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28 Protector Project
Rayglass Boats have
always been a company
that comes up with
innovative ideas, and its
new Protector Projet is
certainly no exception.

FIRST LOOK

BOAT TESTS TESTS FIRST LOOK MINI GUIDES

12 Humber Leisure Pro 35 Rough Guide to...
When one of the oldest and longest- Welcome to Rib Magazine’s
established RIB builders in Britain brings out rough guide features, where
a new range of RIBs, it is not only the buying we visit our favourite cruising
public who sit up and look, it is also the spots aound the UK. This issue
marine trade. features Plockton (Scotland),
Kilmore Quay (Ireland) and
18 Piranha 660 FIRST LOOK
Wells-On-Sea (Norfolk, UK).

Revealed at this year’s RIBEX show, the 6.6m

from Piranha goes under the microscope...

22 Blue Spirit Patrol

We test the Patrol 7.5 and 9m from a new
Dutch RIB builder, how do they perform?
NEWS
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High-performance
marine hand-helds
www.garmin.com/custommaps
armin announce the
GPSMAP 78s and
the GPSMAP 78. The
GPSMAP 78 series features
the 78s also adds new
high-end features,
including a 3-axis
NEW

FIRST LOOK LETS GO...

a
new contemporary industrial
design with rubber side
grips suited to navigating
the great outdoors, while
tilt-compensated
electronic compass
and wireless data
transfer between

40 RIB Fishing
Railblaza compatible units.

8 News In Brief
StarPort
Secure mounting system
The Railblaza StarPort is a non-
invasive, sturdy base made to adhere
to your RIB safely, enabling a Railblaza
StarPort mount to be attached. Once GO RIDE
the StarPort is secured, your inflatable
can use a G-HOLD to keep your
paddles, oars, nets and boathooks
alongside. Or try a StarPort Platform
for a work surface - with paired
RIBPorts you can add large bait boards,
even a dive bottle holder.
STOW AWAY
Here is the first in our ‘Let’s
www.railblaza.com

Rib Magazine brings On your bike

www.sea-sure.co.uk.uk

you all the latest news Red Paddle

Increases safety aboard
T he latest in the range
of marine bicycles
from Seasure is the
FB2 folding bike.
Go’ series where we show you
the correct way to use your RIB
With a rock-solid frame
Shurhold’s durable red paddle attaches and

from around the world.

top-quality components,
to a telescoping or fixed-length handle. this new bike is designed
Its bright colour helps in locating it for short trips around the
quickly, and it can be easily stored, marina and for cycling
while still in sight for use at a moment’s to
and from the beach, with
notice. www.shurhold.com its

for various applications. This

town-and-country tyres.
re
The FL2-30
Two person bolster seat Anchors away
www.marinedna.com
month is fishing.
Security Structures are introducing
a simple, two-person bolster seat,
the FL2-30. By flipping a lever you
can change the seat from a stand-up
bolster with wrap-around protection
and support, to a comfortable sit-down
M arine DNA Ltd have introduced
the CFA2, a compact folding-
anchor system designed
dinghies, tenders, small
boats,
watercraft and even canoes. personal
for
seat. www.bolsters.com The anchor’s
four-fluke design aims
to provide secure
holding in mud, sand,
gravel and rock,
and it will also double
8 August as a grapnel.

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 EXTREME RACING ACTION!
44 Offshore Rib Rally VON DUTCH!
I’d managed to talk myself into racing a 7.85m RIB, 90
nautical miles up the Dutch coast and back again. I’d
absolutely no idea what I’d let myself in for... catch all the
action with Simon Fermor.

48 P1 RIB Championship
It promises to be all new and for Ribsters!

50 Zapcat Racing
Who would have thought, when Peter Lister
and Glen Julius crossed the finish line to win
the first ever UK-based Zapcat Grand Prix,
that ten years later it would have become
the world’s largest one-design powerboat
race series? Chris Davies watches the trills
and spills at Watergate Bay.

57 Round Britain 2012

Let’s be honest, to take on such a
mammoth task, even in the
time allotted, is a big ask
for one man… Rib Magazine
gets the lowdown on the
event of the future, RB2012.

EVENT REPORTS FEATURES

67 Ribex Review
With new products being launched by Yamaha, Scot Seats,
Coastline, Williams Superyacht Tenders, Cobra, Capelli,
Paragon, Humber, Redbay, Watermarque Marine, Piranha,
eXtreme RIBs, Wahoo, Ribquest, Renegade RIBs, Tornado
and Navico, there was no shortage of things to see and trial
at this year’s RIBEX.
78 Ribex: The Organiser’s View
It’s perhaps no surprise to many of you that from a show
organiser’s point of view RIBEX 2010 was perhaps one of the
most challenging of all the show’s 11 years, in terms of both
selling and actually putting the show together.
SUBSCRIPTION
70 RIBs ride the ripple of recovery
Britain’s economic recovery, like the start of spring this year,
has been slow to get going, as nobody needs reminding, and
both have a major influence on people’s sense of well-being,
Bob Greenwood reports on the state of todays RIB market.
85 Bearing north-west
Adventurer and TV personality Bear Grylls
was a special visitor to RIBEX as part of
his preparation for his next big challenge
– to take a Zodiac MACH 2 RIB through
the North-West Passage…
WORTH
£600
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