Oddities in adverts

[Arthur Brown]

Looking at the lower end of the market I see some oddities!

 

42ft boat with 2500cc diesel -will it plane?

4 berth with 30 litre water tank -would anyone shower ever?

4 berth with 9 litre diesel tank -fuel up every day?

[RLWP]

That first one isn't that uncommon. If you go way back to the 1970s 42 foot is a sensible length boat, and a BMC 2.2 or 2.5 a normal choice. Probably cruiser sterned too

 

Richard

[Athy]

Looking at the lower end of the market I see some oddities!

 

42ft boat with 2500cc diesel -will it plane?

4 berth with 30 litre water tank -would anyone shower ever?

4 berth with 9 litre diesel tank -fuel up every day?

You may recall a recent thread in which a forum colleague was worried about a boat's "22 litre" (about five gallons) fuel tank, as specified in an advert. It turned out to be 200 litres - enough for a few hundred miles of cruising!

Our boat is 45 feet long and has a 2.8 litre engine. We never get towing requests from water-skiers.

[Bee]

Back in the good old days there were not a lot of small diesels to choose from, the 2.2 was likely to be the first one you found in the scrapyard so that was the one that had a gearbox stuck on the end and dropped in the boat.

[Phil Ambrose]

We had a 2.2 BMC Commander in our GRP 40ft x 12ft Broads cruiser, came out of a bus I was told.

Phil

[mark99]

Looking at the lower end of the market I see some oddities!

 

42ft boat with 2500cc diesel -will it plane?

4 berth with 30 litre water tank -would anyone shower ever?

4 berth with 9 litre diesel tank -fuel up every day?

 

 

IIRC Kelvin K series are 4,000cc per cylinder.

 

My boat has a 2,700cc diesel (28HP).

Edited February 2, 2015 by mark99

[blackrose]

You may recall a recent thread in which a forum colleague was worried about a boat's "22 litre" (about five gallons) fuel tank, as specified in an advert. It turned out to be 200 litres - enough for a few hundred miles of cruising!

 

Yes, so these things are generally just typos rather than oddities.

[Paul H]

My favorites from the a few years ago are:

Vanished wheelhouse and

Insulted cabin !

 

What a difference a letter makes!

 

Paul

[Henhouse]

Does anyone remember the advert a few years ago for a boat in Yorkshire ( I think it was ?). The picture of the bathroom included a woman sat in the bath !!!

 

 

 

 

 

edit to correct typo

Edited February 2, 2015 by Henhouse