An interview with Kirk & Cat who have a Balance 526 on order.

[@navalgazingatcampdavid]

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[@gregluce]

Well done, congratulations to all of you. Miss Sylvia, be curious. Dave, keep your enthusiasm and keep taking one step at a time. I see great adventures ahead.

[@navalgazingatcampdavid]

Many thanks Greg!!

[@shakazuluzone]

Great content again. Wonderful format for you to recreate again with biatbb be owners.

[@navalgazingatcampdavid]

Thanks so very much for the kind and encouraging words!! D

[@handroids1981]

Thanks for another long format video, on a fantastic boat too. Would you ever consider a custom build? Perhaps a Chris White Atlantic - kevlar, carbon, S glass?

[@captainrehab2047]

Or Aluminum. Look at what Barefoot Doctors (Portofino 52) and Nahoa are building in Aluminum

[@navalgazingatcampdavid]

Ohhh my!! Don’t get me going. Lol. I’d Love to do a custom boat. My Frankenstein Boot episode shows exactly what I’d like to do. It’s my banker that might squawk Lol!!

[@navalgazingatcampdavid]

Ohhh yaaaa!! The Portofino 47 would be about perfect for me. I did a Future Yacht episode on it.

[@JetWings]

i saw Craig there

[@navalgazingatcampdavid]

Yes you did! I have a lovely chat with he and his wife. Really nice people! D

[@JetWings]

@@navalgazingatcampdavid kudos to Canadian wife convincing sailers lol

[@Capitalist_Pig314]

Why don’t they give accurate 100% fore sail area? And should they not use half loaded not dry weight? And a lot of them do not offer polar diagrams, and if they do, they are suspect. Balance does seem to be more honest though.

[@navalgazingatcampdavid]

Love your questions, and voice the same complaints in the specs section of almost every video. I defy you to find the 100% forward triangle figure with almost anyone other than Balance. And don’t even get me started on useable area, storage volume, fridge and freezer volume or black water capacity. Re lightship displacement…well the standard for that is a tad fluid too lol. So there is my rant. D

[@Capitalist_Pig314]

@@navalgazingatcampdavid thank you. You’re very conscientious. You think about the important things? It’s a shame boats cannot be like cars or iPhones or other products in the 21st century and have a higher degree of reliability. Never buy a new boat. You’ll be doing for the next six months is fixing everything they didn’t do properly from the factory. I don’t know electronic plumbing HVAC boats is just cheap for them trying to save pennies. Or perhaps it is because no better product is out there. On my IKEA 47 I’ve had trouble with everything. The generator the water maker, the air conditioner, constantly have to prime the water pump on and on. I have horror stories with my dealer. PERFORMANCE YACHT SALES in Miami. Never worked with them. Anyways, I didn’t mean to rant. Love your show keep it up.

[@Capitalist_Pig314]

@@navalgazingatcampdavid one last thing, I utilized Xquisite catamarans maintenance people on my IKEA 47 to do the support that I can’t get done through PERFORMANCE YACHT SALES. They are wonderful xquisite may be the one manufacturer that takes quality seriously.