World Exclusive, Boat Never pictured Before!!!!

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If 5 of us club together and use our combined discount, can we get one for free

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I believe Westline are doing the same offer
 
Doesn’t the Atlantis 55 have a sunbed in the middle of the cockpit? Loads of room downstairs but horrible layout on top. Also, looking straight ahead from drivers seat, massive distortion in the windscreen. Personally I think it’s a dog.
 
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Doesn’t the Atlantis 55 have a sunbed in the middle of the cockpit? Loads of room downstairs but horrible layout on top. Also, looking straight ahead from drivers seat, massive distortion in the windscreen. Personally I think it’s a dog.

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it's a sunbed convertible to a seettee tough I admit it feels crowded with 8 persons + walking around
 
[quoteYou've obviously been looking at these boats!

Don't you think the Absolute 52 or even the 47 would be a good step up


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Nope! I like the 45 best so far, I don't need three cabins but the cockpit layout is not ideal for us.

For now, I have an excellent compromise for Solent and approaches boating with good all round space, performance and economy. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

But.. I will look again at Sibs. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
Al, the key phrase is 'in the premium yacht market', we will never be mass produced and certainly the intention is not to become a volume producer rather expand the range from 39' through to around 90' by 2011 but at the larger end we are only looking at 4-5 units a year and at the smaller probably 25 - 30 units per model, collectively though it adds up to around 250 units a year which in the premium sector makes us a major player.

Our hope is that in this way each model will maintain its desirability and for the forseeable future there will never be dozens of them for sale on the secondhand market.

I tried to locate a second hand 45 this week for a client but absolutely no dice anywhere.
 
It seems that you have a very desirable and exclusive product which is very difficult to source.

Doesn't that rather limit your earning capacity?
 
LS,

According to Nauticals previous posts he only does it for love and a bit of fun. The level of cash is secondary.

Mind you as the range grows up to £1m and he gets 12-15%...mmm profit may be out there /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Cheers

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As they say small is beautiful /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif, I never wanted to become another Peters, my aim is to build a profitable business that I can keep control of myself and can look after customers as I would expect to be looked after. I have been at the other end of the business and seen how shoddy some of the service is and thought many a time I could do that so much better, so put my money where my mouth is so to speak and loving every minute of it so far after three years. Our target for 2010 is to be selling 25 units PA and that's about as far as I want to go, thereafter is about offering good service and a solid company that will last the distance and I can still enjoy doing what I love. Anything more and it becomes a load of grief and hassle and I have done the big corporate thing before with loads of staff, infrastructure and beholding to banks and institutions and that was enough for me, it wasnt fun anymore.

The yards philosophy is much the same, to have solus dealers where possible that are specialists in just Absolute, in that respect we are about to open an Absolute service centre based in Hamble which does nothing but look after Absolute customers no matter where they are. As an example I sent two engineers and a pallet load of aircon unit in a truck to La Rague SoF on Friday to retro fit reverse cycle air con to a 45. Of course its more expensive but it means we are in control of the whole process and quality.

Don't worry LS I ll have you in an Absolute one day /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Not far off the mark, Mr Gobbi sold Gobbi / Atlantis to Azimut in 2000 and retired to the SoF, his daughter Patrizia and two guys (one ex Big Italian yard in charge of production and the other a Naval Architect for another big yard in charge of new product development) Marcello and Sergio, joined together to form Absolute with investment from a third party investor (like mega wealthy industrialist type fellow!) and the rest is history. Collectively they have a vast amount of experience and have been instrumental in designing and building some of the most succesful and beautiful yachts today but unfortunately I can not tell you which ones as I would then have to kill you /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Ah yes good old yachtworld, if only peeps would remember to delete what has sold, /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif only one there is the one in Dublin and actually that is my dealers demo and brand new and I need one prob couple years old or I could have just sold a new one to order to client.

Thanks for the thought though, appreciated.

trev
 
Ah ha, knew I had these somewhere, apologies took so long to find them.

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and the awesome Sogica 55

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Re: Ugly boat...

Rather disappointed that I'm the only one thinks the 52 is the only hideous boat that has come out of Absolute , everything else is stunning. Has it really come from the same designers ? Surely it's someone new?
 
Re: Ugly boat...

You're not Learner, I voted the same as you (52=ugly, others beautiful) as did others, though hard to find now that this thread has gone Large!
 
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