Owners Associations

Many thanks, Nick. I hadn't given a thought to the hugely useful information available....we left UK before the internet explosion. Our most excellent but still 1977 Moody is going strong, but spares do get harder to find.

My world now has a safety net! :)
 
Searush said:
I think that's the key point. Current production models rely on manufacturer support. It's the older & deceased production boats that have active associations. Isn't there a very strong Folkboat association?
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If I'm honest I'm rather glad that they are no longer in production, it adds a certain charm to the breed and it means that boat bodgers like me don't have some high quality production standard to judge my efforts at boat diy....
 
Coaster said:
I find the Westerly Owners forum a bit disappointing. For such a popular marque the level of activity is low. Perhaps the people that might have been using it are posting on the YBW forums instead?
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I too find the Westerly forum disappointing. It is little used and queries on it often go unanswered (except by our own Searush) but I have tried the Yahoo site and left it totally confused. I obviously have the wrong mind set for yahoo user groups :-)

Paul
 
fireball said:
BOA isn't bad - quite active socials if you want them. We had a rigging session this season which was good to go to. Forum is very quiet compared to here - but I guess that is to be expected. Technical side - well it's Bavs!
Can't remember the yearly fee, but we did 2 years as it wasn't much more and IMO worth supporting the assoc.
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BOA? Beneteau Owners Association surely :) Who are these Bavarian upstarts?
http://www.beneteau-owners-association.org.uk/
 
VicS said:
Thats a Westerly Seahawk known only to a handful of Westerly fans and of which only 159 were built, i,cluding 34 35' versions
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My "Westerly Story" book tells me that there were more than 400 boats built using the Seahawk hull. "The Seahawk Dynasty", pages 98 - 101, tells all. They include the Oceanquest, Falcon and the Riviera. Rather more than a handful.

VicS said:
The widely known and highly popular 16' 9" Seahawk to which, I imagine, LS refers is to be found pictured amongst his forum pictures.
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I've not heard of this boat before. Is it still in production? What builders were there?
 
Searush said:
I think that's the key point. Current production models rely on manufacturer support. It's the older & deceased production boats that have active associations.
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Not really my experience ... BOA is very active (forum is quiet though) - no manufacture support that I'm aware of. Dinghy assoc that I am involved in is highly active - without much in the way of manufacture 'support' although the communication is there between Assoc and Manufctre.
 
Coaster said:
I've not heard of this boat before. Is it still in production? What builders were there?
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You've not lived. It's a strange, but very likeable little boat. It looks like it would be tender and a bit of a slug, but it turns out to be stiff and very fleet. Anything more than about 8 or 9 knots of wind and it will exceed it's hull speed. It has a roomy cockpit which is ideal for a day-sailor like me.
SeaHawks were built in England between 1969 and 2001, initially by Reedcraft Ltd, at The Quay, Reedham, later by R. Moore & Son (Wroxham) Ltd in their works at Station Road, Wroxham, and finally by Mistral Craft of Bridge Street, Loddon, when they were marketed by Pyefleet Boat Sales of Crouch Street, Colchester. (from the website ) Picture of the day is one having a fling today.
The Pedro 17 was built on the same hull moulding but using only the stub keel without the steel drop keel.

Yes, Yahoo Groups is for people who like a challenge.
 
LOA is an excellent Owners Assoc. I only reluctantly left this year as we have the boat on the market. But anyone with a Leisure boat should be members, well worth the few quid every year.
 
Lakesailor said:
SeaHawks were built in England between 1969 and 2001, initially by Reedcraft Ltd, at The Quay, Reedham, later by R. Moore & Son (Wroxham) Ltd in their works at Station Road, Wroxham, and finally by Mistral Craft of Bridge Street, Loddon, when they were marketed by Pyefleet Boat Sales of Crouch Street, Colchester. (from the website ) Picture of the day is one having a fling today.
The Pedro 17 was built on the same hull moulding but using only the stub keel without the steel drop keel.
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Thanks. What an excellent site. I do know of Moores, as we bought a Wayfarer from that company in the late 1980s, another good boat.
 
The WOA has both a web forum, which does not seem very active, and an email forum which is quite the opposite. The problem with the latter is that if you are away for a few days you can come back to hundreds of emails on a variety of topics, many of which may be of little interest. Generally I find the WOA does a good job.
 
Since you ask, I find my native sabre 27 OA (http://www.sabre27.org.uk/) pretty good value. £10 initiation fee plus £15 a year gets you a quarterly newsletter with cruising and technical updates, an excellent 'handbook' - basically a binder containing about 100 pages of technical info and ideas, a reasonably active forum, good wedbsite, rallies in the more sabre-populous areas and some very knowlegeable fellow owners who are always more than happy to furnish advice.

I've also heard good things said about Triden OA (same stable as the Sabre) http://www.trident24.com/index.html, and have found the Unified Coribee site very useful: http://corribee.org/
 
richardbrennan said:
The WOA has both a web forum, which does not seem very active, and an email forum which is quite the opposite. The problem with the latter is that if you are away for a few days you can come back to hundreds of emails on a variety of topics, many of which may be of little interest. Generally I find the WOA does a good job.
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I have just re-registered for the Westerly Yahoo group, thinking that I should try it again, having been on it last year. What an appalling structure. Why on earth doesn't the website take a leaf out of the YBW forums book?

The Yahoo Westerly site seems to be an excellent example of how not to do things. I won't be trying it again.
 
Problem with the Westerly forum is the is also a Yahoo newsgroup email based system, and most owners are so stuck in their ways, and wn't move forward to the forum.

At least with a forum there is a natural progression, the emails get sniped butchered and regularly so disjointed it is anyones guess wtf is going on.....
 
tobble said:
...and have found the Unified Coribee site very useful: http://corribee.org/
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Thanks. Not all my own work now, as last year a colleague joined in to help sort out the technical stuff, and made a damn fine job of it too.

Dormancy is an ever-present threat with owners associations and websites such as these, as people naturally tend to move on to other things after a few years. Speaking for the Corribee Website, we welcome all contributions - stories, photos, even the 'For Sale and Wanted' ads - as they are a big help in keeping the whole thing alive.

Cheers

Steve
 
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