good morning cara, this is the boat of a friend. I'm crewing and standing about on deck looking gorgeous for the trip. That's my dual role.
The boat is a new build for my friend. She choose the options, of which there are many. It is about 2 years in the water. It's a Piper 15m.
I prefer this layout internally to others I am in regularly, drinking, eating and standing about. I think what makes this one feel better inside is that she chose the larger portholes and also, the walls are white. It's a very different feel to others that I've been in.
It's a very lovely boat. But, as with all boats, there's a complaint list. My friend thinks it's heavy and too soft. We went through a bitch list yesterday. I most certainly don't like the way it stops, - if you put the brakes on, and it thinks it's too much for it - the bloody engine cuts out - automatically. Not the smartest idea I've seen. We did one emergency stop back a couple of weekends and omg, what a fuss it put up. There was a noise akin to a 747 landing in the back room, a giant puff of smoke that came wafting along the boat - then, 'silence'
gessus, who invented that system.
it wasn't a problem for us because it was an old fisherman with a limp who moved about as quickly as a depressed snail, hurrying to retrieve his fishing line which he had lovingly set out 2/3rds of the way across the bloody river, so, not a life threatening situation. But, if somehow an alien spacecraft landed 20 metres in front of you - you would indeed, not be able to avoid an alien bum probe. She also complains about the engine being too small. But, for stopping, it wouldn't matter if it was 1000 hp, if the bloody thing shuts down automatically.
Living wise, it's lovely. She talks about having the second bathroom, bottom of the stairs from wheelhouse to saloon, somewhere else and would like the forward cabin, which the Pinto crew inhabits, it's a partition lock off - a concertina door system, she would prefer a dedicated second cabin, but, I don't know if that's possible in a practical way in 15 metres.
15m
30 tons
all mod cons
redundancy heating - central and the Reflex (skipper likes the Reflex, warms the place nicely, silent and sends warmth up the stairs into the wheelhouse). We had it running yesterday morn and this morning.
have to go, hope the above makes sense - Captain Bligh has just issued an order.
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