Elessar
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Show us your favourite pic of your own boat?
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Rclarke
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2012 Beneteau Swift 44
RogerRat
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My old boat in St Brelade Bay
My new boat, before I owned it and courtesy of powerskipper
The old one's nice but the new one's quite pretty. Then I might be a little biased.
scubaman
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Thanks all, some excellent pictures on this thread now whether high action, drifting or securely moored. The boat types are extreme in style and size range yet all of them represent our favourites.
The underlying question is...
Is it the photo that's so special or the memories that go with it?
RR
One from my mate's cottage.
Same place an hour or so earlier
As far as memories goes, and in addition to the obvious family pics, for me this is special. I had just had the new (to me) boat delivered to Turku, from where my brother and I had set off on the previous day. A very intense 12 hour day out on the sea in very thick fog before making it to port in Kotka. On the second day it was F7 as we headed into the passport control to cross the border to the Russian side. Again, a very intense and bumpy ride before reaching Vyborg and eventually the Saimaa Canal (which is rented and operated by the Finns, so almost home). The pic was taken inside the giant iron doors in the first lock. If it wasn't for the sooty face, you could see the feeling of relief after all the excitement at sea in an yet unfamiliar boat and on very unfamiliar waters.
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jfm
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Also taken by the St Tropez helicopter guys...
Wavey
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*Sigh*
Roll on summer
Roll on summer
wakeup
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I think I have seen this boat moored in La Galere?
BarryH
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Have had a few pints here and there you could say. Not seen Duncan in ages, silly really he lives just down the road. Sold the motor boat a few years ago now. Went back to sailing......its a hell of a lot cheaper than feeding a big petrol engine!
RogerRat
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Also taken by the St Tropez helicopter guys...
Absolutely, the DB's. This is a lovely picture!
I think this really shows the boat off perfectly like a brochure shot, I bet you were pleased when you saw it.
Just you wait Mr. Higgins, this will be timeless and become a classic. There are too few to 78s' to be just another white boat.
JFM, She looks to be trimmed very flat, do you prefer her more bow down?
Roger.
jfm
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Yup it's a nice pic. It was a quiet day off Pampelonne (beach in the background) so I had the helicopter to myself and was able to do some turns and stuff without him running out of time. Yes, I'm really pleased with the shot, though I want to shop it to put a bit more blue in the sea - it was a cloudy day. I got about 10 shots from the whole session, sort of 16Mb each. The other shot above has a nice evening light on the sea, catching the wave tops.
Yes I like it a bit more bow down than you sometimes see on Sq78. So this boat has some weight shifted forward compared with the last boat. 500kg of machinery here and there. I did this because it's an old design and has had weight added as they have developed the model, and as ever added weight tends to be a bit aft ish. Plus it has a deepish V and prop tunnels (= more horiz shafts) so it tends to run a bit stern down compared with say Bart's canados which is a flatter hull (less deadrise) and has no tunnels so has the shafts pointed more downwards thus lifting the stern. So, as I say, I shifted some weight forward and also had much better tabs fitted. I tend to run it with a little bit of tab (3 LEDs on the scale of about 10 LEDs). I find that little bit of tab drops the bow a degree but doesn't show up on the (quite sensitive) mpg/engine load read out, so with that and my small weight shifting I get a small gain with no pain.
In the Top Gear thing (8 minutes in this upload http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17dzt1_top-gear-the-perfect-road-trip-part-2-2_auto) she has no tabs because just before that shoot I had a hydraulic leak rendering the tabs unusable AND I had near empty fuel. One of the fuel tanks is under the 4 master cabin windows so helps to keep weight forward. So she is as ass-heavy and bow high as she will ever be, in the TG video. Her normal attitude is as per these helicopter shots. Also, the aft hull shape was modified (the mould was altered) on my last boat (hull#70) to get a tiny bit more stern lift (the tab recesses were filled in, so the tabs were made to stick out aft of the transom Italian boat style, thus giving more lift area) and on all Sq78s since then including my current one. Therefore hull #69 and earlier, which are the majority of these boats pictured on the net, have less stern lift and AFAIK my current boat is the only one built with serious trim tabs
Here's another few from same session
Yes I like it a bit more bow down than you sometimes see on Sq78. So this boat has some weight shifted forward compared with the last boat. 500kg of machinery here and there. I did this because it's an old design and has had weight added as they have developed the model, and as ever added weight tends to be a bit aft ish. Plus it has a deepish V and prop tunnels (= more horiz shafts) so it tends to run a bit stern down compared with say Bart's canados which is a flatter hull (less deadrise) and has no tunnels so has the shafts pointed more downwards thus lifting the stern. So, as I say, I shifted some weight forward and also had much better tabs fitted. I tend to run it with a little bit of tab (3 LEDs on the scale of about 10 LEDs). I find that little bit of tab drops the bow a degree but doesn't show up on the (quite sensitive) mpg/engine load read out, so with that and my small weight shifting I get a small gain with no pain.
In the Top Gear thing (8 minutes in this upload http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17dzt1_top-gear-the-perfect-road-trip-part-2-2_auto) she has no tabs because just before that shoot I had a hydraulic leak rendering the tabs unusable AND I had near empty fuel. One of the fuel tanks is under the 4 master cabin windows so helps to keep weight forward. So she is as ass-heavy and bow high as she will ever be, in the TG video. Her normal attitude is as per these helicopter shots. Also, the aft hull shape was modified (the mould was altered) on my last boat (hull#70) to get a tiny bit more stern lift (the tab recesses were filled in, so the tabs were made to stick out aft of the transom Italian boat style, thus giving more lift area) and on all Sq78s since then including my current one. Therefore hull #69 and earlier, which are the majority of these boats pictured on the net, have less stern lift and AFAIK my current boat is the only one built with serious trim tabs
Here's another few from same session
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jfm
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Getting back to the thread title, my favourite might be this. Taken at Cannes show. 5 are models hired by Fairline for the show, and one is Match's full time crew wearing a Fairline dress for the show. She has PB2 so is a demon RIB driver (next stop will be dayskip) and Pru Leith chef training, and has been all over the Med with us this summer.
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alt
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^^ That's my fav pic of your boat, too! 
MrB
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burgundyben
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Getting back to the thread title, my favourite might be this. Taken at Cannes show. 5 are models hired by Fairline for the show, and one is Match's full time crew wearing a Fairline dress for the show. She has PB2 so is a demon RIB driver (next stop will be dayskip) and Pru Leith chef training, and has been all over the Med with us this summer.
Full time crew is lady on far LHS?
BartW
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The memories Roger or in the case of Bart I'd intimate it's the mammaries
I feel obliged to post this here
Jon945
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summer time anchored on Loch Lomond with my brothers, happy days
RobWales
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BartW
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A couple of distant fly pasts of mine first off of Dancing ledge 2nd off the south side of Alderney
This is my favourite from our first ever channel crossing Poole-Guernsey moored in St Peter Port, not the best of photos but brilliant memories
What a fantastic hobby/pastime boating is
It certainly is,
I like to bring this up again, as I we have such good memory's on our Karnic,
the last pic here above, shows a Faeton, our ever first two real (GRP) boats, Faeton 630 sport, Faeton 730 sport, and then came our Karnic,
this is our Karnic:
the first one is made during a dive trip on the Northsea
this last one is near restaurant Nico, in Kobas, near Ston in Croatia (30nm north of Dubrovnik)
Jon945
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try this way up