Another great article about the new Challenge Yacht in Swansea

The boat looks great and all reports back from the happy owners are that it handles like a dream and is a skippers fantasy in reality :)

Now back to slightly less grandiose sailing ;)

I mentioned yesterday that I knew of two boats that were all that they were expected to be. 

Obviously the beautiful and premium price tag Challenge was one of them.

But here is something in the reaches of most people's budgets and which is superb fun and marvellous to use and handle.

Ladies and gentlemen, sailors and landlubbers will all find this a dinky little fun packed bundle.

The AquaGlide - tarraa!!!

I will be getting some video footage of this little inflatable sail boat tomorrow will add it then.

It only cost about £300 at the Southampton Boat Show in 2007 - so it came in at around much less than one hundred times cheaper than a Powercat 525 Evolution - which cost over £37,000 in February 2008.

But surprisingly it has lasted longer - given us more on water hours and is safe to allow small children on deck as it has no sharp or piercing protrusions on it.

So you don't always 'get what you pay for' - sometimes laughably cheap turns out to be better quality than expensive.

We had a lovely day yesterday on the beach at Antisamos.  Our son took our friends children out for their first experience on the water.  Their ages ranged from 7 to 13.  They had been expecting to go out on the powerboat.  But it isn't safe for use.

We will be going out on a caique  (pronounced Ka Yee Kee ) on Sunday as it is the only way we can attempt to provide them with the 'hands on' experience we had promised.

Ionian Discoveries is run by Jamie Stirling and we expect to have another great day out on the water on his traditional Greek Fishing boat which has been kitted out for educational trips.
 


Here's a youtube video of Jamie in action.  There are some great underwater shots here :)