Tel
New member
Hello – I’m a sailor (as in sails), who regularly charters boats, but I have been looking around at motorboat ‘weekenders’.
I have seen a 1977 Monark 18 – 20 ft sportsboat (Scandinavian origins – not US), with a Volvo AQ 130 (petrol) engine. I’m told it can do 23 knots. I didn’t think that it was possible for boats to do more than 8 knots! And petrol? We rag and stick men believe petrol should be kept in quantities of less than 5 litres and even then towed in the dinghy due to it’s dangerous nature – but it seems quite common for you guys to have petrol engines and gallons of the stuff under the floorboards.
Anyway, I’ve heard that you motorboaters can be quite nice chaps, so can anyone help with the following questions:
1. Is Monark a good name?
2. Can you get parts for a Volvo AQ 130?
3. What should I pay for such a craft?
4. Any other advice for an ageing rag and stick man?
Tel
I have seen a 1977 Monark 18 – 20 ft sportsboat (Scandinavian origins – not US), with a Volvo AQ 130 (petrol) engine. I’m told it can do 23 knots. I didn’t think that it was possible for boats to do more than 8 knots! And petrol? We rag and stick men believe petrol should be kept in quantities of less than 5 litres and even then towed in the dinghy due to it’s dangerous nature – but it seems quite common for you guys to have petrol engines and gallons of the stuff under the floorboards.
Anyway, I’ve heard that you motorboaters can be quite nice chaps, so can anyone help with the following questions:
1. Is Monark a good name?
2. Can you get parts for a Volvo AQ 130?
3. What should I pay for such a craft?
4. Any other advice for an ageing rag and stick man?
Tel