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16th December 2010

Afloat.ie: 2006 Mariah SC23

Blue Flag Boats brings to market a versatile and fun small sports cruiser – Suitable for skiing/ wakeboarding or just cruising. 2 comfortable berths below and a spacious cockpit with ski storage and transom shower. For sale as a complete package including road trailer and Nav gear. For further information please visit the full listing here.
Published in Boat Sales
A planing day / weekend boat for cruising or fishing. 2 berths with stowage lockers and shelves. Cockpit table and cockpit seating, sprayhood, walk-around side deck to port. 140HP Johnston 4 stroke outboard engine with built in tank. For full details, visit the full listing here.
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A 1965 built sailing catamaran originally owned by author Jim Andrews who wrote about the yacht in his book “Twelve Ships a Sailing”, is for sale on the Afloat boats for sale site. More recently “Twintail”, a Prout Ranger, has cruised the West Coast of Scotland and Irish Sea areas with both her current and previous owner. The current owner has added a wheelhouse that provides full protection for the helm position. The UK built boat is for sale at £12,500 STERLING. The broker, Blue Flag boats of Northern Ireland says it is a strongly built and well proven design. Photos and full details here.



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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago