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skinned knuckles

posted on 27/4/10 at 02:17 PM Reply With Quote
anyone into boats?

having just come back from de-winterising my boat in anglesey i was wondering if anyone else on here is in to boats?

blooming good fun on a hot summers day to blast around the coast with some poor victim on the inflatable ring behind being flung around at insane speeds





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dhutch

posted on 27/4/10 at 02:32 PM Reply With Quote
Yeah, do a fair bit of messing about in boats.

No power boat of my own yet, although my housemate has a salcombe flyer rib with a performance 90 yam on the back. Its not new or huge but its fairly tidy and does move. (actually, previously owned by the md of salcombe flyers and a promotional boat that was competitive in the 90hp champtionships)

I also sail dingys (Uncals RS200 and our Topaz) mainly over summer, in salcombe.

But mainly tied up with narrowboating at the moment, both with my grandads narrowboat (steam powered) and with a load of freinds on a collection of historic working boats. I also help found the YWBS, a gruop of young people intersted in workingboats


What do you have?


Daniel

[Edited on 27/4/2010 by dhutch]

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Richard Quinn

posted on 27/4/10 at 02:34 PM Reply With Quote
Used to be (in quite a big way), but the sailing type. Not quite the peaked cap and pipe sort though (my last 3 included an International Moth and an International 14 - Have a search on Google for these)
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alistairolsen

posted on 27/4/10 at 02:42 PM Reply With Quote
Yeah, mainly dinghy racing and waterskiing. Current powerboat build is an 18 footer with a surface drive and a BMW 6





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scootz

posted on 27/4/10 at 02:44 PM Reply With Quote
Love them for about 20 minutes... then get VERY sick!





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cd.thomson

posted on 27/4/10 at 02:44 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by alistairolsen
Yeah, mainly dinghy racing and waterskiing. Current powerboat build is an 18 footer with a surface drive and a BMW 6


kids kneeboard, women waterski, men wakeskate





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boggle

posted on 27/4/10 at 02:54 PM Reply With Quote
i have a boat...

its 8ft long and has a 1hp outboard...

i have an old oar too, but thats enough about the wife.....





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sucksqueezebangblow

posted on 27/4/10 at 02:58 PM Reply With Quote
Yes, but the sailing type. Don't have my own but but crew for mates, and charter for the family holiday. Going to St Vincent and the Grenadines to sail a 40' Cat' for two weeks for our second honeymoon (25th anniversary) in August.





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A1

posted on 27/4/10 at 03:01 PM Reply With Quote
^ haha!

i know big boats. got to play with a 12cyl 74500hp one...

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designer

posted on 27/4/10 at 03:24 PM Reply With Quote
I am into dinghy's. Have Enterprise and Wayfarer. Love it.
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dhutch

posted on 27/4/10 at 04:02 PM Reply With Quote
Here we go, photos...

I blame school for being boring and my science teach for running after school sailing on a monday evening.

My and the Rs200


Sister in the N12 (now sold sadly)


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rf900rush

posted on 27/4/10 at 05:00 PM Reply With Quote
Trying to get back into boats.
Kid's almost old enough now.

Bought this (before kids) Ring20 and Suzuki DT 200 new in 1988 but in a sorry state now.
Needs some TLC, may be next year

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Stuart_B

posted on 27/4/10 at 05:04 PM Reply With Quote
i am into boats and jetskis, got rid off my dads boat to make way for the kit car, and a new jetski.





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Tipster69

posted on 27/4/10 at 05:08 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by skinned knuckles
having just come back from de-winterising my boat in anglesey i was wondering if anyone else on here is in to boats?

blooming good fun on a hot summers day to blast around the coast with some poor victim on the inflatable ring behind being flung around at insane speeds


I used to be (have had a couple on Anglesey myself - gotta love the Swellies).

Whereabouts are you and what have you?

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oldtimer

posted on 27/4/10 at 05:09 PM Reply With Quote
I like boats. I have lived on a couple of Dutch barges and now have a Contessa 26 on the Dart. Off to Greece next week on a charter. Can't wait.
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Hugh_

posted on 27/4/10 at 06:37 PM Reply With Quote
I used to do a fair bit of dinghy sailing and still have an rs600 on the drive (which is for sale at the moment). Currently more into rowing than sailing and hoping to do Henley in a couple of months

We used to have a Zodiac 4.9m RIB with mercury 75 on the back for the odd blat places and waterskiing, power boats get boring fairly quickly though unless being used for a purpose.






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David Jenkins

posted on 27/4/10 at 06:50 PM Reply With Quote
Just make sure that you have enough outboard motors!








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Confused but excited.

posted on 27/4/10 at 07:12 PM Reply With Quote
Just got a 16ft Fletcher in a sorry state, to have a play at doing up.
I also want to build a hydroplane if possible before I time out.

For anyone thinking of launching from Bull Bay on Anglesey....don't.
The tossers building the new slipway/sea wall are running about 5/6 weeks behind schedule. Probably because the have; 3, 2, 1, 0 men on site at any one time.

I will post on here when it's open again.

[Edited on 27/4/10 by Confused but excited.]





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SeanStone

posted on 27/4/10 at 07:31 PM Reply With Quote
Parents used to half 7.5 metre rib with a 200hp evinrude. It was a hell of a lot of fun on the open seas. We were often the only ones out there!

We did our RYA level 2 in it and you could barely see over the swell, great boat.

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Mark Allanson

posted on 27/4/10 at 07:39 PM Reply With Quote
I built a Plymouth Pilot 18' from a bare hull as a teenager, I have a 14' speedboat hull and now looking for a buggered jetski to combine with a small diesel to make something unusual. I also have a canoe in the garden supporting a whole microenvironment!

In my teens and early 20's I used to borrow big grey boats from the government and then play with all the attached toys and guns.





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NigeEss

posted on 27/4/10 at 08:03 PM Reply With Quote
Used to water ski most summer weekends behind my 15' Shakespeare with Suz 75 but
not for a few years now.
Boat's sat in a mates garden hiding in the very long grass

Dug the monoski out last year after an offer of a tow and was chuffed to still get up first
time. Couldn't lift my arms the next day though

[Edited on 27/4/10 by NigeEss]





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keith777

posted on 27/4/10 at 08:06 PM Reply With Quote
Couple of years ago I had 14ft simms with inboard mexico engine hooked up to a jet unit-then got into jet-skis.Used to run on 60 acre private loch in SW Scotland till mate got divorced and had to sell farm! happy days tho!
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Jubal

posted on 27/4/10 at 08:28 PM Reply With Quote
Love boats. This was half mine moored at Conwy till children and business stopped play a couple of years ago. 21ft Cobalt, 5ltr V8, duo prop. Bit compromised as a wakeboard boat but it made up for that in flexibility (sea manners). Happy days.

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JoelP

posted on 27/4/10 at 09:01 PM Reply With Quote
i love boats! Currently only have my chipboard canoe, but one day....






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owelly

posted on 27/4/10 at 10:22 PM Reply With Quote
I have a 5m Humber RIB. It will be out to play soon but I'll be spending most of the summer 30 metres below it.......





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