IOW, QE2 and RIBEX

Well.... the original plan was for a round the IOW trip, but in the end we just made the trip from Southampton to the Island

(Note I thought these big RIBs were supposed to be dryser than TomKat!)

The famous "Folly Inn" - my first time!

After a "Crew pot" of lamb goulash - back to Topaz for the trip back to Southampton

Whats this we spot departing from Southampton?

Looks familiar....

They didn't have to send her out just to welcome Topaz back:D

The RNLI take a look - but I think that RIBS a bit small for all those passengers;)

Off she goes - New York I expect.....

All the passengers taking a last look at Britain... and its RIB escort...

Nice legs Jono!

and she's out

John (Scubakid) - you can stop fishing now!

Ribex - What TomKat dreams to be:)

Live displays by the Cowes RNLI

RibCraft 5.85 - Hopefully mine won't be long:yawn:

and off for a test run.

So there we go.... Not quite round the IOW but we did make it there

and how many others arrived at RIBEX via RIB?

I gave Jono a lift on TomKat - but come on who else????

Great pics Jools. If you thought it got slightly wet in Topaz just think how wet it would have been on TomKat :eek:

John

But - once your wet, your wet. You can't get any wetter.

TomKat would have been er.... interesting:sick:

in attached pics ? whereabouts etc as it looked very good

that the QE2 turns out to welcome :eek: but the thought of missing the Graeme/Jono/Jools combo was just too good to miss ;).

Only sorry that I wasn't with you all :(

The slip we used was "Crosshouse Hard" in Southampton - a stones throw from RIBEX and Ocean Village Marina.

The page on the new updated boatlaunch website is

http://www.boatlaunch.co.uk/Site_dataPage91.html

I'll post Geoff the pictures of the slip to add to his site.

Good slip - but stick to the middle as that part extends, the sides drop off! - Could clearly be seen at low tide on the Sunday.

Jools

Jools,
How was the Ribcraft 5.85 demo? What were your thoughts on the 115EFI Fourstroke? Have you ordered a similar setup on yours?

To be honest the ribcraft "Sales people" wern't the most helpfull - infact I don't know how they manage to sell any!!

Apart from of course their product! - It looked supurb and very well finished.

I'm buying my Ribcraft through a dealer - the main reason why I went through a dealer was that when I rang Ribcraft to go and have a look at the boats nobody was able to talk to me till the following week - Rang the dealer very helpfull and he took me out for a test drive that weekend.

I wanted to check out the Ribcraft console and seats at RIBEX as the delears boat has his own console and seats in it.

I was very happy with what I saw at RIBEX - High firm jockey seats. I've also now ordered the windscreen to go ontop of the console - should protect the back of the GPS a bit!

So anyway - back to your question - I didn't have a test run at RIBEX - and I'm going for a 90Hp 4-stroke Mercury..... and I can't wait