Med Marina Suggestions/Costs

[AndieMac]

OK
So what would you do if a courting couple in a kayak are going at it whilst attached to your anchor trip buoy.
This happened to us about three weeks ago.
SWMBO asked what she should do.
I thought of putting the drone up but I was told to leave them alone.
Anything bigger than a kayak would have been a concern - that was the anchorage where we were tied back in San Miguel.
The whole anchor rig was under tension - and that wan't the only thing under tension.

Maybe turn the deck hose on them H

 

[MapisM]

Quite a number of Oz cruisers have custom shade cloth type awnings made up for the rear of the cockpit area, mainly for extreme sun protection while at anchor, but also doubles as privacy screens while in the marinas.

Something like this, possibly?
It's not like you only have hot sun down under, you know...?

 

[MalcM]

OK
So what would you do if a courting couple in a kayak are going at it whilst attached to your anchor trip buoy.
This happened to us about three weeks ago.
SWMBO asked what she should do.
I thought of putting the drone up but I was told to leave them alone.
Anything bigger than a kayak would have been a concern - that was the anchorage where we were tied back in San Miguel.
The whole anchor rig was under tension - and that wan't the only thing under tension.

I’d go with a standing ovation when they finished up.

Last time me and the wife were out in Portals, a young couple emerged from Ritzi feeling rather amorous. Somehow they missed our deck lights and music further up the pontoon, and attempted to use a Range Rover for cover from prying eyes.

We gave them a round of applause afterwards. She scuttled off at a pace suggesting she was mortified, he styled it out with a bow and sauntered off far more casually. Or possibly his knees were just a touch stiff from all the kneeling...

 

[Hurricane]

Something like this, possibly?
It's not like you only have hot sun down under, you know...?

They should be dead easy to fit on most flybridge boats.
This is how we fit one on our Princess - made using a home made bolt rope that slides in where the cockpit covers usually fit.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Something like this, possibly?
It's not like you only have hot sun down under, you know...?

I want one of those. Who made that for you? Can you leave it up at 25kts?

 

[MapisM]

They should be dead easy to fit on most flybridge boats.
This is how we fit one on our Princess

It is indeed dead easy, but the shade angle depends on how long the f/b overhang is.
Not a problem in your P67 judging by your pic, but in many boats the f/b is shorter, and if you should fit the shade in the same way as yours it would get in the way of anyone sitting in the stern bench.
The solution, as you can (barely) see at the top of my previous pic, is to have a U steel tube extending the f/b further astern, just for shading purposes, with the shade zipped to it rather than attached directly to the f/b.
This way, the vertical shade does not "steal" any internal space.
Btw, by coincidence I recently came across the Ferretti below while browsing a used boats website for a friend of mine.
As you can see, her f/b overhang has been customized in a similar manner - though the rope attached above its corner suggests that it's nowhere near strong enough: I have none in mine, and in spite of that I could hang myself to it.
But I believe that the one in the pic is an afterthought, rather than an OEM option.

@Deleted User: the company who made that stuff in my DP is based Venice, and of course I can give you their references if you wish, but I'm afraid that for you it's not even worth trying to get in touch with them.
Not because their stuff isn't well made and/or unreasonably priced, but because I'm 100% sure that they don't want to move anywhere requiring more than half an hour drive or thereabout.
It's the typical small Venetian company which is constantly uber-busy (also with taxis, gondolas etc., on top of pleasure boats), and they see any travel time as wasted, irrespective of how much you are willing to pay...!
Ref. the speed it can withstand, actually I don't know because I never tried keeping it on while cruising, also to avoid salt sprays, but it literally takes 2 minutes to attach/remove it.

 

[markc]

I want one of those. Who made that for you? Can you leave it up at 25kts?

Me too!

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Btw, by coincidence I recently came across the Ferretti below while browsing a used boats website for a friend of mine.
As you can see, her f/b overhang has been customized in a similar manner - though the rope attached above its corner suggests that it's nowhere near strong enough: I have none in mine, and in spite of that I could hang myself to it.
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I tell you what jumps out immediately from that photo is the position of the pasarelle! All of the 630/631 boats I've ever seen, like mine, have a centrally mounted pasarelle which is also used to handle the tender. I'd be interested to know if this was an OEM fit and how the tender is handled on this boat. As for the aft awning I dont really see the point of that. I know from our cockpit cover that you could stretch a sun awning from the existing mountings on the back of the flybridge to the transom mountings without touching heads of any of the people sitting in the cockpit so I would rather do that than have that small awning
Btw another oddity on this boat is the bimini which is definitely not the Ferretti OEM and looks rather crap to me

 

[MapisM]

I know from our cockpit cover that you could stretch a sun awning from the existing mountings on the back of the flybridge to the transom mountings without touching heads of any of the people sitting in the cockpit so I would rather do that than have that small awning

Fine, in that case of course the top extension is unnecessary - as in Hurric P67.
In my boat, as you can possibly grasp also by my previous pic, without it anyone sitting in the cockpit would have the awning straight on the top of their heads.

