Not too bad a day in Mallorca

[PEJ]

Saturday in Cala Varques.

I thought the black stuff on the sea floor was the posidonia grass but on closer inspection it was just some crappy old shallow weed. I guess it would have been OK to drop the anchor on that stuff if required. It seems most of the dark area in Cala Varques is the ordinary weed.

This was a big expedition for me, a whole 8 miles from my home berth. Never usually travel that far away.

 

[Whitelighter]

How can you tell the difference between special weed and regular weed

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

How can you tell the difference between special weed and regular weed

Ask your dealer

 

[petem]

Ask your dealer

LOL!

 

[PEJ]

How can you tell the difference between special weed and regular weed

The special weed is actually like long grass. The regular weed in this case was like black gunge on the sea bed.

 

[MapisM]

The special weed is actually like long grass.

Correct - see below.
Posidonia is actually very easy to recognize, and anyone who snorkeled around their boats in the Med has surely seen it, in some occasion.
Any other sort of growth on the seabed ain't Posidonia.

 

[MapisM]

Saturday in Cala Varques.

Nice panorama pic. Is that nice Ferretti 165 the boat of Markc of this parish, by chance?

PS: errata corrige, after looking better I'm pretty sure that she's actually an F175.

 

[markc]

Nice panorama pic. Is that nice Ferretti 165 the boat of Markc of this parish, by chance?

PS: errata corrige, after looking better I'm pretty sure that she's actually an F175.

I wish it was me, rather than being at my desk in London, but sadly not. Yes, I think it's a 175 too - at first glace I thought it was stretched because of the wide angle lens, but different porthole spacing for sure

 

[MapisM]

I wish it was me, rather than being at my desk in London, but sadly not. Yes, I think it's a 175 too - at first glace I thought it was stretched because of the wide angle lens, but different porthole spacing for sure

Yup, portholes spacing (and also their size) is slightly different. The same goes for the side windows, and the windshield, whose center pillar in the 175 is much larger than in your boat, though you can't see that in the above pic, of course.
But the most immediate difference between the two boats is the radar arch position, which Zuccon moved to the aft end of the f/b when he perfected the already beautiful lines of the 175, which was his first Ferretti masterpiece.

If you are interested, you can read more about that in this old thread which I posted when, during my boat search, I came across a beautiful F175 which eventually I almost bought. :encouragement: