Relcraft Owners

[philg7onr]

Hello i'm on the search of any Relcraft owners

I'm on a history hunt. I own a 23ft Relcraft Sapphire and have no real back ground knowledge of this company. I've set up a Facebook page for owners to share knowledge and experiances with other like minded owners.

Hope your all keeping well.

Hi, as previously stated, I also have 23ft relcraft saphire. 140hp mercruiser petrol. Built 1979, nice condition, came with echo sounder, vhf, nasa stingray, compass. Happy to email you pics of "serenity" please return email, would also appreciate pics and any feedback or info you have on this particular model ?

Regards,

Phil. northwoldspi@btinternet.comnorthwoldspi@btinternet.com

 

[Chris Woods]

Relcraft 29 Topaz 'BORATO'

I've owned my Relcraft 29 Topaz 'BORATO' for several years and would like to find more about her earl history, and inpareticular when she was built and how she got her strange name.

Since 1997 she has been owned on the south coast and was used for trips across to the canals of the near Continent. I have no information about her prior to that date.

She's a fine boat. These high speed cruisers have strong hulls to withstand the offshore buffeting. She does have some large osmosis blisters but they are only on the cockpit roof! I suspect that when her old radar was deliberately or accidentally removed, the top of the rook was damaged and allowed osmosis to occur. Otherwise, there's not a hint of it anywhere which is good for a boat of around 30 years old and shows the quality of her original build.

She is not fully restored apart from the engines. Full consumption was huge and the Mercury engine was removed along with the 100 gallon petrol tank and she now cruises sedately at a maximum of 8½ knots which is more than enough for the Broads which is her new home.

If I won the lottery I'd bring her engines back to original spec. and explorer the Norwegin fjords. The huge cockpit is ideal for that.

Original seating in the cockpit has been renewed in the same bright red, but the twin driver/navigator bucket seats are too expensive to recover so I restored them with specialist marine leather upholstery spray paint to match the after seating, and they look as good as new.

I also had the Relcraft sign and logo replaced as the originals looked rather tired under their perspex cover.

Fine boats - wish I new more about their origins, and how mine got her name.
Photo available but no idea how to attach it to this.

Good sailing,
Chris

 

[Julia-Kristina]

Hi,
We have a problem with the windows of our relcraft and I hope you can help me !

The rubber weatherstrips of the cabin windows are completely rotten, I think they are still the original ones.

We hardly can open the windows on the side and the windows are not dense, humidity gets in.

I tried to find new rubbers but obviously there are different industry standards/ norms in England .

The rubbers I can get in Germany do not fit...


Does anybody know an adress where I could get these new rubber weatherstrips ?

Boat is Relcraft Topaz, built in 1980

Thank you so much in advance,

kind regards from Germany,

Julia- Kristina

 

[apollo]

I would recommend you post this in the Practical Boat Owner forum on this site as you are far more likely to get the help you need.

Mike

 

[Julia-Kristina]

thank you , I will

 

[boatone]

SEALS DIRECT offer a wide range of window rubbers and seals. If you cant see what you want on their website it would be worth ringing them and seeing if they know anyone else that may be able to help.

 

[Julia-Kristina]

Hi boatone
thank you , I just sent a mail to the company !

kind regards from Germany
Julia-Kristina

 

[Jorge Sequeira]

Relcraft

Boa tarde, sou de Portugal, Lisboa e também tenho um Relcraft, o meu é de 8,60mts e tem 2 motores de 225 kv faz 40 nós, também gostaria de obter mais informações, obrigado.

Jorge Sequeira

 

[Volvo KAD 32 tfft]

Hello i'm on the search of any Relcraft owners

I'm on a history hunt. I own a 23ft Relcraft Sapphire and have no real back ground knowledge of this company. I've set up a Facebook page for owners to share knowledge and experiances with other like minded owners.

Hope your all keeping well.

