Interesting boats

[Lou_tribal]

2000 Selene 55 for <700K AUD

Selene 55 Pilothouse: Power Boats | Boats Online for Sale | Fibreglass/grp | Queensland (Qld) - Gold Coast Region Sanctuary Cove QLD

SELENE 55 PILOT HOUSE OCEAN TRAWLER FIRST MATE Launched in 2000 and Australian dealer delivered. Proudly presented by Central

www.boatsonline.com.au

Sure its 24 years old and has a single, but hours are good, just looking at it risks half a mongrel.
(AUD buys 66c USD)
Maybe Kit_L`s next boat??
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Just asked the admiral but she said no, damned I love it (the boat and the admiral).

L

 

[Sticky]

This big 1993 Tolley may be of interest. Don`t forget the favorable (though diminishing currently)exchange rate, the AUD buys 67c of a USD. Interesting how much coring there is in hull, keel, etc, not sure about that.

Tollycraft Raised Pilot House 66 Extended: Power Boats | Boats Online for Sale | Fibreglass/grp | Queensland (Qld) - Mackay/Whitsundays Region Whitsundays QLD

Tolly Craft 66 Raised pilot house classic motor yacht Built USA 1993, Last of these iconic vessels. Hand laminated sandwich cored

www.boatsonline.com.au

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Assuming one were to purchase an Australian boat, how do you get it to the USA and how much does that inflate the cost despite the favorable exchange rate?

 

[JayB]

Fine vessel. To get to the USA: add stabilizer installation, fuel, time, stores, crew... Deduct 'pleasure' of easterly or westerly voyage... Some beautiful girls are too rich for me!

 

[Adopo]

What do you guys think about this? When we did the Northwestern Exploration cruise on the 46 Grand Banks, I noted our Mother Goose boat we followed was a 49 GB. I thought if I could find a perfect 49, one that someone has sunk a ton of money in and redone I would consider it. What do y'all think about this?

https://www.boats.com/power-boats/1981-grand-banks-49-classic-9309380/

If you are looking for the finest of the finest, this is the GB49 To See. The seller has resources at his disposal from owning a famed large boatyard and poured those into this passionate refit.

Redone from stem to stern by a boatyard owner with a taste for doing things to perfection this GB49 needs to seen to appreciate. Complete engine repower with brand new Lehman's, redone decks, new fuel tanks, and a list of other upgrades that is quite lengthy. 3 Stateroom, 2 Head layout. Powered with Lehman Straight Shaft 355hp Diesels that are bristol and live in the cleanest engine room you will find.

Do not buy another 49 Classic without at least seeing this one first. CALL THE LISTING BROKER FOR MORE DETAILS AS THE BOAT IS CRUISING THE CHESAPEAKE PRESENTLY.

These are all new items replacing old

Water tank 2021
Nav electronics 2021, 2023
Auto pilot 2022 new thru hulls 2021
Topside awlgrip 2022,
Teak stern transom 2023
Tempered glass for FB wind screen 2023
Electric dingy davit 2022
Dingy 2022
New batteries 2023
Hard top 2022
Track vision for tv and starlink 2023
Replaced Niad stablizers, and main housing 2022
fin size was increased
Engine room sound shield, aluminum diamond plate2021
Shore power electrics 2022 & 2023
A/C electric panel 2022 & 2023
12 volt electric panel 2022
Electric for anchor windless
Hi test anchor chain 2022
Electric heads 2022
Fresh water pressure pump system 2022
Refrigators Isotherm 2023
Ice maker 2023
Custom helm chair salon 2023
All FB seating replaced 2023
Water circulation pumps2023
2500 watt inverter 2023
Life raft 2022
Dickerson stove 4 burner with oven 2021
Replaced Splendie washer/dryer ventless to Splendie Vented 2023
Head liner replaced 2022
All main level decks replaced
All FB teak decks replaced

 

[Adopo]

a few more

 

[Adopo]

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[Adopo]

and a few more.

The engines have about 4000 hours I was told. I typically have been looking for boats with much lower hours. I know all of the accessories etc have been changed or rebuilt, as I was told. Decks new, integrated swim platform, etc.

