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RIP
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!!
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!!
