OGs Boat Search.. Went to look at a Fairline P 42.

[oldgit]

Boat was actually already under offer , sold even before being advertised, just fancied a quick look which the broker kindly agreed too.
The Phantom 42 was previously called " Release" and was located initially in Majorca.
Few years ago helped a chum purchase and bring back to the Thames, a Fairline Brava 36 , also called "Release" which also started life out in Majorca.
Both had been kitted out to "MED" spec.
Dim memories of an article in MBY of an owner working his way up the Fairline food chain, all of the boats being called " Release" and all starting life in Majorca poss Cala d Or.
By coincidence a Broom 44 recently purchased on the Thames and bought back to RCC turned out to also have been owned by the skipper of all the Fairlines named "Release."
Anybody remember the artical in the mag ?

 

[petem]

It's not a name or article that I'm familiar with.

Incidentally, I suspect a lot of boats are currently being sold via word of mouth and/or via Facebook Groups without every getting onto a broker's books. Worth getting your name out there in the Fairline communities if you're interested in one.

 

[oldgit]

It's not a name or article that I'm familiar with.

Incidentally, I suspect a lot of boats are currently being sold via word of mouth and/or via Facebook Groups without every getting onto a broker's books. Worth getting your name out there in the Fairline communities if you're interested in one.

Spoken to a couple of international broker agencies they have got a list of UK folks wanting specific boats.
The magazine feature about the skipper and his Fairlines might have been in MBM. Pretty certain he started off with Fury ??? or similar. !

 

[Sticky Fingers]

OG what did you make of the Fairline?

 

[oldgit]

OG what did you make of the Fairline?

Gorgeous, exactly the sort of boat I have been saving myself for .
Interior not quite as well detailed quality wise as a Princess 40 or 420 but might have taken one for the team in this particular case and actually considered buying a Fairline.

 

[rafiki_]

I’ve owned neither Fairline nor Princess, but I’m quite familiar with both brands in this size range. The Princess is a lovely boat, nicely specified and built. The Fairline feels a little smaller than the equivalent Prinny, perhaps more sporty, and at least as well built. I equate Princess to Mercedes, fitting the more elderly user. The Fairline is the BMW. Sportier handling, more befitting the younger attitude. I will now get my coat and head off to the nearest Azimut, which would be my choice.

 

[Portofino]

A Euro del trip beckons ,arriving under darkness with a full moon and HW at RCC ….. Suggest mid June .

If you know what I mean officer


Internet silence mind OG

 

[oldgit]

A Euro del trip beckons ,arriving under darkness with a full moon and HW at RCC ….. Suggest mid June .
If you know what I mean officer
Internet silence mind OG

There are two, which catch the eye a P40 and a Azimut at bargain prices waiting for a deserving new owner but both in exotic foreign parts , ie. the wrong side of Le Manche .

Suggestions from one or two business chums about modifiying some of the various tax fiddles aka. sorry legitimate business expence wheezes they normally employ to purchase and run expensive cars and boats in UK, in order to loose that 20% VAT liability.
However, being an upright British citizen?? would never dream of doing either your suggestion or anything else so quite naughty. .

“Heavy Fog in the Channel. Continent cut off.” That was the headline in The Times on 22 October, 1957.
but possibly apocryphal ?