PROCHARTER P3 INTRODUCTION

Most of our fittings such as doors, dashboard, locker boxes, engine boxes, seating are made in moulds and fully bonded or nut and bolted. There is no wood deck to look after and very little to maintain. See (3 above). You even use your deck wash to clean out your wheelhouse and front cabin. Our stainless steel is marine grade 316 or above. There is no compromise on quality!

The ProCharter P3. From 25ft (7.6m) to 35ft (10.6m) and every length in between.

One day all boats will be built like this! Not just ours.

The P3 is built to the customers specifiFc requirements. As a ferry the P3 is capable of seating over 40 passengers. As a tripping / sightseeing boat at just 28ft (8.53m) the P3 can seat 3 crew in the wheelhouse with seating outside for 12 passengers.

The P3 is available with the Camargue (extra wide) wheelhouse.

A major cruise line company specializing in Arctic cruises has asked us to design and build 8 glass bottom boats to go on their cruise ships and excursions whilst at sea. These boats are 27ft (8.23m) in length, can seat 18 passengers inside the wheelhouse around a vast glass viewing area. Our quote for these twin engine boats will be around £80,000 per vessel.

We can custom build your total boat. We can increase or decrease all dimensions of our wheelhouse, hull and gunwale (height, length, width, etc). We have in the past built boats from the ProCharter range for many different and diverse operations, such as, ambulance boat, floating office. Boats with glass viewing areas in the hull for survey and scientific research. Boats for hauling creel pots and nets, fish farms, a service boat for the Sport Scotland Yacht Club, and many private customers who want something special from a stable work boat. A number of boats have been built for commercial use in Ireland, Holland, Spain, Gibraltar, Portugal and Greece. Due to Greece being the other side of Europe to us and ideally suited to supply boats to the Mediterranean and Southern Europe we now have agents in Athens www.procharter.gr and we expect to be manufacturing the ProCharter range in Greece for 2009. www.procharter.nl will be on-line spring/summer 2008. We have built high speed ferries which are working up to 60 miles (100km) off the West coast of Scotland and the Orkney Islands. We are currently building a 100 passenger Americana ferry for the UK. We are also designing a 60ft (18.3m) Americana for pleasure use. The boat will be kept on a mooring in the Thames and used as a house boat. The interesting part of this build is that the boat will be able to launch and recover a Sea Plane from the rear deck. So even if you think your dream boat is impossible to have, phone us before you give up.

When building a ProCharter for a customer, a 24 hour live stream Webcam is put on the boat. The customer can not only watch his boat being built, he can record it to DVD. Just like the Discovery Channel but without the sound. Although we would like anyone who visits our Website to be able to watch our build programs to boost our sales, only the customer can watch their Webcam, as it is password protected. We do this because to many people using the stream slows it down and this is not fair on the customer. As with all ProCharter boats the option of fitted water ballast tanks is available, weight her down when she needs it and still enjoy the low fuel cost of a light boat when you don't.

We can custom build your total boat. We can increase or decrease all dimensions of our Wheelhouse, Hull and Gunwale, height, length, width, etc. We have in the past built boats for many different and diverse operations, such as, ambulance boat, floating office. Boats with glass viewing areas in the hull for survey and scientific purposes. Boats for hauling creel pots and nets, fish farms, service boat for the Sport Scotland Yacht Club and many private customers who want something special from a stable workboat. We have built a number of boats for commercial use in Ireland, Holland, Spain, Gibraltar, Portugal and Greece. Due to Greece being the other side of Europe to us and ideally suited to supply boats to the Mediterranean and Southern Europe, we now have agents in Athens http://www.procharter.gr and we will be manufacturing the ProCharter range in Greece. We have built high speed ferries which are working 60 miles (100km) off the west coast of Scotland and the Orkney Islands. We are currently building a 100 passenger Americana ferry for the UK. We are also designing a 60ft (18.3m) Americana for pleasure use. The boat will be kept on a mooring in the Thames and used as a house boat. The interesting part of this build is the boat will be able to launch and recover a Sea Plane from the rear deck. So, even if you think your dream boat is impossible to have, phone us before you give up.

