Admiral 45. Anybody know anything about the marque ?

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This one powered by a pair of Caterpillars, cylinder head work required a few years ago .Coolant in oil.
Comments welcome.
 
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Is it the THE Admiral of now super yacht fame ?
If so was good enough for the Saudi Royal family in the 80 s .They have come a long way only Princess /Sunseeker can only dream of.
Highly regarded if it’s the same marque ?

How many “Admirals “ …..the boat makers are out there using the same name ??

PYB will hopefully chime in
 
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From memory I think Admiral was a short lived UK brand in the 90s, using Colvic hulls
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+1.
Bennet hull design and hull might have also appeared as various length SunCruisers.
Custom built interiors tended to be bit dated, lacked the design panache of Prinline and made less good use of every last square inch of interior space.
Not sure if fit out quality was any better or worse than the volume builders.
Its those engines that bother me, heads were removed and skimmed. Could understand if result of a sea cock left shut but possible generic fault in that engine.
 
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That Admiral range was finished in Italy, with the hulls coming from Colvic Sunquest range of yachts designed by John Benett.
The company behind the brand was a brokerage firm in Lavagna, cant remember the name.
They sold quite well in between the 98 to 2004 AFAIK mostly for a very competitive price.
 
Portofino said:
Is it the THE Admiral of now super yacht fame ?
If so was good enough for the Saudi Royal family in the 80 s .They have come a long way only Princess /Sunseeker can only dream of.
Highly regarded if it’s the same marque ?

How many “Admirals “ …..the boat makers are out there using the same name ??

PYB will hopefully chime in
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The Admiral you are speaking about was in reality Cantieri Navali di Lavagna, and have nothing to do with that Admiral 48, even tough the location of the brokerage firm which sold those rebadged Colvic Sunquests had the same location.
CNL Admiral have always build of wood and later from the nineties onward in alloy.
In around 2010 company was sold to Tecnomar Group, and rebadged as Admiral yachts.

It is correct any custom Admiral yacht is superior to any production yacht (being it Sunseeker/Princess/Azimut/Ferretti etc), and they where also famed for being high speed planning even in the rough of waters.
 
"How was the boat ?" .................... hoping somebody would ask.

Best described as tired, unloved and irrefutable proof of the price insanity infecting the UK market.
Fit and finish of interior will never give Princess or Fairline sleepless nights and will people please clean out their bilges at least once in the life of a boat.
Why you would design something that involves dismantling the entire saloon to even see the raw water filters, is beyond me.
Bilges ! All boats have them , they are hidden under those dirt magnet white carpets.
Think thats all for now folks . :)
On the upside however, found an excellent Tapas resturant near the marina. The 700 kilometre trip to somewhere damp and windy called Cymru was not totally wasted.

The search goes on and increasingly might involve brushing up on my French.
 
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