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DECEMBER 2010

CONTENTS REGULARS 10 ISSUES OF THE DAY

New boats, new brands and new reasons to hit the water

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RACE UPDATE

The OCR championship comes to a head

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HAVE YOUR SAY

Fill in our survey and win a free SB&RIB cap

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RYA NEWS

Get to grips with online powerboat tution

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READER’S FORUM

Debut voyages and end-of-season escapades for the magazine’s online readers

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SHOW WATCH

Exhibition news from London and Liverpool

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SHOT OF THE MONTH

A welcome return from the reader’s favourite

ON TEST 38 EMOCEAN CHARM 27

The super-styled cruiser from Emocean Marine

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SEARAY SUNDANCER 240

Is this your next step on the boating ladder?

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FEATURES 28 FALMOUTH CLASSICS All the action from the South Cornwall’s annual powerboat extravaganza

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HYBRID POWER

Behind the wheel of the electrically propelled Maxum 42 Sports Cruiser

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OVERSEAS EXPEDITION

The expert’s guide to help you plan next season’s adventures

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WINTER WATERSPORTS DIG OUT YOUR THERMALS AND GET INVOLVED

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THE ART OF CHARTER

One man’s tale of spectacular indulgence aboard a 114-foot superyacht in the Greek Islands

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BUMPER CHRISTMAS QUIZ An assortment of 40 festive boating teasers to prove just how little you know . . .

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ON THE WATER I CHARM 27

Simon Everett jets off to the Med to test a new Ray Hunt designed 27-footer from a name you might not have heard. Cue the hotly anticipated Emocean Charm.

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mocean Marine is a new name on the boat building map, but it has plenty of heritage behind it. The personnel involved with the creation of the brand are used to big ventures and they have plenty of industry contacts to draw upon. The head office is in Abu Dhabi and the hands-on chief is none other than former marketing executive for Buzzi Marine, Alberto Nencha. With such a knowledgeable and enthusiastic team behind the project, the ‘prancing sea-horse’ logo of Emocean Marine stands a great chance of making its mark - and the first in the line up of models to attempt this feat is the Ray Hunt designed 27-footer. The closed-cabin Charm shares the same hull as its open-bow day cruiser sibling (the Voodoo) and hapilly, it also shares a great many of the same striking lines. With the European centre of operations for Emocean Marine based in the gorgeous waters of Malta, we jetted out to bring back the UK exclusive. Would the Charm make the right impression for this fledgling company? It was my happy job to find out . . .

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ON THE WATER I HUNTON 1005

Hunton 1005 If you pair the new Hunton 1005 with a pair of Yamaha’s top end 300hp V6 outboards, the result ought to be worth getting excited about. Mike Pullen reports.

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WINTER WATERSPORTS

Put your hot chocolate aside and grab a wetsuit or two. It’s time to pick up that wakeboard. By Adrian Porter.

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TALKING POINT I WINTER WATERSPORTS

he problem with watersports in the UK is that they tend to be seasonal. Come the end of October, the big chill slowly smothers our little island, often putting an end to the bulk of our boating activities and other general waterbased frolicking.

In fact, the vast majority of wakeboarding and waterskiing clubs close down around the start of November, if not before, and go into understandable hibernation, away from old man winter only to reawaken in the Spring with renewed vigour. This seasonal closure also heralds the migration of Britain’s best pro riders and skiers, who move to warmer

climates on the expenses of their various sponsors. But for those of us who don’t have the backing of sponsors but still want to get out on the water, what do we do?

Well despite most of Britain’s watersports centres leaving us out in the cold, there are some who stubbornly refuse to accept that the inclement weather is a justifiable reason to close. They tend to be lakes that are quite well established or operate a cable tow either in addition to a boat operation or instead of it (and sadly no coastal clubs feature in this article). Even so, there is a hard core of clubs that fight on through the colder months to provide watersports to budding winter warriors - and this is the best of them . . .

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verseas Adventure Cold? Bored? Keen to escape? Then start planning your 2011 adventure.

Colin Jones and Jon Mendez show you how . . . sing your boat in another country is an idea that most owners have had at some time, but it is an adventure that needs plenty of planning. Get it right and it is great, but if the project is badly done, it can be a social, domestic and financial catastrophe. That is not pessimism, but simply the product of observation and personal experience.

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The only way to be sure of doing it well is to start the planning early. November 2010 for June 2011 would not be too soon. It is best done with pencil and paper and lots of research questions. Most of these will be of the “What if” variety, with answers provided by adventurers who have already done it, plus plenty of internet surfing and many emails to people and organisations who have ‘in situ’ information.

All boat owners and all boat usages are different, so there is no master plan, which will suit all would-be

TALKING POINT I BOATING ABROAD

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CHARTER Tom Isitt scams himself the mother of all holidays on a superyacht in the Aegean.

Lucky, lucky bastard . . . s the early autumn sun dipped toward the horizon, the crew went smoothly about their business of getting us moored up, while I sat on the aft deck and sipped my afternoon tisane. The town of Poros, a picture-postcard collection of whitewashed houses with terracotta roofs clustered around the harbour, lay before me, bathed in the soft golden light of late afternoon in the Greek islands.

