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Beautiful video indeed P, thanks for the pointer.
Do you possibly know what boat is the one visible in some points, and if she has a steel or GRP hull?
I'm wondering about this because I remember that Cape Horn hull #1 was towed by an icebreaker for about two hours from the place where she was welded to the finishing yard. And allegedly, while the primer paint on the steel hull was not even scratched, they had to regret having already installed the stabilizers fins, because they were completely chewed away, up to the steel shafts.
Cruising surrounded by big ice chunks, as can be seen in some parts of the video, is something that would make me VERY nervous with a boat like yours - or any other plastic boats, for that matter...
 
Piers said:
The manufacturer says it's Welded marine alloy aluminium - http://www.striker-yacht.com/striker-62.pdf
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Blimey, it's amazing that regardless of how many peculiar yards/boats you can think to have seen, there's always someone, somewhere, who builds something else that you never came across before.
That Striker 62 is indeed impressive, on paper.
A 21 feet beam on a 62 feet vessel suggests that living spaces must be massive, to start with.
And 8.6 cubic meters of fuel tankage puts the boat in Nordhavn territory, for comparable length - something unheard of, for a sportfisherman!

Anyhow, back to the point, while aluminum is still far from steel strength for cruising icy waters, I'd definitely have that over GRP any day, for cruising in the conditions of your OP video.
What puzzles me is that the boat which can be seen in that video, even if barely visible, is surely very different from this Striker thing.
As I said, I'm unable to spot the exact model/builder is, but the boat in the video definitely is a rather traditional trawler, with Portuguese bridge and tender stored on the aft section of the flybridge.
A completely different animal from this Striker, that's for sure...
 
Really superb photography. Thanks for posting that
 
MapisM said:
What puzzles me is that the boat which can be seen in that video, even if barely visible, is surely very different from this Striker thing.
As I said, I'm unable to spot the exact model/builder is, but the boat in the video definitely is a rather traditional trawler, with Portuguese bridge and tender stored on the aft section of the flybridge.
A completely different animal from this Striker, that's for sure...
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It's a 49' Defever.
 
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