Reminder LIBS 2005 program is on ITV tonight

Got to see the bow / stern of the S29 for about 2 seconds, so not totally without value.

My teeth were gnashing when they were "following" a prospective purchaser who was about to spend several hundred K. He chose a Squadron, which is a fine choice, but we didn't get to see any of the other boats he looked at or why he chose the Fairline...

Also "So this new IPS will appear on all boats ?"
MrVP "Starting on 40-50 foot, then bigger. A replacement for shaftdrive".
"So, even little iddy biddy boats will have IPS?"
MrVP "Errrm 40-50 footers plus".
"Ahh, all boats then."

Plus focussing on the large (multi million) or comically small (kayak). Only one Chris-Craft represented anything vaguely affordable/usable. The sound of that V8 was the best bit of the whole program, and I'd have been quite happy with an hour of that blasting around the lake...

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Watched it, pretty much the same old formula that they use every year.

Chris Craft: Nice.

Fairline 'copter: Nice to know where all those £100,000's go.

Millionaire bloke: Managed to cut off the end of the show. What did he buy?
 
plus dont forget he'd gone over from SS to Fairline sometime before as he had a Phantom 46 in Mallorca and commented how he liked Fairline service.
 
I know its not PC but was I the only one totally irritated by that deaf bloke waving his arms about in the bottom right hand corner of the screen? Does this only happen in the wee small hours? Had to blot him out with some duct tape
 
Yup it was a sq58. Actually I thort the program was ok. Very lightweight, and a number of inaccuracies here and there, but kind of ok.

The story of the Sq58 buyer was naff, and totally staged. The dealer told me he ordered ages ago and the show boat was actually his boat, so all the stuff about him walking around the show looking at other boats and then ending up at the Fline stand to order the Sq58 was staged.

Thing that amazes me is why anyone wants to be on telly. I mean, if I had ordered a Sq58 and my boat was the showboat, and ITV wanted to interview me and ask me to act as though I decided that day to buy the boat, and keep calling it a million quid when it was actually 800k, and come to my house/work for 3mins of footage as they did with this guy, plus a bit of footage cadging a lift in a plane and a chopper, I'd tellem to FRO. No friggin way. Why do folk volunteer for TV, esp when they have no editorial control?

I agree the duck tape sentiment mike!
 
I could only think that it was at the behest of Fairline and that they offered him enough in return to make it worthwhile.

And as you say, do people really think folks go to a boat show with 800k (plus TV inflation) to spend and spend it there and then? Crazy.

Rick
 
Yep I missed last ten mins. Bloody videoplus crap. Prog must have come on late.
I too am somewhat put off by the bloke with the wavey hands. Why can't folk with hearing probs switch to subtitles.
Ian
 
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