I do like sexy modern stuff but this caught my eye....

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What a fantastic little ship (ok, little ish)

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http://breezeyachting.swiss/_de-vries-feadship-design/

Seems like excellent value at £1m, though I wonder realistically how much that can be squeezed. Certainly different to your standard plastic stuff.

This also looks like a steal

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http://breezeyachting.swiss/benetti-classic-84-2/

But I know I could never run a boat that big. 65ft though, for the Feadship. Thats doable and not much more than my current 50
 
The best of both worlds would be that beautiful Feadship with an aluminium semi-d hull like the Van der Valk continental range that can go 18kts flat out instead of 8-10kts with a standard disp hull.

Totally gorgeous boat ! :)
 
That Feadship is very very nice :-)
Reminds me of the boat in the film 'When eight bells toll' with Anthony Hopkins

A boat doesn't have to be big, to be beautiful
Stunning design :encouragement:
 
petem said:
The first one is very nice. What's the hull made of, steel?
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At 58tons it could be alloy with very heavy equipment/solid wood finishes, but I would guess at 35-45 tons not 58, so nearly certain it's steel.

Top speed 12 kts with twin 160hp: really? A 12 ton GB36 can only get 12kts with twin 135hp.
 
Sitting quite nicely at the dock is probably the best use for both vessels.
With pure D hulls, round bilges design, canoe stern, pretty high l/b ratio, and no stabilizers, I bet that they roll like there's no tomorrow if only someone drops anything in the water and makes some ripples… :rolleyes:
 
Saw something that looks very like the Feadship steaming along the coast in the SoF last year. We were in a large RIB and I took several photos because it looked so good (my kind of boat) but I never found out what it was. Now I think I know :)
 
Maybe this should be a "What would be your dream boat" thread?

I think mine would look something like this:

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MapisM said:
Sitting quite nicely at the dock is probably the best use for both vessels.
With pure D hulls, round bilges design, canoe stern, pretty high l/b ratio, and no stabilizers, I bet that they roll like there's no tomorrow if only someone drops anything in the water and makes some ripples… :rolleyes:
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Where's your sense of adventur P! Everyone knows that fitting stabilizers can be done for a few hundred quid and can be fitted competent DIY'er over a couple of weekends!
 
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I agree both are lovely boats. However, as usual the asking prices are way out, I would be offering half. Also be prepared, if you did manage to buy them for a realistic price, for some considerable running costs! Having been engineer and then skipper of a similar but slightly larger version I know from experience what their real world value is.
 
burgundyben said:
I'd like steel hull, gardner, wing engine.
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Not sure I'd be happy to run a boat whose engine spills almost as much oil as the fuel it burns, but a single Gardner would definitely be much more appropriate than those lightweight, high rpm New Holland engines on the first boat.
"What were they thinking?" is what sprung to my mind while reading the specs...
 
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