Feeling boaty...
Feeling 32"Nice" but...
32' Yacht, decent beam, twin rudders, decent sized cockpit for her class and built well. Reasonable equipment, Harken hardware mostly, Raymarine ST40 instruments, Volvo 2020 inboard and an ENO cooker. She was, as you can see from the pictures below, very light and roomy for a 32 footer, nice comfy bunks and saloon, good sized head with pressurised water and a shower. She is a 2003 boat, used as a demonstrator in Les Sables d'Olonne and then to Lymington and now here in Southampton. She is, all in all, a new boat, and all the equipment you would need, bar maybe a plotter and heating, to sail her away for £50k; give or take a few quid...
Light, airy and very practical...Sensible huh? I agree, she's very nice. I have, however, a few of "issues" with her. Firstly, she's a light boat, and at 4100kg, she's going to make hard work of any kind of sea in the same way that Neraida does.. better admitted, but not hugely. Secondly, she has a "B" catergory (Regional Craft Directive). So Brussels have decided she should not be on more than 70 or so miles of red tape from a safe haven. Why not? Stability I suspect, but its a concern.
Finally, and its very subjective, is a question of "soul". I.e. she hasn't got one. The interior is good, solid etc etc etc, but it doesn't feel of anything. Then there is her appearance from the outside.. bit bland. The Old Dog (my da') has quite a good comment on this. He would say, "She's not the sort of boat you would stop and look back at when you are rowing home" and i think, in this case, he is right. You'd have a job to spot her for a start, in amongst all the plastic fantastic's out there.
She will make somebody a lovely boat. But not me ta...
*** DISCLAIMER***
The Mate has not visited this boat, she was busy head shrinking this morning, so if she does and likes it, all the above comments are, naturally, null and void.
Finally, and its very subjective, is a question of "soul". I.e. she hasn't got one. The interior is good, solid etc etc etc, but it doesn't feel of anything. Then there is her appearance from the outside.. bit bland. The Old Dog (my da') has quite a good comment on this. He would say, "She's not the sort of boat you would stop and look back at when you are rowing home" and i think, in this case, he is right. You'd have a job to spot her for a start, in amongst all the plastic fantastic's out there.
She will make somebody a lovely boat. But not me ta...
*** DISCLAIMER***
The Mate has not visited this boat, she was busy head shrinking this morning, so if she does and likes it, all the above comments are, naturally, null and void.
posted by Neraida at 11:18 AM
2 Comments:
Old Dogs' views of boats are very often valid. Don't know enough of about Feelings to have an opinion but if you have doubts, whihc you clearly have, the just say pft and move on.
Wot's the mate doing shrinking the heads? They are usually small enough on a boat. And how does she do that?
Cam on James! This is s'posed to be a blog, not a snore! You've been Feeling Boaty long enuf I say! Do give us some more soon, won't you?...
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