PROCHARTER P3 SPECIFICATION

P3 Sailaway Build Specification and Prices

CONSTRUCTION

The hull, wheelhouse and gunwale are laid up to comply with the requirements of The MCA CLASS 6 (offshore ferry) REGULATIONS, LLOYDS SPECIAL SERVICE CRAFT RULES (Lloyds SSC), SEAFISH REGULATIONS, RECREATIONAL CRAFT DIRECTIVE (RCD) and the new EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE or to the regulations of the country in which the boat will be operating.

The gel coat is brushed into the mould to ensure a thick even coating. We do NOT spray or use rollers to apply gel coat.

The hull lay-up consists of layers of Rovimat Combination Cloth all of which are applied by hand in a one piece mould with overlaps as per the requirements of the authorities in paragraph 1.

Whilst still in the mould, the hull is framed. Generally the frames are at 60cm intervals although this may vary due to the length of the craft. The size and spacing of frames will be to the regulations in paragraph 1.

The deck shelf is laminated at the height required by the customer.

The wheelhouse and gunwale has strengthening pads bonded for seacock's and the stainless steel rails and bow roller. The wheelhouse and gunwale is bonded to the hull.

This completes the mouldings stage

The longitudinal and lateral bulkheads are fitted and fully bonded to the hull at 120cm intervals from the transom to the front crash bulkhead creating a series of separate compartments. Drain off taps are fitted to each compartment.

Trunking is fitted from the engine room to the wheelhouse and fully bonded in place.

All pads are now bonded to the hull where required for seacock's and associated fittings.

The fuel tank(s) is/are now installed.

Composite deck panels are bonded and screwed down and then laminated over.

Engine box fitted and secured with hinges and over centre clips.

Ventilation to engine room formed to underside of gunwale.

Aft Wheelhouse bulkhead constructed.

Door and frame constructed in G.R.P. Door opens outwards and can be lifted off and then stowed on its hinges secured behind the anchor locker box.

Full width console in wheelhouse with door access to forward accommodation with full standing height.

GRP helm boxes fitted in the wheelhouse.

Interior layout to your choice with storage under all seats.

Twin anchor locker boxes behind wheelhouse bulkhead. .

Internal surface of cockpit gel coated and walking surfaces finished in non-slip. All in the colours of your choice.

Engine beds fitted.

Two Scuppers each cut to 250 sq. centimetre's in transom. [125 by 200 mm]

MECHANICS
Auxiliary system battery isolator.
12 way distribution switch panel with circuit breakers.
Two 12-volt batteries of 128 amp hr each.
Isolator / changeover switch.
Split charging relay.
Cabin light and forward cabin light.
Pantograph screen wiper on helm window.
Full navigation lights fitted.
Viking 32 diaphragm electric bilge pump with manual override handle.

ELECTRICS
Auxiliary system battery isolator.
12 way distribution switch panel with circuit breakers.
Two 12-volt batteries of 128 amp hr each.
Isolator / changeover switch.
Split charging relay.
Cabin light and forward cabin light.
Pantograph screen wiper on helm window.
Full navigation lights fitted.
Viking 32 diaphragm electric bilge pump with manual override handle.

STAINLESS (all 316 or marine grade).
Pulpit extending back to start of wheelhouse windows.
Push pit in two sections with mid rail through.
Stainless grab rails on roof.
Stainless scupper flaps fitted to transom.
Stainless mooring bollards. [Three].
Bow roller.
Stainless mast
Fuel filler in deck or gunwale.

REMAINING HARDWARE
3 inch “D” Section rubber gunwale protection all in circles with aluminium end caps.
Sea toilet. with seacock’s, inlet and discharge.
Toughened glass anodised aluminium windows. Side windows half drop.
ABS hinged hatches fitted to moulding cut outs.
Antifouling applied.

