with 600 miles range branded as "explorer" what a joke

@@annanadel I think the explorer thingie has more to do more with it's design than it's actual capabilities

@@annanadel Not really in the most likely locations where it will be used. It's a semi displacement glass house. Not a circumnavigator. In The Med, and other places, the speed to make passage in daylight hours, beats the extended range achievable on a pure displacement transatlantic passage maker. It's all about priorities.

Form over function. 62 with no real kitchen. One sofa, no settee. 600mile range. I'll stick with Absolute, azimut magellano 66, 62 Beneteau Grand Trawler, etc. still looks good though.

Your marina is 1200 miles wide?

@@darthkek1953 Extremely strong point. I literally have no comeback to that.

@@darthkek1953 where you got the 1200 miles range from _? you just doubled the 600 miles at 20 knots to 1200 miles range at 10 knots ? sure, think again

@@andyvankerkhove6902 600 miles in EACH direction to give a 1200 total range (diameter).

@@darthkek1953 600 radius isn’t something shake a stick at, but for an “explorer”…? Meh.

"600 mile range at 10 knots is a surprise." Pretty good for a VERY full featured and voluminous 62 foot semi displacement boat.

i just wonder about maintenance and actual seakeeping. I wonder that about all fancy italian / super stylized boats.

Yes, you are absolutely right. I didn't expect to meet you here, how are you doing?

Why so?

@MrSirlulzalot one it can't go very far. Also it wouldn't be very safe in rough seas. How long are those sliding doors going to hold up. How much cold storage does it have. 600 miles isn't much for an explorer boat. I had a 65 ft boat that could get nearly 3000 miles and it was a semi displacement boat. My friend has a 55ft boat that can get even more. No protection from waves. It's a weekend nice weather boat. Just my experience

And it’s ugly

Agree and i think FPB 64 is an Explorer Yacht

600 mile range at 10 knots, this isn’t an explorer yacht by any stretch of the imagination. If it had a range of 3,000+ miles, then maybe.

Depends on climate. This is owner's spec, he is obviously going for the fair-weather boating.

@MrAbletospeak It's a styling name. Most lobster boats these days are not set up to catch lobsters. Most sports cruisers will not win any sports events. Most trawler yachts do not trawl (for fish).

@@darthkek1953 Yeah, more like to catch crabs.

@@pistonburner6448 LOL very good. :-D

ITALIANS 😂

@@kirstenbosch7591 Maybe is meant to explore between Naples and Messina.

Global expeditions are not the only exploring. A _passagemaker_ might need long legs, a local exporer doesn't.

correct...1500 miles would be the minimum to explore any coast

@@andyvankerkhove6902 Most, perhaps even all, coasts where this boat makes sense, has fuel docks spaced a lot closer than 1500 miles.

Maybe smaller engines and bigger fuel tanks would reduce max speed to around 14 knots, keep cruising speed around 9 knots and increase the range to 1,500 miles. Also it needs a bigger generator so Air Conditioning can be added. Then you can call it an explorer yacht with incredible looks.

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'priced about right for what you get also.' I like the boat. Unless these guys are magicians, or their workforce works for free, I can't imagine them delivering anything like this, at the sort of quality the owner obviously aspires to, for 1.5million pounds (Tons of marble and a carbon superstructure...... Sounds more like a Wally/Riva cooperation, than anything aimed at "right price" shoppers). I would not want to be the first guy putting down a deposit, unless I had quite some slack in the budget... I hope I'm proven wrong. But seeing what you get for

galeon, absolute... lots of nice boats before this one

Pretty much anywhere other than remote islands and the but coldest of higher latitudes. Almost all coasts have plenty of fuel docks within 500 miles of wherever you happen to be along them.

@@paulnorman8274 Then don't call it an explorer yacht, call it a coastal cruiser.

If you're doing 1000 miles at a time you're not exploring you're passagemaking.

John's V39 does not have a 1000 mile range, why does this need one?

@@darthkek1953 so ya don't have to keep refueling every time ya stop, like John did. 🤪👍❤️🇬🇧

