Barracuda RIB's - Anyone heard of them?

alt · 06 March 2007, 13:10

http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/view/F131071/

Contemplating flying out to the Isle of Man to inspect this boat. Has anyone got any experience with this hull? Build design? Sea capabilities?

Fill me with your knowledge!

matt h · 06 March 2007, 18:11

never heard of it but ,looks nice and for the money !!

alt · 06 March 2007, 19:40

The hassle of the IOM though

At least with the UK I can fly over and back home in the same day, or if I Was buying I can drive and come back on the same day.

barracuda · 23 July 2008, 22:34

i know it's diggin an extra old post but i'm very curious about the link that is no longer available for me to check..

just for the record, the original barracuda ribs are constructed in greece and you can get an idea through www.barracuda.gr

cheers...

SeaSkills · 24 July 2008, 07:30

Not many Barracudas were built, and by different builders. You need to know the history of the boat and where it came from.

You might want to have a look at the MAIB site for details of an incident at St Ives http://www.maib.gov.uk/cms_resources/Big_Yellow.pdf

We used a Barracuda 7.4 at our centre in Oban for several years, and it was a great boat -really nice hull (rather narrow, but excellent in the sea).

Get the right one, and the Barracuda is a good boat, but care needed in choosing the right one

Tim M · 24 July 2008, 11:29

If this is the same Baracuda I was looking at some months ago, it's the same hull as the Parker 750 RS, or very similar. I posted some photos on a thread as I was interested in one in Scotland.

barracuda · 24 July 2008, 19:21

thank you for your answers. it seems that the boat that you refer to is not one of the barracudas i know.

for the record mine is a barracuda 700 naval force shown in the pic below..

Tim M · 24 July 2008, 23:12

Defiantly different boats to the ones I'm thinking of.

Seaskills, was your one blue?

SeaSkills · 25 July 2008, 06:41

Tim - PM sent

Andre · 25 July 2008, 15:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeaSkills

Not many Barracudas were built, and by different builders. You need to know the history of the boat and where it came from.

You might want to have a look at the MAIB site for details of an incident at St Ives http://www.maib.gov.uk/cms_resources/Big_Yellow.pdf

We used a Barracuda 7.4 at our centre in Oban for several years, and it was a great boat -really nice hull (rather narrow, but excellent in the sea).

Get the right one, and the Barracuda is a good boat, but care needed in choosing the right one

The BIG YELLOW which is subject of that report is not a BARRACUDA rib and also not a PARKER rib for the record
PARKER RIBS are mentioned in that report but only as an example how that particular rib should have been built

SeaSkills · 25 July 2008, 19:49

Fair point, Andre - and I'm certainly not knocking Parker RIBs, or even Barracuda (I stand by my comments that we have positive experience of Barracuda) - just making thge point that Big Yellow came from the same mould as the Barracuda 8.6

barracuda · 25 July 2008, 21:13

so do these boats have a site i can look into?

Tim M · 25 July 2008, 21:51

Not that I'm aware of. It turns out I nearly bought the one Seaskills used to own. I couldn't find anything out about them which was a bit off-putting.