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BOAT MART FEATURES BUYING ADVICE SEALEGS 7.1 .................... 22 We put this flagship amphibian to the test DEALER PROFILE ............ 28 Meet the good people at Samspeed Marine NEW BOATS ...................... 31 A special look at Humber’s SportsPro 1000 SUZUKI DF9.9 .................. 32 Irving Stewart puts this new RIB and engine through its paces BUYING USED ................... 36 Everything you need to know about the Recreational Craft Directive WHAT CAN I BUY? ............ 40 The best boats in the £20,000 price bracket GETTING HITCHED ........... 46 Adrian French gets behind the wheel of a Peugeot Partner Tepee TOWCAR AWARDS ............ 50 This year’s best load-luggers go head to head

WHAT CAN I BUY?

LIFESTYLE CLASSIC CORNER ............ 77 Find out how to lay up your classic craft SOUTHAMPTON REVIEW .. 80 All the news from this year’s boat show ANGLING GUIDE ............... 83 Looking forward to a month of fishing

GREEN BOATING .............. 89 Eco-friendly boat cleaning A QUESTION OF BOATS .... 91 How much do you know about boats?

DIARY DATES ................... 93 A preview of the Northeast Sea Angling And Boat Show PRACTICAL TECH TALK ....................... 95 Why it’s important to care for your kit over winter PRACTICAL MONTHLY ...... 98 New kit plus some useful maintenance jobs PRACTICAL BOATING ....... 92 How to handle heavy weather

EQUIPMENT TOP GEAR ......................... 54 Reviews, news equipment and buying advice

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GENERATOR GAME .......... 62 Fancy a bit of onboard power? Don’t part with your cash until you’ve read this guide INSHORE SKIPPER ........... 67 Why boating in France is an option worth considering ELECTRONICS MADE EASY .......................71 Colin Jones looks at alternative power sources for boaters

READER REBUILD .......... 103 Steve tackles the interior of his boat PROJECT NO.96 ............. 105 Our handy guide to laying up your boat BOAT MART REGULARS Throw Us A Line ............... 09 Newsline ........................... 13 Subscribe ......................... 74 Courses .............................. 78 Boats & Yachts For Sale .. 111 Classifieds ...................... 120 Next Issue ...................... 128

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SEALEGS 7.1M

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he Sealegs concept has been going for over five years now, just to confound the early doubters who poo-pooed the combination of a RIB with its own carriage wheels. The intervening years have seen the Sealegs not just prove its worth, but also provide positive feedback on the longevity and reliability of the land legs. The quest for amphibious vehicles has been around since the days of the Vikings, when they used to portage their longboats

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overland on rollers, to save a long passage around a peninsular, there are many instances of these regular portages in Scotland. Military amphibious vehicles have also been part of the defense inventory from the 1939-45 conflict when they played a vital role in various invasions around the world, including, of course, D-Day. There is less need in civilian life, but there is certainly convenience provided by the simplicity of launching, recovery, beaching and storing, especially for those with waterside properties

and their own access to the water. Even if you don’t have the luxury of a boathouse on the shore and you use a park and launch facility, imagine the simplicity not to mention the safety, of not having to hitch up a trailer and run it into the water, then the same again on your return.

Just start the land gear motor and drive off into or out of the water. That is precisely how the Sealegs came to be designed. A couple of wealthy New Zealanders decided they wanted a boat that they could do just that with, so they designed and perfected the Sealegs system.

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SEALEGS ORKNEY7.1M 592 The new, 7.1m version provides greater deck space and seakeeping to provide a wonderfully stable ride and the ability to deal with bigger sea conditions more comfortably by dint of her longer waterline length. It is amazing how much more volume an extra metre of length provides, with the increase in beam and freeboard that comes with it. Don’t be misled into thinking that this is just a stretched version of the 6.1m, it isn’t the 7.1m has been designed from scratch for her length using the same, saltwater corrosion resistant aluminium, 5083 shate. This is the same material, only not as thick as the plate, used in shipbuilding such as fast ferries and warships.

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Sealegs is to be built to a commercial standard of 600 hours per year for 10 years. That kind of usage would see even a heavy a leisure user through for life. The hull is left bare, as aluminium is self protecting with its own coating of oxide and does not require antifouling. The remainder of the aluminium construction is powder coated and customers can specify their own colour, white is the default colour. The aluminium structure makes for a very strong, stiff boat that is inherently lightweight. The inflatable collar is made from Hypalon 828 to complement the rugged build and is fitted so that the last metre or so sits on the water at rest, in conventional RIB format. If you took the wheels off, you would have a pretty conventional, utility RIB made from long

lasting materials and built like a warship, literally.

When I first saw the Sealegs she was sat proudly in the middle of the boat park in Salcombe, gaining admiring glances from passers by and the other boaters. We were awaiting our turn to use the slipway while the other people reversed their trailers down the ramp, floated their boats off and then came back to park their cars and trailers. Our turn came round and Nick just started the inboard motor which powers the fluid drive wheels, set the hand throttle to provide adequate revs and then pressed the joystick forward. The boat gently trundled forward, down the slipway and into the water. At this point the outboard was trimmed down and started. The driven wheels continued to push the boat forward until she

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SUZUKI DF9.9

Irving Stewart puts this new RIB and engine combination though its paces

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lthough all outboard manufacturers constantly strive to produce ever more powerful engines in a bid to gain prestige, kudos, and let’s face it profits, the fact remains that the majority of engines sold worldwide are well under fifty horsepower.

In this less glamorous, but huge market, it has long been agreed that the portability of small engines for use on tenders and other small craft is crucial to their success. With this in mind a “glass ceiling” of around 10hp became a rule of thumb beyond which the weight of the engines generally ruled out most ordinary mortals easily carrying them around and fitting them to the transoms of small boats.

Of course there were always exceptions; as the ultra light and very fast 15hp two-stroke twins from Yamaha and Johnson, for example, aptly proved.

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and at the end of the last century we saw a plethora of engines that would have made the pioneering engineers at OMC and Mercury wince and cry into their beers.

But then politics entered the equation, logic went out the window, and manufacturers opted to follow the complex four-stroke route [as opposed to the light and simplistic two-stroke outboard which had sufficed for over a century since Ole Evinrude first invented it]. Thus some outboard engines reversed the trend and inevitably became heavier.

When initially introduced, the ever popular current crop of 4-stroke 9.9’s, from virtually every manufacturer, hovered around 40kg.

Which as any big dog owner with a sick hound will tell you, is a hell of a handful to carry very far.

So, over the past decade, the battle has been raging to reduce the weight of “portable” engines.

It’s probably not wise, in this particular article, to broach the emotive topic of why we need

to carry around numerous valves, camshafts, chains, and other complex and expensive components when simply fuel injecting a small two-stroke [with its five moving parts] will result in the same [or superior] performance, achieve similar levels of fuel economy and emissions, and provide much reduced engine weight!

WHEN THE BIKE BUILDERS INTERVENED Virtually every major engine manufacturer has four-stroke engines at around 10hp [or 8hp using the same construction] which are within a few kilograms in weight. This is hardly surprising for, apart from internal details, they are virtually identical in concept and the materials employed.

With apologies to Honda who led the four-stroke revolution, we are now seeing a second generation of four-stroke outboards being introduced as manufacturers adopt new technologies and materials [which simply did not exist a decade ago] to replace existing

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models with even more fuel frugal creations.

And so we come to the point of this article, at long last you might unkindly say.

This spring Suzuki announced that they would be introducing a replacement for their existing DF9.9 engine, and also a new DF8 based on a common configuration. Just what they could do to improve performance, and decrease weight, was certainly going to be interesting.

Boatmart was invited to be the first UK magazine to get its hands on these engines and the nice people at Suzuki kindly shipped pre-production examples to Boating Sports in Wales for us to try. In an equally brave display of confidence Suzuki left us entirely to ourselves – not a rep, PR man, or engineer in sight.

Obviously there is very little one can do to improve on any piece of technology that has already reached a pinnacle of design. But as every racing car builder knows – “there’s always something you can do to extract more performance – however small.”

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So what have the wizards at Suzuki done this time? Let’s firstly consider weight…..

Well the most obvious changes are the use of plastics for both the engine hood and the lower casing – so weight saved there.

Then, in line with Suzuki’s far larger engines, similarly advanced composites have been used in the air inlet system and manifolds – so yet more weight saved. As these are completely new designs weight savings have also been made in the precision engine castings, the lower leg, and internal engine components.

In all Suzuki have managed to shave off just over 4.5kg from their existing DF9.9 reducing the weight of a short shaft manual start engine to just 39.4kg [or 87lbs in English money] – shedding more than 10% of the current engine’s weight.

