Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2015 i Motor Boat & Yachting

On Twitter @mbytimeinc On Facebook motorboatandyachting SUBSCRIBE NOW & SAVE SEE PAGE 91 Hard to believe it but a year has now passed since our sister magazine Motor Boats Monthly published its final issue. i promised at the time we would try to embrace the best of its content while acknowledging that it would take a while to do. Twelve months on and most of those changes have bedded in nicely. MBM’s former technical editor nick Burnham is writing regular features for us on used boats as well as his entertaining column on running his own small cuddy cruiser. Our new boat coverage has grown to include a number of more affordable craft and our cruising content has shifted more towards home shores without ignoring our many Med-based readers. However,…

Bid to bring QE2 home Iconic 1,000ft ocean liner could return to the UK Politicians in Scotland are looking into whether they can return the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner to the place where she was built. The near 1,000ft vessel is moored in Dubai and, if various media reports are to be believed, is falling into a state of disrepair in the humid climate. It is a state of affairs that has roused Stephen McCabe, the leader of Inverclyde Council, and others into action and led to calls for the Scottish government and people of influence to explore ways to try to bring the QE2 back to where she was built and launched in 1967. Following some lobbying to Fergus Ewing, the Scottish government’s tourism minister, representatives of Scottish…

CONTACT MBY Email mby@timeinc.com Write Motor Boat & Yachting, 110 Southwark Street, London SE1 0SU STAR LETTER WINS A BOTTLE OF PUSSER’S RUM! The official rum of the Royal Navy Association and the Royal Navy Sailor’s Fund Impulse shopping I’m a man of the sea and love all boats, power or sail. I have a small dinghy that I sail with my three- and five-year-old children, then to get the adrenaline going I sail a single-handed asymmetric catamaran. Two years ago we purchased our first family motor boat; a 2005 Crownline 250CR. We went along to Southampton Boat Show this year for a browse and for my wife to check out an Aquador 27 HT. Genuinely, we were only going for a nosey, but an hour into the show and the…

“We saw several cruising motor yachts there this summer, enjoying the traditional Breton atmosphere instead of fretting about gale warnings “ The summer of 2015 was pretty dismal for home waters cruising. I don’t know what happened to the jet stream, El Niño or the new Met Office computer, but I can’t remember such a relentless procession of lows marching up-Channel to disrupt so many passage plans. Yet there can be compensations. When holed up by weather, I’ve always been a fan of diving inland if possible to explore an interesting river or creek. There’s plenty of scope for this in the West County and in Brittany just opposite. In August, trying to make short dashes along the north Brittany coast, we saw quite a few large motor boats squeezed…

Recently I have promoted the idea of basing your boat abroad for a season or two, somewhere in France perhaps, or the Netherlands, or maybe one of the Scandinavian countries where the vast Baltic Sea lies waiting to be explored. Keeping a boat away from familiar home waters can add new zest to your cruising, opening up interesting places you might never have considered reaching in a two or three-week holiday. However you needn’t actually go abroad to enjoy this liberating experience. Our fantastic British coastline has a wealth of attractive berths in areas many South Coast boaters may not know much about. In this article I highlight ten British boating bases giving access to some fabulous cruising worlds apart from the popular Channel harbours. Of course even moving your…

“Anecdotal evidence suggests that nowadays just about everybody is asking about their potential new boat’s fuel economy and running costs “ How nice it was to see genuine smiles on the faces of the sales men and women at the Southampton Boat Show. And according to Hugo, similarly ebullient ones at Cannes. Of course, their grins have been visible every year, but since the economic chaos that followed Lehman Brothers’ collapse in 2008, they’ve often been more rictus than rejoicing. This year there seemed to be a sincere optimism. Even the occasional spot of bad weather didn’t seem to dent their collective spirits. In fact, one sales director told me that poor weather was something of an advantage in keeping away the ‘tyre kickers’ but not the serious buyers. I…

SEE THE VIDEO mby.com/v39c Our delivery trip is taking much longer than planned; it’s has already been 16 long days since we left Palma in my newly acquired Princess V39 Cecienne, and we’re barely even halfway back to her new home berth in Falmouth. My crew, a group of longstanding friends with plenty of sea-going experience, have endured a combination of fog, heavy seas, unplanned fuel stops and the occasional diversion to do a spot of sightseeing (and camel riding!), so it means we’ve only made it as far as A Coruña in northern Spain. Ahead of us lies the Bay of Biscay and all that that entails. It looks like we’re in for yet more bumpy rides. April 28 Another hard day – cold, grey, rainy and lumpy, the…

More power to more people In this Southampton Boat Show special, we present a round-up of the best new gear coming to a dealer near you MERCURY Barrus was busy this year with two new Mercury outboard launches. Mercury’s three-strong range of 6-cylinder Verado outboards (225hp, 250hp and 300hp) now has a big supercharged brother, the 350hp Verado. Weighing in at 303kg, it’s claimed that this 350 is 43kg lighter than the nearest 4-stroke competitor. What I can’t verify is the claim of ‘up to 10% greater fuel economy than competitive outboards’, but if so that would be very worthwhile. All three variations of the 350 Verado cost £29,999. However, for a mere extra £10,000 (gulp!) you could have the big daddy, the new Mercury Racing Verado 400R. Although it…

