SWANMORE
our first boat
Swanmore was
built on a Colecraft shell and fitted out by Lawrence, Andy and Mike who
at the time were all working for Cowroast Marinas in Fenny Compton.
Despite our best efforts to design a 55
foot boat, Swanmore ended up being over 57ft in length when
completed. The engine is a Lister LPWS3, heating by a Morso Squirrel
stove and water heated by a "Paloma" instant heat.
We'd stretched the budget to get Swanmore
built, so we decided to go for the best quality build and fittings that we
could afford and leave out the "frilly bits". I think that
this paid off.
We made a few changes as time went on -
the two most obvious being the addition of the cratch and replacement of
the "Paloma" with a calorifier. We found that the Paloma
would blow itself out from time to time.
Despite eventually selling Swanmore,
we still feel the design worked well and were we to do the exercise again,
there's nothing that we would change
