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Thanks Mike, can't wait to get to Miami show next week and see four of them all lined up. I have sea trials with clients in the evenings so I'll take some pics and post when I get back, different style of boating over there, should be interesting for forum to see one of the world largest shows ... Miami show


Prices, fairly compeditive bearing in mind what you are getting, OK more expensive than production planing yachts but you are getting 1000's of hours of hand built yacht.

58 £1.2m

65 £1.5m

73 £2.3m

80 £2.6m

You can go more of course and go crazy with the spec and fit out but items such as stabilizers, generators etc are standard.
 
I've blocked off September - thanks for asking us to deliver it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif But I reckon you'll be onboard /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I know the eastern med pretty well now - been up and down it in a Bavaria a couple of times. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
this is there latest new model the 63 launched in the fall of 2008

now if Trevor is correct they should present the new 60 and 58 in Miami
the 58 has the same beam as this one, and it is the same hull boat minus the sportfishing area aft a solution more appreciated by US owners really, for the rest it is the same boat
the 60 as the specs sugges is a different boat with a wider hull to this
the 58 will be a winning model and I think that price is not so high in my opinioon but also very competitive
I like also that Outer Reef cruise at 17 knots as I find this a good speed, unlike the -10 knots of other similar boats but that is my idea which does not mean is correct for anybody /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
Further stop press PY, the boats we will have at Miami will be

OR 63

OR 73

OR 80

and as luck would have it we also have 'Hercules' a 75 Molokai Straight ................

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This will give you some idea of what she is built for....


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PPS, Guess who is the lucky so and so to be staying on her for four days :-) , beats the heck out of some bland hotel, just fall out of bunk in the am and walk outside to start the days work !.
 
Lovely Molokai Trev. Sounds like you'll have fun in Miami - post pics

I had to smile at those w'tight doors in the Molokai though. It's funny how in marine engineering some things are done a certain way because, er, someone did it that way before and it's said to be "the right way". Those lock-shut mechanisms with the steering wheel are a lousy bit of engineering. If (when) I retire to a Molokai I'll be ripping all that tat out and replacing it with proper door mechanisms :-)
 
I'd imagine I was aboard the U-571 submarine with those doors! it'd be great!

I would love to have a house with watertight doors like that! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

OK Trevor, when can I take the test drive???? /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
Well I would have to agree with you there JFM, but guess owners building to their own spec have final say and those twirley handle wheel things do look the doofers when showing your friends around..... "up periscope, dive, dive, dive " ........... Still if these do it for you we can supply to your size and spec, two from Freemans the other from PCM.


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Mind you , you'll need a fat wallet for the PCM's :-)
 
I'd agree with you there, doesn't do her justice, mind you anything based on that style of North Sea fishing vessel (well actually she was designed straight off a similar commercial fishing vessel, the type that do the Icelandic fishing grounds and back every two weeks) is going to be tall. This is nearest I have at the moment to a water line view, all the rest are helo shots which make her look more squat.


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Now you know what's going to happen......... my MS chums are going to read this and do that very thing, me wakes up in the morning and has heart attack, I can just see it now ...."well know UK dealer found dead in master suite of trawler at Miami show" ! , Thanks.........
 
They praps look the doofers to folks who know nowt about simple forces/geometry. Now those three pics from Freemans/PCM, they're proper doors. Delicious stuff!
 
Relax Trev, your new colleagues would have a hard time to arrange what wakeup suggested, considering that there's no porthole window in those doors... Besides, if you trust her to stay afloat at least while moored, you can use just the wooden doors! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Apropos, I'm not sure to agree, when you agree with jfm.
Can't see what's wrong with those doors: simple, easily inspectionable, effective, quick and convenient to operate, and (I guess) good value for money. More complex and covered dogging systems (possibly - heaven forbid - chain driven) are pointless, in an internal bulkhead door. I don't think whoever specced them had aesthetic in mind; if anything, the opposite.
There are other things such kind of vessel would have deserved to be designed very differently though, like double lateral funnels instead of a central one, but that's another story. What they built very nicely is the galley, otoh. Beware of the pic below: the first time swmbo saw it, she decided that our boat was not good enough anymore...
More details and pics can be found in this review.
They inverted the first four pics for some reason, but other than that, a good overview.
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I just love that Molokai, Trev, even the watertight doors. Good luck for the show
 
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