Can't help with your doubts about that Fer, 'cause I know absolutely nothing about her.
I only had in mind to have recently seen her on the web, and I thought that it might be necessary to make a similar extension also on yours, since I couldn't remember the exact position of the stern bench vs. the f/b overhang.
Good point ref. the passerelle/crane, but I have no clue about the answer!

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Can't help with your doubts about that Fer, 'cause I know absolutely nothing about her.
I only had in mind to have recently seen her on the web, and I thought that it might be necessary to make a similar extension also on yours, since I couldn't remember the exact position of the stern bench vs. the f/b overhang.
Good point ref. the passerelle/crane, but I have no clue about the answer!

My guess is that these are all owner modifications and to be honest I wouldnt have done any of them myself

 

[Portofino]

Wife ran up on her sewing machine some coresponding zips on a white sheet material ( folds down thin for storage ) which we just zip on any side of the Bimini .Port Stb or rear .

Cut and hemmed to shape a few elastic ties here and there and you are done .
We have two .

So @ anchor if the boat turns and sun moves we can shade off a corner .
Take them down when running of course .

Sorry no pic when up .

 

[MapisM]

My guess is that these are all owner modifications and to be honest I wouldnt have done any of them myself

Agreed.
Maybe the owner wanted to privilege accessibility (btw, the pic doesn't show where the box passerelle in three section ends, but I suspect it's pretty long) and he/she just didn't care about carrying a tender, for some reasons.
Sounds like a very expensive modification anyway, and one which is rather reducing than increasing the boat value, for most potential punters...

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Agreed.
Maybe the owner wanted to privilege accessibility (btw, the pic doesn't show where the box passerelle in three section ends, but I suspect it's pretty long) and he/she just didn't care about carrying a tender, for some reasons.
Sounds like a very expensive modification anyway, and one which is rather reducing than increasing the boat value, for most potential punters...

I dont know how that pasarelle was fitted into that position without moving a number of components in the engine bay. It would have been a major job which adds no value to the boat, in fact as you say, quite the opposite because there is no obvious means of handling the tender. I'm guessing that the owner understood all this but did it anyway for his own reasons. Certainly it is true that the centre mounted pasarelle is mounted quite high which creates an uncomfortable angle to the quay if the quay is low. Maybe the owner or member of his family is disabled in some way and needs a level pasarelle to access the boat?

 

[petem]

It is a lively place and has more things to do than most, but of personal preference I dont like tourists wandering at the back of my boat taking photos of me having breakfast ( at 11am!) and for that money they should give you a swimming pool!

To be fair to Portals, it's not as bad as Cala D'Or for gawpers is it*? Very few of the berths actually back onto the main thoroughfare (i.e. in front of the restaurants). What's striking about the place is the massive outnumbering of yachts by power boats.


* Apart from where you were.

 

[julians]

To be fair to Portals, it's not as bad as Cala D'Or for gawpers is it*? Very few of the berths actually back onto the main thoroughfare (i.e. in front of the restaurants). What's striking about the place is the massive outnumbering of yachts by power boats.


* Apart from where you were.

None of the berths at portals actually back on to the main thoroughfair, but you do get people walking up and down the pantalans checking out the boats.

Whenever we go there for a meal or drink my son likes to have a walk up and down the pantalans looking at the boats. I always give a cheery hello to anyone having dinner on their boat as i wander past.

Motorboats always out number yachts by a significant margin in the mallorcan marinas

 

[AndieMac]

Can you leave it up at 25kts?

Yes, as MM mentioned they stop the salt spray being drawn into the cockpit on a windy day, making sitting in the cockpit at speed more palatable, lessening the salt spray on the rear saloon/patio doors also.
If you have sooty discharge from exhaust of course, this will also be evident on light coloured material after a long run at sea, but there are plenty of plus sides to the covers

 

[MapisM]

Yes, as MM mentioned they stop the salt spray being drawn into the cockpit on a windy day, making sitting in the cockpit at speed more palatable, lessening the salt spray on the rear saloon/patio doors also.

I'm afraid you got the wrong end of the stick, C.
What I wrote is that I do NOT keep them on while cruising, to have one less thing to rinse from salt spray.
I'm still in the initial phase when you care more about the boat and her bits than crew comfort, you know...

Otoh, the idea is to leave the awning on most of the time once in CF, where as you know we don't need long/fast cruises to reach some nice spot!

 

[AndieMac]

I'm afraid you got the wrong end of the stick, C......:

Ha, not the first time for that P

On the long sea passages with the old Princess, laying on the rear cockpit lounge with plenty of fresh air was often the option for crew members who weren't coping so well in adverse conditions, so the shade was helpful keeping them dry.

 

[TonyR123]

I don't find people walking up and down the pontoon a problem. There aren't that many tbh.

I also have a privacy screen but more used to reduce sun in the evenings. Attaches how the winter covers attach. So zips in underneath the fly ridge and uses straps & the 'triangle' connections to attach to the tender garage.