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Anyone like the look of this chap? It's a Hatteras GT63. Not my cup of tea I must admit.

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Oops sorry folks! I had a clear out on photo bucket and wiped the pic. Hey ho - another thread dead and buried.
 
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That's not designed, just smoothed previous ver to make it more uptodate/trendy...
Worse than a bad quickly put together kitcar (designwise that is)
Don't like it at all.
 
Bung on a few more curves :)

Designed to do a job.Big seas in blistering heat and vast space aft to get that 1000 lb Fish onboard.!
 
Cannot agree with the critics to this boat.

Those Hatteras new GT series look the buisness, as did the Convertible before them and are solid boats indeed. I am not a fan of the Enclosed Brige to be honest, but it does give an extra enviable comfortable cruising helming area. It does take off something of the flair of the lines.
The solidity of a Hatteras is just plain superb. I had the occasion to board two in Force 6 Beaufort head upwind seas, a 60 and 54 and the boat just performed superb at 25 knots in 3 meter waves.
The lines are simply to nice to ignore, and remain that way forever. Look at some sixties build sportfish by one of the famous name (Hatteras, Bertram, Viking). They still look simply gorgeous.

Another note in favour of Hatteras is the moulding of the glass of the new models since mid 2000s, which is just a level above anyone else to what I have seen.
 
Yup, built for fishing and built to get to the fishing grounds PDQ. Maxes out at 40kts but consuming 200 USG per hour at that speed:eek: Video on boatetest.com if anybody is interested
 
Stunning boats, wonderful sea keeping, immensley practical and very comfortable indeed.

Two of my all time favourites that I have had the pleasure of either stepping aboard or in the case of the latter below, spending a day on.

The Viking 74 in the first picture is owned by Kumar Dadlani who is more or less "The Curry King" of the Canaries. Known for his restaurant chain, "Lanis". Really nice bloke, stunning boat.

The second picture is a Garlington 78.
Owned by the Kaineth family from the southern States.

I spent a small amount of time aboard both boats in Cape Verde whilst fishing there in 2008.

Great boats, wonderfully accomodating owners.
Just my opinion so please don't take offence, but if you can't appreciate these boats, you can't appreciate a proper boat.

Tom
 
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Stunning boats, wonderful sea keeping, immensley practical and very comfortable indeed.
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You don't have to convince me. I've done a bit of offshore game fishing in Mauritius and Carib on Hats and the boats were superb. An Italian business acquaintance of mine is a very experienced boater/offshore angler and he swears by his Hat as the best sea boat he's ever owned
 
Only been on one Hat, an old 53 out of Puerto Colon, Tenerife.

But yes, the American convertibles from Bertram through to the semi customs like the Garlington are awesome boats.
Bertram are almost European styled and could get away with selling here (in fact they have a very good Portuguese dealer from memory), but the others will struggle to find favour.

...but those gorgeous Caroliner flared bows... they do such a fabulous job in big head seas.
 
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LOL never liked those Carvers.

You cruised on a Garlington Nautibuisness. WOW.
I am very jealous for this. Hear super things about them.

An Italian friend of mine also has a Hatteras 60 Convertible from 2006, he changed it from an Azimut 55 back then and used to be moored in Port of Rome.
Amazing boat in his words, rock solid and master peace in every area.
Half of the Italians I know buy a Sportfish for the never sort of dating lines.
 
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...but those gorgeous Caroliner flared bows... they do such a fabulous job in big head seas.
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The Carolina sportsfishing yachts built by Buddy Davis must be the epitomy of flared bows - there is one here, and this is what her bow looks like, head on :

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Since this photo was taken she has had 3 sprayrails added each side below the chine - no fancy hydro-dynamic design, just done by a 'seat of the pants' approach - and the owner reports that they are a significant improvement.

And the tower has since been removed, as they are never really used in the Lower Caribbean - its usually far too rough to be perched up there, even in relatively calm trade wind conditions! (I think the towers were designed for spotting fish in flat water off Florida and the Eastern Seaboard?)

Here is a view from her stern quarter.

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And here is a near sister ship for sale in the USA :

http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/199...2338303/Marco-Island;-Naples/FL/United-States

Re the OP's photo of the Hatteras, she does look very sexy, but she would look so much nicer if she had an open flying bridge, rather than an enclosed wheelhouse plonked on top.
For some reason open flying bridges do not 'stand out' as much visually, even with a full bimini roof and clear plastic side screens all around.
 
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That's a hard-core flare Martin!....imagine getting up under there with the mechanical buffing machine :eek: talk about 'muppet arms' by the end of it! :D
 
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AndieMac said:
+1 ......and the extra flat/useable fore-deck space.
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You could certainly hold a large party on the foredeck of any of these Carolinas!

Here is a not very good photo of the foredeck of the boat here.

I think that I would want a couple more ventilation hatches in the deck though if she were mine, in way of the guest cabin and the heads.

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PS - OP Graham, what has happened to the nice photo of the Hatteras that you originally posted?
 
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