Ooops seem to have ended up in the Sunseeker sales office....

Whitelighter said:
And even those rudders are very small by yacht standards

When mooring did you use the helm to steer at slow speed or did you use your engines
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That boat was one of those rarities where the rudders did actually work at mooring speeds. Not sure why, but they did. So you could moor either with the rudders straight ahead or use them to get a bit more traction.
 
Portofino said:
Here is a typical anchorage that fits the insurance critea -I think ! -don,t really know untill you claim !
We are in 10 M of water with 50M laid out .Its sheltered and calm , forcast is calm
Cap Ferrat is behind the camera 5mins away .
To the R of the sq 78 ( a well known formulite :):)) is a small jetty leading to a pebble beach - with a nice restaurant - you could motor tender it there as no yellow bouys - Town is a2 min walk .

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3rd week in Sept 15 ---we indeed stayed the Pm
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Here is same scene in video - the same pair of boats are at 1:31 and 1:38, and in the freeze frame thumbnail below
I would say that the yellow buoys protecting beaches from propellers are pretty common in France, Spain and Italy. You get a quite a few places without them in all three countries though, and in any case they're not a problem, and as mentioned above there is often a corridor to take motorised tenders to the beach


One of my favourite med beaches, Saleccia at top of Corsica W side, has no buoys and you can take your tender right up to the beach - jump to 0:58 in this video. Ditto at the little Loto beach round the corner, 1:56
 
DazzyWoo said:
Hi Graham - any chance of an update ? Also did you watch the Sunseeker documentary? if so what did you think ?
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We've been travelling in the motorhome for last couple of months, but I did catch the documentary on Iplayer. What did I think? Well apart from the London sales guy coming over as a bit of a "character" I was mainly left with the impression that they look after their customers.

As far as an update with the purchase, nothing has really changed, I still have the deposit in place and Sunseeker haven't put me off the purchase. Which when I think about it, is all credit to them, I have had the odd email keeping me up to date with the progress of the design and build of the new model. They haven't been pushy and have just shared information, current plan is to try and charter something in June to get a feel of life for us in the Med.
 
Thanks for the update. I had a similar impression; and really got a feel for the sort of service they could offer, as described by Portofino (I think) and others on here.
 
Good to know.
I was fearing that after I'll take deliver of this thing, people walking along the dock would have dismissed it as the poor man s/skr... :p :D
Jokes aside, I've recently seen a couple of 'hattan 56, and I was wondering if I'm alone in thinking that f/b boats of this size are very far from being the best s/skr design efforts?
 
We looked at a 'hattan 56 when we bought the P57 and weren't keen. Narrow beam means less space inside and the saloon in particular felt like a corridor with bench seating either side. I'm told they have very small exhaust silencers, so are noisy underway. I also don't think they look the best. On the positive side they were the only option we looked at with a hi-lo platform and were a fair bit cheaper than Princess or Fairline of the same length, but that wasn't nearly enough to swing us.
 
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