Ianfs wrote:Gosh I can remember you posting on the old forum and asking for a trailering service, glad you found a good one.
Yep... like I say, we had Ben at Compass Trailers service the trailer and tow us back. Excellent service, and despite our trailer being on death's door, he bought it back to life. There was none of the usual sharp intakes of breath through the teeth or "well, love, you're going to need new axles, wheels and a hitch - let me just sell you a new trailer instead" crap... he just got on and repaired what was there. All for an excellent price!
You could tell he was a hard worker by the fact that he turned up with his boiler suit clad daughter one Sunday afternoon to sit on our drive and chip away left-over brake pad material from the inside of the brake drums! I did feel a bit guilty when we disappeared off down the pub and left them working
No connection - just super impressed with the no-nonsense service, and very satisfied as a result. A rarity in the boat world - as we've discovered to our cost!
Do you keep her on the water or dry storage?
Keep her dry stacked... hence the 100's of hours spent clearing the hull of anti-foul (all for the reason it just 'looks nicer' when she's on the rack). If we ever sell her (and I can't see how I will ever have the heart to) I think it will be on the proviso that she is never kept in the water again! I couldn't bear the thought of someone slobbering anti foul paint all over her again!!!
Those 19gts's are great boats ... yours looks awesome.
I know I am biased, but I can't agree more. It was our first boat... and I can honestly say she's been everything we hoped for and much more. We've had her for 3 years now, and although we would probably change if we could afford to, it would be with a very heavy heart that we did. Also, whatever we chance to will have to offer a whole lot more to make it worthwhile.
I'm deffo going to get fake teak done on mine now. It looks so much classier than carpet....
I'm so glad we fitted it. Before, we just had white non-slip gel coat on the deck, which meant the slightest bit of dust on your shoe/foot mixed with a drop of spray, lead to a complete mess on deck. Now, you have to go some to make it look dirty. Also, it's soooooo much nicer under foot in bare feet, it's quietened down the boat a bit (I think - though this could be placebo) and it's 100% non slip, where as the non-slip gel coat could still get a bit s lippy at times.
Having spent hours weighing up the options, we went for Isiteek, which is the (not very well publicised) DIY version of Flexiteek. If you're planning to DIY (and it was reasonably straight forward) then I would recommend isiteek over the alternatives. In my opinion, it is by far the best looking. I bought the teak, stelmax glue and saba adhesive from Advanced Marine Decking. It worked out at £100 per sq meter of isiteek, and about £15 per sq meter of gunk to stick it together and stick it down... not not horrific... and decidedly cheaper than getting them to fit it for us!
.. Loving the lighting ... 