Hello, I have a Relcraft Coral 23ft, this is year 5 with her absolutely love the boat, so much so that I replaced the mercruiser 485 petrol with Volvo Kad 32 Duo prop, last winter

 

[Si Dude]

Hi, as previously stated, I also have 23ft relcraft saphire. 140hp mercruiser petrol. Built 1979, nice condition, came with echo sounder, vhf, nasa stingray, compass. Happy to email you pics of "serenity" please return email, would also appreciate pics and any feedback or info you have on this particular model ?

Regards,

Phil. northwoldspi@btinternet.comnorthwoldspi@btinternet.com

Dude please visit my face book page "Relcraft Boater Group" I've got been digging around and slowly collecting some interesting data.

you can also email me on Si_Hastie@hotmail.co.uk and i'll be happy to share my findings with you.

 

[paul_hanson]

Re:25 years of motorboating

" just out of interest which book did you find that information in? "
As Byron states this publication is getting a bit fragile now.

The pictures were lifted from "25 years of Motor Cruisers" by Alex McCullen,a MBM publication.
The ibsn no is 0-7136-3459-6
Wonderful little tome and crying shame an updated version has not been forthcoming.
worth contacting MBM or searching any of the book websites for a copy.

The whole thing was originally a series featured in MBM and we had such a good response it was made into a book, published by Adlard Coles. Sadly the book is out of print now. But I did notice 3 used copied are available on amazon, priced from 45 pounds. A slight increase from the original 9.99.
As to if we will publish something like it again. We did in a series called "best sellers" around 2001'ish with the idea to publish. Sadly the publishing powers at the time deemed to too expensive to turn that series into a book.
Maybe you could email my editor Carl on the subject, you never know!
carl_richardson@ipcmedia.com

 

[Si Dude]

thank you for the book details! i will certainly chase this lead

 

[Julia-Kristina]

electric stern thruster on a relcraft boat

Hi,
I just posted something about our new experiences with the stern thruster ( electric-motor )
You find it in another thread here in the forum.

Would be nice if our experiences helped other Relcraft owners who wold like to have a stern thruster too.

( As you know a stern thruster normally can not be mounted on a Relcraft since the boat does not have a displacement hull with more space to mount a normal stern thruster.
By the way - what is the english translation for the german word "Gleiter " ?`
The opposite to a boat with displacement hull, a boat which rides on the waves ? My dictionary does not know the translation ...)

Kind regards from Germany from
Julia-Kristina

 

[Ramage]

A planeing hull.

 

[TrueBlue]

A planeing hull.

On account of it gliding along? - innit?

 

[Si Dude]

Relcraft

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Hello all, its been a while since I've posted up.

www.Facebook.co.uk/RelcraftBoatersGroup has hit 44 members since we started it up just under 2 years ago. the interest and history hunt has been very interesting hearing stories and experiences from other craft owners.

Going off the back of the social media site I'm (with a lot of help from my ICT Friend) in the middle of constructing a webpage to run along side the Facebook page and to also attract fellow members/owners who don't engage the social media sites. the Whole aim is to make as much information availible as possible to fellow craft owners as well as researching into the past history's and sharing of experiences and stories

I will post again when the page goes live

www.RelcraftBoatersGroup.co.uk

Not taking anything away form this forum; and the big help it has been and will continue to be in the research into the Company Relcraft and Reliance Marine.

 

[ADLS]

Research

Si Dude,

I find its great to do research into passed companys and often on rainy nights with no Satilite TV reception I get the old laptop out and start looking.

Researched TVR cars and Elva Couriers as my brother sold the former and built the last of the later.

As for my old boat Lazy Days I took her back to Castleford, Yorkshire found the yard she was built in and the daughter of the shipwright. the local publican got on the phone and had a group of old guys come by who remebered the yard working.
On the visit to the local library found that the boatyard was owned by a timber company, the timber yard now a light industrial estate and the boat yard used to service the small coal push tugs. We gave the library copies of Lazy Days history and even went along to the British Legion and had a few beers with some Vets, who later came aboard for a Aire and Calder boat trip.

 

[Si Dude]

I have to admit the response from the face book page has been better then expected, and the great thing is on a month on month basis its growing which is very exciting. It would be nice to track down some of the paper work and original drawings but you never know what we will find in time

 

[NikkiRiches]

I like all kinds of boats !Thank you for sharing!