 P3 PRICES
Many times customers ask me why our boats are so cheap. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, every manufacturing business is the same, in that the total cost in overheads of the company such as; rent, rates, advertising, utilities, insurance, wages and maintenance costs to name just a few are included in the final price of the product they sell. We currently make around 30 boats a year. If we only make 10 boats a year, overheads would remain the same and only the wages bill would be lower. So if we add our current overheads to just 10 boats a year we would need to be charging on average another £20,000 per unit

Soon we will be building many more boats every year. We have designed and are currently producing 3 new models. The first is the Americana, the second is the Vayron and the third is the Camargue which brings our model range up to 5. More importantly we can now really attack the ferry market and seriously undercut the current ferries being offered, in the same way we have the charter market. Our aim for the entire ProCharter range is 60 boats per year. As we increase our annual manufacturing numbers we will continue to reflect the saving in manufacturing costs into our products. Cheaper boats for the customer!

So how do we make our money? Our philosophy is quite simple. A small profit from each customer, and have a lot of customers instead of the normal English approach to business, which is make as much as you can from each sale. We believe it is better to have an egg every day rather than eat the chicken! During the summer and autumn when boat sales are low we manufacture part built boats for the next season which brings down build times for the spring, the busy part of the year. All of our profit is reinvested into the company. We have on average £1,000,000 in stock. When we are building 60 / 80 boats per year the company will be worth £millions. That is when we will make our profit which will come from a company like one of the multinational recreation boat builders like Princess or Fairline.
 

KIT PRICES

If you require something different to the offers/options below, please phone or email us for a quotation of work to your specification. We can build a kit that suits you.

We can supply you with everything you need to finish building your boat. We do this as a service and not as a way to make money so all goods are supplied at our cost prices. We will gladly show you our purchase invoices. Please look at our engine prices further down this page. You can buy your engine at any time during your build.

P3 Stage One Kit comprises of and includes;

Hull moulding joined and bonded to;

Wheelhouse/gunwale moulding.

4 engine vents are bonded to the hull if required.

Hull fully strengthened with foam ribs. Wheelhouse and rear deck support shelf is fitted at the customers chosen height.

Gunwale strengthened for hand rails and bow roller.

To celebrate our new Website and for a limited period only. Check these prices!

A Stage 1 kit plus supplying and fitting all watertight bulkheads at every 120cm intervals and 2 longitudinal bulkheads all with deck beams and fully encapsulated in fibreglass. 1 red diesel fuel tanks and 1 white diesel fuel tanks (2 fuel tanks) 75 gallon (340L) capacity each with water/silt catchment sumps. Engine room with engine beds. Rudder shelf if shaft drive or strengthened transom for stern drive. Deck and wheelhouse floor fitted and bonded using composite sheets. 4 deck hold compartments. 2 wheelhouse floor hold compartments. Back bulkhead and door temporarily fitted. Wheelhouse length of your choice. Gel painted bilge. This is now fibreglass completed boat to deck level leaving the wheelhouse fit out and above deck fit out to be done.

It has just got better!

To celebrate our new Website and for a limited period only. Check these prices!

SAILAWAY PRICES

READY TO GO SAIL AWAY PRICES not inc. VAT

The P3 sail away includes all of the above fully assembled, fully finished.

SAIL AWAY P3 PRICES FOR STERNDRIVE (not inluding engine or VAT)

P3 PRICES FOR SHAFTDRIVE (not icluding engine or VAT)

SAILAWAY P3 for JETDRIVE (not including the engine or VAT)

Although any jet and engine will drive a boat through the water an engine without the correct power and RPM or a jet that is not large enough will probably give you a satisfactory flat out top speed but it will not cruise at lower speeds without stalling.
The characteristics of "stalling" is when you reach your chosen cruising speed and throttle back to maintain it. The boat then gradually slows down forcing you to open up the throttle to regain your speed. This is an endless operation and is very frustrating.

We have built quite a few 35ft P3's with Hamilton Water jets. The boats have been used as charter boats; we have a 12 passenger ferry working in Skye for pleasure use. They all do around 35/36kts from 380hp. If you are considering a smaller P3 than 35ft please call us for prices.
The engine prices quoted are for engines and gearboxes. It is possible to have a jet drive without a gearbox because the actual jet drive system has it's own reverse drive already built in. Again as a rough guide you can deduct £2000 from the engine/gearbox price for no gearbox. We can quote you an exact price for any bobtail (no gearbox) engine including engines that are not on our list.
10.7m 35ft including the Hamilton Jet drive £67,495 now add the cost of your chosen engine/gearbox.

ALL ENGINES ARE PLUS VAT