I think thats a hangover from the aftermath of the financial crisis when no boats were popular! But now as you have pointed out other power cat manufacturers are piling into that market so there must be demand. Its just seems odd for a major cat builder like Jeanneau to ignore such an obvious market but then what do I know about boatbuilding! Also its not just the 40-50' market but the 50-60' market as well in which, as far as I'm aware, there is only one entrant, the Horizon PC52, which seems to be selling like hot cakes if you believe their publicity. The 630 is indeed a great looking boat but it is simply too large for the bulk of the market
There's no need to have been there.before anyone tells me that those waves are not typical of f7 conditions, you had to be there
Seriously, she's a lovely boat and I hope both of you are very happy with her
well, i,ve finally found the time to put together some footage of the trip form les sables d'lonne to vilamoura, from november/december last year....
we've crossed biscay before in breaking bad, but that was at leisure and in company so it was with a bit of healthy anxiety that we headed out into the ocean on a brand new, untested boat.
(thanks to halcyon yachts for their expert and cost effective service)
needn't have worried, the boat performed perfectly, we only managed to sail between lisbon and the algarve but that was fine. the important thing was to get the boat home in one piece and snag any issues that arose, (none).
so the weather behaved, for most of the time, and when it got blowy it was from 180 with lovely big, regular rollers to ride down.
we managed to put 90 hours on the engines before lisbon, averaging 6.5 kts and burning about, (mapism, look away now), 580 litres over the first 600 or so nm.
arriving in the algarve for the second time by boat was terrific, it seems to flatten out as you turn left at cabo st vicente and as we arrived in vilamoura i was left feeling very pleased with the boat and very much looking forward to the next few months of learning to sail....which is currently going very well thanks to youtube
i hope you enjoy the video, (it won't give henry or scubaman a run for their money but it captures the time well i think). i know that we've gone over to the dark side but we'll always be motor boaters at heart, especially ann who is suffering some boaty type of post new boat depression....but she's slowly bonding with the new baby now.
atb nigel and ann
ps - before anyone tells me that those waves are not typical of f7 conditions, you had to be there
pps - thanks to richard and elvia, (idamay of this forum), for meeting me at the dockside in vm, even if you did forget to press record
. The foot is still sore but I'm out of my special boot, back to the fracture clinic in a couple of weeks where hopefully they'll be able to tell if it's mending.
Nigel, just a thought, but would it be a good idea to post this in a new thread as it's the start to an epic cruise report you could just keep adding to? A link to this thread at the start would tie it up all nicely. It would be easier to find with a cruise report title too. Either way please keep posting your vids and reports, makes a great read/view. :encouragement:
