What car is your boat?

[adwuk]

My logic- 1970s, British built, small by modern standards, not slow, but no match for a modern racer either. Comfortable and built for touring. Nic 35 = MGB GT. I guess that makes the 43 something from the Aston range, and the 55 is most likely a Bentley!

 

[Tasape]

My first love / car a Renault 16 ts , we’ll built comfortable, slept two peeps when pot holing etc .
One and only boat , Jouet 940 ms .

 

[Frogmogman]

- Austin Princess (wedge)

that’s easy. Philippe Starck’s Yacht A

 

[eddystone]

You might have to include some tin boats in this, due to BLMCs penchant for rust..

TBF rust was not their main problem

 

[Kukri]

You'd have loved the series of ads for Nicholson yachts I came across in some old yachting mags. I can't remember the juxtapositions precisely , but as the series ran from the Nich 26 (I think) through the racy 30, the cruisey 32,the oceangoing 35, to the luxurious centre cockpit 38, the pics had appropriately matched aspirational cars and crews to match. So we had a sports car for the 30 with a blokes and girlfriends crew, a Triumph 2000 for the 32 for a family crew, and a RR Silver Shadow or maybe a Corniche for the 38 for a well fed cigar chomper who had a couple of well endowed nieces (?) along. with him.

This




was a Derby Bentley four and a quarter litre.

Exactly contemporary, cost exactly the same when new, and cost the same to run for the 29 years that she owned me.

Come to think of it, her first owner owned one when he had her built.

This leaves the question of what this is, since Camper and Nicholson left her out of their list:



Suspect she’s a Bentley T1 and both are at the bottom of their depreciation curve?

 

[steveinnice]

My money pit was fitted out by Camper and Nicholson in a hull built by Halmatic. Shes a halmatic 880. suits me, its like a caravan that floats. Car equivalent probably like my old triumph 2500 1975 if it was a camper .....

 

[Stemar]

- Morris Marina/Ital (has to be MacWester)
What about the bigger Snapdragons? I think my old 24 would fit the role of a Morry Minor very well

- Austin 1800 (landcrab)
Any of the American Legends

- Austin Princess (wedge)
I think my Catalac would fit the bill from the styling PoV, but I like to think Jazzcat's a good deal more capable.

 

[gregcope]

Starlight 39 / BMW 525 touring
Best boat and car I have owned. Can’t think of a British equivalent car

Does that make the Starlight 35 a BMW330D Touring? 335D?

 

[Yellow Ballad]

Albin Ballad - Saab 9-5 Aero.

Well built, dependable, good looking, sporty but not out and out racer,

 

[Neeves]

Lightwave 38 = VW Campervan on steroids (you need to use your imagination).






Jonathan

 

[LittleSister]

that’s easy. Philippe Starck’s Yacht A
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No, the Austin Princess is much better looking, and practical with it.

 

[The Q]

UMMMM.
Single seat, sit in 16ft keel boat designed by me...


4 berth Elysian 27ft CC motorcruiser

 

[Iliade]

Ok I admit defeat. Mine's a Volvo 240 estate, Large, safe and comfortable, not quick, but you will get where you are headed regardless of any obstructions to your progress:

Beneteau Evasion 34 (shortly before purchase)

 

[Stemar]

That works, but I'd always thought of Rivals as being the Volvos of the sea

 

[Iliade]

Surely they are far too sporty

 

[Sea-Fever]

Ford Sierra Estate

Big enough but not too big, a decent motorway cruiser but no sports car, loads of room inside, neither especially pretty nor exceptionally ugly and not silly money

(Westerly W33 Ketch)

I have the same boat and I was thinking more Granada estate. Sierra is a bit too modern, surely.

 

[Bru]

I have the same boat and I was thinking more Granada estate. Sierra is a bit too modern, surely.

Ugh no!

One of the biggest disappointments in my life was finally getting the 2.8V6 Granada Ghia Estate I'd always wanted

What a heap of shite

Gutless, feeble, rattelbus especially compared to the 2 0CD Vauxhall Omega that replaced it which was superb

 

[Laminar Flow]

Clearly Winter's ennui is taking effect.

Reading this automobile/sailing boat comparison, I have to wonder how many here, accordingly, must drive cars without a windschield or a roof over their heads, in rain or snow, much like a coachman of old and where, at best, only the passengers might have been awarded a modicum of shelter when underway.

 

[Stemar]

Clearly Winter's ennui is taking effect.

Reading this automobile/sailing boat comparison, I have to wonder how many here, accordingly, must drive cars without a windschield or a roof over their heads, in rain or snow, much like a coachman of old and where, at best, only the passengers might have been awarded a modicum of shelter when underway.

Show-off

The difference is that, while I can get caught out, if the weather's grotty, I don't go near the boat. I don't have that luxury with most car trips. Besides, I paid more for my car than I did for the boat, so I expect a few more creature comforts

 

[DJE]

Clearly Winter's ennui is taking effect.

Reading this automobile/sailing boat comparison, I have to wonder how many here, accordingly, must drive cars without a windschield or a roof over their heads, in rain or snow, much like a coachman of old and where, at best, only the passengers might have been awarded a modicum of shelter when underway.

Always fancied a convertible.