A wooden dream boat

[Zing]

What’s the pleasure and pain of owning such a beautiful thing such as this and should one own it?

https://www.yachtworld.co.uk/yacht/2021-spirit-yachts-65dh-8297265/

 

[Poignard]

Ahem!

It's a fibreglass dream boat.

 

[Zing]

Ahem!

It's a fibreglass dream boat.

Not much.

 

[Skellum]

I thought this was going to be a thread about RM yachts?

 

[Gsailor]

A crew is always needed (unless you are super special at single handing)

The pleasure would be super luxury accommodation and sailing in special locations.

 

[ChromeDome]

I'd keep on dreaming. Also because I can't afford it

 

[14K478]

Above my pay grade, but lovely.

Much pleasure, and very little pain if you can afford it. A thing of beauty which will sail very nicely. The difference between modern cold moulding and GRP is that instead of worrying about moisture content below the water line you worry about the moisture content at the top edges of the hull. Keep the sealing there intact and you are fine.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I started a thread on this ages ago when it first came on the market, the thrust of it being that it is nothing more than a day boat, a very nice one in many respects but totally impractical. No proper saloon table, very limited cruising range under engine, totally impractical saloon which would be a nightmare to navigate in any seaway and limited accommodation which would be again impractical and unusable on any sort of long offshore voyage.
A poorly specified and thought out dreamers boat that looks a million dollars or pounds until you start to dig deep. Fine if you just want to port hop along the Mediterranean coast with perfect conditions.

 

[Gixer]

This guy did a great job of a tour

Fine if you just want to port hop along the Mediterranean coast with perfect conditions.

Sounds good to me!

 

[davidej]

Our YC recently organized a visit to the Spirit Yachts yard in Ipswich. Lovely boats for the well heeled!

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Ahem!

It's a fibreglass dream boat.

Definitely says fibreglass.
Can't believe it is though.
Not part of the company plan.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

This guy did a great job of a tour

Sounds good to me!

Different boat if the guy is thinking of becoming a broker he had better think again. He couldn't sell bog roll to someone with diarrhoea.

 

[dunedin]

Definitely says fibreglass.
Can't believe it is though.
Not part of the company plan.

Yes, I was surprised as I thought Spirit Yachts USP was modern and very elegant wood epoxy builds.

But going back to the OP, other than the £2m purchase price most boats like this will be professionally maintained (at considerable annual expense) and prepared, with the owner walking onto a boat at the dockside ready to depart immediately, and walk off after a brief sail leaving the dock crew (or boat skipper) to tie up, clean and polish everything then put to bed before the next call from the owner.
Perhaps different with the sub-50 foot Spirits, of which I have met a couple of owners - but at this size it is unlikely to be owner maintained.
A boat for the moderately super-rich, not the mega-rich who would go for a proper genuine Fife or J-Class

 

[Snowgoose-1]

Took this when visiting Ipswich outside side Spirit Yachts.
First time I've seen a cover for a toe rail

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Definitely says fibreglass.
Can't believe it is though.
Not part of the company plan.

Where do people get the idea from that it's fibreglass ?


Hull, Deck & Superstructure Construction:

• Wood epoxy composite construction.
• Laminated ring frames positioned to make a strongback at the centerline to provide a single continuous structure.
• Laid with double diagonal veneers epoxy bonded at 45 degrees and then epoxy sheathed.
• Central frames carbon reinforced to carry loadings for the mast mast, chain plates and high aspect lead keel.
• Lignia decks both on deck and below. Lignia is fabricated from renewable soft wood which is epoxy treated making it very durable and low maintenance.
• Solid Sipo mahogany with Awlwood full gloss treatment deckhouse.
• Solid Sipo Mahogany trim in Awlwood and stainless steel.
• Topsides finish is white with a touch of green Awlcraft high gloss paint with cavita line and white boot top. The name is on transom in gold lea

 

[Zing]

Definitely says fibreglass.
Can't believe it is though.
Not part of the company plan.

It’s a wooden boat, with a thin fibreglass skin on the hull and rudder. It’s ‘cold moulding’.

I wonder if it lasts almost forever like a GRP boat or if eventually water will get to the wood and it will turn into a maintenance nightmare. I can see there is plenty of varnishing to maintain.

 

[Gsailor]

Where do people get the idea from that it's fibreglass ?


Hull, Deck & Superstructure Construction:

• Wood epoxy composite construction.
• Laminated ring frames positioned to make a strongback at the centerline to provide a single continuous structure.
• Laid with double diagonal veneers epoxy bonded at 45 degrees and then epoxy sheathed.
• Central frames carbon reinforced to carry loadings for the mast mast, chain plates and high aspect lead keel.
• Lignia decks both on deck and below. Lignia is fabricated from renewable soft wood which is epoxy treated making it very durable and low maintenance.
• Solid Sipo mahogany with Awlwood full gloss treatment deckhouse.
• Solid Sipo Mahogany trim in Awlwood and stainless steel.
• Topsides finish is white with a touch of green Awlcraft high gloss paint with cavita line and white boot top. The name is on transom in gold lea

Page one states hull material as fibreglass -

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Yes but that is a Pro Forma page that hasn't been filled in correctly, a look at the specification and some idea of how Spirit make yachts would tell you otherwise.

 

[Gsailor]

Yes but that is a Pro Forma page that hasn't been filled in correctly, a look at the specification and some idea of how Spirit make yachts would tell you otherwise.

It explains where people get the idea from.

 

[Zing]

I started a thread on this ages ago when it first came on the market, the thrust of it being that it is nothing more than a day boat, a very nice one in many respects but totally impractical. No proper saloon table, very limited cruising range under engine, totally impractical saloon which would be a nightmare to navigate in any seaway and limited accommodation which would be again impractical and unusable on any sort of long offshore voyage.
A poorly specified and thought out dreamers boat that looks a million dollars or pounds until you start to dig deep. Fine if you just want to port hop along the Mediterranean coast with perfect conditions.

Yes, it has no saloon table, a major issue I think. Agreed the saloon is not likely to be great on a long passage. 400 litres of fuel only. Not quite enough, but not so awful as it will only use the engine when becalmed and at very low and fuel efficient speeds. I don’t like the electric motors idea though, very low power.