farmerdan79
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Does anyone know what boats Sunsail operated from Port Solent before the sun fast 37s?
No real reason for my question, just interested?
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No real reason for my question, just interested?
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Sunsail Port Solent
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RobbieW
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Sunfast 36s, which takes you back to the early 90s I think - the 37s came in at least two tranches about 3 years apart
Moonshining
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Sunfast 36. Biggest difference was a rudder rather than wheel steering and therefore much more space in the cockpit
Daedelus
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I have wheel steering and a rudder on my boat!
farmerdan79
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I seem to remember going on one mid 90's... (was only about 15 at the time...)
jac
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I have wheel steering and a rudder on my boat!
So not an ex sunsail boat then?
Simondjuk
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The first Sunfast 37s came in 2002 with a second lot in 2005.
AIDY
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anyone know why they are trying to sell some of the latest batch of boats off ???
Simondjuk
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I wondered the same myself. A suspicious mind might tend toward them being the ones that have suffered some mishap or other.
crewman
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Sunsail have replaced the 37's with F40's. The 37's were being sold off. Thye have had a hard life - I raced one two years ago and they were very tired. Our shore power and fridge did not work, the instruments were erratic, and we had numerous failures in the fleet over the inside of a week. We shredded a spinnaker in an F3 (collapsed then shredded as it refilled) and our main sheet traveller came adrift - that was fun controlling the main in a race! Another boat had the intermediate shroud (between the upper and lower spreader) fail, they tacked immediately and the other one failed! Radio'd Sunsail who told them not to worry and keep racing!
There was an article in PBO sime time ago about repairing major hull damage and the photos were all of a Sunsail 37.
There was an article in PBO sime time ago about repairing major hull damage and the photos were all of a Sunsail 37.
AIDY
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few of the Farr 40 are for sale in YM this month....
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Tidewaiter2
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AIDY
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Probably cannot find the 'off' button for the AIS
thought the same thing yesterday when i looked a me AIS
capnsensible
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Eek, I can remember Port Solent first opening and the pre rebrand Emsworth Sailing School moving in. Seems light years ago!
A friend of mine had the hammerhead of the first pontoon in to starboard. He kept a Prout cat there for charter plus a small 20 odd foot something or other too. He also had another cat that I used to deliver round Pompey harbour at all sorts of weird times when it was due out on charter. Didn't half learn a lot!!
Happy Days.....
A friend of mine had the hammerhead of the first pontoon in to starboard. He kept a Prout cat there for charter plus a small 20 odd foot something or other too. He also had another cat that I used to deliver round Pompey harbour at all sorts of weird times when it was due out on charter. Didn't half learn a lot!!
Happy Days.....
farmerdan79
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As a Fareham lad, I went there on a school trip when it first opened, can remember standing by the lock watching the first few boats come in...
Fantasie 19
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Blimey - I never knew that about Emsworth Sailing School - I learnt to sail dinghies with them when they were still at Emsworth.. must be almost 40 years ago now...
