Sealine S37

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When I was upgrading to a 37ft, it narrowed down to Sealine S37 or Cranchi Smeraldo 37

I chose the Smeraldo 37, based on:
Huge engine bay access (relative to size of boat)
Huge bathing platform
More spacious cockpit (but the saloon in the S37 did seem more spacious)
Personally, I preferred the layout of the helm / throttle locations etc...

I think the S37 comes with KAD43's? As opposed to the Smeraldo 37 KAD300. At first I was anxious about the fly-by-wire, but I was instantly converted and touch wood, no problems over 11 years ownership.

Some will disagree with me on this, but I found the finish, overall quality of the Smeraldo 37 to be superior.

Some will argue resale value etc. as Sealine is a UK brand hence would have a bigger / loyal following... I don't buy it, but maybe that's a British thing (We're in Ireland). As for resale? Who cares.... when you buy a luxury item like a boat, as far as i'm concerned, the money is gone, never to be seen again. Anything you get when it comes to re-sale is a bonus.

PS. Not for sale, so my opinions are genuine!

 

[mnts]

in the end the boat model (description) does directly convert to length of the boat to use is for comparing with other brand boats.
model is a marketing element to differentiate the boat within the model range of the year. so to compare models on paper you need to take specs from manufacturer's documenation (not ads, as they have mistakes). of course model usually is something around that lenght, but in the older days it was more related to the hull lenght, now it more around LOA. and before the ISO-8666 standard were different ways to interpret length..

some examples I came across a Bavaria 35 later bacame Bavaria 360 with same hull having LOA of 37+ft
Beneteau Antares 30 and 32 are same hull, only difference one is single another is twin engine
Meridian 411 Sedan has LOA of 46ft
Merry Fisher 795 is a 7m boat, not 7.95m the "95" is just a generation designation of the series 795, 895, 1095.
SeaRays used to different depending on market, like 290 in US is 315 international, but that's same hull. similar 340 and 375..

so when comparing boats I see that beam measurements gives better way to compare. most builders have some offering within certain ranges, but then beam helps to really position those side-by-side better.

Smeraldo 37 has beam of 3.84m
Sealine has 3.70m

overall just from paper I would expect Smeraldo to be a bigger in volume.
but then I take Targa 38 and it has beam of 3.64m according to brochure.. and my theory goes to the bin

 

[petem]

in the end the boat model (description) does directly convert to length of the boat to use is for comparing with other brand boats.
model is a marketing element to differentiate the boat within the model range of the year. so to compare models on paper you need to take specs from manufacturer's documenation (not ads, as they have mistakes). of course model usually is something around that lenght, but in the older days it was more related to the hull lenght, now it more around LOA. and before the ISO-8666 standard were different ways to interpret length..

some examples I came across a Bavaria 35 later bacame Bavaria 360 with same hull having LOA of 37+ft
Beneteau Antares 30 and 32 are same hull, only difference one is single another is twin engine
Meridian 411 Sedan has LOA of 46ft
Merry Fisher 795 is a 7m boat, not 7.95m the "95" is just a generation designation of the series 795, 895, 1095.
SeaRays used to different depending on market, like 290 in US is 315 international, but that's same hull. similar 340 and 375..

so when comparing boats I see that beam measurements gives better way to compare. most builders have some offering within certain ranges, but then beam helps to really position those side-by-side better.

Smeraldo 37 has beam of 3.84m
Sealine has 3.70m

overall just from paper I would expect Smeraldo to be a bigger in volume.
but then I take Targa 38 and it has beam of 3.64m according to brochure.. and my theory goes to the bin

Targas were always been a tad narrower than other brands (apart from S/S Superhawks).

 

[DavidJ]

When I was upgrading to a 37ft, it narrowed down to Sealine S37 or Cranchi Smeraldo 37

I chose the Smeraldo 37, based on:
Huge engine bay access (relative to size of boat)
Huge bathing platform
More spacious cockpit (but the saloon in the S37 did seem more spacious)
Personally, I preferred the layout of the helm / throttle locations etc...

I think the S37 comes with KAD43's? As opposed to the Smeraldo 37 KAD300. At first I was anxious about the fly-by-wire, but I was instantly converted and touch wood, no problems over 11 years ownership.

Some will disagree with me on this, but I found the finish, overall quality of the Smeraldo 37 to be superior.

Some will argue resale value etc. as Sealine is a UK brand hence would have a bigger / loyal following... I don't buy it, but maybe that's a British thing (We're in Ireland). As for resale? Who cares.... when you buy a luxury item like a boat, as far as i'm concerned, the money is gone, never to be seen again. Anything you get when it comes to re-sale is a bonus.

PS. Not for sale, so my opinions are genuine!

Certainly in the Med where we were, the Cranchi was far more popular than the Sealine. In the UK there seems to be a Sealine following, it was my 3rd, some on here it’s their 5th. I think it’s not only that they are decent boats but the range allows easy upgrading and in their day Sealine made it financially easy.
I was offered the KAD44 when buying my S37 from new in 2001 but then for me it was something too new and unproven at that time.
There will be some S37’s around with KAD44’s and maybe the odd KAD 300
I kind of take the same view as you on boat purchase money “let bygones be bygones” ref Samuel Rutherford acknowledging the follies of youth (and I’ll add to that the follies of middle age boat buying)

 

[Elessar]

Compare weights not lengths.
And definately not stated lengths.
Fairline turbo 36 proves that point.

 

[oldgit]

Compare weights not lengths.
And definately not stated lengths.
Fairline turbo 36 proves that point.

Any Tubby 36 skipper coughs up for 42ft boat on our pontoons.