[Closed] What Type of Boat is this?

A crap one... Its a Ben-e-tub

power boat or cruiser

A toy one

Did you download the brochure that has bits written in English?

Day Cruiser? What ever it is it's fairly hideous 🙁

Would sunbridge cruiser mean anything?

Day cruiser.

And an ugly one as well.

barcos de motor = motorboat

what is the question?

Its a Flyer 850 Sun Deck.

42k plus vat

You could get a new one of these for that:

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Cruiser, play boat, good for nothing really other than whizzing around on water for the reasonably well off.

Bayliner in the UK do something similar, but there are plenty of others to chose from in that category.

Go to Loch Lomond when the sun peeps out at the weekend for more than 30 seconds.

You'll see lots of those being ragged about by men in Oakley sunglasses and polo shirts, desperately trying to shrug off their working class Glasgow roots 🙂

(real mariners sail 😉 )

And for 10k less, you could have this;
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Dual fuel conversion. Tower, with sound (no lights sadly). Hmmm. Nice.

Although I'd really like a Nautique Super Air 230. And a Merlin Rocket. And a Stone's built Salcombe Yawl. And Maltese Falcon. And a J-Class. Any of them. Oh, and a big sail cat.

Power boats imo are fun for 10 minutes then get boring very quickly.

Though sailing does look more interesting.

Sailing doesn't really get boring as you're always doing something, much prettier too. As Flashy says, Yawls and Merlins ftw. There in 4 weeks 😀

As Flashy says, Yawls and Merlins ftw. There in 4 weeks

Give my regards to Millbay. 🙂

And the Fightescue.
And the Ferry.
And the ice cream.
And Stones.

*Smiles wistfully at happy memories. I remember when there were chandleries, not champagne bars.*

3 weeks in EP, keep the boats on Mill Bay. The area seems to have stayed pretty similar for the last few years, other than the price of houses. Is the riding as minimal as it looks? Coast path looks alright as far as Gara Rock, then gets too high and narrow for my liking...

other than the price of houses.

If only we'd kept the family haunt down there. Would be worth a truly scary amount now! I hardly ever go back now. It's changed too much for me. Makes me really sad. 🙁 I miss the way it was. The closest I can get to that now is to stay with friends on the Helford down in Cornwall. It's got the quiet, relaxed, sailing focus that Salcombe used to be about. Oddly, even though their neighbours include that drummer fella from Queen (Among others. Rather odd to cook mackerel on the bbq, look up as you serve it to one of the neighbours and see him there, as I did a few summers ago!) there isn't the influence of the money on the place as much as there is in Salcombe. The Helford still feels like a place to sail, fish, swim and relax.

The riding is indeed minimal. You can take the coast path (Even though it's "cheeky" in the STW parlance) as far as Gara, but as you say, beyond there it gets a little bit rubbish. To be honest, leave the bikes. Embrace the boats.

That's crap, you need one like Mine Games at least...

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Will be taking the bikes for some Dartmoor stuff, but boats are the main focus. Seems to be getting very Chelsea-on-Sea now, a bit like the Abersoch of the south, which is a shame. Hard to beat chugging up to the Millbrook or the Globe for the evening though, with no wind and still sunny and warm. I want a launch of some sort for such journeys, especially if it's steam. The sound of the lifeboat going out is pretty awesome, especially when they release 1000hp over The Bar.

Hard to beat chugging up to the Millbrook or the Globe for the evening though, with no wind and still sunny and warm. I want a launch of some sort for such journeys, especially if it's steam. The sound of the lifeboat going out is pretty awesome, especially when they release 1000hp over The Bar.

I'm welling up here. So many happy memories!
My family funded the RNLI very heavily, mainly through collecting money for boat passes on the beach.
Listening to them going out, I remember every time the maroon went up thinking, "For those in peril on the sea!"

And then, the Millbrook......

I remember gunning back from there late one night, on flat water, with a Mercury 75 at full chat and having the Harbour Master pull me over for a chat.....! Got away with it. 🙂

Boat ID Hijack...

Whats this boat ?

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PS I dont reckon it's a Severn Trow.

PS Grandfather, Great and Great Great were Lifeboat men at Weston Super Mare. I've some great phots, off to dig them out.

Wehey , melges 24`!!

Harbour Master doesn't really seem bothered after about Half 7, or seems to leave Southpool Creek alone, rarely see them floating about after about 7. No Maroons anymore, I was gutted when I found out. Makes more sense to use them IMO, people then know they'll need to get out of the way at some point. The view from the cottage we stay in isn't waterside, but sitting up at the car park in EP on a summer evening isn't far off perfection.

