My Contessa 32 was one of the best boats I ever had. Next came an Oyster Heritage followed by an Oyster 406. The Heritage ended up in Australia and the 406 is somewhere in Greece. Watch ' Gone with the Flo' on RU-vid to see a wonderful young couple sailing the world in their Heritage ' Florence'.
I cannot decide between a Hallberg Rassy, Amel or an Oyster. I just checked my lottery numbers so I don't need to decide anytime soon. Unless someone wants to give me a couple of million for my old Contessa? I'll throw in the dingy!
There was one anchored next to me a couple of days ago. The Cockpit floor is so high. I thought the guy was standing on the seat when I saw them dropping the anchor. That won't be fun in bad weather. Also the boom is really high. If you have a high cockpit floor, you get a high boom. The boat rolls fast at anchor. Not comfortable looking. The rig has very large swept back spreaders. No way you will get that in mast furling mainsail out downwind when trade wind sailing without rubbing on the spreaders. What does the supper wide chainplates and spreaders do for sail choice up wind? You won't be setting a big genoa and making any decent angle. It's also bloody ugly. Not my comment but the wife's. She says they have prison windows. I think she is right. It looks wrong
What I don’t get is why would you not have a hybrid electric system instead of having a big gas guzzling engine to drive the prop and a generator to power the additional electricity requirements What makes way more sense to me is having a small electric motor that puts out the same amount of power is the much larger and heavier combustion engine and replace that white with more battery storage and a slightly larger generator it would be a lot more efficient and Phil have much lower maintenance requirements and if you could use the prop to recharge the batteries while under sale or at least not need to use the generator to power the rest of the electronics it would be even more efficient again Hybrid electric drive trains make the most sense in sailing boats out of any mode of transportation because 90% of the time you’re not using the big petrol engine And also enabled a lot of space saving to be able to make the interior of the boat have more living space and Liz are taken up with the engineering space as well is having a bit of weight distribution thing able to put the mess down lower would even distribution of batteries Laura in the whole of the boat
Electrical equipment under thr floor! Really? Doesn't seem like a great idea. Sump below the grey water tank? How do you get to that? Looks like a very complex boat. Sail drive. Yuck
@@NoWheyHombre aluminium loves to corrode. Big hole in bottom of boat with rubber bellow. Makes it easy for the builder but no benifit for the owner. They won't last as long as the engine so need changing at vast cost during the life of the boat. We see many in bits in boat yards in the Caribbean
@@timevans8223 it was my understanding that saikdrive was just the configuration, not the materials. It's sounds like the positioning and the lack of a long metal bar aren't you're complaints, but shoddy parts and material. Do I have that right?
