everything you can only start to imagine the cost. Rebuilt Gardner 6L3, (he should have spent the money on a 6L3B because she needs a bit more umph).

Mostly recovered timber from various sources, all wood panelled, (new owner has painted most it which makes it lighter but....). The quality is also all in the detail, like every door has a hook to pin it back and a hook to hold it ajar. I have in front of me the Silver cutlery service and some of the cut glass (including such essentials as a silver plated marmalade jar and spoon) which I could not bear to part with. Left aboard are the matching cut glass, each in its own slot, and the 6 numbered pewter tankards.

I see from the picture that the stove pipe from the cooker is still there at least.

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Re: Riva Aquarama - the definitive answer

You wouldn't want to lick my Fairey Super Swordsman clean. A) because you'd get splinters in your tongue as she's got no paint on at the mo. B) because you'd probably poison yourself with all the paint dust. Give me a couple of years and I'll make her drool-worthy again.

Ben, yours is definitey a classic twin screw diesel yacht, albeit a particularly whizzy one.

Bill.

<hr width=100% size=1>One of these days I'll have a boat that WORKS
 
Why not (e) high-tech engineering?...

I mean, it seems that everyone see wooden boats as somehow associated to "old".
Down here in Italy, most real "connoisseur" would not accept any substitute to wood, even for modern luxury flybridges.
Of course Ferretti and Azimuth have huge stands in any boat show, because their productions are based on numbers.
Their mission is to sell a lot of boats, and they're very good at that.
But there are still (a few) shipyards whose mission is different: offering custom-built wooden boats to customers looking for substantial quality rather than appearance.
Maybe a look at or <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.nautica.it/boatshow/camuffo/60eng.htm> this might better explain why I suggested the (e) option above...
BTW, a 60' flybridge with a top speed of 46 kts (50 kts with optional engines), who would dare to call it pathetic or old gaffery?
That's enough to compete with most sportboats like Pershing or Sunseeker with arneson drives...!

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(e) high-tech engineering

Case proven!

I used to be friendly with the late Peter Brown, who designed an earlier generation of largish, UK built, wooden motor yachts, which I notice change hands at pretty solid prices. He would certainly have approved.

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