It was great to meet up with ColinR Saturday, we arrived at the show just after 10:15 ish. Andy (Sprocker) also went along with his wife, unfortunately we missed you, but hope you enjoyed it. It would have been great to catch up, but we had seen everything and spotted some more boats across the river.
It wasn't a very big show, nothing like the Soton show and I would say not as big as the Sportboat & Rib shows we used to do, but there were more visitors than I expected to see so who knows, it may well get bigger. We were engrossed in conversation about our next boats and spotted this one, a Finnmaster Pilot 7 Weekender and climbed aboard. I have to say the helm seat was very comfortable and it was well appointed. The sales assistant told us this particular boat was £140,000 at which point we gulped, however I've been online and found they are only in the £70k bracket so I think she was a tad mistaken.
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Just as we had finished chatting to the lady from Idealboat.com (the one who didn't know how much they were
) about the Finnmaster, NickT arrived, consequently more boating chat ensued. It was great to meet up with Nick, he showed us around a similar boat to his new one and we could see what he meant about the social aspect of the Cap Camarat. Then attention turned to the Merry Fisher's and a deep boating conversation took place in the fairly spacious cabin of a 755.
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Fairly good sleeping arrangement as well.
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We couldn't work out why anyone would want this, unless you had a big enough swim platform or a garage.
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This was about the size of the show, there were some boats on the pontoon around the corner, we had a nose around the Greenline hybrid, I didn't get any pics though, but it was well built and a cracking idea.
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And then wandering around Clipper Marine's used boat show, we spotted this.......... and the good news is, according to the website, Jorida is under offer.
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Finally we had to climb aboard a very familiar boat for ColinR and as he said, the helm felt very comfortable.
Folding radar arch, oodles of room, fridge on deck, massive head behind the passenger consul, 6.0 L V8 Mercruiser and it's trailerable.
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