@@cookiemonster2299 OK but that boat is a _passagemaker._ And passagemakers are wonderful in their own right, both as transport and to enjoy as themselves, but they are entirely different architectures and design requirements to this. Suggestions in this forum are including changing the hull to displacement. Changing the engines to small HP shaft. In turn that would require a fundamental redesign of the transom, all windows, etc. And we don't stop there. Extending range and lowering speed means more time inside, including more time forced inside in inclement weather. So literally everything gets changed internally too. The sheer ego of it all. Post after post after post of it. I'd say nobody but not quite, but close to nobody, has bothered to try to judge the boat on it's actual design and intended use. (I just removed several f-bombs from the sentence and somewhat regret it.) I mean if people don't _want_ to use a boat for its intended use, if that style of use doesn't appeal, OK. But they're criticising the fact the boat exists in that niche instead of being an entirely different build that they can't afford either. Let's make the case for this. You & the family live on the Med coast, Florida, etc. are out for a holiday for a couple of weeks. You fill the tanks and you head off. As a holiday you won't want to do too many hours a day passagemaking, certainly not for days on end, you'll be enjoying the places you stop by be it anchorage or berth, along the way. So basically you won't need to refuel during your holiday. Most family holiday yachts top out at 350 miles. If a yacht like that has to refuel once, or twice, you avoided that. That's all. It's not a deal-breaker but it's good. But far more importantly it opens "hops" not previously available, or available with a ballache. For an example to contextualise, can now go from Sardinia to Malta directly without a big detour to Scilly to refuel. Balearics to Scilly DIRECTLY. And if those examples don't interest you it doesn't matter. John on a trip had a ballache of phoning a farmer for diesel because he ran out. Three times the legs is a BIG jump forward looking for a port. If you could tell any experienced Caribbean standard motoyacht captain their "hop" range has gone from 300 miles to 1000 they'd be _very_ happy. And that's the passagemaking of it. The real point of the yacht is, having gotten to wherever it is, you anchor up and get the drinks out. The "but I cannot cross the Atlantic in it therefore I cannot conceive as to why it might exist" crowd... you provoked this. #OverAndOut

@@darthkek1953 you forgot something, in my daydream this boat is capable of 1000nm 😂🤣😂

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"Presumably Range could be extended if the speed was dropped more? Would be interesting to know." This answer to this is "yes, physics guarantees it."

Fin stabies require a decent turn of speed. I've never even seen them on a 20+ knot semi displacement boat, but at those speeds, they have to be fairly small to not be dangerous. Hence, they'll be too small to work at truly low speeds. Gyros aren't going to be quite the bees knees, at motion reduction in a boat this tall. The low (for a multi-storey tower) COG will help. But nothing is magic. And Humphreys work at (semi)planing speeds... If you don't care about the above displacement speed, you'll save a LOT of fuel, complexity and cost, by just getting a displacement boat. There's a lot of (arguably over, but the owner is experiencedand knows what he wants....) engineering, and hence tradeoffs, going into letting this thing speed up above displacement speeds. If you want to to make 200 miles in daylight, so you're not stuck out at night, you "need" that. But if you don't care about that "feature", your throwing a lot of money and tradeoffs at something you don't need.

@@paulnorman8274 just because you've never seen fins on a semi-d doesn't mean they're not in widespread use - they are. As for full displacement, yes and no. Yes it's the most efficient way. BUT you don't have a top turn of speed. So what? So that means you're unable to run from inclement weather. That affects everything in the GA (General Arrangement). You need a boat deck not a beachclub platform for the tender. Doors need different levels of water tightness. A good listen is the guy behind Bering, his interviews with NautiStyles.

I agree

Further than you can swim mate.

@@darthkek1953 okay mate.

explore the marina.....

same guess here... will be double the price of another 62 ft boat like galeon or absolute....hmmmm

Yes, you are absolutely right. I didn't expect to meet you here, how are you doing?

Bering 60 or Beneteau trawler 62... cheaper and better

@ANDY VAN KERKHOVE not sure the beneteau would have the range. Personally I'd say you need at least 2500 miles to truly be an explorer yacht.

It is for cruising between Naples to Monaco making lots of refueling stops.

IF you somehow managed to heat the interior of that glass house to something livable in Greenland: Those big, single pane windows would crack from thermal stress....... While all that plumbing for wet bars etc. high up above the only thing frost moderating, which is the ocean;, would freeze and crack..... Pretty much the only places left anymore, which are inhospitable enough to not have coastal populations supporting fuel docks closer spaced than 500 miles, are exactly such butt cold places. Where boats like this, all make a cold, hard, zero sense from the getgo. In most other places, many people would prefer the ability to wick it up to 20 knots on more realistic, occasional shorter passages. Even if that means not having a weight allowance allowing for bunkering fuel like a transoceanic supertanker.

It happens when you do not name thigs right. Maybe ifyou call it a "coastal exploring luxury yacht" it would fit the right crowd preferences. If you are looking to buy an explorer yacht, you would skip this one.

its just the name to impress

У неё даже логотип компании вызывает вопросы.

Correct, there are different boats for those activities. But Princess & Azimut, aside from costing a lot more, have a lot less range. But yes it's a Med/Caribbean explorer, not a globetrotter.

just another design of any 62 ft yacht on the market... nothing more....

A Caribbean explorer if you ship it in a cargo ship there. It would still be a short range interisland explorer.

lol...it does

yep... so explore Alaska

As long as you're sitting a bit out from the mainlands, and under a roof protecting you from the direct sun, the breeze is really pleasant. All those superyacht charterers aren't paying a million a week to be cooked alive.... I could absolutely see this boat work well in Ibiza/Formentera. Stabilisation and reliable ground tackle, are a big thing with the quickly changing wind directions and few truly protected anchorages which weren't already overcrowded by 1970....

18 knots.

use subtitles.... 18 knots....

correct... explore your marina