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14 January 2006, 19:44
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Country: UK - Channel Islands
Town: Guernsey
Make: Pending
Length: 8m +
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 295
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Have your say.
Hi folks,
I was following the thread "Which twin engined...." and Steve G. made the following comment:
"If you really want a tough rugged boat for ploughing through heavy seas, I would say that you should be looking at Excalibur, Redbay, Ribcraft, Delta, Halmatic and even Boomeranger ahead of Scorpion, Revenger, Pascoe and the like."
Pushing this a bit further, which of these would YOU really be glad to be in in really nasty waters?
Looking forward to comments and experiences.
Rupert.
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14 January 2006, 19:56
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Trade member
Country: UK - England
Town: Slinfold, W. Sussex
Make: Parker 750 Baltic
Length: 7m +
Engine: Diesel 270 HP
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 2,296
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Originally Posted by rupert
Hi folks,
I was following the thread "Which twin engined...." and Steve G. made the following comment:
"If you really want a tough rugged boat for ploughing through heavy seas, I would say that you should be looking at Excalibur, Redbay, Ribcraft, Delta, Halmatic and even Boomeranger ahead of Scorpion, Revenger, Pascoe and the like."
Pushing this a bit further, which of these would YOU really be glad to be in in really nasty waters?
Looking forward to comments and experiences.
Rupert.
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14 January 2006, 20:02
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Country: UK - England
Town: Dorset
Make: Boston Whaler
Length: 4m +
Engine: Yam 25
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 1,411
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That just leaves Cookee to praise the Bananashark, the Irish crowd to recommend Redbay and Rougue Wave to tell you what you really want is a 4.7m Searider
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14 January 2006, 20:05
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 12,788
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Ribworker - aka Ocean Dynamics - tough as old boots!!! Made in Pembroke.
No transom on most of them so any water goes straight out the back. Aluminium hulls and jet drive - prob the ultimate for surf etc.
The designer Shaun Whyte really knows his stuff - ran scary white water trips with them through the bitches a few years ago.
Not ALL their boats are ugly either
http://www.ribworker.com/
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14 January 2006, 22:30
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Country: Ireland
Town: Dublin & Enniscrone
Boat name: K'adó
Make: Redbay
Length: 7m +
Engine: Suzuki 300
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 603
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Recommendation
Redbay.
Pedigree is that of tough boat for tough conditions
Very well made with all manafacturing done in house.
Very well designed
Long history of tough weather handling so all problems ironed out.
Very good resale.
excellent backup support.
strong user group.
Redbay people are tough weather people with a lot of experience in RNLI.
Having seen a lot of queries in the past I feel best advice is take all the opinions on board and then go and meet the different manafacturers and go for a test run. Conditions of Febuary/March should help sort out the real from the pretenders.
Best of luck.
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14 January 2006, 22:38
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Helston, Cornwall
Boat name: Silver Fern
Make: Rayglass Protector
Length: 8m +
Engine: 2 x 250hp Verado
MMSI: 235024092
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 811
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Rayglass Protector 
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14 January 2006, 22:43
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: swansea
Boat name: Too Blue
Make: BLANK
Length: 8m +
Engine: Suzuki DT225
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Would also be on my "must have" list - but only the bigger ones - I like "walk arounds"!!!
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14 January 2006, 23:23
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Member
Country: Sweden
Town: Stockholm
Boat name: Osprey & Ring
Make: Osprey & Ring
Length: 9m +
Engine: Plenty
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 854
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Osprey offcourse
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14 January 2006, 23:26
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RIBnet supporter
Country: UK - Wales
Town: Southampton
Boat name: DynaMoHumm/ SRV/deja
Make: Avon8.4, 5.4 & 4.777
Length: 8m +
Engine: Cat3126 Yam 90 &70
MMSI: 42
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 5,760
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That just leaves Cookee to praise the Bananashark, the Irish crowd to recommend Redbay and Rougue Wave to tell you what you really want is a 4.7m Searider |
and after all the nice things I said about you! 
For the real rough stuff I'd be telling you it would be an 8.4 sea rider. Also Tim Griffin hasn't mentioned Sowlints yet as I don't really reckon Jets in big 4.+m choppy seas they are fine in a big swell though
Big searider preferably with a big twin outboard setup
Delta, Halmatic pac29. Cabin ribs Delta and Ocean Dynamics and of course the Eurocommuter
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15 January 2006, 01:10
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: Crusader
Make: Redbay 8.4 Exped
Length: 8m +
Engine: yamaha sterndrive
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 336
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