Taking the traditional simple gear lever from the side of the engine they re-positioned it in the form of a twist knob on the front of the tiller arm, together with an additional section of the tiller at the rear to adjust throttle friction. So you now have three moving segments on the tiller arm – quite confusing.

THE TILLER ARM CONTROL

■ Then the gear change: Although this works well its very position may make the fitting of a tiller arm extension over complicated.

But then, for reasons better known to Suzuki’s design engineers, they also decided to re-invent the wheel.

■ Let’s firstly look at the throttle section: As opposed to most engines [and motor bikes] the throttle works away from you [clockwise to accelerate] as opposed to anti-clockwise. This might well cause confusion with experienced boat owners. A similar concept has been adopted by Mercury and Tohatsu but they use a single section twist grip which twists towards you for forward and away from you for reverse - arguably a more logical approach.

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ght e rises above the teens. So we thou before our “What can you buy” pric es seri this in ure feat last the is This t you think unusually good bargains – see wha that we should try and find some This month our budget hits a milestone £20,000, so we thought it might be interesting to bring a little lateral thinking into the equation. Whilst many buyers will be seeking a brand spanking new shiny boat straight out of a showroom others might fancy something larger than the budget suggests, more unusual, or be seeking to get a bargain by buying a craft that’s nearly new and thus saving some hard earned cash.

So, with the help of our ever helpful advertisers, see if anything in this months selection takes your fancy.

ATLANTIS 20

Firstly, we offer you the pretty serious and extremely versatile Atlantis 20 from our good friend Patrick Wheeler of Atlantis Marine in Guernsey. Patrick designs and builds these craft specifically to withstand the utterly horrendous conditions that can spring up around the Channel Islands. All his boats are, to say the least, both fast and furious as well as being extremely safe and tough. For those who want a craft to safely handle all conditions look no further. We’ve been there and can vouch that Atlantic Marine’s boats do precisely “what it claims on the box” and more.

How about an Atlantis 20 CC with Suzuki’s new 80 or a Honda astern at virtually spot on our budget, or, if you can loose the VAT with 150hp on the transom – an awesome and serious machine – BM’s boat of the year 2005.

More info: Patrick Wheeler, 07781 158 514 www.atlantismarine.biz info@atlantismarine.biz

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VIKING 20

What Else You Could Buy… Here are some more boats we spotted in a recent issue for around £20,000.

SECOND HAND

MAXUM 2500 SCR from Boroughbridge Marina - £19,995

Fairline Targa 27 [1988] Next, we offer not only some lateral thinking but a excuse to visit one of Britain’s best kept secrets, Tewkesbury Marina. Here you can discover great boats, relaxed inland cruising, and a direct link to the sea via our greatest river. You could consider a brand new Viking 20 cruiser, the country’s favourite waterborne alternative to a touring caravan, and have enough cash left over for a couple of year’s moorings and a few weekends away with the family, tempting.

But on the other hand, you could browse through the brokerage for a larger classic boat – and an excuse to spend endless relaxed weekends simply “mucking about on a boat.” How about a Seamaster 30 with its legendary vast accommodation or a Fairline Targa 27, which is considered by many to be the most stylish classic Fairline ever built?

The choice is yours – both are within this month’s budget.

More info: Rob Carr, Tewkesbury Marina, 01684 293 737 www.tewkesbury-marina.co.uk

FAIRLINE MIRAGE 29 from Boroughbridge Marina - £19,950 CROWNLINE 8M from Northern Powerboats - £21,995 BAYLINER 2655 from Riverside Boat Sales - £20,950 SANDERSON LADY CLASS from Riverside Boat Sales - £19,995 HARDY 20 with 60hp 4 stroke Marina outboard from Essex Boatyards - £19,950 BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW

STARCRAFT C STAR 2100 with road trailer from Ash Marine - £21,905 YACHTLINE 530 DL RIB from Pennine Marine - £20,878 GLASTRON GT185 from Essex Boatyards - £21,950 QUIKSILVER 580 PILOTHOUSE from Simpson Marine - £19,300

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Finally, we couldn’t resist mentioning a couple of absolutely stunning offers from our old friends at Littlehampton Marina, who are Larson specialists. They frequently have on offer almost new Larson craft offering considerable savings over a new ex-showroom model these are stunning deals. For example a 2008 Larson Senza 186 (identical to the 2009 version) with a 4.3-litre stern-drive, on a trailer, at a penny under this month’s budget is truly tempting. If you want fun afloat and want to impress your friends a Larson is certainly a good way to go.

