Nautical
Well-Known Member
Well I have just learnt that age old lesson there is no such thing as a perfect boat (well as far as I can tell)
Spent the last two days doodling to see if there was a way to build my perfect boat. After twenty attempts I ve given up, there is no such thing.
Came up with some interesting points though.
1. For Irish sea area biggest boat you want is 12/13m tother wise half the places you want to go you can't fit in.
2. Gotta have two bogs otherwise non boaty freinds wont come.
3. Has to be capable of a comfortable 20 knts cruise in up to a 5 otherwise half the time round here you will spend tootling at displacement speed.
4. Has to have good range as loads of places dont have refueling
5. Gotta be able to take the ground or again lots of places are out of bounds
6. has to have realy good fendering or no go to the fishy ports as you end up along side smelly rusty fish buckets that dont give a toss about ripping your lovely chrome fendering off as they squezze past.
7. Must have large comfy saloon as much of your time is spent loafing about on board cus its always raining.
8. Non fly bridgy thing cus it horrible up there in nasty weather and most times you want all that visability when coming into strange port in blowy weather but it offers crap weather protection and makes SWMBO sea sick cus of the amount of angle of dangle in sloppy weather plus pain in the bum up and down them narrow steps in foul weather. Best to have big saloon helm with monster demisters and biggy windows.
10. big lazerette or garage for all the schrapnel otherwise everything is hanging off the rails and dangling off the ass end.
11. Gotta have decent gen set, proper heating, proper galley, big water heater, wet hanging locker and dry hanging lockers, grab handles throughout, grippy wooden or teak flooring, easy clean upolstery, bigum ventilation throughout or end up with wet everything, lockers that act like big bins so you can fit household sized stuff in, fiddles on all surfaces one could go on forever.
12. A helm seat that is sprung and fully adjustable and a dash / consol that looks as if someone put some thought into it rather than screw everything to flat panels.
13. Method of enclosing helm station at night for night passages so everytime someone flicks a light on your not blinded.
14. Lots of engine room space and well thoughout installation with belt and braces everthing and a mini workshop with proper tools and spares carrying facility.
15. now Iam fed up cus I realise there is probably only one or two boats that could be custom built that could fulfil the bill but you are going to look like mr Pilot boat or ex yachtie type thing with a blue ensign fluttering.
If anyone can direct me to a modern stylish boat that fulfils all of the above I'll buy one.
Surely with all the combined might of the top notch designers we have someone would have designed the perfect Irish sea boat by now for peeps that actually want some comfort and style and not look like MOD or plod.
I 'd like to see what peeps would offer as the ideal Irish sea boat or what you already have that you think is near perfect. As I say I know there are semi professional type boats that might do it but actually something that looks bang up todate and works.
any thoughts?
Nearest I've got so far os one of them Elling jobs but you'd have to run falt out everywhere to maintain any speed, not bothered by the single engine installation but if they just made one with more go in it could be a contender.
Spent the last two days doodling to see if there was a way to build my perfect boat. After twenty attempts I ve given up, there is no such thing.
Came up with some interesting points though.
1. For Irish sea area biggest boat you want is 12/13m tother wise half the places you want to go you can't fit in.
2. Gotta have two bogs otherwise non boaty freinds wont come.
3. Has to be capable of a comfortable 20 knts cruise in up to a 5 otherwise half the time round here you will spend tootling at displacement speed.
4. Has to have good range as loads of places dont have refueling
5. Gotta be able to take the ground or again lots of places are out of bounds
6. has to have realy good fendering or no go to the fishy ports as you end up along side smelly rusty fish buckets that dont give a toss about ripping your lovely chrome fendering off as they squezze past.
7. Must have large comfy saloon as much of your time is spent loafing about on board cus its always raining.
8. Non fly bridgy thing cus it horrible up there in nasty weather and most times you want all that visability when coming into strange port in blowy weather but it offers crap weather protection and makes SWMBO sea sick cus of the amount of angle of dangle in sloppy weather plus pain in the bum up and down them narrow steps in foul weather. Best to have big saloon helm with monster demisters and biggy windows.
10. big lazerette or garage for all the schrapnel otherwise everything is hanging off the rails and dangling off the ass end.
11. Gotta have decent gen set, proper heating, proper galley, big water heater, wet hanging locker and dry hanging lockers, grab handles throughout, grippy wooden or teak flooring, easy clean upolstery, bigum ventilation throughout or end up with wet everything, lockers that act like big bins so you can fit household sized stuff in, fiddles on all surfaces one could go on forever.
12. A helm seat that is sprung and fully adjustable and a dash / consol that looks as if someone put some thought into it rather than screw everything to flat panels.
13. Method of enclosing helm station at night for night passages so everytime someone flicks a light on your not blinded.
14. Lots of engine room space and well thoughout installation with belt and braces everthing and a mini workshop with proper tools and spares carrying facility.
15. now Iam fed up cus I realise there is probably only one or two boats that could be custom built that could fulfil the bill but you are going to look like mr Pilot boat or ex yachtie type thing with a blue ensign fluttering.
If anyone can direct me to a modern stylish boat that fulfils all of the above I'll buy one.
Surely with all the combined might of the top notch designers we have someone would have designed the perfect Irish sea boat by now for peeps that actually want some comfort and style and not look like MOD or plod.
I 'd like to see what peeps would offer as the ideal Irish sea boat or what you already have that you think is near perfect. As I say I know there are semi professional type boats that might do it but actually something that looks bang up todate and works.
any thoughts?
Nearest I've got so far os one of them Elling jobs but you'd have to run falt out everywhere to maintain any speed, not bothered by the single engine installation but if they just made one with more go in it could be a contender.
