MBA Marine

I would have to agree 100% with that. but if they were to close down then i would definatly be in the que to pick up the batton!

As i said they can be very competitive, but they let themselves down with prices like just over £1 for a M6 dome nut, in what world should it cost that much? must be a good few hundred % mark up on that one, in fact i think i will check with beardshaws as to what that should cost, personly im still using what used to swept up of landamores floor! With the differance in price i would say one is a trade price and one is not or one has VAT added and one doesnt. eitherway money talks and go with the cheapest.

I couldnt agree more, i only use it when i have to. Anoyingly they can be very competive when your buying trade, they realy sting retail so if your cheaky enough ask them for discount! They have always needed some serious competition. I was once accused of black mailing them when i asked them to better a price on a cooker! I told them its just good business practice to find the best price, do you want to make a sale. They matched the price meaning i didnt have to wait for the other supplier to deliver. Brian Ward is alot more fun, you are always made welcome by Tanya, Nick or occasionaly Johnathon.

This question was asked recently by another member. If your near the north broads, Norfolk Marine in Hoveton (Wroxham to most!) will have one. Not my favourite place to shop i like service with a smile or at least a bit of jovial banter! but you should get what you want.

Spot on well put.

Norfolk relies on tourism for it economy, without it all whome live in the county would be affected. The broads is a tourist attraction and it takes money to keep the rivers and broads navicable, they are for all to enjoy and must be maintained. The hire fleets spend alot of money to keep those boats on the water, money that goes to the BA, money that goes to the hundreds of locals that are employed thanks to this attraction and boat building undustry that has developed around it. There are many people who are posting that they are sad that the broads pubs are closing, its the tourists money who keep them going. Its sad that this person had a bad time, but in general roudy boaters can be avoided, its in all our best interests if you want to use the water ways or work in the industry for the hire fleets to hire out as many boats as possible, without the income that comes from hire fleet what would happen? do you think the Condems will spend tax payer money to subsidise the broads or would all private boaters be happy to pay double or tripple the costs of their river toll?

Im on a boat most days of the week, also have fushed tissue out of sea toilets in the past to see if anything is visible, and i conclude no, if the skin fitting is down nice and low on the hull then NOTHING is visible. Unlike i must say the discharge of soapy water from sinks and showers discharging un-natural substances into the water, but i asume Monica your boat puts all this waste into a holding tank as well and your bilges are squeeky clean. More damage is caused from the cleaners that are used to clean the sink and shower tray going over board than human excreiment. why not also ban diesel, petrol and electric boats for the pollution created from burning the fuel, refinning the fuel and making the fuel cells. I ask why the stigma attached to human poo? you dont stop the fish from pooing, the bird poo get everywhere but we dont ban that. If a dog Poo's in the street mot people are happy to pick it up with a bag and dispose of it, tell them it human and watch them run a mile. Would i swim in the broads knowing its been deficated in?.... yes i would, i dont have a problem with digging in my garden and there is pleanty of horse sh*t in there! I conclude with the bucket and chuck man, he should be picked up for his behavior as no-one likes to see a floater!!! but maccerated/pulped (electric and manual flush respectivly) with no chemicals added does NO harm.

Ahhh, the ongoing debate regarding toilets, for whats its worth here is my personal view: The percentage of boats that discharge straight into the water is fairly small, and as long as the loo doesnt have a load of chemicals in it then all that goes into the water is very natural, as natural as what you eat! together with a little pulped tissue that is bio-degradable. the fish happly eat a bit of poo and the ecosystem keeps its equlibrium. The problem we have is that people always think of the Thames a its worst and that had our largest city dumping into it through the industrial revolution.not just human waste but factory and chemical waste. So what do you realy think is worse, a natural bi-product that nature can eat, or chemicals washing down from the fields killing the necessary bacteria? No im not admitting to having a sea toilet as i dont have boat on the water, but i realy dont have a problem with them on private craft.

As you may or may not know, my business is in boat repair, especialy the electrical and engineering side. I have two issues with BSS, well more the yards that take the weewee. fail boats for the sake of it knowing the customer wont check, then charge a fortune for the repair. I had one client who had test carried out and was handed a fail sheet and a £600+ quote for the work, they walked away and a mutual freind contaced me, I had a look and didnt agree. Tim Waters carried out a new inspection and i did the necessary work the total bill inc Tims certification was approx £250. My other issue is one that i keep seeing, boats with a BSS or just expired with things wrong the most commen is fuel filler/breather hoses, theses should have been changed 4 years ago. the hoses can be in nightmere places but still shouldnt have been ignored, also very recently i rewired some batteries that before i re-housed them were floating round the engine bay, they were installed by a well known yard, the same yard did the boats last BSS! When it comes to an inspector i only reccomend Tim Waters, he only fails what should fail. He doesnt take on the repairs so has nothing to gain by failing it, he also gives a free retest if you have failed. I think he is currently £110 all in. If for no other reason the BSS is a good idea just for the gas test, some gas systems..... you just dont want to know how bad they can be!!! Proberbly should point out that most boat yards are proberbly honest and fair.