More info: Nick, Littlehampton Marina, 01903 713 553 www.larsonboats.co.uk

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■ Boroughbridge Marina Ltd: 01423 323400 / www.bbmarina.co.uk ■ Ash Marine: 01392 877800 www.ashmarine.co.uk ■ Northern Powerboats: 0114 2611222 www.northernpowerboats.co.uk ■ Pennine Marine Ltd: 01756 792335 www.penninemarine.com ■ Riverside Boat Sales: 01692 631170 www.riversideboatsales.co.uk ■ Essex Boatyards: 01702 258885 www.essexboatyards.com ■ Boating Sports: 01686 414814 www.phileas-uk.com Simpson Marine: 01273 612612 www.simpson-marine.co.uk Please note offers and prices are subject to change.

Pictures are representative only and may not be the actual boat for sale.

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TOP GEAR

ENGINE NEWS � KIT & ACCESSORIES � BOOK REVIEWS � BUYING ADVICE

ADVANCED ADAPTER

Dockside electricity poses significant hazards, especially when a boat’s power system does not match that of the receptacle. To prevent a potentially dangerous situation when a boat with 100-amp 125/250 volt power arrives in a marina with only a 50-amp service, Hubbell Marine’s newly redesigned YQ100PLUS Intelligent Y Adapter offers two safe options. The intelligent 100 amp adapter enables a 100 amp, 125/250 volt AC shore power cable to connect to two, 50 amp, 125/250 volt dockside receptacles, achieving 100 amps 250 volts. Or, the boat’s 100 amp system can be powered from a single 50 amp, 125/250 volt receptacle when only one is available.

For more information visit: www.hubbell-marine.com

NEVER MISS A CALL

Loud music, wind or engine noise can prevent boaters from hearing a VHF radio call. Cobra Marine, a division of Cobra Electronics, offers its MR F80B EU Fixed VHF radio with Rewind-Say-Again™, enabling users to record and play back up to 20 seconds of a missed call.

A class-D DSC VHF radio, it sends a distress signal or exchanges position information with other boats or stations at the touch of a button. Similar to the caller ID function on a telephone, this radio’s DSC Call Log captures an incoming DSC caller’s MMSI ID number and any other data included in a DSC message for future reference.

A noise-cancelling microphone with controls blocks background noise and offers buttons for instant access to channel 16, as well as the ability to change channels and operate 90% of the radio’s functions. For ease of use, the radio’s LCD display and function keys are illuminated.

Meeting JIS7 standards, this submersible radio carries a three-year warranty. The MR F80B EU Fixed Mount VHF Radio with Rewind-SayAgain from Cobra Marine is available in black and comes with flush- and surface-mount kits, a GPS interface cable and a speaker/PA interface cable.

For more info call +00353-1-214-02-82, or email Jean-Louis Poot, managing director, jpoot@cobra.com.

TWO-FACED TUNES

Kenwood’s new KMR-700U marine iPod/USB tuner is a clever bit of kit. It features an internal docking iPod system, accessed with the press of a button on the fascia of the unit. It will also house a USB device with a simple dedicated plug. Slip the iPod into the supplied neoprene cover and with the stereo face closed, the KMR-700U becomes your iPod. Chunky buttons, IPX5 water-proofing and a clear display make it particularly useful for marine applications. It’s also Bluetooth-ready, allowing you to store your mobile phone inside the KMR-700U and conduct your calls hands-free. The fascia features easy ergonomics with rubberised buttons and a simple rotary commander to control most of the popular functions, making the KMR-700U simple to operate even in turbulent waters. Best of all, the ‘dual zone’ function allows you to listen to two different music sources at once. While dad is at the helm listening to his favourite radio station, the kids can listen to their iPod elsewhere on the boat. There’s plenty more to this thing than that but we’ve run out of space. It’s very, very useful kit.

Price: £329, www.servicegardiennage.co.uk

NAUTICAL ALMANAC

Wiley Nautical’s Almanac provides access to port, weather, facilities and tidal information for 150 primary ports and over 80 secondary ports along England’s South and East coasts, the Channel Islands and the Continent from Vlissingen to Brest. It embraces Western Europe’s foremost cruising areas and racing centres.

