Mid week spot the boat

[Kipper]

Recently flew out to the CI's to help detail clean a mate of mines boat. Must be missing all that cleaning since I sold "Christine". Spent best part of a day on the stainless alone and the top to bottom clean took two of us four and a half long, hard but enjoyable days.

Can you tell what boat it is from this.

 

[ricky_s]

Recently flew out to the CI's to help detail clean a mate of mines boat. Must be missing all that cleaning since I sold "Christine". Spent best part of a day on the stainless alone and the top to bottom clean took two of us four and a half long, hard but enjoyable days.

Can you tell what boat it is from this.

Where is the bird?

 

[Nigelhg]

Fleming 65 or possibly Nordhaven46?

 

[Kipper]

Sorry bird flew off

 

[Kipper]

Fleming 65 or possibly Nordhaven46?

Close in terms of semi displacement but wrong part of world on both.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Sorry bird flew off

This must be the worst spot the boat competition in living memory.

No bird, no fun.

 

[Kipper]

sorry will this do

 

[jhr]

sorry will this do

That's cheating - a Swan's a rag and stick thingy,,,

 

[epervier]

looking at the two shiny harpoon guns in the picture some sort of up market whaler

 

[Kipper]

No really they are anchors
Have another go.

 

[Sundowner Portofino]

And there was me thinking they were loch gates!! Must put more water in the whisky next time

 

[Nautical]

Trader 64 !

 

[Kipper]

Spot on, Trader 64 it is. You would have to have seen one to know I suppose but I was impressed by the amount and quality of the stainless which I reckion ran to more than 150 meteres of the stuff.

Cheers

 

[Nautical]

Ha ha ! yes indeedy, some of the stuff coming out of taiwan is of superb quality, Fleming, Outer Reef, ELegance et al, tends to be very belt and braces build, they don't do 'flash' or 'bling' very well, but, if you want hugely engineered and go anywhere ability they are the go to people, been doing this sort of stuff for 50 years and mostly anyone buiding now to this style and quality does it in Taiwan. Gone are the days of the Taiwanese image of cheap and cheerful, these days many of their yard facilities out gun much of the US and EU for heavy displacement product up to 30m. They are not much cheaper these days if at all than the major players but have built a strong industry around this style of product. Having said that there are a couple of 'ropey' yards but then that is the same as anywhere.

 

[Kipper]

Yes the overall build quality of this trader is ship like, the only things that could be critised was some of the UK finishing touches unfortunately but lets not go there.
I cant wait to go back and clean the engine room.

 

[MapisM]

I was impressed by the amount and quality of the stainless which I reckion ran to more than 150 meteres of the stuff.

Actually I wouldn't rate s/s as a quality choice, when talking of anchor chains - rather a bling factor than anything else. That said, are you sure than also the chain is s/s? It seems galvanised to me, which is exactly how it should be (swiwel aside, which is useless at best).
As an aside, I'd be curious to hear about how that winch was being used, with the line apparently tensioned on both ends...?!?

 

[Nautical]

Ah, just noticed the Fleming 55 in front of you, would that be a certain Piers of hereabouts ?

 

[Kipper]

Actually I wouldn't rate s/s as a quality choice, when talking of anchor chains - rather a bling factor than anything else. That said, are you sure than also the chain is s/s? It seems galvanised to me, which is exactly how it should be (swiwel aside, which is useless at best).
As an aside, I'd be curious to hear about how that winch was being used, with the line apparently tensioned on both ends...?!?

I dint mean the chain was stainless I was refering to the amount of stailes tubing on the whole boat, sorry.

 

[Kipper]

Ah, just noticed the Fleming 55 in front of you, would that be a certain Piers of hereabouts ?

Not sure what is Piers boat called?

 

[Nautical]

Play Deau I think ,I can just make out the name on the stern