It's my birthday present to me from me

robin · 06 March 2004, 13:31

Pick her up next week with a bit of luck.

Small but perfectly formed!

Phil Davies · 06 March 2004, 15:48

Cracking little boat, Robin and, significantly, you appear to be the first member of Ribnet to have bought an Evinrude ETec. I'd be very interested to hear your first impressions of the engine once you're water borne - I've been considering getting exactly the same motor for my Searider. As a matter of interest what influenced your decision to go for the 'Rude? Hope you enjoy the new rig

robin · 06 March 2004, 16:54

Cheers...i am an ad' man's dream i suppose 2 stroke performance with 4 stroke economy, 3 year non declining guarantee (which i hope i wont need) no servicing required for 3 years. No run in period required ( i kid you not). Seems to fit the bill. Thought i'd give it a go.
will keep posted re reliability and frugality etc

Thanks re the boat too. she's a beaut.

Surprisingly enough our boats share the same designer which is probably why she appeals!

JCW · 07 March 2004, 16:43

Robin,
Nice boat, I am sure you will have plenty of fun with her.

Regards

JCW (Jason Webb)

Phil Chitty · 07 March 2004, 19:28

Nice RIB Robin.

See you around in the Solent some time.

Phil

robin · 07 March 2004, 19:32

Thanks Phil and Jason. I will certainly be out and about on the 20th/21st
Jason, did you get my email about your aux engine fitting arrangement? Cheeky I know but i would be interested.

JCW · 08 March 2004, 11:53

Robin,
On the 4.8 I use a short shaft 6hp 4 stroke which is mounted directly to the transom. I have a space advantage on my transom as there is no 'A' frame.

Peter (Ribald) had a 4.8 with an 'A' frame, which I believe did not allow for direct mounting of an aux outboard.

On the 5.8 we had an outboard bracket which proved to be unreliable, so we now mount a 5HP (long shaft) 4 stroke directly to the transom. We find it much quicker and easier to use the engine this way, and more importantly it has proved to be a robust mounting method.

robin · 11 March 2004, 20:35

Thanks for that Jason. Hmmm re think required perhaps. May need a sticky out kind of bracket or super deluxe membership of Seastart.
Cheers

EdwardH · 12 March 2004, 05:15

looks great Robin - no-one's going to bump into you anyway are they...?

robin · 12 March 2004, 08:37

Very true. Even at night!!!

steedthrust · 19 March 2004, 08:48

Saw the boat as Robin was picking it up, a real tidy package. Hope you get out on the water this weekend (20/03/04).

Not my birthday until Jan 2005, i like the thinking behind your present to yourself, sod the kids start buying myself toys.

Steve B

Manos · 19 March 2004, 09:31

Very nice boat

Ian · 19 March 2004, 14:05

Robin, look forward to meeting you and your rib this weekend.

robin · 19 March 2004, 18:53

Was nice to meet you Steed, (judging by that nice rib of yours steed you have been out birthday pressie shopping already)
and thanks Ian and Manos we will see how well she goes tomorrow.
I think I will head towards Haslar slip tomorrow.
Not used it before, anyone know how much they charge and whether the parking (car and trailer) is any good or not and is the slipway access all states of tide?

The Jackeens · 19 March 2004, 19:03

Hi robin,

Haslar is free, plenty of parking there also.

its a compacted slip which is useable 3 or 4 hours either side of high tide and well sheltered.

pete7 knows more about it than me as he introduced it to me

boat launch have a good write up on it.

there is a number of other slips on the sea front but in a SWerly are dodgy. At least for me !!!!

Al in my less than humble opion

Paul

robin · 19 March 2004, 19:05

Thank you. Looks okay to me.
See you in the morning.
I am off to sleep on board her now!
Cheers
Robin