The good and bad things about a Centaur are......

[smert]

... just too 70's for me............

This is what made us rule them out. Plus all the ones we looked had sagging headlinings

 

[GrahamM376]

If only there was a 31' or a 36' version to go for if you have a bit more dosh!

There is a 31ft version, the Berwick.

 

[stu9000]

five and a dog in a Caprice - must have been a small dog

Not a small dog, but v well trained.
My sister slept on a shelf and I slept on the sole with my feet down where the engine would have gone.
I'm still not quite sure how Dad got away with it.
Great memories.

 

[dylanwinter]

There is a 31ft version, the Berwick.

I had a drink in a berwick

It was bloomin weird

everything was a bit bigger. I felt like alice who had drunk the shrinking potion

most discombobulating

then we started in on the scotch

after that.......

 

[aquaplane]

There is a 31ft version, the Berwick.

I know,

The Galway was the 36' aft cockpit bilge keeler.

A Berwick with the aft galley would be a good option.

 

[Iliade]

That picture reminded me that I really regret their decision not to allow oven-swinging in the Centaur.
I can understand objections to cat-swinging but...

 

[dylanwinter]

That picture reminded me that I really regret their decision not to allow oven-swinging in the Centaur.
I can understand objections to cat-swinging but...

An oven would occasionally be nice but now I have cracked the heating the pasty on an origo problem everything is lovely

(dry lidded pan with a pastry cutter inside and the pasty placed on top - all round heat - no burning the bottom)

 

[Nicholas123]

I don't really like to criticize Centaurs because I'm sure they are a good practical boat enabling many people to have a cracking experience but when my last old boat went tits up & I looked around for possible replacements to fit my mooring & build on my sailing experience I had four contenders. A Centaur,a Colvic Sailor.A Sabre & last but not least a Macwester 27.At that time the Macwester mark one was my preferred choice & I thought I might possibly get an old run down one.(In the end I got a mark two for peanuts but that is another story)
What put me off the Centaur was it was only a three foot draft & I did'nt think that would really give me a good offshore experience as my experience with bilge keel boats is that they tend to lift the weather keel out the water giving you an unnatural motion/sailing ability + I thought a Centaur looked too much like a caravan. (They also were I thought disproportionately priced though the price seems to have dropped dramatically the last two or three years).....I think the adage you don't look at the mantel piece when you are poking the fire might apply.

 

[ghostlymoron]

I've always been put off Centaurs by the mistaken belief that they all had a dinette layout. However, I've now discovered that the B and C layouts don't, although they still have a lengthways galley which is not my favourite.
I'd certainly consider a C layout one. The design with its feeble keel stub would concern me slightly but most have either been modified or sunk by now I would think.