The all new Aquastar 57 Just Launched !

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The Aquastar 57 was launched last week and is now sitting in the QE2 Marina in Guernsey being kitted out.

It looks like a large version of the 48 but it is much bigger in all areas .

The layout is shown on Aquastar's website see http://www.aquastar.gg/aquastar570-layouts

The boat does not have the fixed canopy over the aft deck which is a plus in my book and is fitted with twin MAN 800hp.

The accommodation is a large aft cabin full width.

A large saloon with a U shaped setee to starb behind the lower helm and the galley is in the saloon, forward to port.

Going down below forward there is a double cabin each side and a toilet/shower each side ahead of that then a large bow cabin with a double opening to two single berths.

The fly bridge is huge, and there is a hydraulic swim platform in the central part of the platform that drops down or goes up in the air as a dive platform.

The boat is interestingly fitted with hydraulic legs at the transom so can take the ground.

This boat is a real game changer as it gives progression up from the 48/49 to a larger model with the same style and practicality.

One picture shows a 48 in the same frame and you see how much larger it really is.

As a 48 owner I quite like it.
 
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The Aquastar 57 was launched last week and is now sitting in the QE2 Marina in Guernsey being kitted out.

It looks like a large version of the 48 but it is much bigger in all areas .

The layout is shown on Aquastar's website see http://www.aquastar.gg/aquastar570-layouts

The boat does not have the fixed canopy over the aft deck which is a plus in my book and is fitted with twin MAN 800hp.

The accommodation is a large aft cabin full width.

A large saloon with a U shaped setee to starb behind the lower helm and the galley is in the saloon, forward to port.

Going down below forward there is a double cabin each side and a toilet/shower each side ahead of that then a large bow cabin with a double opening to two single berths.

The fly bridge is huge, and there is a hydraulic swim platform in the central part of the platform that drops down or goes up in the air as a dive platform.

The boat is interestingly fitted with hydraulic legs at the transom so can take the ground.

This boat is a real game changer as it gives progression up from the 48/49 to a larger model with the same style and practicality.

One picture shows a 48 in the same frame and you see how much larger it really is.

As a 48 owner I quite like it.
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I dont mean to to be cynical, but is the increase in Loa anything to do with the extra extra extra extended swim platform?
 
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Like all the teak decks, but the proportions are wrong, but can't quite put finger on why. The bow section looks too small for the mid-section, as though they've taken a 48 front half and added a larger stretched aft section.
 
Pretty it ain't. Whenever I've looked at Aquastars I've always been disappointed with the saloon space and the 570 unfortunately looks much the same. A 57 footer really ought to manage a separate dinette as well as a the galley up. Also hate to disagree but the flybridge is also small for a 57 footer and a modern design really ought to have some kind of flybridge overhang to shade the cockpit. I'm sure its a good seaboat but IMHO Pearl do a better design job with their 60 and its had a hydraulic platform for several years
 
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Pretty it ain't. Whenever I've looked at Aquastars I've always been disappointed with the saloon space and the 570 unfortunately looks much the same. A 57 footer really ought to manage a separate dinette as well as a the galley up. Also hate to disagree but the flybridge is also small for a 57 footer and a modern design really ought to have some kind of flybridge overhang to shade the cockpit. I'm sure its a good seaboat but IMHO Pearl do a better design job with their 60 and its had a hydraulic platform for several years
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Pretty it ain't. Exactly what I thought when looking at the pics, it really looks nondescript, a conglomeration of other models. And all that white Grp just looks wrong. And I'm speaking as an Aquastar owner, admittedly an old 27. And why have only half the bathing platform up and down, surely that limits the size of any tender you can store and launch form the back?
It's got to be the ugliest boat in their range. The larger 60 odd foot boats look really handsome., as does the 48 and smaller boats. Very strange.
 
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Pretty it ain't. Exactly what I thought when looking at the pics, it really looks nondescript, a conglomeration of other models. And all that white Grp just looks wrong. And I'm speaking as an Aquastar owner, admittedly an old 27. And why have only half the bathing platform up and down, surely that limits the size of any tender you can store and launch form the back?
It's got to be the ugliest boat in their range. The larger 60 odd foot boats look really handsome., as does the 48 and smaller boats. Very strange.
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Is it actually a proper hi-lo platform insert, or is it a component like an Opacmare Transformer?
 
I believe the original was going to be a 55 and the platform was extended 2ft.


The picture below shows the 57 alongside a 48 , I think its proportions are ok and its a reasonably pretty boat .

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I personally have never missed a dinette, and having the galley in the saloon is quite sociable unless you have staff. moving the galley up allows you three cabins forward and the large master at the stern. there is also plenty of room in the engine room.

On thing I like on my 48 is having the low side decks and the ability to het down on to the pontoon at that point , on a 48 I moor bow in most times on a finger, but I dare say the fingers will be too short to do that with a 57.

