Your 2016 boating pics.

[rafiki_]

Nice vids Mr Lines. What about the kill cord? Looked to be dangling?

 

[mlines]

Kill cord is on the other side where the throttle is. That's the USB phone charger cable hanging from the cigarette lighter socket.

 

[Greg2]

Great video and shows the benefits of having something trailable!

 

[longjohnsilver]

Loved the video, lots of fun had, that's what boating is about!

 

[Bouba]

What a video! Looks like you had a great boating year, here's to the next:encouragement:

 

[rafiki_]

Kill cord is on the other side where the throttle is. That's the USB phone charger cable hanging from the cigarette lighter socket.

OK, thanks for the clarification ��. Nice vids for a cold Jan day, thank you.

 

[Nick_H]

Great video mlines, not just a nice record of your boating year, but also a good advert for boating in general.

 

[kanajobe48]

Brilliant video- can't wait till the sun shines

 

[MapisM]

Great video mlines, not just a nice record of your boating year, but also a good advert for boating in general.

+1.
Btw, mlines, does your boat have a left hand prop?
Because if not (as I suspect), you might find it easier to make 360° turns CCW while pulling a skier, rather than CW - i.e. steering to port, instead of stbd.

 

[pks1702]

Simply stunning images gents it has to be said.

Is there anyone left in the UK except Mlines

 

[mlines]

Thanks to everyone for their positive response. Its a montage of our year and when we look back on what we think was a fairly poor year in the UK we find that we did a lot. It doesn't even contain any footage of a week we had in Yarmouth at the end of July when it was simply fabulous all week and really could have been the Med. We had booked Newtown Creek and slept under the stars, the main issue was the cadets suffering from heat exhaustion. It has clips from the Solent throughout the year, Poole harbour and Studland and also the Thames for the Elton John and Shirley Bassey concerts. As has been said, probably perfect trailer boating.

Mapis - the boat in the Wakeboarding lessons is not my boat, its a Moomba from the wakeboarding school. As my boat is fully kitted out for boarding we have been asked every year if we had wakeboarded from it (we bought it already fully kitted), embarrassingly we had to confess that we hadn't. I therefore decided to bite the bullet this year before I got too much older (55 this year) and took some lessons which feature in the video. However I did not have a chance to actually try it on my own boat before the water got too cold. Here is my boat and the school boats......

Mine has a 350MAG engine mated to a Bravo 3 drive, therefore it has contra-rotating props, we have therefore not noticed any bias in the turning.

 

[ozzie]

Great to see boaty pictures when the weather is so rotten at the moment. Here are a few pjctures of our first season with Echo Beach. A grea

 

[Bouba]

What an amazing year it has been for us, after taking delivery of Artemisia - our new build Prestige 680 - at the end of May, and following our maiden voyage from Port Camargue to Salerno, we ultimately racked up over 1,800 nms this season cruising the Amalfi coast, Neapolitan islands aa well as a big trip south to the Aeolian islands. The following are a few random images that give just hint of the stunning sights and experiences we have had. Roll on 2017 for more of the same!

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Our first sight of our newly wrapped boat in Port Camargue

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Cruising at 24 knots from Elba to Punta Ala on the third day of our maiden voyage

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Idyllic sea state

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Hanging with the big boys in the Coppola marina in Amalfi

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Dinner on board in sight of Vesuvius, while in the marina of Santa Lucia in Naples

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Dawn in Panarea (Aeolian Islands)

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Amazing rock off Filicudi (Aeolian Islands)

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Ready for post lunch snooze moored off the active volcanic island of Stromboli (Aeolian Islands)

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Moored off the Amalfi coast

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Back in our home berth in the Marina d'Arechi in Salerno... not a bad view to have of the Amalfi coast!

Your boat looks stunning, the electric blue (or is cobalt?) looks the colour of the Med itself, and the photos are amazing