tcm
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I'm getting a bit bored with boat tests in the magazines. They seem to arrive, get on the boat, drive it about in the sea a bit, return, and then moor up! What sort of test is that? Useless! And doesn't reflect real life at all.
1. Get the remote control to the passarelle thing and chuck it in the sea. Does it stil work?
2. Suppose you can't retrieve the passarelle remote, or lost it, well i didn't have it no i didn't yes you did ... and the bloke in the brokers who also has the key has gone? How easy is it to get on to the foredeck, bog around with the foredeck hatch and jump through?
3. You arrive back at the boat with loads of mates. Are the seats nice and comfy for slumping and slithering around? Exactly how disruptive is it to how many people to get up and get some more drinks? And what if two people want to gawp at the dashboard for some reason which they always do at midnightish?
4. As usual, some people decide its bedtime just as the party is properly getting going. So, what the sound insulation like between the deck and the bedroom with a deceent racket going up on deck? . What about when it's time to take a leak? Or raid the fridge?
5. With some of them gone to bed we can turn up the volume nice and loud. But does this make the neighbours get annoyed? If it's a really decent design you need to be able to turn the music a bit loud but hardly hear it on the quay. AND you need to be able to turn it up massively loud if next door have their genny on all night.
6. Loads of people you hardly know turn up at 1:30pm and your fridge is getting emptied fast. How many small bottles of beer can the fridge handle?
7. In the mornings when you feel ill, what does the boat design do to help? Is it easy to get off the boat, then on again cos you forgot something, then off again, with minimal co-ordination?
8. Storage is important. So, can the dashboard storage box/glovebox take the entire contents of wife's handbag, three cameras, a pilot book or almanac, the log book, that spare crap battery-powered gps just in case, a pack of cards, a canister-powered air horn cos your boat-mounted horn is dodgy, and three screwdrivers?
there must be loads of other things...
1. Get the remote control to the passarelle thing and chuck it in the sea. Does it stil work?
2. Suppose you can't retrieve the passarelle remote, or lost it, well i didn't have it no i didn't yes you did ... and the bloke in the brokers who also has the key has gone? How easy is it to get on to the foredeck, bog around with the foredeck hatch and jump through?
3. You arrive back at the boat with loads of mates. Are the seats nice and comfy for slumping and slithering around? Exactly how disruptive is it to how many people to get up and get some more drinks? And what if two people want to gawp at the dashboard for some reason which they always do at midnightish?
4. As usual, some people decide its bedtime just as the party is properly getting going. So, what the sound insulation like between the deck and the bedroom with a deceent racket going up on deck? . What about when it's time to take a leak? Or raid the fridge?
5. With some of them gone to bed we can turn up the volume nice and loud. But does this make the neighbours get annoyed? If it's a really decent design you need to be able to turn the music a bit loud but hardly hear it on the quay. AND you need to be able to turn it up massively loud if next door have their genny on all night.
6. Loads of people you hardly know turn up at 1:30pm and your fridge is getting emptied fast. How many small bottles of beer can the fridge handle?
7. In the mornings when you feel ill, what does the boat design do to help? Is it easy to get off the boat, then on again cos you forgot something, then off again, with minimal co-ordination?
8. Storage is important. So, can the dashboard storage box/glovebox take the entire contents of wife's handbag, three cameras, a pilot book or almanac, the log book, that spare crap battery-powered gps just in case, a pack of cards, a canister-powered air horn cos your boat-mounted horn is dodgy, and three screwdrivers?
there must be loads of other things...
