What is the worst boat you have owned

[troy]

Mine Was the Monarc Victory.
Every one that went in it called it the nut crussher.
Troy

[manchild]

Quintrex dart ,talking about nutchrushing
George

[PinHead]

any tinny..wet, bouncing bloody things

[Brissyguy]

Didn't own it but my mate had a 17' Nova half cabin.

Whilst they handled a sea well enough, if you were travelling accross the sea at speed the boat would lay over on one side and stay there for a few seconds or until the next wave righter her.

Once you got used to it there wasn't a problem but I can still hear my mate's wife scream the first time we took her out in it LMFAO !

On a lighter note I don't think I could say I've actually owned a bad boat.
Seafarers, Caribbeans, Savages and SeaJay have all been kind to me.
I guess if you stick to tried and proven manufacturers you are reasonably safe...

Cheers,
Rich.

[HarryO]

Good thread, Troy...

Pongrass Surfmaster I owned in the late70's/early 80's.

Surfmaster? ....... Ha!

Bloody Ripplemaster, more like it...

This "boat", and I use the term lightly,
would broach eagerly with a half a metre of following sea,

and I lost count of how many times I put the bow into
a one metre wave and copped a impromptu drenching.

I've since been extremely wary, and critical of the
mis-leading names that some manufacturers christen
their products with...

And then there was the 16ft Hartly V8 inboard power boat
we called "The Tank".

More leeks than a can of Heinz country ladle,
but oh boy, it made an impressive bow wave.

Every time we pulled in to the servo, the manager would
come out with open arms, and introduce us to his family.

(I think we were paying for the kids education)

I could go on.....

Harry.

[Black_Jack]

12 foot mantray tinny

[Kendall249]

nova craft eclipse

[Deiter]

5m Quinnie runabout, pre millenium hull.

nutcracking, titbouncing, jawrattler in any chop over 4 inches.

No one dared riding seated at the helm without one hand cupping the genitalia.

[marlinqld]

Deiter.......... titbouncing aint necessarily a bad thing to see

And depends who's holding youre genitalia

[troy]

This Victory i mentioned you would pull up at the ramp and you would be wet as a shag.
Other blokes would be lining up to put there boats in and they would see how drenched you were.
Straight away they would say ,what 's the weather real bad mate Little did they know it was calm.
Troy

[troy]

any tinny..wet, bouncing bloody things

Pinhead,
Those tinnies hurt bad when your lad sticks you up the front and goes flat out in any type of weather.
Troy

[seatime]

my old man had a Stessl 12' tinnie - a hunk of junk, I used it 10x more than him because it was so unstable, and it hurt too bad for him to use.
and it fell apart before our eyes.

had a Stessl 18' cuddy at work for 3 yrs - another hunk of junk, worst riding, trimming and handling boat I've been in, bar none.

another workboat, a Dehavilland Trojan 21' runabout, while a tuff, uncomprimising boat, it should never have been in a runabout configuration. you needed traction applied to your spinal column after each trip!

[Noelm]

this might raise a few eyebrows but up there with them would be an Alison 21foot boat a mate of mine had for crabbing, what a bit of crap that boat was, he hated it and so did I, and I only went out init a dozen or so times, he sold it after a year and got a Haines.

[Deiter]

M-M, I stand corrected.

I will also add that for anyone who didn't already realise, you should never wear boxer-shorts whilst travelling seated in a tinnie. [smiley=bigcry.gif]

Damo

[hussy]

mine was a 400 hornet trophy, worst boat i have ever had the displeasure to own, had it for sale after the first 5 hours use ,couldn,t sell it quick enough . hubby