Mine was after 2200. With only a Maglite held in my hand to light the way (Removing a hand from the throttle... 😳 )

For a view, the terrace at the family pile in EP, after the grockles had gone home, was beyond compare. Looking down the estuary, just beautiful. I miss it so much. 🙁

Well that's a bit silly... Some of the boats down there are mental. A RIB with 2x300hp engines is a bit OTT, sounds fairly cool though.

I was a bit silly back then. In my salad days, when I was green in judgement.

Twin 300s is just showing off. If I was there now, my boathouse (We had one, on the beach) would be the following;

A Laser. Classic plaything.
A Topper. Best learner boat. EVER!
A Dory of some description. Land Rovers of the estuary. Workhorses, not glamorous, but to be used as a "car" to get around the estuary and to do the shopping, etc.
A Stone built Yawl. Obvious, really.
A F16 Catamaran. FUN!
A Super Air or similar wakeboard plaything for those rare days when the water beyond The Bar and Wolf Rock was calm enough.
Oh, and then this, moored somewhere up by the ICC.
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mmmmm, J class? Lovely.

She's truly beautiful, isn't she?

Mine wouldn't be too different, probably:
Laser
Pico
Laser Bahia or similar
Soling - rolls a bit but impossible to capsize
one of those orange dories for getting around, great boats.
A Sweden 42 moored up somewhere, just for being subtly extravagant, 300k a pop 😯

CF, that's a truly beautiful boat! By EP, d'you mean East Prawle?

Portlemouth, not Prawle, for me!

Fishing boat 😀

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These, X One Design. I'm currently in X118...

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Miss this...

What a beautiful boat.

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I've windsurfed for years.. Often whilst taking a break I'd sit and watch the sailing.. 'God awful boring pastime' I would always think.. Then the club threatened to take my boatpark space away as I didnt have a boat, so I bought one.

I should never have decided to have a go in it. It really is the most fun you can have on the water. When the wind is blowing, the buzz is equal to anything I've ever experienced MTBing.

Absolutely love it.

Tacking up to the Rock, past E Portlemouth...

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I meant Portlemouth rather than Prawle, but Prawle does have the shop and the pub, which may be why Portlemouth is very quiet in the evenings, even during summer.

Elzorillo, that must be one of the most beautiful sailing craft ever built! Just stunning, seeing a picture like that can genuinely make me a little teary. (Sniffle).

Should have thought of East Portlemouth, that'll be around here, then:

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CZ, that's the scruffy end of it, but yes! 🙂

Bikebuoy's pic is of the right end of EP.

It's certainly the scruffy end! But a good vantage point for a pic across to Salcombe. That was taken last year, I was staying round in Beesands and exploring along the coast a bit. EP is nice, but I like the pub in E Prawle a lot, very nice beer!
Having said that, the Cricket in Beesands does exceptional food, and excellent beer too.

Can't beat the Ferry Steps Pub in Salcs...

Rockets on the startline at Salc's..

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And my faves.. Nat 12's.
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Whooo hoooo.. typical conditions...
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Ohh, if we are on nice boats...
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God a Tempest..!! Last time I saw one of those it was whattzhiname at Alverbank Sails on the stick at Carsington way back when..

I'm not a sailing person, but I love sail and sailing boats. Thanks all for this thread, I'm enjoying it immensely.

Count, how about a little more sailpron for you?

Provi
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Hoshi
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And now, let's get really dirty....

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Velsheda and Windrose, chasing Ranger

And, going modern;
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The Maltese Falcon.

Aye, Tempest. 24sq m upwind and nearly 50sqm downwind 8)
Gets hairy between two of you.
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Can we have an ocean edition?
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Only if we have some multi-hull action as well
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One of my dreams it to have a go on one of those proper huuuuge multihulls at speed....

proper huuuuge multihulls at speed....

l'Hydroptère, perhaps?
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Oh, and how about combining two of my favourite things. Wakeboarding and sailing....
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Tell me the opening scene of Brossard overtaking here is not breathtaking?

I'd love to have been in the bar after that little regatta! WOW!

I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to sail, I love gaff-rigged boats, for some reason, and Norfolk Wherries and Thames Barges I really love, but l'Hydroptère? OMG! That's really something, and Hoshi, and in particular Velsheda and Windrose; fabulous! Thank you for posting those. I have a book that I bought cheap in a bookshop in Bath that specialised in seconds called the [i]Big Book Of Sailing[/i], a large format hardback full of classic b&w photos of big J-Class racing yachts under full sail. It's a wonderful book, full of fantastic, classic boats. Lovely stuff. I'm just going to grab a handfull of tissues... 😯

I've just dug the book out, and it's called [i]The Big Book Of Sailing[/i], by Grube/Richter, published by Barron's, New York, ISBN 0-8120-5324-9.
I've photographed this pic, from 1903, of [i]Reliance[/i], which beat [i]Shamrock III[/i], Sir Thomas Lipton's boat, in the America's Cup:

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Beautiful yacht.