MBY ’SFLEET FAIRLINE SQUADRON 78 MATCH II JOHN WOLF, Antibes, France AQUASTAR EXPLORER 67 ROMA BOB THOMAS, Port Solent, UK PRESTIGE 500S BREAKING BAD NIGEL PICKIN, Port Hamble, UK KARNIC BLUE WATER 2250 BOHEMIAN GIRL HUGO ANDREAE, Poole, UK BÉNÉTEAU SWIFT TRAWLER 34 BLUE’S AWAY JACK HAINES, Marina de Portimão, Portugal JEANNEAU NC14 DIANA JOHN BRUNYATE, Port Solent Marina, UK PRINCESS 67 JENNY WREN MIKE ROTHERY, Sant Carles Marina, Spain CORVETTE 320 FALCONET DAVID MORRISON, Chichester Harbour, UK SELENE 47 HIGH FLYER TESSA TENNANT, Lymington, UK WINDY 37 SEVO HARRY METCALFE, Port Saint Jean, France BAVARIA VIRTESS 42 COUPE SOLENT BEAUTY PAUL THOMAS, Southampton Town Quay Marina, UK GREENLINE 33 SOLAR WAVE DAVID ALLEN, Rossiters Quay, UK NEXTMONTH NORDHAVN 46 ENVOY LAURIE CRANFIELD, the Med DUCHY 27 ALCHEMY PHYLLIS ROCK, Yarmouth, UK FAIRLINE SQUADRON 78 Back on top Retrofi tting a hardtop to…

Email: mbynews@timeinc.com Fairline changes hands New owner hints at big changes for Oundle yard after Better Capital era comes to an end After four years in charge of one of the UK’s biggest boat manufacturers, Better Capital has sold Fairline Boats to another British investment firm, Wessex Bristol. The sum paid has not been disclosed, but has been described as “a modest deferred consideration”. Ayiaz Ahmed, CEO of Wessex Bristol, said of the deal: “We are excited to be adding Fairline to our brand portfolio, building on our successes in the luxury boat market with our iconic Fletcher brand.” Kevin Dady, who was interim CEO at Fairline, said: “We have invested a lot in the turnaround of Fairline and are pleased that Wessex Bristol has taken ownership of the company.…

SEE THE VIDEO mby.com/cn15 Princess 35M HIGHLIGHTS ● Main deck owner’s suite ● Showpiece lobby area ● Spectacular deck spaces There’s much to like about Princess’s new 35M but for all its lavish entertaining spaces, it’s the stairwell that leaves the biggest impression. In most craft, steps are simply a means to an end, but on the Princess 35M they are a feature in themselves. Planted boldly in the middle of an expansive amidships lobby with an elegant curve of cantilevered wooden steps floating up towards the pilothouse and down to the guest cabins behind a wall of clear glass, they speak volumes about Princess’s determination to join the superyacht league. Clean, classy and beautifully executed, they demonstrate a newfound confidence in the yard’s ability to step up from building…

“A local boat repair chappy, we’ll call him Kevin, who had recently set up in the yard reckoned he could deal with the whole issue for about £500 “ Karma – I’m a big believer in it. Do right by the world and it’ll do right by you. Don’t, and it won’t. It’s how the world goes round. A few years ago I heard a tale about how karma bit one erstwhile business man in a quite literally delicious way. A chap I know, we’ll call him Bob for that isn’t his real name, had his Fairline Corniche (not his real boat) hauled out in a boatyard (that shall remain nameless) for the winter and discovered his props were in a sorry state. Seems the anodes hadn’t been doing their…

Like most people I think of Williams as a manufacturer of tenders – very fast, well built, expensive tenders – but tenders nevertheless. So when the factory announced that it was building a standalone sportsboat, I was a little sceptical, particularly when the covers came off at the 2015 London Boat Show and revealed a 520 Sportjet that looked, well, much like every other Williams. Sure it was bigger than the rest of them and had a few nice features such as a convertible aft sunpad, a new 200hp Rotax engine and a more comprehensive helm station, but it was clearly still designed with one eye on the superyacht tender market. The blunt bow, waterjet power, chunky hypalon tubes and folding helm station evolved from the need to make it…

Email: chris.jefferies@timeinc.com in association with COPPERCOAT The strongest copper-based antifouling available with a proven lifespan of 10 years from a single application. To see what our customers have to say visit www.coppercoat.com 2005-2011, FROM £218,000 Nimbus 42/43 Nova Super-versatile Scandinavian sportscruiser packed with practical features Back in 2007 when we first reviewed the Nimbus 42 Nova, we were so won over by it that we dared to ask: “Is this the perfect boat?” My colleague Dave Marsh certainly thought so, venturing as far as to say that this is the boat he’d buy if he had £380,000 to spend. Eight years later, and with prices of used examples now knocking on the door of £200,000, it’s the ideal time to revisit the 42 Nova and its closely related sibling the…

The year was 2001 and my father had just bought a Jeanneau Prestige 36 which he kept on a berth in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. She was perfect for our family of three, consisting of a ten-year-old me and my mother and father. After about a month of idyllic day trips pottering around the coast, my very trusting father gave in to my constant requests to be allowed to drive. Growing up a complete petrol head, I needed to have my hands on the steering wheel at least once. Careful to find a secluded patch of open water, under my mother’s watchful eye, my father and I swapped places so that I was in the driver’s seat. Apart from turning the boat gingerly to port or starboard to make sure I took a…