New Toy for one man operation

[Bigplumbs]

So I am being made redundant at the tender age of 54 and thought I might (If I like it) retire. When I want to go boating on occasion I cannot always find a crew and none of my boats excluding the 3 hp SIB can be managed by me alone. So I went and bought this little beauty which should Zip along and can also be used as a tender to my Sports Cruiser if I am lucky enough to secure a fairways mooring which is up the river somewhat.

Hopefully the little 15 hp four stroke will push her along at about 20 - 24 mph. I also picked it up only 8 miles from my house for a good price. Most of the other ones I have seen have been in Devon which is 5 hours away and have been more than I paid for this.

It is a 3.4 m rib by the way with a fiberglass floor valiant D340 with Mariner 15 hp 4 stroke

Now I need a name for her

Dennis

[Ianfs]

Zippy!

[shibbs]

How many is that you have now??

[Bigplumbs]

How many is that you have now??

Well here we go:

Fletcher 19 GTS Sports Cruiser 1 No
Fletcher Arrowstreak 17 Bowrider 2 No
Fletcher 16 Bravo 1 No
Fletcher 16 GTO 1 No
3.1 m SIB 1 No
Valiant 340 1 No
2.6 m SIB 1 No
Jetski 1 No

So sort of 9 ish..................................... Is that too many ?

Dennis

[shibbs]

That's impressive!!

[_Ed_]

I know your feeling about crew! I have the same and although I could if I wanted to go alone, I much prefer to share adventures. Why so many Fletchers though lol? (This is even me saying that!)

[Bigplumbs]

I know your feeling about crew! I have the same and although I could if I wanted to go alone, I much prefer to share adventures. Why so many Fletchers though lol? (This is even me saying that!)

I know what you mean about going alone and it is not my preference but sometimes the weather etc seems to good to miss. Our local river the Deben is a good river for a small boat and also this will be nice to trailer to some locations with small slipways etc. Got to watch the wheels on the trailer though as they are very small and the tyres will get quite warm at any sort of speed and distance.

Why so many Fletchers ................................... ?????????? Is there any other speed boat to have if you are British . To be honest 2 of the Fletchers are sort of my Brothers but I bought them and look after them for him. I just love Fletchers

Dennis

[betty boop]

WOW and you could of bought Betty as well, may be I should have changed the Betty label to Flechter and see if yo noticed Love the new one, I was only talking last night about selling getting a motor home with a small rib or inflatable, that woudl suit us fine up here with ramps and anti pikey barriers everywhere when a 'boat 'is just oo big. nice one

[Bigplumbs]

Took her out today and she goes well. I am getting 19 Knots out of her. I would like a little more. I wonder where there migh be a nice 25 hp motor with PTT

Dennis

[Bigplumbs]

Took her out again today on my own. Super easy to launch and recover. Had great fun buzzing around. I have fitted a little Garmin Striker 4 to her which helps with depth, Speed and waypoints if needed. Only £118 incl Transducer.

The best thing about this little boat apart from the ease of use on your own is the fact that after whipping about for about 3 hours I only used about 4 ltrs of petrol. Not bad I recon

Dennis