The official ''I am a boat owner and I am better then youuuuuuu'' thread

[Kiteboyza]

I have a boat, it's a green canoe and it goes down the river like stink once a week. I can carry a passenger and still have room for a case of beers and half a dozen pies. I like my boat

[-Olly-]

do you even need to bother with the river bit if you have beer and pies?

[gazxtreme]

I have 2 boats:p

My Hobie 16 gets me going in 4 knots and needs 2 on the trapezes up around 12 knots because it's steaming along. Grin factor:D:D:D:D:D

My Zap Cat complete with Tohatsu 50hp puts a smile on my face in no wind. Racing flat out around a cicuit pulling 2.5G on the turn, jumping clear off waves, wakeboarding, towables. Grin factor:D:D:D:D

I love my boats.

[Kiteboyza]

zapcats, ah so old school I did that in SA many years ago, I think we invented it

 

I have 2 boats:p

My Hobie 16 gets me going in 4 knots and needs 2 on the trapezes up around 12 knots because it's steaming along. Grin factor:D:D:D:D:D

My Zap Cat complete with Tohatsu 50hp puts a smile on my face in no wind. Racing flat out around a cicuit pulling 2.5G on the turn, jumping clear off waves, wakeboarding, towables. Grin factor:D:D:D:D

I love my boats.

[Kiteboyza]

sorry about the poor quality scan as digital had not been invented then;) these were taken around 2002

 

Also done the Trans Agulhas twice, if you know about zapcats you should know about this one;)

Edited August 26, 2010 by Kiteboyza

[Kiteboyza]

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[peter32]

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Boat ive owned with my dad for the past 10 years . re-painted and overhauled last year in Dover

[5N1TCH]

My own bottomless pit....(I've also got a kayak but can't find a photo of it and can't be arsed to go and take one.) Update: Found one

Edited August 26, 2010 by 5N1TCH

[gazxtreme]

QUOTE=Kiteboyza;2206837]zapcats, ah so old school I did that in SA many years ago, I think we invented it

 

I do beleive you're right, I heard they were firstly used for surf rescue in SA then some bright spark decided to start racing them with 50hp engines on the back.

Edited August 26, 2010 by gazxtreme

[PieGuy]

[shrimpo]

Yep, got one

 

Fireball, old school, but fast.

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4930048374_5851c8dc2b.jpg

 

Fun from 5Mph wind up to about 20 mph, then gets a bit much...... so good low wind toy, then the kites come out...

 

Shrimpo

[5N1TCH]

@PieGuy: I take it you mean you like a bit of 'Arry on the Boat?

[redmark]

give me some of that yes btw i will get a pic of my boat up as soon as it is nice

[dbcrx]

Nice. Makes mine look crap. Did have pics online but I've just taken them all off. Will have to get some more tomorrow.

[PieGuy]

@PieGuy: I take it you mean you like a bit of 'Arry on the Boat?

 

What me and my seamen get up to on the poopdeck is our own business.

[Kiteboyza]

hope you have taken the autolube off and cutt the rev limiter.....also look at better reeds in the carbs, stainless cleaver cut and then bent over on a tow hitch..just to get a better bite...the boat i had was a Ceasar, ghad a Gemini before that. the Ceasar has an adjustable nose wing to keep her down into the wind...oh the money i wasted on that boat...ps. fill the fecker with helium, way lighter

[festa]

boyza behave !!!!!!!!!

[gazxtreme]

hope you have taken the autolube off and cutt the rev limiter.....also look at better reeds in the carbs, stainless cleaver cut and then bent over on a tow hitch..just to get a better bite...the boat i had was a Ceasar, ghad a Gemini before that. the Ceasar has an adjustable nose wing to keep her down into the wind...oh the money i wasted on that boat...ps. fill the fecker with helium, way lighter

 

Sounds like you miss yours.

Engine is pretty standard except the steering damper and tiller extension, no intentions of racing, you need very deep pockets from what I know. It's used for the kiteschool safety boat and for light wind fun. It's actually the X-Cat but you get used to telling people it's a Zap Cat cause they know what it is then. What's the thing with the auto lube?

Got to admit that since I got the Hobie 16 I prefer to go sailing, there's just something about using the wind and your skill to read the conditions.

[The Geoff]

I've got a kite and a plank. In UK waters an aircraft carrier has to give way to me unless it's on official blowing-stuff-up business.

 

I rest my case. I've got a boat.

[sgillow]

I have 3 boats, all sailing (racing) dinghies:

 

RS200 - 2 person assymetric spinnaker

Laser - 1 man 1 sail

Scorpion - 2 person symetric spinnaker

 

The RS200 is up for sale if anyone wants it.

 

Simon

[5N1TCH]

Photos please Simon.

 

The Geoff, how many cases of beer can you get on your 'boat'?

[The Geoff]

No idea, never tried, but a camelbak full of single malt would do the job quite nicely

[Kiteboyza]

rumours are going about that Morb is building a new pirate boat

[harry_a]

this would be my beast.. a summer's worth of work and a flogged laser later I bought me an RS700:

 

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it's fast with a capital F. athough putting the spinnaker up invokes death so far. the gybes are a wee bit tricky with only one set of hands

[ukspeedtraps]

I am not quite the owner just yet but get use of it when its in the UK, its my Dads 50 ft yacht called Pepper. Moored in the Gran Caneria in the winter and Lymington in the summer, one day he says it will be mine...

 

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