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I think you'll find the standard Fry vic was 1100kg dry weight hull. I see this one weighs in at 1200 kg
Here is the review from Boatsales if anyone is keen to read: http://www.boatsales.com.au/editoria...t-review-57914
Is the new weight claimed to be what Fry used to build them out as?
I think you'll find the standard Fry vic was 1100kg dry weight hull. I see this one weighs in at 1200 kg
Note that the Vagabond had two 140HP four strokes on the back instead of the usual two 115HP two strokes as fitted back in the day. Performance numbers will be interesting to see.
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Kind of sad to see a $100,000 plus boat has the rod holders held in with self tappers? if I read it right, and the mention that the anchor is not so easy to use through the cabin, and it was wet, even in the lee side! To my thinking, if a paid advertiser mentions these things, then they are "issues" now before I get pelted with rocks, I have never seen one, don't intend buying one, or am I comparing to something else, it's just what I read in the link, so let's get that straight first up.
Hang on, just re-read, and the rod holders are "tapered" in?? Whatever that means.
Come on Noel you know you want one.
http://www.cootacraft.com.au/products.php?prod_id=6
http://www.cootacraft.com.au/products.php?prod_id=2
Isnt there some irony that Haines main competitors for this boat type worked on the designs from the Haines 565 days in the 1980s and just kept improving them and refining them,and now Haines have come back? I have an old 565 and by chance was up at Mallacoota this year and went to talk to Mark at Cootacraft...these are beautifully built boats for their intended purpose.
DO NOT DISRESPECT the Seafarer dude!!! You will be hunted down!!! HahaOriginally Posted by Noelm
fruit salad is the new Bacon
Good to see you have learned your lesson.....I think
thats a pretty big turd!😀
I think you were right in your first post. It says "self-tapered" in place. The proof reader must have missed that spelling mistake.
Anyone who spends 6 figures on a 5.9m half cab won't care about self tappered Rod holders because of the rocks in their head. They will care about the flowcoat finish - they'll want moulded floors and inners for that price. Rediculous out of touch boat builders
Wow, if you said that was a Northbank 600C I would have agreed
Ironic as I have always thought that the 600C was based on the old Victory in this class
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I think you read right the first time in relation to the rod storage rack Noel - not that there is anything wrong with self tappers into fiberglass if it's done right - nearly every transom mount transducer in the country on a glass rig is held on with them. If it's been done so as to avoid any protrusion into the side pocket for stuff to get caught on I don't see a problem. If however the reviewer picked up on it because the screw threads were protruding into the side pocket then it is down right shoddy workmanship. The access forward through the cabin - he mentions the fact the Victory has a low profile cabin in the first paragraph of the "Design and Layout" section - can't have it both ways and as to the spray - to put your statement in the reviewers full context - "We weren’t 15nm east of Bermagui or south of Portland, but we were smashing into rubbish seas on the lee shore of Port Phillip Bay where, I will tell you, it was ordinary." I find the review refreshing and honest. Nothing makes me laugh more than a report from a reviewer of a 6 or so metre boat in any sort of sea where the claim of " regardless of direction travelled, not a drop of water made it to the screen". If anyone has such a boat, please let me know.
I have never read a bad review on any boat in any magazine/website that sells advertising.
I haven't been over a new Seafarer yet, but I don't see any improvements over the pre 2007 model. Looks like the same boat, but now with self tappers at no extra cost. This is like Holden bringing back the VC Commodore, but made even cheaper.
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