burgundyben
Well-Known Member
Its a long long way off, but one can dream.
I'd like to be able to say I have been I have been formulating this idea for a long time, but the truth is I was thinking about it today while driving home to meet the gas engineer who is repeatedly unable to fix the product he is trained to fix....
My retirement boat is about 70ft to 80ft long, displacement boat, centre main engine power to provide 10 knots max, wing engine to provide power generation and be able to be switched to provide maybe 4 knots, round bilge, maybe bilge keels, maybe stabs, generally system wise it would be kept fairly simple. Might be steel, perhaps GRP or wood composite, maybe aluminium. Would have a 3000 mile range so could cross the pond. Hull would be built to be able to take the ground and sit upright.
It would be pretty, a bit Fred Parker or Nicholson ish.
Hull would have a tall bow with quite a big flair, Portuguese bridge, crane on foredeck for lifting tender aboard, tender would be 10ft with a small inboard. Twin ground tackle set into the bow, with big hydraulic winches. Canoe stern with a big lazarette.
One driving position from the wheelhouse, steps up to a sun pad on top, the deck saloon would have lots of glass (and corresponding air con, a biggish aft deck with some fixed poles so it could be enclosed with a canopy.
A gate in the Bulwarks with steps down to the dinghy.
Galley aft of the engine room with a dumb waiter up to the saloon, steps fwd of the saloon down to the cabins with a companionway (opposite side to the wing engine) leading aft to the galley.
Two guest cabins, both ensuite with showers, an owners cabin up fwd with a 7ft sq bed and a walk in bathroom with hip bath.
Fwd end of the saloon backing onto the raised wheelhouse would be a small office with a writing bureau and small library.
Wheelhouse would have a full sized chart table. Radar, chart plotter and satellite gadgets kept to a minimum. BFO water maker, air con, heating and hot water.
Interior in mostly mahogany, fluer de lys featuring heavily in the soft furnishings, no keep calm/union jack items and no underwater led lighting.
A bloody great big flagstaff for the ensign, a funnel and mast for lights and aerials etc.
Horns louder than the Queen Mary/Concorde and the land speed record Sunbeam all together.
I think that's it for now.
I'd like to be able to say I have been I have been formulating this idea for a long time, but the truth is I was thinking about it today while driving home to meet the gas engineer who is repeatedly unable to fix the product he is trained to fix....
My retirement boat is about 70ft to 80ft long, displacement boat, centre main engine power to provide 10 knots max, wing engine to provide power generation and be able to be switched to provide maybe 4 knots, round bilge, maybe bilge keels, maybe stabs, generally system wise it would be kept fairly simple. Might be steel, perhaps GRP or wood composite, maybe aluminium. Would have a 3000 mile range so could cross the pond. Hull would be built to be able to take the ground and sit upright.
It would be pretty, a bit Fred Parker or Nicholson ish.
Hull would have a tall bow with quite a big flair, Portuguese bridge, crane on foredeck for lifting tender aboard, tender would be 10ft with a small inboard. Twin ground tackle set into the bow, with big hydraulic winches. Canoe stern with a big lazarette.
One driving position from the wheelhouse, steps up to a sun pad on top, the deck saloon would have lots of glass (and corresponding air con, a biggish aft deck with some fixed poles so it could be enclosed with a canopy.
A gate in the Bulwarks with steps down to the dinghy.
Galley aft of the engine room with a dumb waiter up to the saloon, steps fwd of the saloon down to the cabins with a companionway (opposite side to the wing engine) leading aft to the galley.
Two guest cabins, both ensuite with showers, an owners cabin up fwd with a 7ft sq bed and a walk in bathroom with hip bath.
Fwd end of the saloon backing onto the raised wheelhouse would be a small office with a writing bureau and small library.
Wheelhouse would have a full sized chart table. Radar, chart plotter and satellite gadgets kept to a minimum. BFO water maker, air con, heating and hot water.
Interior in mostly mahogany, fluer de lys featuring heavily in the soft furnishings, no keep calm/union jack items and no underwater led lighting.
A bloody great big flagstaff for the ensign, a funnel and mast for lights and aerials etc.
Horns louder than the Queen Mary/Concorde and the land speed record Sunbeam all together.
I think that's it for now.
