Which boat inspired you to buy a mobo?

[longjohnsilver]

For me it was seeing a Fairline Mirage one beautiful summers day in Salcombe many years ago. Thort to myself that it looked much better to be out on the water than on dry land looking out.

Don't know why it should have been that boat at that particular moment, didn't have a clue at the time as to what make or model it was, that only came later when I started looking at the mags, but it is still a fond memory.

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[Dave_Snelson]

A little red Fletcher 129 with 45Hp Crescent O/B back in 1974. It was a friend of mine's boat and we used to bomb around the Porthmadog estuary in it and we thought it was the beez neez. Actually it was a pathetically small insignificant little boat but my memories of it have become pleasantly distorted with time.

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[Divemaster1]

No special one really ... brought up with the stuff around me and if it was to be a boat, it needs to be a MOBO... Not really interested in being on a constant angle and having to do long detours to get anywhere against the wind, which seems to be the case for most...unless sailing in circles called "races"... Not negative to the ones with the pointy sticky up thingie, but just not for me... have friends who are though and have been with them several times...

In my early teens I used to be facinated by P37, Moonraker and the Powles range .... then came the Italians with their Technomarines & Ferrettis

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[hlb]

A free rowing boat at Butlins. Then a fe hire cruisers on the Norfolk Broads...Anyway if you were inspired by a fairline. How come you ended up with a bloody work boat!!!

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[Wiggo]

Ah, not so insignificant, Dave. We had one with a scabby Johnson 60 on it (changed it for a Mariner 60 in the end) that was truly terrifying. 55mph on the speedo in flat water. I'd love to have another go in one now....

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[Dave_Snelson]

Count me in!!! 60HP on one of those must have been scary. Great fun to go ripping passed a much more expensive boat - and watch the look on their faces!

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[Wiggo]

The odd thing is, I've only ever seen one of them on the water in all the years we've been boating. Ours had lost the screen at some point, and had a little grp wind deflector.

Then I redid the graphics...

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[Deleted User YDKXO]

Well it was'nt exactly a boat so much as loads of boats at the Earls Court boat show in the days when the exhibits were plastered with top totty. My mate and I thought that getting a boat would attract loads of girls. Did'nt work, of course

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[jfm]

Another Fletcher 129

Eezy peezy question LJS. Moonraker 36 flybridge. The MBY article on it in May 1973 (of which I now have a copy thanks to unit18), and the outside back cover ads in boat mags, esp the yellow one

That makes me sound a saddo. For the record I was interested in girls too . I also had a fletcher 129 a la wiggo's, (though counterfeit possibly, ahem), bright red hull and deck, and had a Johnson 50 (pull start, how uncool), and this was a reasonable pulling machine. You could waterski with it too. Mostly lake windermere and that seawater lake in Crosby close to Seaforth dock. Also Marine Lake, Southport. In contrast my Laser was useless pulling machine. Nowhere for wimmin to sit and they fell out lots so busting their makeup and stuff. It did, together with a mirror, teach me sailboat basics and some rudimentary sail trimming etc though

 

[petem]

Re: Another Fletcher 129

Sealine on Howard's Way, a week on a boat with my parents crusing the Shannon in Ireland and more recently a Targa 37 in Gozo.

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[BrendanS]

Can't think of any boat in particular, it was just a desire to be out on the water. Though crusing and fishing round Cardigan Bay in a Shetland as a kid had a great deal of influence, as did an unknown make of day cruiser we used to use in Salcombe when a teenager

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[kindredspirit]

Not so much a boat, more a fascination with water which started very early with me.

The Thames ran behind our house and I would spend hours as a 3, 4 and 5 year old hanging over the bridge at the weir in Iffley Lock looking at the water going over. A lot of my youth was spent on the river bank, looking at the eights and the houseboats. I suppose it all started there.

I bought my first boat after seeing it at a local boat show; I promptly handed over a deposit (that money in my pocket was actually meant for the electricity bill.) The boat was a small 13 footer with an outboard. It was fabulous fun.

My fascination now is with islands off the coast here. There's about 270 of them: not all accessible with a motor boat, though unfortunately.

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[britemp]

Just about any 1970's or 80's Broom having spent most of my childhood summers on the Broads.

Compared to the 30hp displacement tubs I was on they seemed endlessly powerful and capable of circum-navigating the world with ease. We used to hang around the bits of the Yare between Brundall and Reedham where the Brooms mechanics would open up to 15 or 20 knots and look to us as though they were doing 100mph. . . . .

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[tcm]

Re: Moonraker 36

in 1973 we went on a family hol to southern france an i was enthralled by the huge new marinas, and wanted to wander around them for hours.

Eventually, dad just tipped me out at st raphael or antibes etc and let me mooch around all day, dreaming, while they went sightseeing somewhere dull like Monaco or Cannes.

I seem to remember promising myself a Moonraker 36, one day. Around the same time I also seem to remeber promising myself a Triumph GT6, a Pontiac Transam on account of it being the cheapest hi-speed machine per quid, and a Moto Guzzi. Girls, yerknow, they just aren't really the same. Not when you're 12, anyway.

 

[Dave_Snelson]

Hey - nice work! My friends was very tatty compared to that.

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[tcm]

oi - stop referring to yer tatty friends. Not very nice!

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[SlowlyButSurely]

Goodness! This IS depressing. OK so someone mentioned a Moonraker but surely someone must have been been inspired by a Fleur de Lys, Sealion, Nelson, Ocean 37 or a Fairey Huntsman, Sunseeker Thunderhawk, Bluebird etc. etc. etc??

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[Questor]

Had to be the Dell Quay Ranger 27. Our neighbour had one when I was about was about 10 years old. Kept it on "H" pontoon in Chi Yacht Basin (as it was then). Beautiful looking boat. Think it cost about £6k new. Think the few remaining examples are mainly in Guernsey. He also had an Aston Martin DB6, and a tasty wife. At that age, it seemed like he'd got it all, and with reflection, guess he probably had.

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[jhr]

OK.

As a family, we had a connection with Bertram Boats and I managed to get a ride on Blue Moppie, one of the early Bertrams built specifically for racing, when I was about 7. She'd been brought over to the UK and was down at Poole. We went out to Old Harry and back, which was a complete blast.

Nearly as exciting, a couple of years later, was a ride on Brave Moppie (Cowes-Torquay winner), being piloted by Dick Bertram himself.

Oh, and I love Faireys as well. I went over the new 30 footer at SBS and I Want One. Sadly, as both my Bank Manager and SWMBO are constantly reminding me, I want doesn't get. /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

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[mainshiptom]

A Broom on the canal at Fort william ! about 1987 ish


It look like the people had the life at thier feet ?

Tom

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