which flybridge cruiser no more than 100k

Yes thought about that.

Its a lot of money for a cuddy, but it does have beautifull italian styling.
And yes, i would pay that if looking for another cuddy.
We bought our last cuddy new, it was 23'6" and paid £34k for it. I do like big cuddies.

Cheers for all the pics, keep em coming, don't worry about Keith, nothing i've read sounds like hard sales pitch.

Cheers
Al.
 
I do like the 39, but it's that pesky sunbed and tender garage at the back that puts me off. Any plans for a V42-style "more seating in the cockpit" option ?

dv.
 
Yes, I would be interested in that. It has the all important decent two heads so I can have a shower in one without needing to see the chiropractor, but tender garages are a bit rubbish.

Oh why oh why oh why do I keep looking at these thing when I have a perfectly nice boat already? I think it is just if it was that couple of feet bigger, maybe a bit wider with a bit more weight it would be perfect...
 
DV,

We always thought the same. But the Absolute really works. On most 40ft boats you get two compromised seating areas that can cope with volume but are lower on comfort. he absolutes give a really good (and large seating area for 6 people that is practical and can be used for dinning or just slouching.

The Absolute changed our opinion on this, and we now see the benefit, unless you regularly have more than 8 adults on board in the rain in the UK! For two families they work out fine IMHO.

Cheers

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Is that inc VAT or ex VAT and has it got an inside heads compartment?
 
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Cheers for all the pics, keep em coming, nothing i've read sounds like hard sales pitch.

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I agree, until you posted the link I thought you had an Azimut Absolute /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Mind you spare a thought for Rowey how thought he could get this for 100 K






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Sorry Rowey, you will have to make do like the rest of us plebes with something like this.

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Thing I find more user freindly on a sports crusier is that you don't have to keep running up and down to the flybridge everytime its nasty just to see where you are going, spesh coming back into harbour in the p1ssing rain and no vis, I bet in foul weather I am warmer and drier than you after a long passage in the pooh!

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I know you're in sales mode today but how can helming from a cold, draughty cockpit of a sports boat with seawater dripping through the joints of the canopy down the back of your neck and peering through a misted up windscreen be warmer, drier and give better viz than helming from the inside of a flybridge boat with the heating on?
 
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It does have a Chemical WC compartment.

Don't know about the VAT, but i'd think Inc. But Trev will confirm i'm sure.

Al.
 
Saw both the Atlantis range and absoulte at Cannes last year, in fact they were next to each other. There isn't a lot between them in terms of spec or price.

I agree the 39 Atlantis is over designed compared to the 39 Absolute, but when you move up the range they are very simillar in design and the Atlantis 55 is simply stunning. Why worry they are called Atalntis not Gobbi and are from the same stable as Azimut which is about the best boat around IMHO especially the 62S and 68S which I've been on and it is quite breath taking..and makes ALL the british stuff look rather sickly.
 
TBH, the fact that it has a tender garage is an attraction me.
The boat has beautiful lines, and to stick a dirty dinghy on snap davits onto the bathing platform is just going to ruin the looks.

The cockpit as said previously, has plenty of room for at least 6 guests, and i don't know about you, but i will never have more that 6 guests out on a boat with me.
We go boating for the peace and tranquility, not too take the people that annoy us with us!!!
However we may entertain the occasional person from the marina.

Each to there own,

Cheers

Al.
 
Ah, right again, I think i should be supplied with one, and will demo it for you on the Clyde and Loch Lomond.
Do you need any northern dealers??? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Al.
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Just my experiences, nearly every fly I have driven in bad weather nessitates you having to go up top when coming close too, either other boats or coming back into harbour. On one occassion on a 40' fly I had to spend the last two hours up top in a stinker mostly cus the lower helm was rubbish and the screen was a very narrow affair, when you dropped down to 20 knts because of the conditions the trim was running about 10 degrees even with full tab so I couldn't see diddly out the front screen. Hated every flippin minute of the passage. I always see peeps up top on a fly coming back to port again because the visability from below is generally very poor going astern, great when the weather is bob on but half the time round here its awful or at least piddling down so you are always getting wet. Sport Cruisers the vis is miles better and you don't have to go out in the rain up top to berth if in a tight spot. I suppose the rep of some sports cruisers is the leaky canvas syndrome but have to say ours are very neat and drip free, just had cockpit heating fitted run off the stb engine and its as warm as toast under the canvas, I like it, feels very dare I say 'Camping' with the noise of the rain on the canvas and you all warm inside. If you want to be in the aircon'd luxury, leather bound surroundings just pop below.
 
My experience is exactly the opposite having had a couple of sportscruisers myself, S37 and Targa 48. Your canopy might not leak but everybody else's does /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif and your comment about trim angles applies equally to sportscruisers, certainly the Targa 48 I had. I'm over 6' and I had to stand (stoop) at the helm to see over the bow and this meant looking over the windscreen and, if the canopy was deployed, through a couple of perspex screens. In any kind of bad weather the screens misted up. No flybridge cruiser I've ever had has had as poor forward viz in bad weather as either of my sportscruisers
With a flybridge, you are genuinely warm and dry inside and you always have the option of using the flybridge where the vis is total
 
Guess you could be right on that but I am a bit spoilt suppose, ours run very level its one of its selling points, if you look at a recent back to back test in one of the mags of a 41 against another you can see she runs flat as a pancake and the screen is quite deep so no peering through plaky screens.

Maybe its a mind set thing in that you get so used to having 360 vision that a fly seems very claustophobic at the lower helm and you cant see the swim platform but maybe with enough hours you can stern too without being top side.

Take your point re certain other makes drove one recently and it was impossible to drive sitting down unless you wanted a lovely view of the dashboard one of the worst I have ever sat at, rest of it was great and you couldn't find fault but that one issue is such a major design flaw it would drive me nuts if I owned one, five hours standing to do cross channel! no thanks, mind you for a near forty footer SC your typical cross channel hop machine it barely carried enough fuel to get to Guernsey so if you had to carry on further or hampered by the weather you'd be in the do do. This is a new boat 9 months on the drawing board with three designers and they come up with a boat that has major faults like this? makes you wonder. Mind you it had cup holders and a little tray thing for odds and sods so I suppose for some its a dream machine /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
Well, good on Absolute for properly designing the helm ergo's 'coz, as you say, many designers pay more attention to the hydraulic hi/lo cockpit table than the helm position. I absolutely (sic) hated driving my Targa 48 in rough seas. Not only did I have to stand to see out but brace myself in that position against the movement of the boat. 3hrs was about my maximum. Still, good exercise I suppose
 
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