Wanted scirocco in good condition. no fancy prices please. PM me with pics, tel and price please
i know one who had a scirocco for sale but i dont know if he sold it. give him a ring 99899927
Thanks Busu... guess they are good boats for fishing?
although they are a bit (baxxi) they are great boats for fishing.
thanks Bigboy, do you suggest anything else. had a look at the bahri but really they dont seem sturdy. I am after a 16-18ft boat for fishing at night and perhaps some light trolling. my idea is that if I want to fish in the hsouth i would just launch it from the south
the 16footers are quite ok and not (baxxi) i thought you were referring to the small sciroccos.
I'd also consider the Kaptan Trend which are also great boats and very sterdy in some heavy sees. If i were you id go down to their garage @ birzebbugia and have a look.
To say the truth i am more into boats produced locally than the Sh*t we import from abroad. No offenses to anyone but we cant compare maltese boats with boats produced abroad.
Have a look at these boats: Kaptan Trend, Sea hawk by tar ratal marine, and Petecraft fast fishers.
saw a seahawk in Gozo last week but it does not seem to be practical to launch it. I already own a 32ft which i use for boat pleasure and fishing. My idea was to be more for night fishing and my aim is the launch it whenever i need to use the small boat. the fastfisher and the seahawk i am so seeing that i can reach my aim. what do you think?
the sea hawk and fast fisher 16 are ideal for that type of fishing to launch and take up each time
saw one for sale on the internet with an inboard engine is that easy too?
Still quite easy to launch and retreive.
Personally i prefer inboards more than outboards
thanks bigoy for the valuable info
Np my friend ;)
Kaptan Trend are quite heavy compared to similar imported boats. Launching and retrieving by 1 person is not an easy task unless you are on a good slipway.
@ bigboy - I cannot understand why you are generalising that the imported boats are sh*t!! It's true that there sre some boats that leave much to be desired but you cannot generalise that all of them are sh*t. I can assure you that in Malta there are a lot of local shitty boats being built too - especially in the smaller sizes - hulls that do not plane, hulls that are so heavy that they require an engine rating much higher than their competitors and thus waste much more fuel, hulls being modified from one build to another because they cannot get it right, hopeless finishing, etc.. etc... But then on the other hand there are some quality built. So, in my opinion it has nothing to do with locally or foreign but more who the manufacturer is!
i agree with benri 100 % . in malta there are some builders that experiment with people's money. they sell a boat and when people start complaining that the boat has something wrong they make another model and try to fix the problem but those who had bought the first model boats stay with the bad boats. its not fair because they have paid good money for the boat.
Busumark and benri......i think that whoever buys a boat, first books a test drive! It is the customer who makes the decision to buy a boat and not the manufacturer. Also nowadays all maltese boats sold here or the EU have to have the CE certification which is not that easy for a boat builder to obtain.....
I have a Scirocco myself, its 14?ft. 20H.P. Mariner. Its good for fishing but as some of you stated its a little low (baxx) especially the motor area. Can something be done to solve this problem. The thing is that when a wave comes from behind some water gets inside.
SHAFTBOMB not everyone goes for a test drive and that is a very bad thing. some buy a boat because they take the manufactures word that it is good or arrange for them to meet someone that has one and he tells the prospective buyer that it is good. also it depends in what sea conditions you do a test drive. than there are those people who know nothing about boats and for them the boat is good but when someone goes with them who has experience with boats can point out the bad things. i know some local cases of this happening if you want i can tell you and than you tell me yes its true. about the CE mark there are some builders that are registering their boats MFC and so they dont need a CE mark. also there is difference between CE mark and CE mark. it depends who does the test. there are some test agencies more professional than others and do more difficult and rigorous tests. so a boat can pass from a not so difficult test and get a CE mark if it does the test in the first place but it wont pass from the test of another testing agency and it wouldnt get a CE mark. so there also difference between CE mark boats. always ask who is the testing agency who made the CE test and check if its a serious agency
I agree with most of what you said BUSUMARK but keep in mind that most maltese boat builders come from families that have boat building traditions. In my opinion who can understand maltese sea conditions better than we maltese ourselves?! Also nowadays the maltese boat building craft has modernized more and the finishing is very close if not better than foreign built boats. Also be aware that a good proportion of forein built boats are used and tested in rivers or lakes and where water conditions are much different than sea conditions and that's why sometimes of videos you see the driver changing course fast and easily and obtaining sky high mph.