Try a small plastic stool, the sort of thing children use to reach hand basin with. Be gratefull if your verticaly challenged you can always use a stool, but at 6'2" i can rarely stand fully upright on peoples boats and it can be quite tricky getting down tight lockers, bilges and engine rooms!

In the area you want to bend the alloy. Heat with blow torch, at first the flame on the alloy will be blue, when the alloy heats up and flame changes colour to a nice yellow/orange colour quash the alloy in water, you should then find it easily maluable without cracking round a tight bend. the alloy will harden up again over a few days. Hope thats of help.

I managed to trip out the private mooring side of Ricko's once, I hadnt disconneted the shore power hook up just isolated the circuit i was changing at its breaker. I touched the nutral and earth together as i disconnected a wire and although the trips on boat and all the shore power boxes all stayed on the main breaker in a shed went out! sorry. I can honestly say i take no chances now and i always pull the shore power plug out. live and learn!

Thank you all for your research, i really apprietiate your help. Im happy to call it a 'Europa 2+2' I may well put a posting on the For sale page, although the hull shape does look like it could be quite a fun little toy, but will i ever find the time to do it? i doubt it By the way i think the sun had got to me its a pullpit i have for it not pushpit as i has written (now im confusing myself i realy do know this stuff normaly! shiny rail at front!!!!)

Its looking more and more likely its a europa

That must be 2 in cain and 2 sleeping in in the cockpit coz there is no other room! so if the europa 4 is the mid cockpit wich is what i found when searching that would make this a 2+2. however there are pleanty of boat described as 2+2 with the aft cabin, do we think they have the wrong model name? Mark

Ok i have to admit that appart from the windows that does look just like it, could well be that mine is just an older model, i dont think the windows are in any recess's so the builder could cut in whatever/however many windows they want. Bloody hell could the broads authority have had it right with europa all along?

I hope you can find more on google than i did.

I knew this site, i had already tried searching the reg number, that why i turned to the BA

The hulls are a different design and of course mines longer (hehe ) but super structure design is very similar Mayland it may be. Thanks for the link

I make it 6'6"-6'8" beam and Approx 18.5' long, added pics but i doubt they help much. Im not in any rush to get rid of it as i was going to do it up but im just doubt im ever going to get round to it. if anyone might be interested she has canopy and cushions (although cushions do need attention, i would just use them as patterns) no trailer although i can borrow one to move it, no engine £350 or with a Evinrude 20hp 2stroke electric start with remotes £700 (not the volvo outboard pictured, i have no idea if that works or not!) needs a floor in cockpit and one hell of a jet wash compound and pollish, superstructure has its fair share of star crazes but this it to be expected. Also i picked up a little stainless pushpit wich with a little modification will sit nicely on the front.

The 3 windows on front is what i cant find either! as for microplus thanks for the link i have looked but the there boats that are of the same length are not the same hull (i will post a hull pic it might help) and none of the superstructures are close. Is it a mayland? i will look at some pics later and see. Thanks for the help guys, this boat came frome somewhere!

I have this little 19' ish criuser, but im struggling to put a make or model to it. can any of you help? I asked Broads authority and they were helpfull (hope you were sitting as you read!) but it was last registerd as a Europa 4 wich is a mid cockpit twin cabin cruiser. Over to the oricals!

Im glad your making a new mould, I had the mis-fortune of trying to rework one of Wroxam Marines after years of abuse, im sure it would have been more cost effective and given a better result if they had taken a plug from the old mould, faired out all imperfections and made a new mould. Typical of a boat yard better to bodge for a week than bite the bullit!

Wommy, one file i failed when trying to upload was the before pic with a schetch/doodle on top, this became the design and technical drawing! The barrier tape didnt last long, people took liking to pulling it off every night! The most anoying question of the project was people asking on a regular bacis "is it going back to sea?" answer: The transom has been cut down well below the water line, it has holes in the bottom for Gas, water, electric and drains, no engine or steering! its only going back in the sea if the cliff falls down! and if it was a renovation project why would i choose a pub garden to build it? People gotta love them!

I dont think the title is a lie, i doubt anyone else has turned a old Dauntless from canvy island into a outside BBQ grill. This is in the Garden of the 'Ship inn' Mundesley up on the cliff top of the north norfolk coast, I was contacted by the owner of the Ship and asked if i would be interested in the project, and not liking to turn a job down i said yes, My brief was to build the cockpit up to make a usable space but still retaining some boat shape,and although its a bit like a transit van i have seen worse shaped boats! its finished now but was about 95% in these pics. The current owner of the ship has alot of vision (perhaps a bit too much at times) but he and the current manager and staff have turned a pub with a terrible reputation into a happy comfortable place to eat and drink, thats my honest opinion having spent a few weeks there , i can also say that i have seen the Kitchen and know the cheff's and hygine is of a very very high standand the foods pretty good too . Back to the Boat, its had retired and was well past economic repair, shes an old wooden Dauntless that had been fibre glassed around at some piont, and now its a novel outside kitchen, it has more kit inside than i care to list! she has been named 'Lil Ship'. If your around that area go and have a look, its not somthing you see everyday! i belive the plan is to have the lil Ship open all summer and having tasted a grilled mackrell roll i can recommend the flame grilled fresh fish.