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Welcome to the
Hampton Safari Owners Club
An Information Resource Centre about Hampton Safari Boats.

All visitors have free access to most of the Site, but registered members get additional editing facilities. For free membership (and to join today), please submit the User Registration Form on the members page
(membership is currently free, but we reserve the right to eventually charge a nominal subscription (of approx. £4 per year), to cover our minimal overheads if enough people join and the site content and traffic increases significantly.)
       

8 Jan 2010 The Boat Specs Page now has downloadbalke scale drawings of the Safari.

5 Oct 2006 The forum pages have been re-written to make them easier to use, but no messages have been lost during the conversion.

20 Apr 2006 The site has now been switched to another web hosting company. So the annoying yellow box on the welcome screen has gone at last !

3 June 2005 A new cruising gallery entry, courtesy of Bill Maxted, of the first HSOC rally, at Loddon on May 28th 2005.

12 April 2005 A new gallery entry, courtesy of David Coster, of his very rare Safari Mk IV Sedan.

29 Jan 2005 The noticeboard page now carries an item about the BSS changes scheduled for April 2005.

8 Jan 2005 With Bill's assistance (or maybe I'm assisting him !), the Boat Specs Page is in the process of being enlarged to complement the 'Trace Your Boat' page.

29 Dec 2004 The Forum page has been significantly upgraded to give more functionality, please see the noticeboard for more details

29 Dec 2004 We've made big changes to the site over the holiday, please see the noticeboard for details

17 Dec 2004 You may notice the new menu tab 'trace your boat'. This page is being developed now and should be visible in the next few days.

14 Dec 2004 We've now started to add aerial photo guides of Broads locations to the Cruising Gallery

11 Dec 2004 1611 hits and 19 members. The cruising gallery has a couple of entries with aerial photos showing moorings etc. at Horning and the River Chet.

9 Dec 2004 This home page now has thumbnail links to the membership card and the club 'flyer'. They enable high resolution copies to be printed. Please feel free to distibute the flyers to any interested parties.

13 Nov 2004 Now indexed in most search engines, the site has received almost 700 hits (in just over 4 weeks!). The forums have had no postings though. Whether you are a member and/or own a Hampton or not, please feel free to post any questions or comments...

12 Oct 2004 All facilities now working, my existing Hampton Safari contacts have been invited by email to preview the site, (not submitted to search engines yet).

10 Oct 2004 This site has been loaded for test purposes. Not all facilities are operational yet !

 
click this logo for a high definition version suitable for printing click here to view the club 'flyer' in a larger window suitable for printing. ( Please feel free to pass them on to anyone you think may be interested in becoming a member.)

This website contains:

  • A Gallery of Owner's photos of their own boats.
  • Information on Hampton Safaris and Hampton Boats Ltd.
  • Classified (Private) advertising.
  • An open forum, for the discussion of Club and Boating related topics.
  • The member list (not accessible or viewable to nonmembers).
  • Links to other websites of interest to Boat Owners.

The club is always happy to register new members, providing the following enhancements:

  • A login name and user password giving access to the member list.
  • The ability to post and edit forum messages and replies with immediate risibility (unmoderated), since the identity of the author is known.
  • The ability to post,edit & delete marketplace adverts with immediate visibility.
  • The extension of facilities with a more 'club' oriented perspective, (local groups, social meets etc.), if enough interest emerges.


 The site should run correctly on Internet Explorer (v5 or better), Netscape (v5 or better) or Opera (v6 or better). It can be viewed at 800x600, but the fonts and layouts were balanced for 1024x768 or larger. In order to use the interactive features of the site, 'cookies' must be enabled on your browser.
If any problems do occur (perhaps I should say when!) please email Hampton Safari Owners Club

Site History & Aims

  • This site was launched in October 2004 in an effort to provide a useful on-line information resource for all people interested in Hampton Boats, (whether they currently own one or not).
  • Specialist interests sites such as this can be difficult to start as they won't attract regular visitors unless they contain sufficient relevant content, which is best collated from individual owners with practical experience to share.
  • In order to do this, the site is mostly interactive, with visitors being able to post (and reply to) forum messages, marketplace adverts, and a database of boat performance data. (engines/props/speeds etc.)
  • Everyone who has tried to research specific boats to purchase, upgrade or repair, should find such a shared knowledge base invaluable.

Guest user postings will be 'moderated', which means that each item will be quickly given a cursory check by the editor before it becomes visible on the site. (We apologise for this unfortunate, but necessary step for 'open' user input sites to prevent 'Graffiti' from a (thankfully) minority group of Internet users.)

 

If you wish to join today, please complete and submit the User Registration Form on the members page.

Or, if you have any queries regarding membership, please email:

Hampton Safari Owners Club