[Lifting out time]

Hi Alan,

 

Just out of interest who does your Gel repairs?

[Shares for Sale in Southern Crusader, a Birchwood 340 AC Cruiser]

Many thanks to Jonzo for allowing us to list these. Please see below for details and listing of our current available shares. If you would like any more information please let me know.

 

Thanks,

 

Jon

 

The boat is a Birchwood 340 6 berth with 2 shower rooms with pump out toilets. Master stateroom with en-suite. Gas Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Flat Screen TV/DVD Player, DAB CD radio with Bluetooth and MP3 Player connectivity, 240 Volt Generator for those all important hair dryers and straighteners!, Battery Charger, Shore Power and Eberspacher Warm Air Heating.

 

Ownership

Owning a beautiful boat is an ambition only a few of us actually realize. For most people, the concept of buying and owning a luxurious boat and only using it a few weeks each year makes it uneconomic. Look in any Marina and notice how infrequently the boats are moved.  The depreciation of the asset plus the maintenance and annual running costs are equally frightening.  

But taking a share in a boat is easily affordable and offers unrivalled value for money. There is nothing complex about sharing this way and no catches. The boat is owned and managed by the Southern Crusader Owners' Syndicate. Ownership of the boat is split into 36 fixed weeks, each year, with 12 extra weeks being syndicate-owned and are available to take as extra weeks for use by existing owners. Four weeks are reserved for maintenance. The running costs are divided equally between the 36 weeks and is approximately £350.00 per week.

The boat is owned by 20 like minded owners (some others have more than one week as well). Once you have purchased your share, all you will pay is the annual fee – (2014 - £322.00) which covers your proportion of maintenance, mooring, insurance, replacement items, etc. Plus diesel and pump out if you use the boat.

The shares on Southern Crusader are all fixed weeks , there is no drawing of allocations, this means that any week that you would purchase is always within a few days of each other every year.

This is fantastic value for money when you think that to hire the same boat in basic form as a Broads hire cruiser -Fair Diplomat costs £795 - £1445 to hire.

There is an AGM annually and an owners foum where you can get the latest news and future plans, have the opportunity for your views and comments and talk to other owners.

There are also opportunities to take other members allocated weeks which you can agree directly with them if they cannot take their week, or if you cannot take your week another member may rent it from you.

It costs more than £350 to get any sort of holiday accommodation on the Broads for a week. But this luxury accommodation can also be taken on the rivers as well !

 

Mooring

The boat is moored to a floating pontoon at Brundall Bay Marina in Brundall, Norfolk which must be one of the best marinas on the Broads where it has mains electricity, water, showers and toilets.

 

Specification

Length 10.33 Meters/34 Ft

Beam 3.37 Meters/11 Ft

Air Draft 2.95 Meters/9.8 Ft

Draft 0.94 Meters/3.1Ft

Nanni Diesel Engine

230V 2kW Diesel Generator

230v Immersion Water Heater

Eberspacher Warm Air Heating

4hp Bowthruster

Internal and External Helm Positions

Navigation Lights

230v Battery CHarger with Three 110ah Leisure Batteries

Shore Power with 230v Sockets

12v Charger Sockets

 

Please note that we do not allow pets on board and there is strictly no smoking anywhere on the boat

 

Current Shares for Sale

Week 22 - 28th June 2015 - £2,350

Week 36 - 3rd October 2015 - £1,200

Week 38 - 17th October 2015 - £1,250

Week 40 - 31st October 2015 - £1,250

Week 41 - 7th November 2015 - £950

Week 47 - 19th December 2015 - £1,700

Week 48 - 26th December 2015 - £1,700

 

 

 

Thanks for looking and if you have any questions please let me know.

 

Jon

[C'est La Vie from City Boats]

Lovely looking boat, we went past her in October last year.

[Caught in stormy weather]

Apt username!

[Police search at Bramertom]

Not good news Im afraid.

 

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/video_police_find_man_s_body_in_river_at_bramerton_1_3887555

[NBN Calendar?]

We've had to come to a decision on the calendar I'm afraid....

 

As it's now so close to Christmas, and we have only received three of the pictures in high res for printing we are going to have to park this idea for now and come back to it around September time.

 

I'm really sorry to have to do this, but by the time we get all the pictures together and get the calendars ordered it'll be too late to get them to everyone in time for Christmas.

 

I'd much prefer to get this absolutely right and put together a really great 2016 calendar than sell our members something that wasn't quite right.

 

If you've already sent your pictures to Peter then thank you (you know who you are), if not can you please send them (PM me with a link to Dropbox or suchlike, ideally) as all of the existing entries will be used provided that they meet the specs.

 

What I'm asking is that the images are a MINIMUM of 2,500 pixels on either edge (any 10mp camera or above will be capable of this). Jpegs are okay, although I'd prefer RAW files if you have them.

Hi,

 

Im afraid number of pixels is a bit misleading on this. For printing purposes what you need is a minimum of 300 DPI at the final image size, any picture can have the number of pixels increased in Photoshop but it does not increase the quality of it.

 

Jon

[NBN Calendar?]

Hi,

 

You can put us down for one as well, heres my contribution.

 

Jon