henryf
Well-Known Member
Typing this aboard the Princess 50, rod holders & all !!
Arrived Swanwick late on Friday afternoon for the handover and to finally see her afloat for the first time. Looking lovely with her bimini cover set, some flowers, a few goodies and a bit of classical music drifting throughout the inside. To be fair to Princess we have rushed her through a bit as I'm off to Asia in a couple of weeks and wanted to get on board, familiarise ourselves with her and spend a couple of weeks in the Solent getting photos for the charter business and fine tuning the guest experience. She goes back to Princess in a couple of weeks for coding work and any snagging.
Friday and Saturday spent up to our knees in clutter as we populated the boat and sorted out all the myriad of jobs on a new boat. Straps for the tender / paserelle, shorepower adaptors - we have 2 leads now thanks to the 4 unit A/C system, learning all about bimini poles - I'm going on mastermind next year now, go on, ask me a question about stainless steel poles with bits sticking out of them
Sunday saw our first run out. A whole 180 metres from the finger berth to the hammerhead. Absolutely ****ting myself. You wouldn't think I'd been boating for over 15 years. Had visions of the thing getting blown this way and that with the extra windage. In the end the engines kicked like a mule on close quarters and the bow / stern thrusters made it like taking sweets from a baby. In fact I ended up using the Cat SVM system to reduce the effectiveness of the engines and props. Panic over.
Sunday saw our first proper run out to Cowes via Southampton water and some photos with the cruise ships. It had been suggested that the Mk3 Princess 50 was a bit under powered and so I was a bit aprehensive as to what was going to happen when we opened the taps on the Cat C12 engines. Over 32 knots, thats what happened. I think we can put that rumour to bed then. At one stage I did worry a bit as there didn't seem to have been any drama or signs of the boat popping up onto the plane. Seeing 28 knots on the GPS I guessed we were now on the plane
The boat felt good helming from down below as well. The P42 has the world's best visibility from the lower helm position and the P50 isn't far behind. Anyway more ramblings throughout the next few days no doubt but for now you want photos !!
Henry
Arrived Swanwick late on Friday afternoon for the handover and to finally see her afloat for the first time. Looking lovely with her bimini cover set, some flowers, a few goodies and a bit of classical music drifting throughout the inside. To be fair to Princess we have rushed her through a bit as I'm off to Asia in a couple of weeks and wanted to get on board, familiarise ourselves with her and spend a couple of weeks in the Solent getting photos for the charter business and fine tuning the guest experience. She goes back to Princess in a couple of weeks for coding work and any snagging.
Friday and Saturday spent up to our knees in clutter as we populated the boat and sorted out all the myriad of jobs on a new boat. Straps for the tender / paserelle, shorepower adaptors - we have 2 leads now thanks to the 4 unit A/C system, learning all about bimini poles - I'm going on mastermind next year now, go on, ask me a question about stainless steel poles with bits sticking out of them
Sunday saw our first run out. A whole 180 metres from the finger berth to the hammerhead. Absolutely ****ting myself. You wouldn't think I'd been boating for over 15 years. Had visions of the thing getting blown this way and that with the extra windage. In the end the engines kicked like a mule on close quarters and the bow / stern thrusters made it like taking sweets from a baby. In fact I ended up using the Cat SVM system to reduce the effectiveness of the engines and props. Panic over.
Sunday saw our first proper run out to Cowes via Southampton water and some photos with the cruise ships. It had been suggested that the Mk3 Princess 50 was a bit under powered and so I was a bit aprehensive as to what was going to happen when we opened the taps on the Cat C12 engines. Over 32 knots, thats what happened. I think we can put that rumour to bed then. At one stage I did worry a bit as there didn't seem to have been any drama or signs of the boat popping up onto the plane. Seeing 28 knots on the GPS I guessed we were now on the plane
The boat felt good helming from down below as well. The P42 has the world's best visibility from the lower helm position and the P50 isn't far behind. Anyway more ramblings throughout the next few days no doubt but for now you want photos !!
Henry
