Barry and Nicola

Not sure anyone has spotted this yet as i've not read the whole lot yet. someone got you!, keep up the good work.

Hi, I just had a quick scout on both sites mentioned and if you were prepared to go on friday for a week there is a saving of over £200 on the usual prices. Good luck Barry

Thanks HA and CLIVE, for the welcome, i hadn't realised this was my first post on here as we've been members for quite some time now. We seem to be working our way through clive's fleet pretty quickly having had holiday's on magic gem, clear gem, finesse, supreme, concerto and more recently gold gem, most more than once as we seem to find a boat we like and stick with it until it's not available when we want it!, back to the subject of fuel costs i'm afraid we only have the idiot's that we voted for to blame for the hike in duty on almost everything enjoyable in britain, on the plus side once our fuel deposit is paid the pain seem's to fade. Get on with enjoying the broads while we can!!, any return of fuel deposit almost always goes to the burger van in potter on the way home anyway. I'm very drunk rite now so hope the above makes even a bit of sense.. Barry

HI ALL, In reply to Clive's post ref NANNI fuel consumption i can agree totally!. Having quite a few of his bathtubs over the last few years starting in 2006 with MAGIC 4, fitted then i believe with a 1500cc BMC?. We had her for two weeks in the summer hol's, i seem to remember the fuel deposit then was £100, being new to hire boating we were not very clued up on tides and thing's so wherever we went and we done some mile's/hour's, was usually at high rev's, on return to the yard we had a refund of a massive 36 pence!! better than having to pay extra tho i thought. Since then for some strange reason every boat we've had seem's to have a new NANNI fitted the week before . Me being a self employed diesel fitter i have a serious issue regarding fuel consumption and seeig a penny saved on fuel can be put towards the next richo's boat we hire!. As clive said the NANNI love's to rev and is far more content and economical when it's shaking!, You can take this next quote how you wish! we had GOLD GEM 8 for a week in april 2012, on takeover it has a brand new NANNI with 16 hours on the clock, i treat it like a baby for the whole week and returned her with 66 hours on the clock, she drank 122 quid in fuel. 4 weeks later we had the same boat with 162 hour''s on the clock, again took it back a week later with +50 hours = 212 hour's on clock, having been slightly less gentle with the throttle and heater she used £68 in fuel. Yes she will have been slightly more run in so not as tight but all northern side cruising so no major tide's to run against. Moral of this story being that the KUBOTA NANNI is the way forward for the Broads boat's of today, the BMC is fuel efficient also but noisey and smokey when well used and in my opinion the PERKINS is just plain planet destroying junk with more issue's than i care to type!!. Keep up the good work clive Best regards Barry