Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2016 i Motor Boat & Yachting

On Twitter @mbytimeinc On Facebook motorboatandyachting SUBScRIBe Now & SAVe See Page 97 i’ve always been a fan of chris-craft’s boats and the Launch 36 we’ve tested on p56 of this issue is right up my street. fast, stylish, beautifully built and surprisingly practical, it’s pretty much the perfect boat for someone with a holiday villa in the Med, who needs a big open weekender for lazy days afloat with friends and family. Unfortunately there are roughly 400,000 reasons why i’ll never be able to afford one, which makes Phil Badder’s story of buying a second-hand chris-craft concept 27 for £12,500 all the more appealing (p63). His real stroke of genius was smartening it up with a vinyl hull wrap in chriscraft’s latest colour scheme, and adding contemporary upholstery and…

Cowes project complete 17-month breakwater build paves way for new Isle of Wight developments Cowes Harbour will have much better tidal protection this winter, after contractors Boksalis Westminster announced that it has completed the rock armouring on the new Cowes breakwater. What’s more, the steel docking piles have been removed and five navigation beacons have been installed to help skippers spot the new 350-metre long obstacle, which is built from 45,000 tonnes of rock. The project will now be reviewed and examined against ABPmer’s modelling programme to develop a new sustainable dredging management plan for the Medina Estuary. The construction of the Cowes breakwater will allow further development of the harbour, with a new marina due to be built in East Cowes in 2016/17. Harbourmaster Stuart McIntosh said: “This new…

“I’m not suggesting that any of these tactics: buoyancy aid, lifejacket, survival suit, or nothing at all, is either right or wrong “ Last month, one of our readers, Steve Walker, admonished me for not wearing the crotch strap on the lifejacket that I’d trialled for our Tried & Tested pages. And he was quite right to do so. Although in certain circumstances a case can be made for or against wearing a lifejacket at all, if you are going to wear one, then the crotch strap is essential to its effective workings. If you remain unconvinced, just watch this startling RNLI video (bit.ly/1iAoWeu). Anyway, Steve’s censure made me revisit notions of safety afloat. All told, it’s a complex and not altogether logical mix of personal experience and a subjective…

Email: jack.haines@timeinc.com HIGHLIGHTS ? Great use of deck space ? Incredible saloon glazing ? Three cabins, two heads Sealine F530 This will be the largest Sealine built since Hanse took stewardship of the British yard and, if what the Germans managed to squeeze on to the smaller C330 is anything to go by, the 530 will be stuffed with clever features. Sealine has once again employed the services of British designer Bill Dixon to sprinkle his packaging magic over the F530’s blueprint and you can see the likeness to the wonderful S330 in the shape of the upright bow and the rakish hull windows. There is real thought in the deck spaces where the flybridge supports attach directly to the bulwarks giving you more protection as you make your way…

“It was another sunny day, at least until late afternoon. We’d have been fine if we’d not detoured to see the dolphins and got caught in a monsoon on the way back “ That’s it – I’m selling the boat and giving up boating. My first full season afloat and it’s been rubbish – mainly due to the consistently poor British ‘summer’ (in inverted commas because it wasn’t really a summer at all, was it?). It got off to a vaguely promising start in April – the day I launched Smuggler’s Blues was near perfect; blue skies and calm seas. An omen, I thought. Since then, apart from the odd snatched day it has been one long painful slog to try and plan around strong winds or rain showers or…

MBY ’SFLEET NORDHAVN 46 ENVOY LAURIE CRANFIELD, the Med AQUASTAR EXPLORER 67 ROMA BOB THOMAS, Port Solent, UK PRESTIGE 500S BREAKING BAD NIGEL PICKIN, Port Hamble, UK FAIRLINE SQUADRON 78 MATCH II JOHN WOLF, Antibes, France BÉNÉTEAU SWIFT TRAWLER 34 BLUE’S AWAY JACK HAINES, Marina de Portimão, Portugal DUCHY 27 ALCHEMY PHYLLIS ROCK, Yarmouth, 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 CLASSIC WOODEN LAUNCH ISABEL II HUGO ANDREAE, Poole, UK PRESTIGE 500S BREAKING BAD NIGEL PICKIN, Port Hamble, UK NORDHAVN…

