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05 June 2012, 15:04
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: N Wales Chester
Boat name: Mr Smith
Make: Humber
Length: 6m +
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 5,238
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Northcraft rib, any views/comments please.
Know nothing about them. Any good?
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05 June 2012, 15:07
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: stramash
Make: Tornado
Length: 5m +
Engine: Etec 90
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 5,090
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Budget craft, some good splashed hulls, poor tube work on all 3 I had ...wouldnt buy another, others seemed to have fared better, my last one had a structural transom failure 2 yrs old and was a boating nightmare
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05 June 2012, 15:42
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: N Wales Chester
Boat name: Mr Smith
Make: Humber
Length: 6m +
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 5,238
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Originally Posted by Bigmuz7
Budget craft, some good splashed hulls, poor tube work on all 3 I had ...wouldnt buy another, others seemed to have fared better, my last one had a structural transom failure 2 yrs old and was a boating nightmare
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Interesting. Might steer clear then.
Anyone else any experience?
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05 June 2012, 16:55
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Country: UK - England
Town: Up Norf
Make: Avon SR4,Tremlett 23
Length: 4m +
Engine: Yam 55, Volvo 200
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 5,217
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Apparently he retubes alot of offshore FRC's.
Apart from Muz's haven't heard any other bad reports?
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11 June 2012, 16:22
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Country: UK - England
Town: knutsford
Boat name: seastig
Make: n/a
Length: 4m +
Engine: 50hp mariner
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 3
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I have recent experience of north craft, I bought a rib with shot tubes but great hull,see my album, at the time I had looked at a rib that had Been retubed .
After deciding to retube my rib, I asked the owner of the newly done one who did it and cost.
He was delighted with his , and I am delighted with mine.
Great to deal with and quality and value too. What I realised is that tubes are hand made and hand fitted ,the boat is hand prepared and so some leeway needs to be allowed for the finished item. All in all a skilled trade well done.
And totally recommended.
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11 June 2012, 16:29
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Country: UK - England
Town: South Yorks
Boat name: Black Pig
Make: Ribcraft
Length: 5m +
Engine: DF140a
MMSI: 235111389
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 11,888
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I had some end cones replaced by them a loooong time ago on my first boat, no complaints & iirc a very fair price.
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11 June 2012, 16:40
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Country: UK - England
Town: Plymouth / Portsmouth
Length: 5m +
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 107
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Our club boat is a Northcraft and is very good. Well made and handles well. My RIB is a Northshore which Im led to believe was the company name prior to Northcraft. Still on original tubes and no problems here. Believe mine is from 1991 so standing the test of time.
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11 June 2012, 16:48
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Member
Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: Thunder
Make: Halmatic Arctic 22
Length: 6m +
Engine: 2 x 150 Etec
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 523
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Had a Northcraft previously, great boat with no issues, was always overloaded with divers and kit.
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11 June 2012, 16:51
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Mighty Penryn
Boat name: Little Joe.
Make: Avon Searider
Length: 4m +
Engine: Honda BF50
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,872
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Originally Posted by GordyP
Had a Northcraft previously, great boat with no issues, was always overloaded with divers.
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There used to be a good vid on here of a Northcraft diving. 
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