Can anyone tell me about these engines? I have always heard Lehmans are good, but that parts might be hard to get?

SP355 Lehman

Thanks!

 

[BruceK]

Assuming one were to purchase an Australian boat, how do you get it to the USA and how much does that inflate the cost despite the favorable exchange rate?

Great questions, you could do your own research and report your findings.

 

[Adopo]

 

[BruceK]

This Australian built timber 50ft motor sailer looks a big solid boat. Unless the guy to the right is "vertically challenged" rudder and prop are substantial.

Ray Norton: Power Boats | Boats Online for Sale | Timber Spotted Gum | Queensland (Qld) - Manly (Brisbane) QLD

OCEAN CROSSING STABILISED GARDNER POWERED MOTOR KETCH. No matter if it is a cruise around Tasmania, or a trip to the

www.boatsonline.com.au

 

[CaptTom]

Wow! Just the ER has me drooling. But I have to admit, when I saw that first pic I thought there were four sailboats anchored behind this boat.

 

[Hippocampus]

It’s a beautiful thing but I wonder about her ability to cross oceans safely. The glass may not survive a boarding sea let alone a knock down. Would note Nordies have been knocked down and keep on ticking as do multiple Fe rec trawlers.
Although not a wedding cake the A/B ratio doesn’t look favorable from the pictures. The various blue water trawler trawlers in various materials achieve, in effect, a double bottom from integral tankage and many are divided by watertight sectioning. Range is marginal at best. My truly coastal NT has a range of 1200nm at displacement speed. So you would be dependent upon sail to cross oceans.
Personally think a beautiful full time long distance coastal cruiser but not my first choice for voyaging. Have come to believe in the old saw”motorsailors neither sail or power well.” Looking at the rig suspect she won’t be very weatherly. Maybe 50 degrees true wind angle in a fresh breeze. Probably worst in light air. Don’t like in mast. Had experience with the mandrill bending. Couldn’t get the sail in or out. Ended up cutting the main away. Ever since then, especially on big boats, they scare me for passage making. Also don’t like giving up roach and ability to trim sail shape.

 

[Adopo]

These are interesting boats. I wonder how they handle a beam sea.

https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1999-florida-bay-42-coaster-9378773/

1999 Florida Bay 42 Coaster

Freshly painted ultimate trawler with dependability of John Deere engines and SeaKeeper.

Owner has kept in the fresh waters of Northern Michigan since 2019, with 839 total hours. Updated records and more info coming soon. Hull sounding has been done in past four years and passed at original specs prior to new paint.

 

[mvweebles]

These are interesting boats. I wonder how they handle a beam sea.

https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1999-florida-bay-42-coaster-9378773/

1999 Florida Bay 42 Coaster

Freshly painted ultimate trawler with dependability of John Deere engines and SeaKeeper.

Owner has kept in the fresh waters of Northern Michigan since 2019, with 839 total hours. Updated records and more info coming soon. Hull sounding has been done in past four years and passed at original specs prior to new paint.

This boat is in Michigan. Pics are from winter storage.

How do they get these boats in storage so close together? No way to get a travel lift between them.

 

[RT Firefly]

Greetings,
Mr. mv. I'm guessing hydraulic trailer.

 

[rslifkin]

Hydraulic trailer or cradle lift trailer. That's what they do where we are. Anything that goes into the building with a travelift gets placed with room to fill in next to it. Anything that can sit on a cradle gets placed on it outside and then a trailer picks up the boat and cradle combo to move it inside. Others are placed with a hydraulic trailer.

Either of the trailer methods needs no space around the boat, so as long as the boat is wider than the trailer, a skilled operator with good spotters can get things placed with no more than an inch between rub rails. In a good size building that adds up to a few extra boats that fit.

 

[mvweebles]

Greetings,
Mr. mv. I'm guessing hydraulic trailer.

I wondered about that. But in another pic, shows the boat traditionally blocked (see attached) There must be a secret something. Just curious.

 

[rslifkin]

I wondered about that. But in another pic, shows the boat traditionally blocked (see attached) There must be a secret something. Just curious.

