ShipsWoofy
Well-Known Member
After Peties post on the new Fairyline inane 38ft caravan I wonder if this is the peak of ambiguity between an expensive still water boys toy or is it that I am out of touch and living in the past.
Glossy plastic everywhere, televisions marking luxury like twiddly knobs on Japanese hifi. Buy a hifi because it matches the colour scheme, forget that it might actually sound rubbish.
Well here we have the ipod boats, look beautiful, play ok in the right circumstances but miss that ingredient that separates quality from luxury, fit form function!
It seems to me, looking around the marina that you lot (stinky purchasers) have forgotten what it is you are buying. You are paying ¾ million quid upwards for a waterside apartment. ¾ million quid for a big block of plastic that has you running for shelter in anything over F4 in the Solent the biggest marine lake in the country.
There are a few on here I have now found who also see these problems, yet for anyone to mention it we are accused of being jealous, envious or worse non director types who should stick to eating out of the gutter.
So I thought I would write to your forum at the risk of gaining more enemies and ask why are you letting the designers run your industry with as much irreverence as those who build theme rooms out of MDF with nowhere to sit down. It appears that grab handles have become so September 10th darling; Also remove chart tables so we can squeeze in another giant plasma television.
Let us monitor everything so our helm can take on the look of a 1970’s aircraft cockpit. Our customers want to be Captain Kirk, lets let them. Of course the temperature of the hob needs to be monitored at the helm. We will even play real boats by adding navigation lights even though the helm wont see a thing over the light pollution created when we light up all these dials and switches at night.
Lifebuoys will ruin the designers masterpiece so ensure they have to be hidden away, hell our customers never leave the pontoon anyway. With this in mind we can make it impossible to attach a lifeline and add curve to all the decks, so if they manage to get up there we can still make em slip over the side, nicely tripping over our 12” tall stanchions, taller would look so ugly.
This teardrop stencil was a present from the wife I had better show that I am using it. Nearly finished what can I finish the look with, a spoiler, I can’t fit side-skirts like the 80’s GTI boys toys but I sure can put an enormous pram handle spoiler on it.
Now lets see, an electric hob, my brother in law is buying all the Solent marinas up so I can help him a bit, a microwave, brilliant but not as clever as my electric oven. Luxury is now the useless galley, but at least it matches the décor. Now the heads, I see a nice Victorian theme here with big old porcelain sinks and an electric bog, no-one will ever use when not plugged in so that’s ok then.
Lets now have a good look at our lighting, we have a warehouse full of halogen flush fitting lights, lets use a minimum of 18 to light the saloon, if the microwave and hob doesn’t trip the shore power or burn out the inverters these will. More luxury, lets include a washing machine, you can’t prepare a meal but at least you will have clean socks on board.
We will endorse gadget companies to fix our faults, man over board alarms will remove our duty to allow people to move about the boat safely. A liferaft shelf will help the crew survive a force 6 storm. >>>
Lets be honest, I had never heard of a 38ft boat staying in harbour because the winds were gusting F4 until I started reading YBW, why are you buying boats not fit for function and thinking that is ok because the designers must know what they are doing.
This is all sports boats not just the 38ft+. Someone on here made a comment that he wished the presenters on the boatshow program would stop referring to our boats as gin palaces. Well I am afraid, I think they are right, they are gin palaces.
Discuss without mentioning raggies, this is not a them and us, this is why are you buying boats that are not boats?
Glossy plastic everywhere, televisions marking luxury like twiddly knobs on Japanese hifi. Buy a hifi because it matches the colour scheme, forget that it might actually sound rubbish.
Well here we have the ipod boats, look beautiful, play ok in the right circumstances but miss that ingredient that separates quality from luxury, fit form function!
It seems to me, looking around the marina that you lot (stinky purchasers) have forgotten what it is you are buying. You are paying ¾ million quid upwards for a waterside apartment. ¾ million quid for a big block of plastic that has you running for shelter in anything over F4 in the Solent the biggest marine lake in the country.
There are a few on here I have now found who also see these problems, yet for anyone to mention it we are accused of being jealous, envious or worse non director types who should stick to eating out of the gutter.
So I thought I would write to your forum at the risk of gaining more enemies and ask why are you letting the designers run your industry with as much irreverence as those who build theme rooms out of MDF with nowhere to sit down. It appears that grab handles have become so September 10th darling; Also remove chart tables so we can squeeze in another giant plasma television.
Let us monitor everything so our helm can take on the look of a 1970’s aircraft cockpit. Our customers want to be Captain Kirk, lets let them. Of course the temperature of the hob needs to be monitored at the helm. We will even play real boats by adding navigation lights even though the helm wont see a thing over the light pollution created when we light up all these dials and switches at night.
Lifebuoys will ruin the designers masterpiece so ensure they have to be hidden away, hell our customers never leave the pontoon anyway. With this in mind we can make it impossible to attach a lifeline and add curve to all the decks, so if they manage to get up there we can still make em slip over the side, nicely tripping over our 12” tall stanchions, taller would look so ugly.
This teardrop stencil was a present from the wife I had better show that I am using it. Nearly finished what can I finish the look with, a spoiler, I can’t fit side-skirts like the 80’s GTI boys toys but I sure can put an enormous pram handle spoiler on it.
Now lets see, an electric hob, my brother in law is buying all the Solent marinas up so I can help him a bit, a microwave, brilliant but not as clever as my electric oven. Luxury is now the useless galley, but at least it matches the décor. Now the heads, I see a nice Victorian theme here with big old porcelain sinks and an electric bog, no-one will ever use when not plugged in so that’s ok then.
Lets now have a good look at our lighting, we have a warehouse full of halogen flush fitting lights, lets use a minimum of 18 to light the saloon, if the microwave and hob doesn’t trip the shore power or burn out the inverters these will. More luxury, lets include a washing machine, you can’t prepare a meal but at least you will have clean socks on board.
We will endorse gadget companies to fix our faults, man over board alarms will remove our duty to allow people to move about the boat safely. A liferaft shelf will help the crew survive a force 6 storm. >>>
Lets be honest, I had never heard of a 38ft boat staying in harbour because the winds were gusting F4 until I started reading YBW, why are you buying boats not fit for function and thinking that is ok because the designers must know what they are doing.
This is all sports boats not just the 38ft+. Someone on here made a comment that he wished the presenters on the boatshow program would stop referring to our boats as gin palaces. Well I am afraid, I think they are right, they are gin palaces.
Discuss without mentioning raggies, this is not a them and us, this is why are you buying boats that are not boats?
