http://www.beneteau.com/Barcos-de-motor/Flyer/Flyer-850-Sun-Deck

(For some reason I can’t turn the site into English which I usually can with no problems…)

I would call this type of boat a Play Boat or a Motor Launch etc. but when I Google either I can’t seem to get similar types of boat. Any ideas on what/where to look at to find more?

cheers

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:

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;

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…

My yacht (I wish) by jimmyg352, on Flickr

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 ?

Severn Trow ? by SGMTB, on Flickr

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.

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 😀

These, X One Design. I’m currently in X118…

Miss this…

What a beautiful boat.

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…

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.