Having a blue hull myself which after 9 years was chalking very badly, I had to have it re sprayed if I bought a boat from new I would buy a white one which lasts much better in the sun.

The boat is going to Brittany and the new owners old boat is the 48 in the picture above, I would not look for a roof over the stern deck above the aft cabin, the website shows it but the owner did not want it and nor would I with my boat.

I am afraid I don't know how the hi-lo platform works.
 
Hmmm the bow sure is too-small looking. Someone got their sums wrong because the bow has sunk to a few inches below the painted waterline, which isn't hugely encouraging. The sheer line detailing is a shame, especially the way they have set if off with the terrible midships side railings- they appear to have lost the plot completely with the mid rail. Nice bonded glass on the main superstructure, but not the portholes.

I like the big aft deck. I guess this owner will have canvas over the aft deck because there are two stiff poles fitted.

The fly helm is disappointing. Single chair for bily no mates, and you can not reach the screens from the chair ( why do people keep doing that?)

I cannot tell from pics but hope the swim platform has an opacmare Transformer. The platform seems to be cantilevered though, which you don't have to do with a Transformer, so they missed a trick there. I cannot work out what the thick diagonal prop/ hydraulic ram under the platform is for, visible in the port side profile pic. The Transformer doesn't ordinarily have a hydraulic ram there
 
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Its not my boat, but I would have had a twin seat at the fly helm and a lift up swab so you can stand to helm while berthing with your legs further back than the seated position.

The aft deck has a canvas sun shade, sunshine is generally not a problem in these latitudes.

The legs on the transom are hydraulic, so probably that's what you are referring to.

She has full water and part fuel so a bit bow down but waterline and trim is always a problem with the first off the line.

There is a door by the lower helm on the starb side, I would agree that the mid rail aft of saloon forward window looks odd.

The side windows in the aft cabin on the website are large the actual build is small side windows but large ones over the transom.

Personally I am not a fan of large windows on the side, I always imagine some ones pushpit or anchor bow roller going through the window and then what do you do? you cant go to sea.

Also for marina use I don't want large side windows in my bedroom.

Geoff builds a custom boat with a lot of customer input so I dare say a lot of the details are the customers and not necessarily the builders.
 
The old adage of if it looks right it probably is right.......... It does not & it probably isn't ! Sorry to say I don't like it at all.
I am sure it is very well built though. Can't put my finger on it but something is not quite right. Unusual for Aquastar as even their little 27 looked great.
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Most Aquastar boats have a blue hull, which looks good but all dark colours get damaged by the sun sooner or later. White is certainly more practical in the long run.

All boats when you scale up change proportions.

In the flesh the 57 looks better than in the photos and the wide style line below the belting could be more subtle in its application and a blue style line on the fly bridge would break things up as well. As would say a 6 inch one running above the chine over the waterline. I dare say it was as the customer requested?

Aquastar often fit the wooden Badging in the style of Nelson boats which was originally a sacrificial wooden fendering but this costs a fortune not only to supply, fit and varnish but to keep looking good in the long term ( ie strip back to the wood each year and 7 coats ) which is expensive each year. Alternatively like mine they have a rubber belting above the waterline running two thirds of the way to the bow.
 
It's a shame because it looks a bit home made where someone bought the bare hull/superstructure and did the fit out (including windows) themselves. The fact it's so bow heavy doesn't help. Not what I would have expected from someone like Aquastar. At first glance it doesn't give the impression of a professional build.

The saloon looks far too small to comfortably seat all the people it has berths for. It's one of my biggest gripes with some builders (and I include my own Broom in some respects). By all means include reasonably sized cabins but all I want to do is sleep there. I want maximum space in the living areas where I spend my waking hours. I'm not really that bothered how big my cabin is when I'm asleep :)
 
I've got mixed feelings about this. The top half looks like it belongs to something other than the bottom half. Very odd trim.

But I don't quite agree that the billy-no-mates helm is a problem because the roof deck - -it's not really a flybridge is it? - is quite cosy so it's not going to be too much of an imposition to chat to the other occupants.

I really like the deck area aft of the curved doors.

Not sure that the teak on the cabin roof is a huge plus, but I suppose you might get a few OB points for the opportunity to extract splinters from the nether regions of the occupants of this area - once. :D
 
I am with most of you on this.
Its down to proportions..
The original Aqua Stars were just stretched versions of one another..Brilliant DNA..
Same bow, parallel sides, same transom..
So the hull would carry the multitude of coachroof arrangements really easily as by stretching, the sheer and camber could take it..
I think the latest struggles on this, as the bow section,[when the stern is extended] because of the flair, looks to be a bit low to the eye..My opinion..
Other than that, I am sure the French will love it..
 
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