Mystere 43 catalogue - another blast from the 70s

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JKay said:
Stunning boat and picture Alf and was the Alfa the 3.0 litre V6 ?
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Thanks...

GTV was a "slightly modified" 2L ... about 200 hp on rear axle....

Here's another one from Tobermory same year....

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Divemaster1 said:
Thanks...

GTV was a "slightly modified" 2L ... about 200 hp on rear axle....

Here's another one from Tobermory same year....

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Where are you off to this season ? and not refering to your weight but I bet you got through some "doughnuts" with that Alfa
 
JKay said:
Where are you off to this season ? and not refering to your weight but I bet you got through some "doughnuts" with that Alfa
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:D... GTV was fun ...

Not decided yet ... moored at Inverness now so could be anything from Shetland & Orkneys, Pottering around in the Caledonian Canal to somewhere on the West Coast of Scotland... not sure what life will throw at us this summer and will make desicions there after...
 
Divemaster1 said:
As a owner of a decendant of Versilcraft's Mystere / Mirage etc., I am always interested in photographs of these boats ... retro-futuristisk is a term I have heard..... but then again, I used to have a 1985 Alfa Romeo GTV, so what do I know?? :)

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When I saw this thread yesterday I immediately thought of 'Navigator' Alf, huge similarities.
 
I will second JFM's request for some photos please of the restored Mamba - we would all (I am sure) be very interested in seeing what she looks like now.

Here is a link to the info about the Mamba on Andy Haywood's excellent site about JCL Marine and the boats that they built - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.hayward/Pages/Mamba.html

I must admit that it is a nice change to see more angular superstructures on this thread, rather than the very common 'melted icing look' with complex curves everywhere on 'modern' boats.
Dare I hazard a guess that Sunseeker were probably the first to go down this route and everybody else followed obediently after?
 
I am pretty sure

Bajansailor said:
I will second JFM's request for some photos please of the restored Mamba - we would all (I am sure) be very interested in seeing what she looks like now.

Here is a link to the info about the Mamba on Andy Haywood's excellent site about JCL Marine and the boats that they built - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andy.hayward/Pages/Mamba.html

I must admit that it is a nice change to see more angular superstructures on this thread, rather than the very common 'melted icing look' with complex curves everywhere on 'modern' boats.
Dare I hazard a guess that Sunseeker were probably the first to go down this route and everybody else followed obediently after?
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Falcon had a go at bashing a few of these out as well?
 
Excellent Thread

I own the last Mystere built, the same one that featured in the early stages of this thread so am delighted to see all the interest.
Naturally, I would like to add another request for images of the finished Midlands Mamba. I made enquiries about it when it was up for sale part way through the slow restoration. Presumably the current owner purchased it at that time and has stepped up the fit out - congratulations to him. I know of one other Mamba lying in a boatyard on the Medway looking quite sorry for itself (well it did a few years ago), I'll dig out some photos and post them. Also, there was one for sale in Italy recently, the link is no longer valid so I presume that it has been sold.

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MystereMarcus said:
I own the last Mystere built, the same one that featured in the early stages of this thread so am delighted to see all the interest.
Naturally, I would like to add another request for images of the finished Midlands Mamba. I made enquiries about it when it was up for sale part way through the slow restoration. Presumably the current owner purchased it at that time and has stepped up the fit out - congratulations to him. I know of one other Mamba lying in a boatyard on the Medway looking quite sorry for itself (well it did a few years ago), I'll dig out some photos and post them. Also, there was one for sale in Italy recently, the link is no longer valid so I presume that it has been sold.

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Very nice Marcus. Is she still in Cala D'Or? There is a versilcraft built one in Antibes, first boat on quay 7, in nice-ish condition. I'll try to post some pics sometime
 
Bajansailor said:
I must admit that it is a nice change to see more angular superstructures on this thread, rather than the very common 'melted icing look' with complex curves everywhere on 'modern' boats.
Dare I hazard a guess that Sunseeker were probably the first to go down this route and everybody else followed obediently after?
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Compound cuves give very high stiffness for a given weight of GRP, and are incredibly easy to make in GRP, hence their popularity among builders as GRP building took hold.

No, folks didn't follow sunseeker imho. Everyone used compound curves as a natural engineering choice, which had no need of sunseeker as inspiration. Sunseeker used a particular pile-of-blancmange genre of compound curving, some relics of which remain even now in some of their current designs, and which fortunately was not copied much by other builders who used compound curves but kept them more subtle :D
 
JFM & Alf

Many thanks for the comments. The boat was in Cala d'Or when I bought her, she is now back in Hamble. The photo was supplied by the broker after the hull had just been polished - sadly she isn't that glossy at present (that will hopefully change once I'm finished with my polisher).
Alf, your boat looks fantastic, as you say very similar superstructure right down to the black around the wheelhouse side window. I think the Mystere does have quite a flat aft section and must sit higher in the water. I'm attaching a couple more photo's of the aft section.
Cheers,
Marcus.

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MystereMarcus said:
..... I'm attaching a couple more photo's of the aft section.
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Thanks Marcus, very interesting!!

We sit deeper, most likely due to the three tonnes of engines we have onboard (Detroit Diesels) with straight shafts...

Also a couple more chines in bow section, then carrying on all the way to the V in the stern...

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...and the black colour around windows carries through to front as well..

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Difficult when pictures are not taken from same angle...., but I guess we can agree about one thing ... they are very similar, and design is destinctively of Italian origin...

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.... as was some of the Ferretti's in the 80's

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It is 01/01/20 and I thought I would resurrect this thread again, after seeing the thread in the link below posted by Oldgit last week.

JCL Boats and Moonraker. The History.

Sadly Photobucket threw a hissy fit after I refused to pay them extortion money, hence why the scans of the catalogue above have been deliberately blurred.
But no worries, with this new forum it is very easy now to add attachments, so here are copies of the scans instead.

I shall also do the same for my Marauder catalogue in this thread -
A Marauder for JFM

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happy new year to all,
hadn't bought MiToS back when the thread started, but nice to see all these pics and reports.
Bajansailer, I think you sent these to me at some point back in 2011-12, right?

cheers

V.
 
And best wishes for fair winds and calms while motoring through 2020 to all the mobo mob on here from Barbados.
Va, yes, I think I did send them to you back then - in the meantime you have totally transformed your timber Mystere, and no doubt cruised a good few miles as well now.
 
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