Yachting and Boating World forums: Dusseldorf report - Nordhavn

Well chums, just back and left the guys to finish and pack up today.

As usual a massive show 16 halls in all and each about the size of LIBS which kinda gives you an idea of the size of the thing. There maybe 20,000 people or more milling about at any one time but because the place is so huge it feels very quiet yet if you put them all together in LIBS the place would be bursting at the doors.

Typical German organisation, everything well thought out and spotlessly clean, even the food is half reasonable, aisles are really wide so you can bumble along admiring everything without people pushing past and knocking into you. Nearly all the stands are very welcoming and bar a few exceptions which unfortunately have to say some were British stands you can mill about and have a shufty at everything.

I shall start off with the Nordhavn 43 and then post part 2, 3, etc as there will be too many pictures for one post and some on dial up will be forever trying to download the page.

Nordhavn guys from Hamble....excellent bunch of chaps, very knowledgeable and very passionate about the product, overall I would say they were the busiest stand at the show.

Of course lots of you will have looked over a Nordhavn before but for those of you that haven't nothing quite prepares you for the gravitas of the thing, it is just monsterously built, pitch a Nordhavn against a semi submerged container and my money would be on the Nordhavn. Everything is built to take the worst amount of punishment you can give it, if you ever own of these you will never be able to use the excuse the weather was too bad to go, gale 8? no problem just bimble out to deepish water set auto pilot, on with the stabilizers and sit back and enjoy! have a cup of tea, even have a bit of a sleep if you want (subject of course to someone on watch).

This is the 43 which will be heading back to Hamble on her own bottom next week.

The chaps at Hamble have kindly invited us out on a sea trial in about ten days

so second report to come on her on what she is really like at sea.........

Give me a while to get the next report uploaded, going to have a lay down for a while, me feet are bu88ered and my back has had it from days on end standing and walking bloody miles.....old f4rt that I am

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