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SEA TRIAL – JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 42 DS
SEA TRIAL – JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 42 DS
Hopefully I don’t sound too
biased towards this boat as I am a great fan of Jeanneau.
This is the smallest of the deck salon boats...
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SEA TRIAL – HUNTER 39
SEA TRIAL – HUNTER 39
Hunter Marine seems to be coming
out with a new boat every six months at the moment, in spite of the recession,
and today I had the task of testing...
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BAVARIA 34 CRUISER
BAVARIA 34 CRUISER
Sea Trial
The Bavaria 34 Cruiser under
sail, showing optional teak decks
It has been 30 years since this
German company started to make boats...
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BAVARIA 41 – SEA TRIAL
BAVARIA 41 – SEA TRIAL
A Carribean workout!
My hosts, Jerry and Jula Salaman in the BVI
When asked to do a sea trial on a
Bavaria 41 I was insistent that I should do ...
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HUNTER 44 DECK SALON
HUNTER
44 DECK SALON – SEA TRIAL
It has not been that long
ago that I set foot on my first Hunter for a while, and I was seriously (and
unexpectedly) impressed with what ...
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HUNTER 45 CENTER COCKPIT
HUNTER
45 CENTER COCKPIT – SEA TRIAL
I think everyone knows Hunter and the “value for money”
name that they have built up over the years. They produce some really...
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JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 49
JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 49 DS – SEA TRIAL
Teak!! Well, hooray! When we see so many boat builders
using “light Oak” and “Cherry” woods, it is such a pleasure to see the real
thing again –...
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HANSE 370
HANSE 370 – SEA TRIAL
I walked into Freedom Marine’s office on Granville Island
and was immediately greeted by Richard Hargreaves. This was the guy I was
looking for, as he would be...
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HUNTER 45 DECK SALON – SEA TRIAL
HUNTER 45 DECK SALON – SEA TRIAL
I have tested the previous
incarnation of this vessel in the 44DS in August 2006 and was mightily
impressed. I was surprised too,...
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SEA TRIAL – MONARO 27
SEA
TRIAL – MONARO 27 SE
It
seems that in these troubled times, there is a company that established itself
in 1976 in Richmond, building good, tough hulls from 21 feet to 33 long and...
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SEA TRIAL- LIFETIMER BOATS
SEA TRIAL- LIFETIMER
BOATS
2700 LE (Limited
Edition)
The 2700 arrives in Maple
Bay for the sea trial
Eric Duncan started the company
some 30 years ago with a...
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SEA TRIAL – PRO-LINE 32 EXPRESS
SEA TRIAL – PRO-LINE 32 EXPRESS
You know, it has been such a
pleasure to test this vessel today, because I have finally met a dealer who
thinks more about the customers...
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BOSTON WHALER CONQUEST 305
SEA TRIAL – BOSTON WHALER CONQUEST 305
(Picture courtesy of Boston
Whaler)
The reputation of Boston Whaler is justifiably grand, so why, you ask,
should I bother to...
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MONARO 298
SEA TRIAL – MONARO 298
Boating in the Pacific North West
is often dependent so much on the weather. Here at Monaro Marine, Dan Parker has designed hard top boats for many
years to cope ...
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HARBERCRAFT 2525 KINGFISHER
SEA TRIAL – HARBERCRAFT 2525 KINGFISHER
It’s funny how things seem to
repeat themselves from time to time. I had only recently been out on the Fraser
in an aluminum boat, ...
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CAMPION 822 EXPLORER
SEA TRIAL – CAMPION 822 EXPLORER
I don’t think I would want to
call this lady beautiful, she’s not, but who said anyone would want to enter
her in a beauty contest.anyway?...
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CAMPION ALLANTE 825i
SEA TRIAL – CAMPION ALLANTE 825i
Since 1988, when I came here from
the UK and bought the
Shuswap Marina on the Shuswap
Lake, I have known of
Campion Boats. The only problem was that ...
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TIARA 3600 OPEN
SEA TRIAL – TIARA 3600 OPEN
I was sitting at my chart table waiting to be picked up by
Fred Warriner of Crow’s Nest Yacht Sales in
the Tiara 3600 that I was to test. I had popped...
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VENTURE RIVER BOATS
VENTURE RIVER BOATS – “SEA” TRIAL
Hardly a “Sea Trial” I thought as
I was to meet Dan out in Chilliwack.
Harrison Lake
is not far away from the store and the mighty Fraser River
is...
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SEA RAY 330 SUNDANCER
SEA TRIAL – SEA RAY 330 SUNDANCER
I think that if one is to think
of a quality boat out there on the market today, the very first name to come to
mind...
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MAINSHIP 30 PILOT (Rum Runner edition)
BOAT TEST – MAINSHIP
30 PILOT (Rum Runner edition)
Once again, I headed for Granville
Island and Freedom Marine
on Foreshore Walk to do a boat test, this time a trawler from Mainship....
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DORAL BOCA GRANDE
“Blowing
out the Cobwebs”
DORAL
“BOCA GRANDE” – SEA TRIAL
First thing in the morning the day after
a big sailing regatta at the Vancouver Rowing Club is not the most...
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BACK COVE 29’ HARDTOP
BACK
COVE 29’ HARDTOP – SEA TRIAL
My assignment,
should I choose to accept it, was to sea -trial a Back Hoe! Well I tell you what, the thing will sink in a heart beat! I thought this a
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FORMULA 45
SEA TRIAL – FORMULA 45
Recently I bumped into Bruce
Munro of The Boat Centre in Horseshoe Bay as he was overseeing the delivery of
a brand-new 45-foot Formula at Mosquito ...
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