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22-01-2006, 05:36 PM
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Registered User
Country: uk
Location: brighton
Occupation: CABINET MAKER
Interests: SPEED BOATS,MOTO G.P
Boat name: MOTIVATION
Boat make: MARSHAN 21
Engines: AINT GOT ONE!!
Cruising area: sea
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: brighton
Posts: 1,223
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Originally posted by Phantom 19
Ive had five fletchers, the best being a 1980 caramel arrowstreak 16 that I was told raced offshore around 80/81. It certainly had enough damage to be a raceboat as the whole side had been reglassed by 1981 and had no interior.
I still know where it is abandond in a field and is in good structual condition. Very heavy build.
The other four were a load of rubbish and crap build quality. every one had substandard floors and other defects (2x arrowflyte, 1x 70`s bullnose model and an arrowbeau (worst of the lot)
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nice bikes dude,i had a marlborough 500,and pic is me on or should i say off my r1 at brands 
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22-01-2006, 07:07 PM
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#42
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: South West
Boat make: Cyclone/ Cyclone/Rinker
Engines: Merc 2.5 efi's/300XS/5.0 v8
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 592
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This one is the earlier Turbowash, note higher deck centre
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22-01-2006, 07:17 PM
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#43
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Registered User
Location: Belgium
Interests: Boating
Boat make: Hydrostream HST
Engines: Merc 2.5 200
Cruising area: The Schelde
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Belgium
Posts: 468
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Originally posted by Wacky Racer
This one is the earlier Turbowash, note higher deck centre
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Thats a nice boat! Do you have action pictures?
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22-01-2006, 07:29 PM
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#44
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: South West
Boat make: Cyclone/ Cyclone/Rinker
Engines: Merc 2.5 efi's/300XS/5.0 v8
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 592
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See what I can find, this is one sat on trailer after respray and re rig
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22-01-2006, 07:31 PM
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#45
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Registered User
Location: Belgium
Interests: Boating
Boat make: Hydrostream HST
Engines: Merc 2.5 200
Cruising area: The Schelde
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Belgium
Posts: 468
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Originally posted by Wacky Racer
See what I can find, this is one sat on trailer after respray and re rig
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Very nice boat! Sprayed very nice... Thought it was original gelcoat! Do you know something more about a fletcher arrowbeau?
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22-01-2006, 07:39 PM
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#46
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Registered User
Country: UK
Location: South West
Boat make: Cyclone/ Cyclone/Rinker
Engines: Merc 2.5 efi's/300XS/5.0 v8
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 592
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Sorry no, only Fletcher I have owned, only bought it as it had ski racing history behind it
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22-01-2006, 08:00 PM
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The Doc
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 8,291
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I actually quite like that big fletcher.
I've got an original 1991 or 1992 brochure somewhere. I'll have to scan & PDF it I spose.
It contains the last incarnation of the Arrobeau 17
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22-01-2006, 08:06 PM
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#48
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Registered User
Country: hamburg , germany
Occupation: electronics
Interests: boating, audio , PC
Boat make: Fletcher Arrowshaft 199
Engines: Yamaha 225
Cruising area: baltic sea
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 115
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I've got an original 1991 or 1992 brochure somewhere. I'll have to scan & PDF it I spose.
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Yes! Please!!!
Is there also something about the 199?
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22-01-2006, 08:10 PM
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The Doc
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 8,291
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no, it had been replace by the arrowshaft 205................. quirky looking boat that one!
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22-01-2006, 08:11 PM
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#50
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Registered User
Location: Belgium
Interests: Boating
Boat make: Hydrostream HST
Engines: Merc 2.5 200
Cruising area: The Schelde
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Belgium
Posts: 468
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Originally posted by Captain Chaos
no, it had been replace by the arrowshaft 205................. quirky looking boat that one!
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Thank you! Would like to see it!
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22-01-2006, 08:55 PM
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#51
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Registered User
Country: hamburg , germany
Occupation: electronics
Interests: boating, audio , PC
Boat make: Fletcher Arrowshaft 199
Engines: Yamaha 225
Cruising area: baltic sea
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 115
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no, it had been replace by the arrowshaft 205................. quirky looking boat that one!
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Ah , i see! I think i had the same brochure many years ago!
i think this is the original Arrwobolt21:
When i was 12 years old , a friend of my father had this boat with a 275 HP Merc tuned to 305 hp , with powerlift and she was capable of 85 mph!!!!!
greetings!
Andi
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24-01-2006, 07:22 PM
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#52
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Engines: Yamaha 140hp, modded Yamaha 90hp
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 161
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Originally posted by bigboy
I have an arrowbeau... Whats wrong with it?
