Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:17 pm
There's loads in my blog, let me see what I can dig out....
Videos....
Here's the engine (excellent reliable lump of a thing, now):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdTQJkO227c
Here she is sailing without the engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jnqwhs2-Sk
Must be a nice boat - it's attractive to dolphins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-vhAzv2Us
Motoring around start point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowO32aAO2g
Our very first sail (in this boat) in very light winds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrazXdU6JY
Images...
Launch day:
viewtopic.php?t=597
Various shots from a short cruise to Plymouth and back over a week or so:
viewtopic.php?t=698
I've bought a new camera and wide angle lens recently so I should be able to get some much better shots of the other cabins over the course of the summer. Basic layout though, inside, back to front:
Very large owners en-suite cabin with 2 berth bed to starboard, single to port, optional infill to make it a very very large triple berth. Loads of cupboards. All made of mahogany. Fitted wardrobe. Multiple drawers. Safe. Wet room with heads, sink, hot and cold water, shower. Standing headroom.
Up two steps to the wheelhouse. L shaped seating area. Comfortable for 4 adults. Plus a stool for a fifth. Sliding doors port and starboard. Sunroof. All open and it feels like you're outside. All shut and it feels like a 360 degree view conservatory. Standing headroom throughout.
Down two steps to the galley/saloon. Optional, lowering, large table with U shaped seating area opposite the galley. For 4 adults VERY comfortably to have a meal, or 5 slightly less so, without being in the way of someone in the galley at all. We've got the table in storage and use this as a chill out room instead of for dining specifically. We've also installed a Faversham stove which burns smokeless coal very nicely and can make this room very very cosy on a chilly night. The galley is a new Plastimo double hob/oven on gimbals, large sink and a 12/240 auto fridge. New immersion heater/calorifier tank under seating. Table lowered this whole area turns into another double berth if you wish - again without impeding galley access.
Walk forward through a sliding door which you can close behind you to make the forward area into a double en-suite guest cabin. Very generous V berth. Nice heads room.
All mahogany and tropical hardwood throughout.
New, these boats sell for £340k. They're built to the highest quality. So they last. Ours is 35 years old. Hull number 42.
When we were looking at Nauticats for the first time we met Clive Stratton who I think is the UK's main dealer for Nauticat (don't quote me), lovely chap. He told us about a Nauticat 33 from which the occupants were evacuated due to them being too far offshore in the Pacific to make it to safety fast enough to get away from an approaching hurricane. The boat wasn't scuppered (probably should have been really!). After the storm it was found bobbing around, happy as larry. I believe they were designed for Norwegians to sail in the North Sea and Baltic in, year-round.
Ours has a hull specifically designed to be able to break ice. We've not put it to use yet
Let me know if you want more info.
Give us £100k for it and we'll end our summer early!
Videos....
Here's the engine (excellent reliable lump of a thing, now):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdTQJkO227c
Here she is sailing without the engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jnqwhs2-Sk
Must be a nice boat - it's attractive to dolphins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK-vhAzv2Us
Motoring around start point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowO32aAO2g
Our very first sail (in this boat) in very light winds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrazXdU6JY
Images...
Launch day:
viewtopic.php?t=597
Various shots from a short cruise to Plymouth and back over a week or so:
viewtopic.php?t=698
I've bought a new camera and wide angle lens recently so I should be able to get some much better shots of the other cabins over the course of the summer. Basic layout though, inside, back to front:
Very large owners en-suite cabin with 2 berth bed to starboard, single to port, optional infill to make it a very very large triple berth. Loads of cupboards. All made of mahogany. Fitted wardrobe. Multiple drawers. Safe. Wet room with heads, sink, hot and cold water, shower. Standing headroom.
Up two steps to the wheelhouse. L shaped seating area. Comfortable for 4 adults. Plus a stool for a fifth. Sliding doors port and starboard. Sunroof. All open and it feels like you're outside. All shut and it feels like a 360 degree view conservatory. Standing headroom throughout.
Down two steps to the galley/saloon. Optional, lowering, large table with U shaped seating area opposite the galley. For 4 adults VERY comfortably to have a meal, or 5 slightly less so, without being in the way of someone in the galley at all. We've got the table in storage and use this as a chill out room instead of for dining specifically. We've also installed a Faversham stove which burns smokeless coal very nicely and can make this room very very cosy on a chilly night. The galley is a new Plastimo double hob/oven on gimbals, large sink and a 12/240 auto fridge. New immersion heater/calorifier tank under seating. Table lowered this whole area turns into another double berth if you wish - again without impeding galley access.
Walk forward through a sliding door which you can close behind you to make the forward area into a double en-suite guest cabin. Very generous V berth. Nice heads room.
All mahogany and tropical hardwood throughout.
New, these boats sell for £340k. They're built to the highest quality. So they last. Ours is 35 years old. Hull number 42.
When we were looking at Nauticats for the first time we met Clive Stratton who I think is the UK's main dealer for Nauticat (don't quote me), lovely chap. He told us about a Nauticat 33 from which the occupants were evacuated due to them being too far offshore in the Pacific to make it to safety fast enough to get away from an approaching hurricane. The boat wasn't scuppered (probably should have been really!). After the storm it was found bobbing around, happy as larry. I believe they were designed for Norwegians to sail in the North Sea and Baltic in, year-round.
Ours has a hull specifically designed to be able to break ice. We've not put it to use yet
Let me know if you want more info.
Give us £100k for it and we'll end our summer early!