Renegade_Master
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No not on above 40ft
Tender Garages. Why?
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Nick_H
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If you want a big permanent sun pad (usually cos you're somewhere warm and sunny), then it makes sense to me to stick a tender garage under it. If i wanted a day/weekend boat in the med i'd get a sport cruiser with a sun pad / tender garage. They don't work so well in the UK though cos the sun pad doesn't get the use.
Sundays_Child
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But you can still create a sunpad out of a seating area with fill-in cushions, as and when needed.
Nick_H
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yes but then the ladies can't grill themselves while the boys sit and put the world to rights.. in the med you're outside nearly all the time, and having to convert the seating to sunpad and back is a mild chore, plus you have to choose one or the other.
PowerYachtBlog
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If you want a big permanent sun pad (usually cos you're somewhere warm and sunny), then it makes sense to me to stick a tender garage under it. If i wanted a day/weekend boat in the med i'd get a sport cruiser with a sun pad / tender garage. They don't work so well in the UK though cos the sun pad doesn't get the use.
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this is so true
to be honest I was very much surprised how UK builders really followed the tender aft sunpad garage trend
it would be simple logic for an italian builder but for the UK market not so much, unless I am not living in another world where Britain is hot
still i love the sunpad idea for the climate I am used to
Fairline seems to be going out a bit from this solution with its new models 38 & 44 Targa, really like the layout on the latter one with a small sunpad
it is also impressive what most italians do with there opens, as most of them put a 2 berth cabin aft under the sunpad,
so was the case with the Pershings like the 54 or 48, but also the Alfamarine 47 and 50 or the old Itamas (still curisios what they do of the new ones), but also the Rizzardi Topline like the 50 and the 63 as do the Sarnicos
altough Italcraft started with the tender garage in 1985 on the C 51 Classic they dont seem to have followed so much the
trend over there, especially in medium to big mid sized boats
If you want a big permanent sun pad (usually cos you're somewhere warm and sunny), then it makes sense to me to stick a tender garage under it. If i wanted a day/weekend boat in the med i'd get a sport cruiser with a sun pad / tender garage. They don't work so well in the UK though cos the sun pad doesn't get the use.
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this is so true
to be honest I was very much surprised how UK builders really followed the tender aft sunpad garage trend
it would be simple logic for an italian builder but for the UK market not so much, unless I am not living in another world where Britain is hot
still i love the sunpad idea for the climate I am used to
Fairline seems to be going out a bit from this solution with its new models 38 & 44 Targa, really like the layout on the latter one with a small sunpad
it is also impressive what most italians do with there opens, as most of them put a 2 berth cabin aft under the sunpad,
so was the case with the Pershings like the 54 or 48, but also the Alfamarine 47 and 50 or the old Itamas (still curisios what they do of the new ones), but also the Rizzardi Topline like the 50 and the 63 as do the Sarnicos
altough Italcraft started with the tender garage in 1985 on the C 51 Classic they dont seem to have followed so much the
trend over there, especially in medium to big mid sized boats
Sundays_Child
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What I'm saying is having an additional seating area with hi/lo table that can be converted to a sunpad.
That way you have a big open cockpit with two large, separate seating areas with tables. When the weather is nice, and ppl want to sunbathe, convert the rearmost seating area to a sunpad.
Versatile space on a vessel with limited space I'd have thought was key.
That way you have a big open cockpit with two large, separate seating areas with tables. When the weather is nice, and ppl want to sunbathe, convert the rearmost seating area to a sunpad.
Versatile space on a vessel with limited space I'd have thought was key.
Renegade_Master
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All this talk about the need for a sun pad, I thought it was infashionable to "lay in the sun" due to skin cancer nowdays.
I can just imagine the design team at some hugh major boat builder, drawing up a new model and jointly discussing where to put the sunpad, and the apprentice designer sheepishly putting his hand up and suggesting that the sunpad is unfashionable due to skin cancer. Probably never happen
I can just imagine the design team at some hugh major boat builder, drawing up a new model and jointly discussing where to put the sunpad, and the apprentice designer sheepishly putting his hand up and suggesting that the sunpad is unfashionable due to skin cancer. Probably never happen