Email: mbynews@timeinc.com Fairline fights for a fresh start Boatbuilder calls in turnaround specialist to restructure the business Fairline has appointed a turnaround specialist to try to revive the yard’s ailing fortunes, following its surprise acquisition by British investment firm Wessex Bristol back in October. The KSA Group is proposing Fairline enters into a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) with its creditors in order to restructure its debts and return the yard to profitability. Although Fairline is not thought to have any major outstanding bank debts, it does owe significant sums of money to many of its suppliers. As the name suggests, a CVA is a voluntary arrangement setting out new terms for payment that must be agreed by 75% of the company’s creditors by value within a month of the proposal…

PETER CUMBERLIDGE: How better to while away the long winter darkness than with some pleasant daydreaming and virtual shopping of life-changing craft? “So as 2015 draws to a close, here I am drooling over tantalising, artfully composed photos and descriptions, which seem perfectly to match my ideas “ At this time of year, when the days are short and chill, you can’t help dreaming a little – especially about boats. Without even realising it, I find myself browsing classified ads and brokers’ pages, just to see what might reasonably be afforded. The answer is usually not that much, yet sometimes you come across a classic ‘gentleman’s motor yacht’ for sale at an almost manageable price, perhaps with some careful downsizing ashore. Many folk fantasise about living on a boat and…

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 Power to the people If your readers are looking for a fun way to make the most of their boating and meet some new friends they may be interested in joining the Pathfinder Powerboat Club. The club, based on the South Coast and affiliated to the RYA, has been running for over 20 years, and its members own and crew all types of powerboats, from fast ribs and cuddy cabins to larger sportscruisers. Membership is £40 a year, per boat, and is open to experienced and novice boaters of all ages including families.…

The shoulder-shrugging French lock-keeper speaking with just a soupçon of Inspector Clouseau’s accent had a point. “Monsieur, your bateau is too aiy to go under zee bridge. You have to go back.” From where I’m standing on the fl ybridge of our 56-foot steel trawler yacht Nomade, there definitely looked to be no way in a month of Sundays that its 11.1 foot high upper extremities would shimmy under the supposedly 11 foot high bridge at the lock entrance. We were in the sweet French village of Thaon les Vosges, in the Lorraine region of north-eastern France, miles from civilisation. And we were stuck. Before we’d set off on this grand adventure, heading from the English Channel to the Med using the labyrinth of French canals and rivers, we’d been…

Keeping things on the level Humphree takes the zero-speed fins story a stage further with its new integrated trim and stabiliser system Just when you thought that the gyro versus fins debate might finally reach closure, yet another new stabilising system is announced. This time it comes from Humphree, the manufacturer of high speed interceptors. This Swedish company has combined its existing interceptors with new zero-speed fins. A cynic might argue that this development is not new, as it has always been possible to combine any of Humphree’s five basic interceptor systems with another manufacturer’s fins, or with a gyro instead. And doubtless those combinations would deliver a sophisticated boat control system. The big difference with Humphree’s system is that the myriad functions are all under the control of a…

Email: chris.jefferies@timeinc.com i n a s s o c i a t i o n w i t h 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 2001-PRESENT, FROM £139,000 Stevens 1180S A generously proportioned Dutch steel boat for those who prioritise comfort Most Dutch steel boats are the polar opposite of a massproduced GRP cruiser and the Stevens 1180S is no exception. Built in low volumes by the Smelne yard in Drachten on a semicustom basis, the 1180S is a displacement boat that champions comfort and space over speed. Launched in 2001, the 1180S was part of a range of Stevens motor yachts with the suffix -80, which denotes that its…

Usually we spend months poring over brochures, looking at countless boats and insisting on several sea trials Carole and I have been Princess owners for many years, enjoying our boats in their home marina of Chichester, despite living in North Yorkshire. We generally cruise in the Solent but also to the Channel Islands and Brittany. Our V53 is now eight years old and we were considering a change but were undecided as to what we wanted to replace her with. This had been our first sportsboat after years of flybridge boats and we’ve definitely become accustomed to the comfort of having a big boat. The fact we can get out on the water and not get wet is a real bonus! We’d been looking at options but couldn’t decide on…