New to forum... and boats!

Forgot to say that another requirement of buying a boat in the med is that very soon you need someone to come and visit you and say how lovely it is, what a super boat, what taste and class you have etc. Not many on here could do that (!) but if you really get stuck ..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I do agree with all the posts telling you to forget starting out with a 50 footer, but working up from a small dayboat is completely over the top the other way. Those smaller boats are too different to the kind of boating you probably want to do. Id recommend a 30 -32 ft boat, which will be the same as 50 ft in principle only easier to get your brain round.
There is a bit more to it all than I suspect you imagine, but the learning is good fun too.
 
Hi Moraira welcome. Lets get one thing clear, its is absolutely nothing like driving a car /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif the boat is on water and is subject to effects of both the water flow (tidal effect etc) plus wind.

The car is not in touch with terra firma via four lovely big tyres and does not steer from the front (remember this bit especially)

If your car is parked side by side with other cars in a parking bay you simply drive forward turn the wheel left or right and drive off (assuming you have the space in front) If not you just apply the brake manourve backward then forward till you are clear in front to leave

Picture same situation in a stern too mooring in the Med, you are berthed snuggly between two other vessels nicely fendered so the wind effect is limited. You motor forward out of your berth and if you have brisk a wind say, on your port side, and have not taken the right precautions, you can be blown onto the starboard side boats bow line., all very messy.

You cant just stop and try again cos the wind wont be listening.

As others have said 50ft boat can be in fact easier as it is heavier than a 35ft boat and as such is more planted on the water. We have taught many people on a 50 ft boat in our school.

Best of luck Clive
 
hm okay, but it is a little *bit* like driving a car really, just a very very skiddy, slow and massive car, altho on the plus side much cheaper to fix dents. A bloke in a big sunseeker in the next pontoon does j-turns up the fairway, yeehah!
 
>>The car is not in touch with terra firma via four lovely big tyres and does not steer from the front (remember this bit especially)

???

Maybe you drive a forklift, or only use the handbrake to go round corners ?
 
No its not....... if your big skiddy car was just sitting there on level ground it would stay there would'nt it, not like yer big floaty boat thingy I mean thats gonna go the way the wind is blowin innit.........cant put the hand brake on a boat and relax to gather yerself see...................
 
If anybody needs to know what it's like to drive a Talbot Avenger at 98mph down the hill towards J23 on the M1, then I have a friend that might be able to help. My friend didn't actually die, as such, but was a bit upset when the steering track rod (or whatever its called) popped clean out of the bit where it attached to the lhs wheel when manouevring in the uni car park at the end of his journey.

115k miles, and only had to rebuild the engine twice, plus one new rear final drive gearset, several new valves, shocks, windscreens, and short blocks...

dv.
 
You get a lovely "floating" feeling at about 95 downhill with a tail wind in an MG Midget too. Thats scary with your arse only about 4 inches off the deck!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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