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dirtyden
 Post subject: Cost new 268 ?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:54 am 
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Have just bought my very first boat. A 2001 Four Winns 268 Vista. It has a Volvo Penta 260 HP 5.7 litre petrol engine. Purely as a matter of interest; what would she have cost brand spanking new?

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Cap'n Morgan
 Post subject: Re: Cost new 268 ?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:04 am 
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About $60 to $68K U.S. dollars in 2001. Doubtful if many people actually paid that for one new.

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dirtyden
 Post subject: Re: Cost new 268 ?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:07 am 
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Brilliant, many thanks for that. She still looks a million dollars to me

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gregs
 Post subject: Re: Cost new 268 ?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:58 pm 
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Congrats and welcome.

Where do you boat near Brum :?:

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dirtyden
 Post subject: Re: Cost new 268 ?
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Greg, I left Brum over 30 years ago for the Arab Gulf and South Africa. I am now back in the UK in Norfolk, so I'm on the Broads and North Sea. Slightly cooler than the waters around Bahrain, Joann and Kuwait!

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gregs
 Post subject: Re: Cost new 268 ?
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Gotcha. I left the UK with Mum and Dad in 65. Been in Canada ever since. Discovered boating in 2002. Bigger boats in our future hopefully.


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dirtyden
 Post subject: Re: Cost new 268 ?
PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:20 am 
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Same here ! Will progress gradually to that mega cruise liner I've always wanted.

Bummer, just noticed that pre-emptive text on my Touchpad has put Joann instead of Oman in my last entry !

Have just booked a full day with an Instructor to show me all aspects of controlling a 268, I'll feel a lot more confident after that.

Have only got expereince on RIB's and dinky sized fishing boats with an outboard - so this'll be a tad different.

The instructor calls the 268 a 'Tardis' - bigger on the inside that the outside !

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Jafo4U
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 4:29 am 
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Congrats on your new purchase and welcome to the forum. Hope you have many days of fun piloting your big girl.
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dirtyden
 Post subject: Re: Cost new 268 ?
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hope to get a few big girls on board soon !

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Bliss36
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dirtyden wrote:
hope to get a few big girls on board soon !


Load em up :lol:
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dirtyden
 Post subject: Re: Cost new 268 ?
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NOT THAT BIG! You can have 'em.
Try a Man Over Board practise exercise with one of those beauties.

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mcraigchr
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Bliss36 wrote:
Load em up :lol:


No need for coffee this morning. I'm awake now.

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