New Sunseeker 80 Sport Yacht

[STEVEDUNSTABLE]

Yup, glass isn't the brittle stuff it used to be, so the glass panels bonded in restore the strength and stiffness that the huge hole made. Same with cars eg look at those little peugeots with a huge sheet of compound curved glass for the roof. (BTW, I'm not aware of any production boats made using compound curved glass, they all use flat sheet that is then bent, so that is something of a flaw in the argument)

Note also that the big black zig zag on the sunseeker hull side is not all glass window. The window surface area is much smaller. For about 2/3 of the area of that black zig zag what you have is black glass is bonded onto the GRP hull without the GRP being cut away,

Hi JFM.... JUST LOVE your new avatar of Match II getting "a move on" !!!! any more like that??........ as for the Sunny "windows", I thought it had been attacked by the ace swordsman "ZORRO"!!!!.........sorry all but its just not my cuppa tea......

 

[Tender_aft]

A question to all (I wonder if Sunseeker is listening....or do they care if we aren't the target market)....

Does anybody like it as is?

(if it's a no don't answer, let's just see if anyone says a yes)

 

[rafiki_]

A question to all (I wonder if Sunseeker is listening....or do they care if we aren't the target market)....

Does anybody like it as is?

(if it's a no don't answer, let's just see if anyone says a yes)

It is probably not aimed at the traditional market, but at the emerging Far East, whose tastes are a little different.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Does anybody like it as is?

This is more a comment on big side windows rather than Sunseeker's particular window styling but if you're a typical fat middle aged Sunseeker owner and you take your Ukranian bimbo to your midships cabin for a bit of rumpty tumpty and you forget to close the curtains, can the whole marina witness your pitiful exertions or are these windows so heavily tinted that your privacy is preserved, even at night? SWMBO posed this question to a number of salesmen at SIBS and none of them could give an unequivocal answer

 

[MapisM]

No matter how tinted the windows can be, it will always be possible to see through them at least at night, and with the interior lights on.
But in your boots, I'd be more worried by swmbo asking these details to a "number of salesmen"....

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

But in your boots, I'd be more worried by swmbo asking these details to a "number of salesmen"....

Nah, rottweilering salesmen at boat shows is one of her favourite sports. I just wind her up and let her go

 

[c and c of the sea]

I do like some of sunseeker boats. What I'm not too sure about are the large windows some of the builders are putting in.

 

[petem]

Ah so, the Sport 80 is a Chinese takeaway special and it only needs half a flybridge because Chinese people are so small. Come to think of it, the exterior does look as if it was designed by the same bloke who did my local Chinese restaurant. Has it got flock wallpaper inside with swirly dragon motifs? Is there a spring roll dispenser in the galley and a custom built cabinet for storing chopsticks? When you open the door, does a female voice shout at you 'do you wan flied lice with that mister?"

I took a look at some big SS's at the Hamble show earlier in the year. Felt to me like the interior design was already not to UK taste (middle eastern art deco would be my descrition). Anyone else agree?

 

[Tender_aft]

This is more a comment on big side windows rather than Sunseeker's particular window styling but if you're a typical fat middle aged Sunseeker owner and you take your Ukranian bimbo to your midships cabin for a bit of rumpty tumpty and you forget to close the curtains, can the whole marina witness your pitiful exertions or are these windows so heavily tinted that your privacy is preserved, even at night? SWMBO posed this question to a number of salesmen at SIBS and none of them could give an unequivocal answer

A good salesman would have let you test the theory

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

A good salesman would have let you test the theory

And a top salesman would have let me test the theory with one of the dolly birds on his stand

 

[Tender_aft]

And a top salesman would have let me test the theory with one of the dolly birds on his stand

...but you said it was SWMBO that was asking the questions so she would have....

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

...but you said it was SWMBO that was asking the questions so she would have....

Nope, skipper's perogative

 

[Portofino]

This is more a comment on big side windows rather than Sunseeker's particular window styling but if you're a typical fat middle aged Sunseeker owner and you take your Ukranian bimbo to your midships cabin for a bit of rumpty tumpty and you forget to close the curtains, can the whole marina witness your pitiful exertions or are these windows so heavily tinted that your privacy is preserved, even at night? SWMBO posed this question to a number of salesmen at SIBS and none of them could give an unequivocal answer

Completely missing the point of the " sport" fly ----- that's where you do the rumpty rumpty discreetly