saw 2 amaizing thing this weekend

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I saw this at Ocean Powerboats in Pwllheli.
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Its a Formula 31 foot Bowrider with twin D4 300s and those new drives and gold looking props. Its a factory custom job. If youlook carefully there are no mountings or poppers for the covers coz its not having any. What you cant see is the factory installed Blue LEDs under the bathing platform and the pop up lifting eyes on the bathing platform. The hull had to be moded in the mold to accomadate the D4s and it even has a custom radar arch and upholstery.
Its a tender for a motor yatch in Monti Caro. If its still there at the weekend i will try to get a better shot.

The other thing i saw i wished i had my camera, as it was a vision of a Honda Goldwing gently riding down the pontoons toward a Trader 64, now thats what I call taking a "BIKE" with you.

Gary
 
Nice boat! If that trailer comes with it then the tender/super yacht doesn't ring true. Or do they just have those trailers lying around spare in the dealership?

Also the radar arch would likely (not always, but likely) be fold-down if it was going to be a stored-inside tender (I assume it is to be stored inside, if no facility for a cover)

The lifting eyes do suggest yacht tender though.

Would love to see some more pics
 
yes i think thetrailer does come with it but i think thats to ease getting to Monti Carlo and to the ship. It is going to be craned on deck as he is having an overall cover made in Pwllheli apparantly. it does look a lot better all in black and in the flesh, the D4 option will now be offered as an option, i guess it makes more sense to be all diesel on a super yatch.
 
Yes, diesel makes life much easier with certification of the mother ship.

It must be a very big superyacht, even by superyacht standards, to have that on deck. It might be going on a shadow boat. None of the Monte Carlo permanent resident superyachts would sensibly take it
 
Hi
I saw a TV prog some time ago and this guy had a 40 ft ''tender'' what you and i would call a full size boat, that was kept up a slipway through the transom of the mothership. the transom just hinged up on hydraulic rams , almost J Bond stuff. The mothership also had a host of toys for the boys on deck ranging from saily dinghies to jet skis... all winched off the devk by the uniformed crew standing by to do just that sort of stuff..... nice work if you can get it...

cheers adn happy boating to all

Drew
 
jfm's the expert on this but in the mega-yacht field there are some eye wateringly large tenders and toys. Octopus - no stranger to Antibes - has a 63 foot main tender and get the blue backlit lettering on the mothership. Clicky
 
There are some, but actually very few superyachts have 31 foot twin diesel fountians or suchlike as their tenders.

Octopus is a truly enormous ship and can take a 63 footer, but there are only a handful of yachts that kinda size. There is of course a bit of a trend recently in carrying large toys on a shadow ship (eg google Lady Lola Shadow or her more recent name Amevi Shadow since Lakshmi Mittal bought her, and Golden Shadow).

Perhaps the most famous tender carrier is Le Grand Bleu, whose tenders consist of a Pred 68 on the stbd side and a beautiful New England Boatworks 74foot custom sloop on the port side. Pic below, anchored off Antibes early summer 2007. (The sloop was in the water, normally you can see her always-stepped mast towering above LGB's superstructure)

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Cracking looking boat but doubt its superyacht tender material, those chappies tend to go for wally tenders or pascoe RIB or such purpose built for that type of affair.Those pop up cleats if the ones shown on the brochure shot are merely for cross lines, put the weight of the boat on those and they would tear straight out before even 20% of the weight came on them. I doubt they would even lift from the platform anyway as that is not part of the hull but a second moulding added to the main tub, they would be more likely to be in the cockpit down through onto the bearers.

Still lovely boat and what a toy for blasting about on /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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