why give up deck space to store air?

I like the tender garage and I am going back to a boat with one. It has no shortage of cockpit seating and has a sunbed on the garage. I will admit that the garage does limit the size of tender. My use is in the Med with sometimes extended periods anchoring out.

I have tried the alternatives and like the garage because of the ease of launching, not having to stow the dinghy, not having a dinghy obstructing the stern view and having the whole swim platform always available (important for stern-to berthing).
 
I agree, unlesss it's a huge boat so you can have a proper tender in the garage I'd go for deck space and use snap davits instead.

We use our dinghy regularly so it would be a pain to pump up when required. Snap davits are the answer.
 
Don't get me wrong, I would love a tender garage BUT on the right boat. What I am talking about here is sub 50ft boats where you lose substantial deck space, I am being forced to look at 50ft plus to benefit from what I have, and that is big bucks. There is no way I am spending £200k to store a tender, lose deck space and gain another set of heads to clean.

What size boat do you have?
 
Now if you had a proper boat like mine with Roofs, you simply
attach the wire from the electric crane to the Rib, and lift Rib
onto the roof of the fixed bimini. Voila!. But if you insist on
belting around in these cold wet open top sports boats, well!!
You will be telling me next that you enjoy it!!. Look at all the
money you spent on a coat to try keep warm and dry.
Long live Flybridges /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Boats are bit like cars in a way. with the Cranchi IMHO you are probably in the BMW 3-series, Audi A4 market space. But to really move up, just like cars you have to skip past the 5-series, etc to really see a dramatic improvement in confort, features,etc.
In the boating world I reckon you DO have get up to 50' to see the real leap in space, confort etc.
 
47ft. A bit too old for you.

Cockpit
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SWMBO is sitting on the garage roof sunbed - big enough for me at 6ft to lie full length either way. Seating area behind seats 7. Double helm and navigator seats. Garage small but works.

Apologies for chaotic appearance - it gets like that a long way from home. Its the best photo I could conveniently pluck out.
 
Recent Majorca trip revealed the "garage" marlarky aboard a T43.First clear any people/junk/stuff off of aft sunpad.Move assorted stern fenders out of the way to allow door to wheeze its way up.Yank out tender as best you can and put in water.
Pull out again and inflate(cos will not fit in hole easy when fully inflated).
Put in water.
Phut phut around for a bit and decide not to swim because of shore to shore weeny little jellyfish infestation.
Drag boat back on board with assorted" helpers" pushing and pulling to guide boat back into its little cavern with the assistance of incredibly noisy winch thing.Shut lid.
Rearrange copious supplies of totty back on sunbed.
Have fun watching them slide down now steeply sloping sun bed as boat moves off.
Count crew at end of trip to see if any missing.
 
I reckon you DO have get up to 50' to see the real leap in space, confort etc.
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and then of course,unless you can press gang a crew at short notice the poor old boat gets used less and less and you start thinking that your smaller first boats were more fun.????
 
My garage takes a fully inflated 2.5m Avon rib (small, but works). SWMBO and I almost always boat alone and launch it very quickly.

There should be no problem with two people manning a 50ft boat.
 
Yup thats pretty much it except you forgot

Scrape outboard on bathing platform and make deep gouge
Crawl into garage to free snarled up winch rope
Snag garage door on outboard without realising because it is'nt pushed in enough and break hydraulic ram fitting
Collapse in heap swearing
Buy different boat
 
Sorry if I spun off the thread, Mike, and I certainly share your views about full davits. Although it means lugging an outboard on and off, I much prefer locking the dinghy securely on the transom with snap davits; it's safer and you don't have to use a cover to stop the thing filling with spray.
 
So are most of us in agreement that they are a 'waste of space' in more ways than one?

The Targa 40 has them and it looks pointless, never seen anyone on the so called bed above it either. Even knocking the Cranchi 41 and 47, it takes up a ridiculous amount of cockpit space.

It seems my quest to fond my next boat has blown out 43's and 47's, just 50's plus which then have problems of their own like parking spaces and handling it alone /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif . Maybe the solution is to keep buying a new Cranchi 34 every couple of years, the money saved on buying a 50ft er around £370,000 to upgrade to the Cranchi 50 could replace a Zaffiro 34 for quite a few years, well until they start making it like an Ikea (light beech everywhere) and Zanussi (sliver plastic everywhere) showroom like the rest of their new models /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

And I guess the twin D12 715hp engines on the Cranchi 50 use a tad more than twin D4 260hp ones. Only problem is swmbo likes the 50 for space, but then again she could always have her own 34ft er for £170k couldn't she, and I will keep the change to stock the bar on mine /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
swmbo liked the hard top Cranchi 50 best, caught me on the hop a bit as I went to Italy to look at a the new 42 hard top, what a waste of time that was /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif and the 50 we saw was viewed in Port Solent last weekend. I don't know or in fact I do know I am not ready to commit to over £500k on the first 50 I have looked at, there is at least a month or two of research to do when spending that amount, it's a lot of difference to £300k. Princess has appeared on the radar, I think there is some serious considerations there, as for Sealine I'm afraid that is not my cup of tea at all and never will be, I think you either love them or dislike them, and at the moment there are yards full of the things, scary as to what effect that will have on second hand prices if you were trying to sell one at the moment.

Another thing is that there is a depression coming along, you can sense it in the high streets, more and more retailers are having to be more realistic with prices, boats haven't been touched yet, or have they with Sealine? Best to sit back and wait for the bang then go shopping /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Not sure about the hard top on the Cranchi, not the most beautiful thing in the world and head room over the helm wasn't fantastic. Can see the attraction though, no covers etc, mind you mine is easier then the old 39 and probably your 34.
 
I'm not so sure about the heavy sliding hardtop either, the one I saw was jammimg, I can just imagine all that weght being tossed about. The Princess V48 has a lightweight canvas type concertina roof, light and airy, slides backwards and forwards easily and less prone to jamming, that's got to be the way ahead. The Princess also has much better vision as the windscreen upright posts are much thinner, with the Cranchi there was a big blind spot, still think it is odd standing with your head out the roof to see where you are going, I like the freedom to see all around, wind in my hair and spray in my eyes /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif , also easier to leap on and off the boat in Locks and when re fuelling, the more I think about the less I am convinced about plunging into something too big to handle with my experience. Maybe something with a side door would be nice /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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