Your boating history!

Early years on my fathers 28' fishing boat lobster potting and my brothers 40' trawler.

1995 Aylings Single Scull
2003 Empacher Single Scull (which I still have)
2006 Swift Single Scull (also still have)
1995 SeaRay 230 Sundancer (bought in 2008)
1990 Sunseeker Jamaican 35 (bought in 2011) (still have)
Next will be an offshore single scull, but better sell one of the others first :-)
 
Grew up with dad's dinghys
Heron
Fish (prototype Osprey)
Then mine
Topper
Shetland Black Hawk (4years)
Picton Fiesta (5 years)
Fairline Sunfury (10 years)
Fairline Targa 31 (11 years)
TBC ???? watch this space

tend not to chop and change much
 
Whist a kid so owned by my old man,
Picton 15ft 50 merc, old early 70’s thing held together with sellotape
Glastron gt150 50 Suzuki
AMF Crestliner 18ft 3.0 mercruiser
Sharpe 19 merc xr2

Then when grown up,
Marshan 19 140 Suzuki
Sea Ray 280 sundancer
Gobbi 425sc
Bavaria 420 virtess
Cranchi med 43
Fairline targa 64gt
Currently nothing ��
 
Despite getting the boat bug early on thanks to Arthur Ransome books I came late to boat ownership

2002 - Bayliner 2655 for 3 months. Based on Windermere.
Late 2002- 2005 - Bayliner 2855. One year on Windermere then moved it to Mallorca
2005-2009 - Sealine S34 in Mallorca
2009 sold boat and bought an apartment in Cala D’Or. Thought boating days were passed but.....
2017 - Monterey 258ss, perfect accompaniment to the apartment and for getting into the small cala’s around Cala D’Or

No plans for anything else.....at the moment......
 
Started in 1973 with an 18 foot speedboat, then
26 ft double diagonal wood cabin cruiser
Aqua Bell 33
Pearson hydraulic drive fishing boat
Nauticat 36 ketch
Sealine 260 Senator
Merry Fisher 805
Skilso 975 Arctic
Broom 345 os
Hunter Ranger 265 sloop

and the next one is probably a Haines 34. Anyone selling?
 
Somewhat different from most who have been around boats since their youth.
Apart from ferries I'd not really set foot on a boat until 2011, since then 3 new boats.
Bayliner 21
Sealine SC42
Princess 49
 
jfm said:
Both have a place on the cool board :encouragement:
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Well you know what they say about blind squirrels !!!

It is interesting to see how many of us came to boating via our parents...... Does that mean we may have already saddled our own children with an expensive habit ?

I rather like the idea of spending my later years on my kids boats !!!
 
1. Scantic 580 with Yamaha 60hp two stroke
2. Yamarin 750 Big Game with Yamaha 150hp two stroke
3. Bella Falcon 26 Mercruiser V8
4. Princess Riviera 366 with 2 x 300 hp Yanmars
5. Fairline Phantom 38 with 2 x CAT 3116
6. Sealine SC38 with 2 x D4 260 hp (still have)

cheeers

Petri
 
Boatbore said:
Well you know what they say about blind squirrels !!!

It is interesting to see how many of us came to boating via our parents...... Does that mean we may have already saddled our own children with an expensive habit ?

I rather like the idea of spending my later years on my kids boats !!!
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My kids are far too busy bringing-up their own kids to be able to afford boats themselves - so they still avail themselves of mine.
When they can find time to travel so far north for the pleasure ;)

By the time they can afford boats I'll be unable to get aboard theirs!
 
in 2000 10yo Zodiac MarkIII 4.7m with Evenrude 50Hp (still have the 48y old vintage engine, if someone interested )
in 2003 3yo Faeton 6.3 Sport 200Hp Merc inboard, on trailer (sold)
in 2007 3yo Faeton 7.3 Sport 220Hp Merc inboard, on trailer (sold)
in 2008 new Karnic2660 2 x VP D3-190, on trailer, still use her for diving, but thinking to sell her
in 2011 1991 Canados 70s 2 x Man 1100HP, no plans for changing Blue Angel.
 
Zodiac Mark II in a sorry state purchased for about 10 GBP 30 year ago.
Oldenberg Sports
Portofino 31
Martinique 38
Targa 40
Targa 52 (current) , Topper Taz, selection of surfboards for me and the kids + tender.

Only been without a boat 1 year over the last 30 years approx.
 
Family boats as kid 1970s onwards inc C-craft inflatable then 17 ft Dory types W coast Ireland.
Lots of serious Ribing Tornadoes/ Deltas etc with various dive clubs from kinda 1984 -2010ish.
Own Delta 5 dash 5 115hp merc from 1993 ( billys brush still have it but its had new engine/trailer/tubes etc etc)
Salvaged sunk Versatility 30 ft fishing boat late 90s did up and used in a syndicate as dive boat in W Scotland
TIL 2001 bought Silver Dee 52 ft 1976 MY used for dive trips Scotland and Ireland til refit in 2014 and took to S France.
Aquastar 74 explorer since 2017 Antibes.

prob had most fun in my first 8 ft row boat built by dad and big brother (he started his boat design life early) or the £5k Delta.
 
Silverdee, knowing a bit of what you've done on your last two boats, I used to think that your efforts deserved respect.
But diving in Scotland and Ireland...?
Now, THAT commands respect! :encouragement:
 
Ha kind words thank you (or did you subtly say I was insane) but the UK really does have zillions of top dive sites including hundreds of steam ship wrecks , fantastic drift diving and underwater cliffs etc etc.
Ok yes I have now moved boat and dive kit to the med for my middle aged years !
 
silverdee said:
or did you subtly say I was insane
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Haha, well, a little bit, coming to think of it! :D
But for us boaters and divers, insanity is something to proudly mention in our C.V., after all... :encouragement:

PS: I'm really looking fwd to seeing you in S Sardinia, in the future.
Pretty sure, a dive surrounded by hundreds of giant bluefin tunas is something you never experienced in Scotland, and never will in SoF, either!
 
Did Costa Smeralda this year and had a great time but your patch looks even better so yes one day soon v much look forwards to.
Happy boating,
 
silverdee said:
Did Costa Smeralda this year and had a great time but your patch looks even better so yes one day soon v much look forwards to.
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Having done a season in NE Sardinia and 2 1/2 seasons in Mapism's patch in SW Sardinia there's no contest.
 
silverdee said:
Did Costa Smeralda this year and had a great time but your patch looks even better so yes one day soon v much look forwards to.
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J, since as a diver you might be attracted by what I previously mentioned, just be aware of one relevant caveat - which I already mentioned in the past, but just in case:
The dive inside the "tonnara", a very wide net deployed in an open sea area about 40m deep where the tunas remain free to swim around but actually trapped (and eventually caught), can only be made starting from beginning of May and up to mid of June at the latest.
That's in fact the timeframe when the bluefin tunas are passing around the island.

Otoh, the nice anchorages and other diving spots are available all year round, of course!
 
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