Giannis, the chef, came to enquire about dinner. The Chief Officer also appeared, telling me that we were

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secure and if I cared to go ashore, could he arrange some transport for me? I declined the transport and took myself off for a waterfront promenade among the tavernas, shops and bars. The Greek islands really are divine, particularly at the beginning and the end of the season, when there are few tourists around, and the towns adopt a comfortable, sleepy atmosphere.

When I returned to Proteus, a 114-foot Falcon that was my home for the week, Pepi, the Chief Stewardess, was waiting for me at the top of the passarelle in her crisp evening uniform.

“What time is it, please, Pepi?” I enquired.

She checked her watch. “Beer O’Clock, Mr Tom? “Indeed it is, Pepi. Indeed it is.”

OUTWARD BOUND I GREEK SUPERYACHT CHARTER

“What time is it, please, Pepi?” I enquired.

She checked her watch. “Beer O’Clock, Mr Tom?” “Indeed it is, Pepi. Indeed it is.”

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Glossary

OF BOATING TERMS

It can be a funny old thing, boating. Not content with buying the gear or using it on the water, we feel the need to speak a language that distinguishes us from the common landlubber. And quite right too. After all, we’re considerably better than they are. So delve into the next five pages of nautical descriptions, embrace the esoteric world of ‘Jack Speak’ and know that you are doing your bit to isolate our happy clique against the ravages of everyday mundanity.

AMIDSHIPS In the middle of the boat.

BAIL To remove water from the boat by hand with a container.

CAD (Acronym) Computer Assisted Design.

CAPSIZE

Sets emission limits for engines used in California. CARB three-star is the tightest standard.

CHOPPER GUN

COG

A compressed air powered gun that squirts resin and chopped strand mat onto the inside of a hull mould to form part of a laminate. See Hand Laid for comparison.

(Abb) Navigational term. Course Over the Ground. GPS gives you COG, your compass tells you where you are pointing.

CATAMARAN

CLEAT

Boat with twin hulls.

CF (Acronym) Carbon Fibre.

CHARTPLOTTER

To turn over.

Electronic navigation instrument that displays a chart on a screen.

CARB

CHICK

(Abb) Carburettor. Fuel-air mixing device on petrol engines.

Juvenile water bird.

CHINE

CARB

The sharp corner between the sides and bottom of a planing hull.

(Acronym) California Air Resources Board.

CHOCK

Anvil-shaped fitting for securing lines to.

COAMING A little ‘fence’ around the edge of a cockpit to prevent water running in off the deck.

Also used for the sides of the cockpit.

COCKPIT

COMPASS The instrument which tells you which way you are pointing in relation to magnetic north.

COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION Term used to describe FRP that is superior to GRP and probably contains carbon, Nomex and Kevlar.

CUDDY

Wedge-shaped support.

Where the seating and helm console usually are.

(Cuddy Cabin) Small cabin underneath the foredeck of a small boat.

BAR

BEAM

BOLSTER

BOW ROLLER

A bank or shoal at the entrance of a harbour.

The greatest width of the boat.

BEACON

Parking place. Onboard bed.

Sports/Racing seat in which the squab folds up to allow you to stand between the fixed side pieces. (No squab on pure racing versions).

Device used to stow an anchor on the foredeck that allows the anchor to deploy automatically, once tension is taken off its rode.

Fixed pole type of navigation mark. Could be on land.

BERTH BILGE The very bottom of the hull.

BEARING

BIMINI

Direction of something expressed in degrees. Could be compass bearing or relative to the boat you are in.

(Bimini Top). Sunshade over the cockpit supported on a frame but not attached to the top of the windscreen.

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BOW The front bit of a boat.

BOW LINE A mooring line at the bow.

BULKHEAD A vertical partition inside the hull.

Can be lateral of fore and aft.

BOWLINE (Pronounced bo-lin.) BUOY The most useful nautical knot.

Well worth learning.

Floating navigation mark or mooring.

TALKING POINT I ELECTRIC POWER

CHARGING

AHEAD Can the electric motor really replace the combustion engine for leisure boaters? Mercury Marine and the Brunswick Group are positive they will - and in developing their own solution, they are forging ahead with the world of hybrid boating.

Words: Craig Barnett Images: Courtesy of the Brunswick Group

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t is generally accepted that it will take a major reduction in the size and weight of electrical storage systems, and some corresponding improvements in battery life, before electrical propulsion can feasibly replace the internal combustion engine. The automotive industry’s investment in technology to reduce carbon emissions dictates this will happen at some point, but until it does (and the necessary recharge/refueling infrastructure is in place globally), we will witness a period of vehicles and products being developed that reduce rather eliminate carbon emissions. During this transitionary period, models are being released that combine dual energy sources. Known as ‘Hybrid’ boats, they merge the combustion engine and electrical motors in the same craft - and while that’s no longer new on the roads, it could mean very big things for the future of marine recreation . . .

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BACK END I CHRISTMAS QUIZ

CHRISTMAS QUIZ As the season ends and the cloak of winter falls, we all need a little help to keep those boating brain cells active? By Alex Smith and David Greenwood. o you remember as a kid when the final day of term came round. Everyone would down tools and take an hour or two for an impromptu quiz. Well it’s sort of Christmas and for most people, it’s also more or less the season’s end, so what better time to test out your knowledge with a bout of boating trivia than this? That, incidentally, is not one of the quiz questions. They are considerably tougher than that and they begin the moment you turn the page . . .

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