Greg01
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If you have had any experience of this boat be it good or bad I would love to hear about it.
Windy 37 Grand Mistral your feedback appreciated.
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Whitelighter
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that's nice, you're not a trainee anymore!!!
gjgm
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didnt like the hardtop much. Guess you get used to it, but the as the hull means the boat leans pretty sharply, the horizon disappears beneath the roof in a turn. And although Windy love to rant about it themselves.. it is very well built indeed. Its not entirely for nothing that their adverts say.. in life, you get what you pay for. as regards style.. well all the smaller Windys are very similar, in a rather classic sort of way -though the new Scirocco is gadamn aweful-all light and airy and looks like a german caravan.
StuB
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I have a Mistral 33, which has the same hull, smaller bathing platform and slightly smaller cockpit. She is 12 years old, but still looks great and handles beautifully ... I have been in the hard top, and its a bit low for me... 5'11" so not exactly a giant. Yes they do lean when u turn hard
tico
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One in our marina & is seriously good looking!
Havent been on board driven it tho.
Havent been on board driven it tho.
PowerYachtBlog
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we have a 36 in Malta
I love this boat to be honest, saw only the 37 HT in boatshow and I personally love it
what I think about it tough it's that it is a bit expensive being the same model from 13 years time now
still one of the the succesful models from Windy having run so much into production
I love this boat to be honest, saw only the 37 HT in boatshow and I personally love it
what I think about it tough it's that it is a bit expensive being the same model from 13 years time now
still one of the the succesful models from Windy having run so much into production
gjgm
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oh, and it seemed noisy with the hardtop.. but maybe all hardtops are noisy.
Find me one without the hardtop!
Find me one without the hardtop!
spannerman
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I am lucky enough to get to drive Windy's nearly every day seeing as we sell them. On friday we had to deliver a Mirage 25 and a Mistral 33 from Stavanger to Bergen, a wonderful 120 mile trip up through the fjords. The younger guys wanted the faster 25 but I took the 33 as I knew it would take the sea better on the stretch out on the North sea north of Haugesund, it was a fantastic trip, I cruised at 30 knots with the autopilot on when we were in the larger sounds, we encountered some lumpy seas and it just went through them like a battleship, and the guys in the 25 soon dropped in behind me to ride in my wake!
I arranged to overnight with a mate who is a pilot and lives up in Bergen, he got up at 6 to take his morning flight to Heathrow then when he got back at lunch time I took him and his wife out in the 33 to see the Poker Run we were holding in Bergen and pleased to say our Nortech won with a 5 mins lead. The upshot was that he and his wife fell in love with the 33 and want to buy it!
We were supposed to bring two boats back but at the last minute our Bergen office had a 3rd boat to go to Stavanger also, I got a Hydrolift S24 with a 320hp V8! so I had a nice fast run home at 50kts back down through the fjords in the marine equivalent of a Porsche 911 Turbo.
It was magical as it was late evening and it doesn't get dark here in summer and there were the coloured lighthouses blinking along the way.
But I digress the Windy's are well made practical boats and are bulletproof, so I'd certainly have one, and as all the mags say the handling is second to none, and is the benchmark others aspire to.
I arranged to overnight with a mate who is a pilot and lives up in Bergen, he got up at 6 to take his morning flight to Heathrow then when he got back at lunch time I took him and his wife out in the 33 to see the Poker Run we were holding in Bergen and pleased to say our Nortech won with a 5 mins lead. The upshot was that he and his wife fell in love with the 33 and want to buy it!
We were supposed to bring two boats back but at the last minute our Bergen office had a 3rd boat to go to Stavanger also, I got a Hydrolift S24 with a 320hp V8! so I had a nice fast run home at 50kts back down through the fjords in the marine equivalent of a Porsche 911 Turbo.
It was magical as it was late evening and it doesn't get dark here in summer and there were the coloured lighthouses blinking along the way.
But I digress the Windy's are well made practical boats and are bulletproof, so I'd certainly have one, and as all the mags say the handling is second to none, and is the benchmark others aspire to.
Dave_Snelson
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Buried in that excellent piece of text spannerman, is the fact that you have a Nortech.
Now then old chap - please tell us more!!
Now then old chap - please tell us more!!
Dave_Snelson
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As everyone says on here - ya get what you pay for. Coney Island is 21 this year and still looking and going well.
canger2
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I have a 2000 HT.
Very pretty,fast,well built,almost perfect layout - none of the other equivalent sports cruisers have anything like the cockpit dining area.Do not consider an open boat - OK if you live in the Carribean, but hopeless in the Northern Hemisphere. It will take you two trips to get fed up with all the poppers on the canopy.I havn't even touched on leaks and draughts...We love it, and everywhere it goes, -mostly to France- it attracts
comments. Wins every handling contest for a reason. Excellent helm position, allowing two people (Or three friends) all to sit together and to help with the passage.Cabins spacious and beds very comfortable. Buy one !!!!!!!!!!
Very pretty,fast,well built,almost perfect layout - none of the other equivalent sports cruisers have anything like the cockpit dining area.Do not consider an open boat - OK if you live in the Carribean, but hopeless in the Northern Hemisphere. It will take you two trips to get fed up with all the poppers on the canopy.I havn't even touched on leaks and draughts...We love it, and everywhere it goes, -mostly to France- it attracts
comments. Wins every handling contest for a reason. Excellent helm position, allowing two people (Or three friends) all to sit together and to help with the passage.Cabins spacious and beds very comfortable. Buy one !!!!!!!!!!
yprocopis
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I just bought a Windy 37 Grand Mistral new with twin D4s - 260 hp. I got the open version which I like a lot more than the hardtop (a few reasons is the great visibility and the extra headroom) and since I live in Greece I do not feel I need the hardtop. The build quality of the boat is excellent and the handling amazing!