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well my one (1983???) Had its floors nailed to the stringers, all fittings were mild steel. The floor was 5/16 ply with foam pumped underneath it. any damp got trapped and the floor rotted away. I was the second owner and know the person who bought it new and he complained to Fletcher about the poor build on it.
Front seats were attached to boat by mild steel threaded rod or may have been coach bolts glassed to floor but either way they were rubbish.
The inboard stainless fuel tank pickup pipe was not welded to tank, I think it was brazed orsomething but didn`t last long either. At least the top and bottom mouldings were bolted together (mild steel of course) unlike the 14 which was stapled!
I have seen a later one which seemed to have a separate floor moulding, I`d hate to see what they hid under there!
TBH I quite like the Fletchers, the newer ones are propably a lot better but nothing I`ve seen was built like my arrowstreak 16 was.
I have the 1994 broucher I have found but dont have a scanner.
Some nice looking women in it and boats too (also the awful "ski-eleven")
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24-01-2006, 07:36 PM
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#53
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The Doc
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 8,291
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My 160 Arrowstreak (90's) is pretty good for a big production run boat.
the little 160 Arrowstreak (1986) that i had before was as hard as nails, and handled better. mind you, that one didnt have exactly double the rec'd hp on the back of it!
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24-01-2006, 07:52 PM
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#54
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Registered User
Country: Job Centre
Location: In a box
Occupation: Chaos's gofer
Interests: Skiving
Boat make: Spectre 30
Engines: 2 x Promax 225
Cruising area: In the bath
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: In a box
Posts: 5,201
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Originally posted by Captain Chaos
mind you, that one didnt have exactly double the rec'd hp on the back of it!
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But it did have double the reccomended payload, chubster! 
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24-01-2006, 07:57 PM
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#55
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The Doc
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 8,291
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....ark at you Mr fkin 'Globo Gym'!
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24-01-2006, 09:09 PM
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#56
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Registered User
Location: Belgium
Interests: Boating
Boat make: Hydrostream HST
Engines: Merc 2.5 200
Cruising area: The Schelde
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Belgium
Posts: 468
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Quote:
Originally posted by Phantom 19
well my one (1983???) Had its floors nailed to the stringers, all fittings were mild steel. The floor was 5/16 ply with foam pumped underneath it. any damp got trapped and the floor rotted away. I was the second owner and know the person who bought it new and he complained to Fletcher about the poor build on it.
Front seats were attached to boat by mild steel threaded rod or may have been coach bolts glassed to floor but either way they were rubbish.
The inboard stainless fuel tank pickup pipe was not welded to tank, I think it was brazed orsomething but didn`t last long either. At least the top and bottom mouldings were bolted together (mild steel of course) unlike the 14 which was stapled!
I have seen a later one which seemed to have a separate floor moulding, I`d hate to see what they hid under there!
TBH I quite like the Fletchers, the newer ones are propably a lot better but nothing I`ve seen was built like my arrowstreak 16 was.
I have the 1994 broucher I have found but dont have a scanner.
Some nice looking women in it and boats too (also the awful "ski-eleven")
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You are absolutely right! Its sick to sea that the floor is nailed!  www.geocities.com/fletcher_arrowbeau Check this out! I've cutted the old inner mold out and i am now making a floor on my own. have new stringers and new transom... So it will be perfect afterall. What with the stability, speed and performance of the arrowbeau?
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24-01-2006, 09:28 PM
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#57
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Registered User
Country: england
Location: southampton
Occupation: Self employed monkey
Interests: racing, gettin wet.
Boat name: sea j marine
Boat make: 12ft scorpio,14 fletcher,16 argo
Engines: 25hp merc and 90 yam
Cruising area: southampton water
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: southampton
Posts: 888
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some more k ones....
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24-01-2006, 09:30 PM
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Registered User
Country: england
Location: southampton
Occupation: Self employed monkey
Interests: racing, gettin wet.
Boat name: sea j marine
Boat make: 12ft scorpio,14 fletcher,16 argo
Engines: 25hp merc and 90 yam
Cruising area: southampton water
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: southampton
Posts: 888
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another...
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24-01-2006, 09:32 PM
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#59
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Registered User
Location: Belgium
Interests: Boating
Boat make: Hydrostream HST
Engines: Merc 2.5 200
Cruising area: The Schelde
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Belgium
Posts: 468
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Quote:
Originally posted by K9 racing
another...
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Is this the 150? Nice boat! Which speed and which motor?
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25-01-2006, 09:05 PM
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#60
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Registered User
Country: hamburg , germany
Occupation: electronics
Interests: boating, audio , PC
Boat make: Fletcher Arrowshaft 199
Engines: Yamaha 225
Cruising area: baltic sea
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 115
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I dont think thats the 150 - the 150 is bigger , i think it is a newer 14 with a different windscreen!
greetings!
Andi
More Fletcher-Pics , please!!!
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