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Piota is for sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:58 pm
by Nick
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Many of you will remember Piotaskipper from TOP. We met him at Fort Augustus last year where he told us that he planned to swallow the anchor and sell Piota. She is a Van de Stadt designed Pionier 10. I was privileged to have a look round this remarkable vessel, which Keith has cruised extensively in Scotland and the Baltic and as far as 70 deg N on the Norwegian coast.
Keith asked me then if I would create a website to show Piota off when the time came, and the site is now complete. Click the picture to have a look. This is a chance for someone to acquire a seriously capable boat at a very good price.

Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:11 pm
by marisca
There's something odd - if I try to open the pictures down the rhs they only partially open at the bottom of the page - same for all of them. Firefox 3.6.13 if it matters.
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:16 pm
by Nick
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Sorry, I forgot to upload the stylesheet for the lightbox effect. Please try again now.
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:45 pm
by marisca
Vast improvement!
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:13 pm
by madhatter
Will you stop showing me nice boats I just get frustrated

Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:53 pm
by Silkie
It's a booger being poor sometimes.
(Edit: Me that is)
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:45 pm
by ash
Piota seems to be a cracking boat - and surely is a good buy at the price asked. Hope that she finds a good home soon.
The website is excellent - my only comments
Picture Gallery - I would have liked a 'slide show' facility or a 'click to advance to next picture' button.
Video - I found it struggled to load up direct from the site but was OK on Youtube.
Ash
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:15 pm
by Nick
ash wrote:Piota seems to be a cracking boat - and surely is a good buy at the price asked. Hope that she finds a good home soon.
The website is excellent - my only comments
Picture Gallery - I would have liked a 'slide show' facility or a 'click to advance to next picture' button.
Video - I found it struggled to load up direct from the site but was OK on Youtube.
Ash
The Picture Gallery is meant to have all those features - wrong javascripts uploaded to the wrong folder again

- please have another look.
Re. the video - it is only embedded on the site - so it is playing from YouTube in either case.
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:58 pm
by ash
Nick wrote:
The Picture Gallery is meant to have all those features - wrong javascripts uploaded to the wrong folder again

- please have another look.
Thats better.
Nick wrote:
Re. the video - it is only embedded on the site - so it is playing from YouTube in either case.
Worked fine for me this time - last time I got the spinning circle of dots - maybe my BB speed - maybe youtube.
Ash
Nick wrote:
wrong javascripts uploaded to the wrong folder again
Please don't take up heart surgery !!!!......

Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:28 am
by Telo
You've done a good website there Nick. Looks like a really nice boat, well suited for these climes. I always enjoyed Piotaskipper's posts, and sorry he's decided to call it a day.
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:07 pm
by Magna Carter
Nicely done Nick.
It has to make a huge difference in how quickly she sells when she's presented so well
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:30 pm
by jim.r
Excellent website, and excellent looking boat. Heart goes out to Piotaskipper who semms to be swallowing the anchor, I'm sure it was a very hard decision.
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:54 pm
by claymore
Well - the number of times you've been threatening to sell Glenys Rosehip, you must know how it feels.
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:59 pm
by jim.r
Actually I'm thinking of selling it again, wanna buy a boat with a working eberspacher?
Seriously though we're thinking of getting a bigger boat, I partic like the Moody 376 .. must be getting old!
Re: Piota is for sale
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:03 pm
by claymore
Talk to Aja