Sunseeker Superhawk 48 - ultimate dayboat?

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This boat must be up there with the best of the dayboats. Its fast- 46 knots from tripple KAD300s, its stylish,its open cockpit has a sociable layout, affordable and you have the sportsboat handling of a 25ft boat in a 50ft boat. I saw the superhawk 50 last year moored outside St Tropez, called smooth operator. sums the boat up.
 
moored outside st tropez

if very unfair to say that being moored outside st tropez sums it up. But i suppose you're right - moored outsdie, not inside. If it was 21.5 metres and it could be inside the old port of st tropez. OR if it was goodlooking riva, they wd finds a spot inside.

Students must be doing well if a sunseeker 48 is "affordable"!
 
Smooth Operator

Smooth Operator is the sunseeker 105 that was ordered in silver, the first silver one they did. It also had a kind of extra layer added to the wedding cake - a hardtop flybridge. I didn't it had a bigger sister - 120footer - what boat was that?

The superhawk may be labelled "t/t Smooth Op" but that must be for pose value, as a 105 isn't gonna have a tender quite that big.

Whereabouts in Grimaud is your berth?
 
Re: Smooth Operator

I believe this is the Sunseeker 105 called Smooth Operator. It was in Alcudia in 2003 - is it still there?

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Rick
 
Re: Smooth Operator

Jeez, that is a bit ghastly innit? Looks like the superstrcuture is made from sawn-up smaller manhattans. Or the result of a fight between several sunseeker owners.
 
Re: Smooth Operator

Yup Rick that's the one

See what I mean about the extra layer?

The worst view is when you see her directly from the bow. The standard 105 looks all wrong from that view, too narrow and tall. Smooth Operator looks even taller and so skinny that you think she'll flip over in a crosswind. Not a pretty boat at all.
 
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I thought SO was german owned, but might be wrong. If German, the biggerbrother is probably a Drettman/Elegance. Hope I'm wrong tho, the Sanlorenzo is so much nicer :-)

Sorry I dont know the names of Grimaud locations so Sud/South means nothing to me. I have often tied up broadside on just East/Seaward of the fuel pontoon, and couple of weeks ago they gave us a berth inside, I mean turn right past the capitainerie and slipway, head for the church, pass the church on your left, then berth immediatley ahead against some shops and restaurant with the hire boats off the starboard bow when berthed stern to. Very nice spot. But I dont think I've even scratched the surface of the canals network on my visits, yet!
 
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it doesns't actually take too long to get around them. They seem like venice which do go on and on but you can buzz around PG in half an hour. Dead clever tho, the way that from any junction you can't see the next junction, hence it feels as tho it goes on and on, whole place still under 40 years old....
 
Re: Smooth Operator

You mean like this?

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Yup - see your point. Oh - it was german owned when we saw it, but that was in 2003.

Rick
 
Superhawk isn't really a day boat though is it, it's got beds and a cooker and stuff. If you apply this logic then why not say that a 'Gusta 130 is the best day boat or perhaps the Queen Mary 2. So sorry, to be a real day boat you need no sleeping accomodation or a cuddy at the most.
 
Dayboat / weekender , call it what we will.

It does have 2 beds , 1 for slepping downstairs and 1 for sleepeing upstairs ( cos it's a sunbed)... it's 'sleeping' accomodation would be shamed by many 20 footers... its' cooker (hob) shamed by a boy scout with 2 sticks ... and 'stuff' seems to be common to most boats of whatever size.

Sounds like a day boat to me ... and I bet you cann't find one on SoF/Med that is used other than that with credit-card dining ..
 
Re: Smooth Operator

Yes, it is registered in Hamburg, and yes its ugly.

The toy cupboard was open last time we were out, could see the stern of a very nice motor launch and two PWC, def no room for a 48Ft Superhawk.

Martyn
 
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