Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine's F37

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Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine\'s F37

Hello all,

Please can past and present owners of sealine's F37 step forward: I am digging up information for our May issue. I would like to hear of the good, the bad and the broken. Your comments on value for money are also appreciated.

The forum's help has proved invaluable so far and I look forward to seeing what light your can throw on this one - The F37.

Thank you for your support.

Ray Sargood
MBY

(IM me if you prefer)
 
Re: Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine\'s F37

Love it to bits.

Positives:
Light and airy saloon
Twin heads (i.e. heads still useable while the shower is in use - important with a family of 4)
Incredibly sociable flybridge (had 12 up there before now)
Feels solid and capable in big seas
Huge lazaret
Very easy to handle close quarters

Negatives
Slightly underpowered (I'd love to see one with D6-350's)
Heads slightly cramped (but then again, there are two...)
Headroom in the midships cabin
Crappy cockpit table (way too high)
Macerator incorrectly installed
No guage on the holding tank, just a red light that tells you it's now full to overflowing...
Appaling wiring diagram (and owner's manual generally)
Oh, and the world's most stupidly designed bathing ladder (changed on later models)

That's about it, really. We're very, very happy with ours.
 
Re: Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine\'s F37

Only problem I've ever had when visiting the F37 was banging my head on the top of the patio door frame when passing through - and I'm only a shorta*sed fella.

SWMBO turned down the F37 because of lack of clothes space. But then she would fill the QM2 with clothes and shoes!
 
Re: Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine\'s F37

Hi Ray
Have just sold my year 2000 F37, I thought it was an excellent boat and did many hours/miles in her. Agree with most of Wiggo's comments

Positives:
Light and airy saloon
single dedicated heads and single dedicated shower.
Incredibly sociable flybridge (had 6 up there for drinks and then started seeing double /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif)
Feels solid and capable in big seas
Huge Lazeret
Very easy to handle (often single handed)

Negatives:
Had KAD 44's always felt sufficient power (sea trial with new owner on Friday produced 29 knots sog)
Head slightly cramped, dedicated shower, stacks of room
Headroom in the midships cabin - good enough, I never used it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Cockpit table perfect height
No macerator installed /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
No holding tank installed /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
What wiring Diagram /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Call that an owners manual /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
And yes the worlds most stupidly designed bathing ladder /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

I think the F37 is a great boat, I had over 2 years with mine and was very sorry to see her go. How on earth do you become attached to great big lumps of GRP?? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
Re: Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine\'s F37

I have had f 37 from new in 2000 and found it to be a good all rounder, the worst faults has to be the totally inadequate wipers in a heavy sea with the wind blowing they are little better than useless, also the demisters that are fitted are much the same, it would also be a lot easier to check the oil +coolent if they were to have small inspection hatches fitted, opposed to having to move the chairs and tables before then lifting the floor to gain access.
One other fault, but i suppose its a fault with all bathing platforms the dammed water slapping when at anchor and you are trying to sleep, it probably doesn't effect most folk as when in a marina its fine.
Having said all that, the F37 is a great sea boat, i have been out in F 6 in the Minch on passage from Orkney to Kyle of lochalsh and all though we had to work the throttles all the time (bow on) she handled it really well and never once did i feel that the vessel was not up to it.
Same can also be said when crossing heavy seas on passage from St Kilda to Mainland, it was fair swell and F5 and yet again no problems apart from not being able to stand up for very long.
All the points raised in the other posts are bang on regards the F37
 
Re: Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine\'s F37

Squadron 56 ???
Not Nick R's boat, by any chance ???

dv.
 
Re: Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine\'s F37

Planning to keep her in Sparkes ? ... or is Sparkes only big enuf for one blo*dy great Squadron ?

And here was me looking at my 28 as a "big" boat /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

dv.
 
Re: Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine\'s F37

A similar story to the other responses. Owned mine from new since 2002.
What a great boat!
For entertaining and living aboard its perfect, whether using the flybridge, the cockpit (bring out the occasional chairs from inside) or the saloon. The stowage for the cockpit table and canopy leaves the enormous lazarette free for other clutter. And the separate toilet and shower are good, if a little tight. Cockpit table is a little small, but it’s the price for easy stowage.
As a drivers boat, she’s a dream to handle at low speed, a handy size for visiting new marinas and has ridden well in anything we’ve been out in and plenty we’d rather have not.
For the crew, she instills confidence. Really easy to move around – you can walk up and down the flybridge steps with a tray of drinks, hand rails in all the places you need them, great storage for fenders in the cockpit and chain locker, and adequate side decks – although another inch or outboard mounted guard rails would give just that extra bit of knee room.
Performance wise, the KAMD300s give her a 25 knot cruise, but not much more than 1.1 mpg at that speed.
Things I’d change – I’d want the hull to extend under the bathing platform; as mentioned by others, in an anchorage waves often slap under the platform; she’s a little bit rolly at anchor – some heavier D6s down below would sort that nicely I’m sure; but judging by what’s around at the same time I’m not sure if she’s much worse than others of a similar size, and the flybridge tonneau poles get dislodged if there’s a blow, because they’re not that well located at the base. Oh, and the lower position radio socket is ideally placed to be caught by the navigator’s knee! The latter mostly minor things easily solved.
We find it hard to believe we would have been happier in the round with anything else in its price range.
 
Re: Your experiences gentlemen please - on Sealine\'s F37

She's coming back to Sparkes, but currently in Villamora. Hope to go and get her in late March, early April. Room has been made for another blo*dy great Squadron. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Call by on A pontoon for a beer /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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