moonraker boats

[moonraker boats]

who has a moonraker and what is the name of your boat, model and year.

please add a picture if you can

 

[moonraker 36]

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seatigress.
built 1972 by bell&buxton.
hull number 100 found on brass plate behind stb engine on cross beam.
fitout number 122 found behind interior panel's during refit.
understand that bell&buxton made 122boats before jcl took over which would make seatigress one of the last built by the origanal company.
complete engine and boat overhaul 2007-2011.
http://www.moonraker.dk/danish/modeller/modeller_softrider.htm
she is a open wheel house aft cabin(converted at some piont)
having 175perk's makes her the 350.
obv. one fitted with 145's would make it a 290 and so on.

 

[moonraker boats]

very nice looking, looks well looked after

 

[moonraker 36]

not many on here have raker's so i would'nt expect a huge responce...
face book have a jcl page.

 

[moonraker boats]

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not many on here have raker's so i would'nt expect a huge responce...
face book have a jcl page.

i am on the moonraker jcl marine page of facebook as well... was just wondering how many were left in the uk. and where they all are now but i think it will be a huge task to try find them all

 

[moonraker 36]

alot are already on the moonraker web site.
theirs 4 in the area near me.
as before, most that were made are still around today.
one of the first production boat to be built to lloyds standard's

theirs was a chap on he not long ago who as purchesed the moulds for the raker and was on about making himself one and maybe then taking orders if their was any intrest.

 

[Deekay]

Hi we have just bought one

 

[yellowmoon]

My Father purchased Yellow Moon in 1989, we still have her and she is on the Thames at the moment still being used regularly.

 

[milltech]

My Father purchased Yellow Moon in 1989, we still have her and she is on the Thames at the moment still being used regularly.View attachment 66170

I occasionally like to google my own boats and having discovered one of them had sunk am pleased to hear "Yellow Moon" is still going strong, or at least was in 2010.

 

[oldgit]

there was some coverage regards Moonrakers on this forum early on in the month and there is a good book available online dealing with the history.

 

[milltech]

there was some coverage regards Moonrakers on this forum early on in the month and there is a good book available online dealing with the history.

I'll look for it. Since selling the last boat I have been a rare visitor, only really prompted the the occasional story as this one. Yellow Moon was the London Show Boat in it's year and had a little yellow speedboat in the davits which got left on a pontoon somewhere and replaced with an inflatable. The speedboat, I think it was called a Spitfire was utterly useless as a tender and not much better at anything else. I also recently discovered the best boat I ever owned and really loved is on the bottom in Mallorca, when I find the right thread I'll post the video, too sad.

 

[Bajansailor]

Here is a link to the thread mentioned by oldgit above -
JCL Boats and Moonraker. The History.

And it has a link to the history of the Moonrakers here -
Moonraker | Moonraker Boats

I re-posted my catalogue for the Mystere on this thread a few weeks ago - the previous scans were posted in Photobucket some years ago, and are now blurred. They are on the last page.
Mystere 43 catalogue - another blast from the 70s

Also a catalogue for the Marauder -
A Marauder for JFM

 

[oldgit]

- the previous scans were posted in Photobucket some years ago, and are now blurred.

to get round that photobucket problem, i just download any pix to my computer and then upload again into postimage.

 

[bigherbert]

My Father purchased Yellow Moon in 1989, we still have her and she is on the Thames at the moment still being used regularly.View attachment 66170

any idea what the yellow hull colour is ?

 

[billskip]

One Moonraker on the Thames had a VIP aboard back in the 80's, MT a lady Prime Minister...(social event).

 

[oldgit]

Roger Moore had a Moonraker 36.

Picture from Sara O Haras book IBSN 1-84280-076-0.
Pretty certain there is a photo of him and a wife( Dorothy Squires ?) at some dance or other mentioned in a History of Rochester Cruising Club publication.
100 Years of RCC. aka Making The Same Mistakes Every 10 years or so .

 

[billskip]

Roger Moore had a Moonraker 36. ?

 

[PCUK]

Original James Bond star? I think not!

 

[billskip]

Original James Bond star? I think not!

These agents tell you anything.....

 

[billskip]

First photo I saw was in a yachting magazine publicity, may have been this one, it was parked outside the Jolly Sailor, I was smitten.....that was many many moon's ago..55 yrs?possibley...