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CONTENTS FIRST LOOK

FEATURE
32 ARE YOU
SITTING
COMFORTABLY
Then let’s
begin... Paul
Lemmer takes a
comprehensive
look at the latest
shock mitigation
seating - is this
the future of RIB
and fast boat seat
design? The shape
of things to come?

BOAT TESTS FIRST LOOK MINI GUIDES

12 Skua RB6 Prototype 42 Rough Guide to...
A new name on the scene with a high-end Welcome to RIB Magazine’s
leisure product designed to be different. rough guide features, where
Paul Lemmer takes the helm. we visit our favourite cruising
spots aound the UK. This issue

16 Goldfish 29 FIRST LOOK

features Lulworth Cove, Durdle
Door, Kimmeridge Bay and St
Alban’s Head
The luxury Scandinavian builder, know for
world leading quality and performance,
showcase their latest £160k fast tender.

20 Ribeye T Series
Hugo Montgomery-Swan trials the new FIRST LOOK
tender series from established offshore RIB
builder Ribeye and likes what he finds…

24 C-Fury Voyager COOKING GUIDE

RIB Magazine brings you yet another brand new
RIB, this time with an innovative tri-hull design. 44 Camping Cookers
FIRST LOOK
One of the attractions of a RIB
26 Suzuki Engine is going for small adventures,
such as camping trips. Kayakers
Suzuki are renowned for being at the do this all the time, and a RIB is
forefront of 4-stroke technology and such a perfect tool for exploring
creating outboard motors that boast a by water as Simon Everett
variety of innovative features… highlights.

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 CAVING
ADVENTURE
48 Entering the dark zone
The RIB is the ultimate powerboat for adventuring at sea. Its
hugely stable, seaworthy, shallow draught and high-speed
attributes represent an unbeatable combination that are more
than proven both offshore and inshore.

52 Dolphin Watching WILDLIFE

Of all the creatures that inhabit
our seas and oceans, none have
featured more prominently
in human culture than the
dolphin.

58 Chine Walking
Chine walking – why it happens and how to fix it…

62 Ceasar invades St Kilda

Amazing! Dad said I could take my own boat, Seutrek – a
4m Ceasar Surfcat with a Tohatsu 30hp outboard – to St
Kilda, a distance of 64 nautical miles…

FEATURES
68 Console yourself 74 What a business!
Quality control, health and safety,
risk assessment and legislation are all Paul McCarthy had been buying RIBs, cleaning them up and
hot topics. How do they relate to the selling them on from his garage at home in South Devon for
marine environment and what can a year when the ‘crunch’ came…
happen when things go wrong? Hugo
Montgomery-Swan relates a recent
experience of import to all our readers…
78 Let’s go ribbing!
There’s nothing better than getting

72 Heavy Weather Powerboating out on the water and having fun …

Adlard Coles, the renowned publishers
of nautical books, have succeeded once
again in bringing to the forefront an area
of seamanship which has sadly lacked
attention.
SUBSCRIPTION
but having fun is easier and safer if
you have an idea of what to do, where
to go, what the dangers are when
boating and what kit to carry…
82 For those in peril at sea
It is an immeasurable task to actually define how much we
owe to the RNLI for selflessly acting to save those at peril
from our ever changing seas. Paul Brett reports.

READER OFFER! 86 The North-West Passage

WIN a 6 month’s free membership & Receive Battling through ice and extreme sea conditions en route,
UNLIMITED use of Seawake’s RIB’s Page 66 adventurer Bear Grylls has led the first team ever to take a
RIB through Canada’s notorious North-West Passage.

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