Help choosing RIB

[willk]

Originally Posted by wireless

Ill do that then ?

My apologies, my other 2/5's is beginning to have a detrimental effect on my manners, such as they are. I was referring to this:
http://rib.net/forum/showthread.php?t=34139

[markg]

Originally Posted by biffer

no! not this boat, trust me

its been for sale for a long time, it seems to cheap to be ok, whats wrong with it?

[biffer]

Originally Posted by markg

its been for sale for a long time, it seems to cheap to be ok, whats wrong with it?

it's an old ribtec that i did an engine box and some seating arrangement quite a few years ago, it belonged to a commercial tug guy and was well used and the balance was wrong, the jet used to push the back out of the water, i see it in portland last sept when i was down there doing my charter stuff, it's had a load of other stuff done to it but it's still in a bit of a mess

[ecoXR24]

Originally Posted by biffer

have you guys actually built a cabin/cuddy boat yet? my advise to you would be to work out how heavy that mockup cuddy will weigh and put the same amount of weight in one of your boats and try it

Biffer, I've sent you an email - thanks for your comments. No, we haven't built a cabin/ cuddy boat yet, its just a scheme at the moment. Your comment on the displacement of the XR24 is interesting and got me to go back through our calcs. We're estimating 410 kg all-up for the standard boat (not the cabin version), excluding engine. Interestingly, that's only about 10% more than the carbon rib project: http://rib.net/forum/showthread.php?...ght=carbon+rib (assuming their Yam engine is 170 kg, their boat is 370 kg). The carbon rib aim for fuel efficiency is where we're coming from with the Eco XR24.

[biffer]

Originally Posted by ecoXR24

Biffer, I've sent you an email - thanks for your comments. No, we haven't built a cabin/ cuddy boat yet, its just a scheme at the moment. Your comment on the displacement of the XR24 is interesting and got me to go back through our calcs. We're estimating 410 kg all-up for the standard boat (not the cabin version), excluding engine. Interestingly, that's only about 10% more than the carbon rib project: http://rib.net/forum/showthread.php?...ght=carbon+rib (assuming their Yam engine is 170 kg, their boat is 370 kg). The carbon rib aim for fuel efficiency is where we're coming from with the Eco XR24.

sent you an email with my thoughts, you have to think slightly out of the box, not just how much your mouldings are going to weigh but how much the finished boat will be with driver, life jacket, anchor/chain and all the other crap we carry with us, unless your'e going to build stowage aft it will be in the front