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As my beautiful avatar went to rainbow bridge yesterday, I no longer wish to be a member on here any longer. This forum is now the pits. Moderators please remove me and all my posts. It used to be a friend y forum but no longer. Goodbye for good.

Civilization is skin deep.

I see, let him get it ready before you go

Ideal time to do it, saves rinsing it

Perfect.

I refer to my earlier post. A lot of you are just arguing for arguments sake. Aren't people allowed to do anything adventurous any more? It's only one day for heaven's sake.

Broadland Nowhere.

I think this event is a grand idea, if you don't like it don't go near it.

Welcome, another purist boater. Ban all motor boats and the broads would be a fine place.

Are we now the same time as you Vaughan?

Has everyone overslept, it very quite on here.

I'm surprised it doesn't do it automatically, like computers, tablets etc.

I don't have any clocks, watches, etc. that need changing nowadays, they do it automatically.

Take no notice of some of these so called "experts", X as in unknown quantity, spurt as in drip under pressure. As you seem to be doing a good job.

Don't forget this website was set up on the instigation of the yachts Russian owner, so some of it's content maybe slightly biased from the point of view as to how Oyster handled it. Not tht that detracts from that fact it was bad design/construction. Sorry, this is going off thread.

Quite, that's why the Dutch investors pulled the plug.

I don't think they realised that the sort of market they were in, building wise, was about to take a downturn. Some like Sunseeker survived with massive cash injection, others like Fairline went under and the likes of Brooms struggled on. Without the cash there's not much you can do. Interestingly Oysters have employed the services of the guy who turned Sunseeker round. It doesn't matter how full your order books are, if you can't build cost effectively your stuffed. You can have orders of £80m, but if you cannot make a decent margin on them, what's the point?

They have, in their press release. They are discontinuing boat building and developing all other aspects of the business. As usual on here speculation is running riot.

Where is all this speculation coming from that they want to build on the site? They owned a site on the edge of the village which they wanted to build a modern boat building facility on. Things took a downturn and this is the site that is being sold for development. The riverside site is still required if the want to concentrate on repair, maintenance, etc.

If you are building boats that are not value for money, not the 'in style, etc. They won't sell. This is where Brooms are, they have been struggling to sell boats for several years. Also the people with the sort of money to buy a Broom are the ones who have been financially squeezed in the last few years, existing Broom owners are sticking with what they have.

Real bargains, if you want them

Curious dark patches each side of the bow, not a let in piece, as you can see the seams continuing through them. Looks as though something was covering each side stopping the colour fading.

Well, at least some of the boat builders will be able to move to the newly salvaged Oyster Yachts. When they say that they are coming out of building, I wonder if that includes their hire fleet expansion. They should have plenty of cash with the sale of the land on the edge of Brundall for housing.

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/oyster-yachts-bought-out-of-administration-by-richard-hadida--36077

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/broadland-s-lana-hempsall-reappointed-to-planning-committee-1-5438778