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10 June 2010, 09:44
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Country: Norway
Town: Trondheim
Boat name: Gullfisken
Make: No name
Length: 9m +
Engine: Inboard, diesel, 370
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Took my new rib for a test drive (1000 km trip)
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10 June 2010, 09:50
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Country: UK - England
Town: New Forest
Boat name: Charlie Brown
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: 275 Verado
MMSI: 235069179
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 1,082
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WOW!
that is somewhere i would love to go!!
How about a ribnet cruise to Norway?
how much is fuel with you? is it as expensive as your alcohol ?
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10 June 2010, 09:52
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Country: UK - Channel Islands
Town: Guernsey
Boat name: Monkey Nutz
Make: Cougar R8 Sport
Length: 8m +
Engine: 350Sci Verado
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Very, Very nice Rib..
You must be very pleased with your change of make. Looks like stunning scenery, and cruising at 50+ knots is quite exhilarating..
More pictures and video please..
I quite fancy a change to a Goldfish next time
Tony
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10 June 2010, 09:55
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Country: Norway
Town: Trondheim
Boat name: Gullfisken
Make: No name
Length: 9m +
Engine: Inboard, diesel, 370
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Used about 350-400 liters of diesel. Price per liter is a little less than one GBP. Which is not really that expensive, considering that Norway is extremely expensive 
The trip was just amazing!
We are seriously considering a trip to Shetland next year. Will be at least two ribs traveling together (one Goldfish and one Revenger boat).
Edit:
I'm editing a video from the trip, but it takes some time.
Here is an earlier video, from the first run after we got the boat on the water.
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10 June 2010, 09:59
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Country: Ireland
Length: 4m +
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Originally Posted by quaoar
We are seriously considering a trip to Shetland next year.
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Have you been to Shetland before? (it's a bit, well, underwhelming  )
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10 June 2010, 09:59
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Country: UK - England
Town: New Forest
Boat name: Charlie Brown
Make: Scorpion
Length: 8m +
Engine: 275 Verado
MMSI: 235069179
Join Date: Oct 2004
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shetland is a lovely place! i used to stay at a little island called Whalsay.
be a cracking trip for sure but hell of a hike for us from the south coast!!!
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10 June 2010, 10:03
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Country: UK - Channel Islands
Town: Guernsey
Boat name: Monkey Nutz
Make: Cougar R8 Sport
Length: 8m +
Engine: 350Sci Verado
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by quaoar
Used about 350-400 liters of diesel. Price per liter is a little less than one GBP. Which is not really that expensive, considering that Norway is extremely expensive
The trip was just amazing!
We are seriously considering a trip to Shetland next year. Will be at least two ribs traveling together (one Goldfish and one Revenger boat).
Edit:
I'm editing a video from the trip, but it takes some time.
Here is an earlier video, from the first run after we got the boat on the water.
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Nice video...Maybe the Ilmor 725 would be my option...lol... 
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10 June 2010, 10:08
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Country: Norway
Town: Trondheim
Boat name: Gullfisken
Make: No name
Length: 9m +
Engine: Inboard, diesel, 370
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 39
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Originally Posted by Tony
Nice video...Maybe the Ilmor 725 would be my option...lol... |
That would be so bad ass. Top speed with Ilmor is 80 knots 
In Norway diesel is half the price of petrol (for boats only not for cars). So for me it would be too expensive using the boat if I had a petrol engine... 
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10 June 2010, 11:29
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Country: UK - Scotland
Boat name: imposter
Make: FunYak
Length: 3m +
Engine: Tohatsu 30HP
MMSI: 235089819
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 11,627
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Originally Posted by willk
Have you been to Shetland before? (it's a bit, well, underwhelming ) |
Not if you are used to paying Norwegian prices for beer!
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10 June 2010, 11:43
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RIBnet admin team
Country: Ireland
Length: 4m +
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 14,898
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Originally Posted by Polwart
Not if you are used to paying Norwegian prices for beer!
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This is true  Lerwick: where 80/- means just that.