This is a double-page spread from the book. The large photo is of Lord Dunraven's boat [i]Valkyrie III[/i], which carried 13,000 sq.ft of sail on her mainmast alone! She was launched in 1895. Stunning vessels, for me, these are just about as perfect as a sailing boat gets.

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I think Valsheda was down there last year when we were around, can't be sure though. Apparently, Salcombe gets some exotic visitors. Have a look at the animal at the bottom of the sign...
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A gorgeous yacht we saw going out a couple of years back
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Some more gorgeous Yawls
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A Musto Skiff having a play in the estuary,a bit quick to be in the estuary in the summer IMO, looks fun though.
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J Class
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18ft Skiff for being absolutely nuts...
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I saw this little beauty in Salcombe a couple of years ago when I first stayed in Beesands, after around thirty years absence from the area:

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I spoke to the lady sailing her, and she's an almost exact replica of a 1930's boat, the hull's glass fibre, the mould taken from a wooden original, but all her fittings are teak and brass. The first thing I thought on seeing her was 'Swallows and Amazons!', and by a strange and spooky coincidence, the owner's a member of the Nancy Blackett Trust, who own the boat of the same name; Arthur Ransome's boat on which he wrote [i]We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea[/i], and on which the [i]Goblin[/i] in the book is based.

Sambob, I think big cats and baboons can probably be lumped in with kangaroo as pretty exotic visitors as well!

Ah, well if you want trad(ish), then you may like my boat at work 8)
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_outandabout/7184593635/ ]Drascombe Gig[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/matt_outandabout/ ]matt_outandabout[/url], on Flickr
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Not bragging honestly, but since this is going down the ooooh ahhh route..

I did the first cowes week on this: Basilica Extreme 40 with James and Alistair (I'm a member of HISC) this was before it became the iShares series. Thats us out in Hayling Bay doing some promo shots.

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And had a go on this when we did an event in Lorient;
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The Ez40 was by far the hairyest boat I've been on.

'Boat envy'

This is the only downside to owning a boat.

Still on the sailing theme.. 15 minutes of pure relaxing bliss.. Whack it on full screen and take in the amazing sights..

Matt, she's lovely, and Bikebuoy, that Ex40 is awesome!

Slight hijack; anyone want to buy my gf's parents houseboat? (converted Dutch barge and blooming gorgeous it is too!). Details here: [url= http://www.jjfoxproperty.com/PropertySaleDetails.aspx?bl=src&PropertySalesID=1475 ]http://www.jjfoxproperty.com/PropertySaleDetails.aspx?bl=src&PropertySalesID=1475[/url]

A little bit of powerboatpron, anyone?

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Hmmm. Tasty! A Riva Aquarama.

A little bit of old school British muscle?
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Fairy Swordsman. (Needs a quality hand on the throttles there, I'd say!)

And, HSL102. Saw her in the flesh the other day for the Jubilee. What a wonderful blend of beauty and beast.
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*has boat-play envy at bikebuoy*

I just have boatplaypron envy! 😯

Amused/intrigued by the Salcombe Yawl love-in. The girlfriends parents have one (Stones built, I think) but it lives in Suffolk on the Deben these days. We spent some of today getting it off the trestles and back on the trailer ready for launching later this week.

Nice river the Deben, friends have a Najad at Waldringfield. Just nice boats Yawls, cost an absolute fortune for what they are though.

Here's one of my old ones:

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(And some EP:

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Hmmmm, Fireball! Old school cool!

Yawls* are a wonderful thing. Race hard and cruise leisurely in one boat. Also, lovely to look at. For a large part of my early days, I grew up on the Estuary so they'll always be special to me.

*Any other version just isn't a Yawl, IMHO. 😉

It is a Stone's built yawl - I can't remember whether it was built by Hugh Cater before he moved to Bantham, but I think it might have been.

We also used to sail from Bantham in my grandfather's yawl (either 52 or 54), which had an inboard Turner engine - apparently they built her as a test, and then decided "Never again!"

The boat I really miss is our old Bantham boat; for anyone who's heard of them, she was one of the first 4 built, and had the original bamboo mast and spars, and the copper buoyancy tanks. We used to race her against the yawls in the handicap races at Bantham, and she was quite a handful. Hugh Cater was banned from racing her because he always won, and the people we sold her to had to get a smaller suit of sails made because she was too much for them!