MapisM
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Roger wilco.
"Modern Day" Sunseeker SuperHawk 34
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MRC
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What about a big rib?
When I told my wife I was buying a rib her only input was it had to have:
Sunbed area
Sunshade
Toilet
Fridge
Shower
bathing ladder
Small cabin
Some of the bigger ribs have a good size cabin. Look at the scorpion cabin rib, Revenger 32 has a camper style cabin or one of the larger Capelli ribs if an outboard is an option. Nice and easy maintenance and they can always be lifted and dry stacked.
In fact my first Superhawk 34 is now in dry stack at Saxon wharf.
When I told my wife I was buying a rib her only input was it had to have:
Sunbed area
Sunshade
Toilet
Fridge
Shower
bathing ladder
Small cabin
Some of the bigger ribs have a good size cabin. Look at the scorpion cabin rib, Revenger 32 has a camper style cabin or one of the larger Capelli ribs if an outboard is an option. Nice and easy maintenance and they can always be lifted and dry stacked.
In fact my first Superhawk 34 is now in dry stack at Saxon wharf.
Nautical
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I had a Performace 1107 some years ago on surface drives with Yanmars, Jeez it was an absolute flying machine, 60 mph no worries, naff all accomodation but it was just awesome performance and hugely built. Sold to it an IT guy who later stuffed it into the side of a cruise ship :-(
I would honestly say way better built than SS/Windy et al.
I would honestly say way better built than SS/Windy et al.
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MapisM
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Well, I wouldn't rate them much above Windy, strictly in terms of build quality.
But they're definitely in another league in terms of performance (I guess they have to, considering the yard name...
).And all of their boats are highly customised, also the smaller ones.
So, depending on the original buyer of that boat, she might have been particularly well equipped.
The Arnesons choice alone tells a story of someone whose main target clearly wasnt't saving money...!
petem
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PowerYachtBlog
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Actually I would rate them above Windy seeing the hull structure problems I have seen in some of their more recent models coming the Norway builder.
We had a 35 Khamsin here new a couple years ago (2005?) which had structural issues in its first season. Fair to them this model was replaced by Windy, but the replacement model ended with the same issue and this was repaired by Windy staff.
The same fate happened to a 2000 43 Grand Mistral fixed in Italy, and other ninties, early 2000s Windies I do have seen unusual stress cracks for boats only 2 to 3 years old.
Windy's do indeed ride very good but its since mid nineties models do left a bit to be desired from the construction strenght side. May be they should teach their clients to be a bit cautious when they some crackling noise coming from the hull....
Hopefully the newer more recent models have gone away with this. Fair to say that Windy was among the first to go into DIAB core vacuum bagging type construction, and its very normal for many builders to have some issues in the first year in this type of construction, especially if you don't do enough home work.
IMO the best Windies ever are the old 9800 and 8800 those are definitly untouchable!
We had a 35 Khamsin here new a couple years ago (2005?) which had structural issues in its first season. Fair to them this model was replaced by Windy, but the replacement model ended with the same issue and this was repaired by Windy staff.
The same fate happened to a 2000 43 Grand Mistral fixed in Italy, and other ninties, early 2000s Windies I do have seen unusual stress cracks for boats only 2 to 3 years old.
Windy's do indeed ride very good but its since mid nineties models do left a bit to be desired from the construction strenght side. May be they should teach their clients to be a bit cautious when they some crackling noise coming from the hull....
Hopefully the newer more recent models have gone away with this. Fair to say that Windy was among the first to go into DIAB core vacuum bagging type construction, and its very normal for many builders to have some issues in the first year in this type of construction, especially if you don't do enough home work.
IMO the best Windies ever are the old 9800 and 8800 those are definitly untouchable!
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Bramers
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I've always admired the Hydrolift sports boats, does anyone have any experience with the marque?
http://www.hydrolift.com/
MapisM
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Blimey, talk about coincidence!
I post the above sentence yesterday, and see what sort of video of a Fountain 38 pops up today in this thread.
That pretty much explains what I meant!
MCNav
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Very good idea! Your wife certainly has an idea of what's needed to add comfort & function to design. There are too many builders who choose design over function on smaller boats these days!
gjgm
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What is a 43 Grand Mistral?
I asked Windy some time back about this stress story,and they never had a boat with it in europe mainland.
Still, ten years ago, so...