The unique application can be taken on board on a laptop, or as a hard copy of selected data. The most popular features are the animated tidal stream graphics, seven-day marine weather forecasts and the excellent detailed harbour plans. Navigational data is automatically corrected from Notices to Mariners and other official sources. The Wiley Almanac also features a link to an online store offering a wide range of chandlery at attractive prices plus Cruising Companions and books from Wiley Nautical and other publishers.

The Wiley Almanac is free, and easy to download at this site: http://www.wileynautical.com/view/0/ almanac.html

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TOP GEAR

LOUD AND CLEAR Digital Yacht has launched a new dual channel AIS receiver called the AIS400. AIS receivers pick up signals from any vessel equipped with an AIS Class A or B transponder and send the vessel’s identity, position, course and speed over VHF frequencies. Hook up an AIS receiver to a compatible plotter and you’ll see an overlay of nearby targets typically at ranges of between 20 and 30NM. It’s like adding radar to your chart plotter with the added bonus of positive identification and it’s al;so a hell of a lot of fun. The AIS400 has connections for both a regular chart plotter via NMEA and also a USB connection for a PC-based plotter system such as Maxsea, Seapro, Maptech and Nobeltec. The AIS400 also incorporates its own GPS receiver, which means it can act as a GPS sensor and position information can be combined with the AIS target data onto the USB and NMEA outputs. This allows it to act as a position sensor for navigation systems as well as an

AIS receiver. Digital Yacht has also offered an upgrade route for the receiver to a full function Class B transponder, which means it will send data too. You can send back your receiver and for a £150 upgrade fee you get a full type approved, Class B AIS transponder. Good thinking. www.digitalyacht.co.uk

FISH FINDER Standard Horizon’s upgraded FF525 black box fish finder is packed with sophisticated electronics to turn your plotter into a highly accurate echo sounder.

The compact unit, which replaces the FF520, features improved waterproofing and shock resistance along with a higher power output for deep-water penetration.

The rugged module can be installed almost anywhere by the owner without the need for professional help. A single cable connects the module to the plotter, with another cable to the transducer. There are a wide range of transducers to choose from, all designed for different hull shapes and applications, which are sold separately. However, some clever software in the module called Transducer ID allows the plotter to interrogate the transducer fitted, and then optimise

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itself for the best results.

Once automatically tuned for beam width and operating power, the fish finder gives a colourful display of the water and seabed beneath the boat, and makes full use of Standard Horizon’s quality screens. Fish are represented either as icons, or as a coloured echo, and those swimming close to the bottom can be indentified with the use of a white line, which makes them stand out against the seabed. The module can also trigger depth alarms, or alarms to signal the presence of fish, and when operating at 200 kHz, the FF525 has a range of up to 350m. For much deeper water, the 50 kHz frequency can give an impressive 1,200m of penetration, making this a useful navigation aid as well as a powerful fishing tool.

Price: £189.95 (transducers from £139.95) www.standardhorizon.co.uk

LATEST NEWS WI-FI WONDER Digital Yacht’s WL400 is a new high-power, long range wifi access system, designed to allow boat owners to connect to wifi hot spots so that their on board computers can access the internet. Most harbours now have either free or subscription based services available and with the extended range of the WL400, it should be possible to tap into hot spots from local cafes, bars and restaurants. The system comprises a rugged metre-long antenna, which connects to a PC via a standard plug and play USB interface. All the electronics and modem are contained inside the antenna so it is easy to install and there is no need for an external power supply. Wifi range depends on various local factors but testing has apparently seen ranges of up to two miles. If you plan to access the internet while on board, the WL400 could be the solution NEW HORIZONS Tritech has launched what it describes as “an exciting product for multibeam seabed survey”.

Horizon is a multibeam echo sounder system in a compact and robust single housing. It uses the very latest advances in acoustic time delay beamforming techniques to deliver high quality survey data at an affordable cost. In shallow water Horizon can be mobilised on a vessel to gather survey data sets at depths down to 120m. For deep-water survey operations the system can be deployed on an AUV or ROV platform. Horizon has a wide swath coverage of 120 degrees – where required, two Horizon sonar heads can be linked together to form a dual head setup for maximum swath coverage.

Extremely fast ping rates of up to 100Hz allow Horizon to be used for higher speed survey operations, without compromising along-track resolution.

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