I knew that post was gonna call down the Fire. I'm really comparing it to his other options, i.e. the Faroes. I've spent a week camping on the Main Island in Shetland, it's nice enough, but doesn't have that small island feel that I like and isn't especially stunning, scenery wise (if you've just departed the Norwegian Fjords).
It's worth saying that I live and boat in one of the most picturesque parts of NW Ireland and I'm totally spoiled. If I was from Surbiton, I'm sure I'd have been bowled over by the rugged delights of Shetland 
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10 June 2010, 12:48
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Country: UK - Isle of Man
Town: Douglas
Length: no boat
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I am VERY, VERY envious of your boat, and the beautiful cruising area.
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10 June 2010, 15:32
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Country: UK - Wales
Town: N Wales Chester
Boat name: Mr Smith
Make: Humber
Length: 6m +
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 5,238
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Originally Posted by Cypman
I am VERY, VERY envious of your boat, and the beautiful cruising area.
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I don't think you're the only one!
What's good to see is an expensive rib like that actually being used, not just pottering in flash places or near flash yachts.
Awesome boat/scenery/trip, would be such a beautiful holiday instead of the carribean/med/Maldives dros that is peddled by tour operators.
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10 June 2010, 16:49
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: swanwick/hamble
Boat name: stormchaser
Make: custom rib
Length: 8m +
Engine: inboard/diesel
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 3,848
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i went on the last trip the qe2 made up there it is truely awesome 
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10 June 2010, 18:31
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Member
Country: UK - England
Boat name: Emperor
Make: Scorpion
Length: 7m +
Engine: Evinrude E-tec 200hp
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 319
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Biffer you must have been on the same trip as me fantastic scenery and the send off from Stavanger was a once in a lifetime experience!
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10 June 2010, 18:45
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Near Godalming
Boat name: AJA
Make: Ribeye
Length: 6m +
Engine: Yamaha F150AETX
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 558
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Lovely looking boat - and location too!
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14 June 2010, 22:13
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Member
Country: UK - Wales
Town: west mids /tywyn
Boat name: HAWK
Make: RIBCRAFT/ Suzuki 250
Length: 7m +
Engine: Tohatsu 3.8/15hpsuzi
MMSI: 235086594
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Originally Posted by Zippy
WOW!
that is somewhere i would love to go!!
How about a ribnet cruise to Norway?
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it is a truly fantastic country best holiday i,ve been on if you have never seen the fjords i recommend you go its amazing we cruised there for a week on the arcadia would be a fantastic place for a ribnet cruise you would need a petrol tanker with you those fjords are massive
tony t
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15 June 2010, 07:29
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: stramash
Make: Tornado
Length: 5m +
Engine: Etec 90
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 5,090
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Quote:
Originally Posted by willk
It's worth saying that I live and boat in one of the most picturesque parts of NW Ireland and I'm totally spoiled. If I was from Surbiton, I'm sure I'd have been bowled over by the rugged delights of Shetland
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Indeed .. and the sailors will tell you that apart from the Fjords, only NW Scotland ( & Ireland  ) and New Zealand have such stunning Scenery for cruising.
Looks like a nice craft quaoar with respectable performance That shot of you maxed out on the calm water looks good for a wake shot
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15 June 2010, 07:49
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Member
Country: UK - England
Town: Mighty Penryn
Boat name: Little Joe.
Make: Avon Searider
Length: 4m +
Engine: Honda BF50
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,872
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HUMBER P4VWL
Awesome boat/scenery/trip, would be such a beautiful holiday instead of the carribean/med/Maldives dros that is peddled by tour operators.
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Dunno about that.  Norway looks a bit light on bikini clad lovelies when compared with the above.
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15 June 2010, 10:33
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Country: UK - England
Length: 7m +
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Your Goldfish looks great, I love the pipe extending from the engine bay, is that the exhaust, must sound bad. Fjords cruising, I did that on a ship I worked on years ago The Royal Princess 45K GRT, great scenery must try it on a rib sometime.
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15 June 2010, 18:24
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Member
Country: Austria
Town: st.georgen/gusen
Boat name: getready2fly
Make: BRIG eagle 500TC
Length: 5m +
Engine: mercury efi
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 21
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...looks extrem good- rib+ location too... fine...!
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