Not all of us are native speakers and to understand this mumbleball is at times - not always - nigh impossible.

Tobey Tobey yes he looks at the things that would concern a serious buyer

Rip Chris.

@@davidrockefeller2007 ???

bill keller I'll take the other half mil, get one for myself, and we can race!

What is this accent? Liverpool?

What? WTF

Chicken Soup Yea it is lovely. There is something really nice about this boat.

ploneuk Yes wonderful through flowing cabin layout. Best I've seen. It would indeed be a very pleasant place to be. Proper 3D thinking. Combined with brilliant engine access. When I can afford one of these things engine access, hours accumulated thereon, become very significant. I prefer a big open sugar scoop stern, but I would not want to lose that magnificent rear cabin and it is after all not a sub tropical boat.

Really? I just thought that was wasted space?

with your glass of whiskey just there..... :)

review...???

For some sufficiently exaggerated level of "serious" sea conditions, you are inevitably right. Pretty much no sailing yacht, nor motor yacht or that matter, has been built entirely with such deadeye port lights for a century, though. Yet precious few fail from having their windows punched in by seas..... Motorships can be forced to go at high speed right into heavy breaking waves, if the captain is crazy enough. That's when pilothouse windows get damaged. And I suppose from literal 200 pound ice blocks in the water in Bering crab fisheries..... Sailboats don't really experience that. Sailboats who founder in open water, almost always do so as a result of capsize (and even that's rare). Not from having windows punched in. On a shorthanded cruising boat on passage, crew is of greater risk from being permanently stuck out in an open cockpit due to lack of suitable inside watch station, than from the windows of such a watch station being punched in. Just be doubly careful not to smash them accidentally, with a hard and heavy object. Even on professionally crewed commercial boats, far and away the biggest loss risk, statistically, is from fire. And fire risk, like all human factor risks, increases with crew exhaustion. On a boat meant for shorthanded cruising, focusing on reducing crew fatigue, is ultimately likely to be the most prudent, safety wise. On a sailboat, given modern auto helms, a suitable inside watch station helps with achieving just that.

LOL! Alcohol abuse. Actually our sundowners were usually a good dark rum and water with a twist.

Unless you are a tropical sailor, I am guessing that you aren't a sailor at all.

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Jeffrey - Nordship have a lot more storage, the 40DS got a lot of "cabins" and two bathrooms, which cost a lot of storage. Ive been wanting for the 40DS but have a hard time where to fit gear, dive tanks, compressor, water maker etc. seems *to me anyway* that the nordship managed a lot more real storage.

Single hand on a 66´? That is impressive.

You sell the boat.

Evangelos Gallos if you’re a newbie sailor I wouldn’t recommend going out to sea without a decently experienced crew.

which boat manufacturer would you recommend then? Most modernized sailers seem to be ridicously over-priced. I was thinking of just buying an older sailer, maybe a project boat and modernizing it my self. I've seen numerous sailers that require very little 'fixing-uping' for waaay cheaper. I'm young and not retiring anytime soon so a boat that might take years to slowly fix up and modernize would be just fine for me. : ) But would it be cheaper in the long run do you think?