LeroyH
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Is this Ok to buy to start [picture]http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/view/F120117/[/picture]
offshore cruiser
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FullCircle
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Mirror Offshore/ Yep, not too bad a price either as a start of negotiations. Remember there is plenty of choice in the sub 22 foot range.....
Spyro
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Unlikely you would get anyone to answer on such limited info and a picture. I'm a bit wary of lack of specific info e.g. sails, inboard engine. Best bet is get someone to look over it. Price seems reasonable considering 6 months paid mooring.
ColinHuggins
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Re: Mirror Offshore - cruiser?
I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. not because I'm a snob (really?) but because the converse of "If it looks right it IS right" starts "If it looks wrong . . . )
I seem to remember this boat being a failure, sponsored by the Daily Mirror after their phenomenal success with the Mirror dinghy. Somehow they got Van de Stadt to design it but it's still an ugly little tub that won't sail so they put an oversize Volvo engine inside.
Won't sail? Won't sell either.
You could do so much better, so why not throw your budget figure into this arena, state what you want out of it, and invite suggestions?
There are many more qualified than myself to advise you, for tho' I started to cruise in (on) a friend's 17ft Silhouette I did resolve that I would never ever buy something that small.
I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. not because I'm a snob (really?) but because the converse of "If it looks right it IS right" starts "If it looks wrong . . . )
I seem to remember this boat being a failure, sponsored by the Daily Mirror after their phenomenal success with the Mirror dinghy. Somehow they got Van de Stadt to design it but it's still an ugly little tub that won't sail so they put an oversize Volvo engine inside.
Won't sail? Won't sell either.
You could do so much better, so why not throw your budget figure into this arena, state what you want out of it, and invite suggestions?
There are many more qualified than myself to advise you, for tho' I started to cruise in (on) a friend's 17ft Silhouette I did resolve that I would never ever buy something that small.
LeroyH
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Sorry this needs wind and sails i don't want that i want to drive and go with an engine it is not a cruiser like i thought I don't want it anymore thank you. spyro agreed it is hard to tell by a picture so i rung up and was told that it needed wind, i want to go out some days with out wind.
Phoenix of Hamble
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Re: Mirror Offshore - cruiser?
It was reknowned as I remember for 2 things.... a huge heads for the size of the boat and particularly bad at going to windward even for a bilge keeler....
But solid and safe nonetheless.....
But putting it slightly more gently than Chuggin, there may well be other boats that fit your needs... take a look at for example Hurleys... excellent little boats....
It was reknowned as I remember for 2 things.... a huge heads for the size of the boat and particularly bad at going to windward even for a bilge keeler....
But solid and safe nonetheless.....
But putting it slightly more gently than Chuggin, there may well be other boats that fit your needs... take a look at for example Hurleys... excellent little boats....
Spyro
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Are you serious?????????I did think you would have noticed from the picture that it was a sailing yacht. If you didn't notice or recognise the mast and sails from the picture you need to do a bit more homework before buying
Good luck
Good luck
Alrob
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youve been had - check posts in mobo forum
LeroyH
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Sorry i am learning, i didnt notice the sail i was looking at the price for a boat to start with, i dont earn a lot but have two children i wanted to take out and enjoy a new lifestyle. You are right i have a lot to learn i dont think this is for me
Spyro
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I did suspect, but not having privy to mobo chat I was giving him the benefit of the doubt. It was very good though not actually posting the pic or a link to it.
Perhaps he should have called himself Borat
Perhaps he should have called himself Borat
RupertW
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Re: Mirror Offshore - cruiser?
I know it's a wind-up but I sailed on a Mirror Offshore for a season and rather liked it - it had a light outboard and could virtually be sailed up a beach before tacking. I particularly remember going into Rye at the earliest possible moment and bumping our way up the river at dusk on the trickle of water coming in from the sea, with cows looming above us.
We had been tacking most of the way from Dover - it took a long time and the angle between tacks was about 110 degrees.
One lesson I did learn was never to have a boat with a chemical loo.
I know it's a wind-up but I sailed on a Mirror Offshore for a season and rather liked it - it had a light outboard and could virtually be sailed up a beach before tacking. I particularly remember going into Rye at the earliest possible moment and bumping our way up the river at dusk on the trickle of water coming in from the sea, with cows looming above us.
We had been tacking most of the way from Dover - it took a long time and the angle between tacks was about 110 degrees.
One lesson I did learn was never to have a boat with a chemical loo.
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