Pacific or Atlantic

LURCHER · 04 February 2003, 17:54

I am thinking about buying one of the above and would like to know views on the boats .I currently own a 5.85RIBCRAFT with 115 Ficht which I love but I want something larger and more utilitarian with diesel power. Any comments would be great and if anyone has one in Solent area would love to see it. Thanks in advance . John

crazyhorse · 04 February 2003, 21:59

I dont think they do a Atlantic with a Diesel as in the main its only 6+mtrs long.Its designd for outboards and this vesell will cost a lot to convert and it isnt worth it nowadays.Its a great boat as is.

The pacific rib depends what size and engines your thinking of ?.

There were a few going cheap from one of the Disposal Companys that was advertised on here.

Both good boats but its all down to your use and realistick affordable running costs.

There is also the Arctic that I believe you cant beach as easy as the atlantic as it has a fuller deep V but rides a sea well.

There is a lot to your questions and you have a good boat at present, if you want to go bigger,and running costs are important then dependant on budget but a Humber Pro with a diesel/leg seem to me a good balanced buy.

This is my view and others will have there own views,so use it as a start.

Good luck

Jelly · 05 February 2003, 08:05

HI Lurcher
If you want a Paciffic direct ex mod do a search on Babcocks on this site. Trying to find a good one is the hard part, though the paciffic seem to have faired better than arctic as they were mainly used as ships boats and the arctics were a mix of general perpose and assult boats.
If you go and look at the Babcock boats at Portland you will see that the arctics used by the marines / specials have had a VERY hard life, look at the pictures of the bows !
The paciffic with its normal engine / drive configuration is only good for 24Knots, though I'm sure the devoted fans will correct me!!
Still thinking of putting a patrol consol on an arctic, as 6.5/7 side by side console boats are not that common, but the cost of engines to push such a heavy but strong beast about worries me!
Jelly

matiboy · 05 February 2003, 18:39

might help with pricing ?

http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/ad/F09065

Pete7 · 08 February 2003, 22:35

John, do a search on Rinet, we have discussed P22s quite a bit over the years.

Pete (covered in GRP from the new console)

Richard B · 08 February 2003, 22:39

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Originally posted by Pete7
Pete (covered in GRP from the new console)

- New console for the Pacific or the Ribtec, Pete?

Pete7 · 09 February 2003, 17:08

In the Pacific. The standard halmatic console is crap for cruising (only one seat and no room for instruments, so it has to go). After failing miserably to make a console myself, bought one from Ocean Ribs in Portchester. £400 ready to go with hatch and hinges. Stylish and and very smart. Spent the weekend adding a couple of mods including a shelf inside, then the fun starts as P22s have a mass of wiring that would put a battleship to shame.
But the new console will allow some protection for two behind it and have bags of room for goodies.

Pete (busy washing his hands in acetone,

)

Jelly · 10 February 2003, 09:33

Pete
Any chance of a photo as I've been thinking of doing that also.
Jelly

Pete7 · 12 February 2003, 16:23

Sure, a pic to follow, just re inforcing a couple of areas in the console at the moment ready for grab handles and fitting and shelf to mount the black boxes on. No idea what is inside the black boxes but there are two of them and they are full of wires. To make matters even more interesting the nice man at Halmatic wired the whole lot in grey. Think there is at least another months work carefully working my way through it labelling everything. A bigger fuel tank under the deck is also on order to take the capacity from 80 to 170 L. There is a huge amount of room under the deck of a P22, I can actually crawl under the deck to reach the fuel tank.

Pete

whitingiom · 13 February 2003, 08:08

Is it worth having a look at the ex MOD sea riders?

Seems a lot of boat for £2k, but are they absolutely knackered or are they just old but fully maintained?

Any advice gratefully received.

Jelly · 13 February 2003, 08:26

Best advise is go and look at them, some have had a hard life and some are still in reasonable condition.
They look like they have been looked after but are used every day for patroling generally

The boat number first two digits is the year and the last the incrimental number of hulls that year.

Jelly

Tiger · 13 February 2003, 12:48

I was down there last week, there are two good 5.4m hulls but the others are taty. One comes with a blue light, if you needed it.
Ive thought about it and they are good starter boats, but not what I want now.

I would also barter as it all seems expensive considering the condition of the kit.

tiger