Silver Dee

[Bouba]

Actually, I'm one of those (not many admittedly, here in the asylum - as opposed to the other side of the Pond) who think that the pros of single screw outweigh the cons, in a boat like that.
If a robust, commercial single engine is good enough for folks who MUST be offshore with just about any weather, it's good enough for me.
...But that's an entirely new thread altogether - not that it would be the first one, btw!

I'm a single engine boater and it's also a Cummins

 

[vas]

No worries there, you'll find as many as you wish.
With boats, no matter how many disposable notes you've got, you'll always find a hole large enough to take them all....!

I also read the article, a remarkable effort and a great boat indeed! :encouragement:

PS: talking of large holes in the water, I just got an email from De Valk mentioning, among other stuff, a big price reduction on this proper small ship... Just a thought!

nah, crap boat this De Valk. How are you meant to pass the lazyline to the bow on this contraption then?

And with a shape like that I thought it would be 120ft min not 78...
and GRP???

much prefer Silver Dee

V.

 

[Mad Pad]

Or Silver Modesty?

......2 engines and a lot more!

 

[stillwaters]

Or Silver Modesty?

......2 engines and a lot more!View attachment 60862

P, I hope you haven't left her moored like that, I mean how do you get the ice to stay in the glasses?
Lovely looking boat, btw.
J.

 

[Mad Pad]

We manage!

As it happens the ice maker has just packed up so back to the freezer ice trays.

See you at the weekend.

PS Make me an offer?!?!

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

No need to - just click on my previous pic.

PS: mind, she still ain't cheap even after an almost half a million price reduction (from 1.95m EUR), though!

Yeah, but that engine room... awesome.

PS to Mr M, top marks on the Silver Dee refurb, she's looking very sharp.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

No worries there, you'll find as many as you wish.
With boats, no matter how many disposable notes you've got, you'll always find a hole large enough to take them all....!

Well P as you said yourself BOAT = Bring On Another Thousand

PS: talking of large holes in the water, I just got an email from De Valk mentioning, among other stuff, a big price reduction on this proper small ship... Just a thought!

Yup I drooled over that myself yesterday. Agree with silverdee though. Big shame its only got a single engine otherwise I might have been looking for piggy banks to empty

 

[jfm]

Endurance and those northern marine things are kinda interesting. I have huge respect for them (capsize launches ignored for a moment) and that boat is an awesome exploring machine. It is of course 100x better than a plastic fantastic in a very large number of respects, as well as being 60% of the price of my same LOA boat. But I sure wouldn't want to own it. Joining a raft up in Cala D'Or would be like turning up to sunday lunch in a monster truck! For easy recreational boating and general goofing around with friends and kids our plastic fantastic are still excellent things in my book

 

[MapisM]

For easy recreational boating and general goofing around with friends and kids our plastic fantastic are still excellent things in my book

Actually, the more I see plastic boats, the more I think that wood is more fantastic that plastic, in most (admittedly not all!) respects.
Besides, I still love NM boats style (Bäden aside, which was another kettle of fish), and I don't mind the single screw, which is actually safer than twins, in some ways. Regardless, it's hard for anyone to deny the charm of these battleships.

All that said, I couldn't agree more with your analysis.
At the end of the day, these vessels simply don't make any sense, for pleasure boating.
Let's face it, it's not a matter of speed: even the faster pleasure boats on the planet are still 500 kts or so slower than the only meaningful way to really go places known to mankind. Life's too short.
And it's not a matter of extreme seaworthiness, either: cruising in storm conditions can't by any stretch of imagination be called a pleasure, regardless of the boat. Going out in glorious weather and staying put when it blows a hoolie, that's what pleasure boating is all about.

Bottom line, pleasure boats are essentially floating caravans, whether we like the wording or not.
But on top of that, they allow us to reach fantastic places which would be otherwise inaccessible, enjoying them in a very unique way.
What's there not to like?