Northerner Impresion Of Stinkpot Show.

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Found Excel easy to get to via underground Thames clipper water bus plus coach. Why it dont go straight to Excel is a mistery.

So looking for the possible replacement for my legendary M Farter. Not that I've fallen out with her, but well she cant last for ever and anyway Debs has a thing about the pink bathroom sink!!

Now the problem with replacing Mucky is, that where as she's a proper 35ft plus a bit. All the newer ones cheat like buggery and include about 5ft of bathing platform, then theres the silly sloping arse ends that loose another couple of feet. Net result is you end up with a little poky boat on a bloody big skate board. Now they all look great in the Boat show. I made this mistake years ago with an American imperial. Looked great. But it was the finer points. Big V8 and a 20 gallon fuel tank, also leaked like a polo mint!! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

So being a bit wiser, now look for less obvious signs of designer errors. Now see what I mean.

The Jeanatoe ?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Well there was a bright shiney mirrow finnish lump of wood right where you throw the ships stores over the side into the cockpit. Cant think what that would look like after a week, never mind M F's 16 years! So that got blanked.

Begining to understand why every one finnishes up with the unthinkable Sealine. Theres nowt else to choose from at the 30- 40ft mark. Even then, theres alot to be said. For a start the salesmen would have been better employed on Monty Python. The guys talking to the folks infront of us. Lifts the engine cover on the 34 and says quite confidently. Look theres loads of storage down here". I points out that it's all going to get mashed up with the drive belts. So he shuts the cover quick and glares at me a bit!!

Now all these fancy designs might work in the med. But I've got a perfectly good alongside berth. Starboard to. The transom door thingy seems always to be to port. OK till you stick the dinghy on the back. Then theres the cleats with rope leading about six ft back, then another as a spring. I've moored along side these new abortions of boats long enough to realise that they are a complete abortion in many situations. Do I really have to walk over folks seat cushions to enter there boat!! I'd knock anyones block off if they did it with mine. Theres no need with a proper design. The helm on every boat I looked at seemed compromised by me finnishing up in the galley in any sort of sea. At least my ladder up to the fly bridge is safe, might be out of fashion but hard to fall off. The stair thingies look positively dangerous in anything other than dead calm. Course then theres the slitty eyed window thing. But thats just personal. If some one wants me to part with another hundred grand and Mucky as well for some one elses second hand disaster they had better come up with something better!!
 

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Absolutely spot on.AKA.(Last refuge of the \"designer\")

Motor boat design dept.Still at least you know where all those otherwise unemployable artists who are guilty for all that logo-ed designer crap that results in clothes with some prats name all written over it,unuseable overcomplicated watches which cost 3.5K but still tell exactly the same time as the £2.50 from the garage jobby end up peddling old tosh to the should know better.
After 20 years of progress not one of those new boats could offer the same sensible use of space as the P35.One of the french boats visited by me on did its best to dump me onto the Excel showroom floor when I tried to go forward cos the flybridge stuck out and bashed you on the shoulder.The only way to get to the front was by leaning out at an angle of 45 degrees.
 

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Re: Absolutely spot on.AKA.(Last refuge of the \"designer\")

Then theres the Sealine with granite worktops. Well there OK, I even make granite kitchen worktops. But the massivly heavy granite covers for the sink and cooker!! God help anyone with those in a rough sea!! Would be surprised if much of the boat would be left with those things flying about.
 

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Why bother looking at the future when the past obviously suits your needs? A good "t" cut and polish and the old uns look as good if not better that these space craft, and at least by now we are sorted and able to deal with small problems that may arise. If it's a pink sink unit that is going to be the last word get a tin of valspar in red and white and let her mix it to suit.
 

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Stinkpot Show.

Compare a modern car with one of twenty years ago.The latest motor car will be much safer and more stable platform with greater comfort and vastly improved visabilty,no silly slitty windows here.Surely a decent wide side deck is much more important than a tad more internal space and why on earth do you need bloody great lumps of fake stone in the boat kitchen,posh cars and aircraft seem to get by without half of a quarry on the options list.
Oops forgot about Rover who seem to believe that photo-wood will sell cars to peeps in that hard to reach under 90 age group. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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Re: Stinkpot Show.

I used to have a similar attitude to yours when i was 17 and had my first car, a 10 year old Cortina mk 2 with a 1300cc engine. I used to pretend i did'nt want a bright shiny car with superior performance, better handling, better totty appeal etc.etc.
In fact i remember one rich pal who had a Lotus Elan and i made myself look like a right prat when i told him i would rather have my beaten up old Cortina.
Sour Grapes was the term my pals used.
 
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