The hydro trailer my local yard uses allows traditional blocking. You back the boat into place, set blocks under the keel (inside the trailer) and lower the trailer suspension slightly so the boat is touching the blocks. Set 2 pairs of stands aft of the aft set of trailer pads. Then you lower the trailer suspension the rest of the way, hinge a gate open at the back end of the trailer so it can be pulled out past the keel blocks and pull the trailer out. Then set the rest of the stands.

 

[Hippocampus]

Looking at the drawings struck by how much usable living space is in those 42’. Of course a boat not intended for open water use but in protected waters not a bad design.
Personally would go with a Great Harbors. Same look but perhaps a larger safe use envelope.

 

[Adopo]

I really like the one Jimmy Buffett owned, at 65ft the proportions where so much better.

 

[Mac2]

I really like the one Jimmy Buffett owned, at 65ft the proportions where so much better.

Billy Joel. Not Buffett

 

[SeaLion]

Billy Joel. Not Buffett

You beat me to it, Mac!
Later owned by Jeff & Karen Siegel, founders of Active Captain.

 

[Adopo]

Billy Joel. Not Buffett

Yes, thank you, you are correct. When I was 40 or so I wondered why older people had trouble remembering…now i know. And if I live long enough, walking with be in that knowledge until I forget. Can’t say I’m looking forward to it! Billy Joel, what a life, what a cool dude.

65′ Red Head

floridabaycoasters.com

 

[Mac2]

Yes, thank you, you are correct. When I was 40 or so I wondered why older people had trouble remembering…now i know. And if I live long enough, walking with be in that knowledge until I forget. Can’t say I’m looking forward to it! Billy Joel, what a life, what a cool dude.

65′ Red Head

floridabaycoasters.com

The only reason I remember this is that the designer, Jay Benford, probably had a lot to do with the design of my boat, otherwise, I'm right there with you on the memory. And yes, Billy Joel is a cool dude!

 

[Jeff F]

Here's a 2013 Diesel Duck with only 730 hours for $149k. It looks immaculate!

https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2013-diesel-duck-40-5950323/

I had a chance to get aboard this boat yesterday. The listing broker is an old friend. Seller is a professional boat builder who built it for personal use and has maintained it well. It's got a lot of charm.

 

[Hippocampus]

https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2008-diesel-duck-462-8234063/

It’s this version of his designs that appeals to me.

 

[Cargile]

Billy Joel. Not Buffett

Thanks for piping in. His name escapes me but the guy who started Active Captain and sold it to Garmin sailed it all over the Caribbean in "Red Head". It was on the market a year or two ago.

 

[mvweebles]

https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2008-diesel-duck-462-8234063/

It’s this version of his designs that appeals to me.

For me, would be a decent choice if I planned a fast circumnavigation. For a slow one where there is plenty of time at anchor and in a marina, lack of easy on/off and general outdoor space would be difficult.

I do like the sailplan idea. Underutilized idea - not a great get-home, but is a get-somewhere. And the benefit of stabilization and modest propulsion bump is undeniable. Surprised it doesn't get more traction in the trawler market.

Peter

 

[patricmcm]

I think because of the type of boat that it is comparable to.

Some Malahides and Romsdals had twin diesels with one shaft.

Some Romsdals had Detroits with belt drives, IIRC.

I think because of the type of boat that it is comparable to.

Some Malahides and Romsdals had twin diesels with one shaft.

Some Romsdals had Detroits with belt drives, IIRC.

 

[patricmcm]

I think because of the type of boat that it is comparable to.

Some Malahides and Romsdals had twin diesels with one shaft.

Some Romsdals had Detroits with belt drives, IIRC.

AUG 25, 2024
In regard to the Romsdal Trawlers, you are right as to a number of them running twin diesels to a single shaft, the early ones, especially, such as the 65' LOA "Edvard Grieg" class in the mid-1960s. My father was Peter Varney of Newport Beach, California, now deceased. Peter started Romsdal Shipbuilders (US & Norway) in the early 1960s as he had always been impressed by the primary hull design and seagoing capabilities of the Norwegian fishing fleet trawlers, and came to believe there might be a market for their basic oceangoing designs if such craft could be successfully
converted to "yachts" without losing their seriousness of purpose. The "Edvard Grieg" in fact traveled successfully on her own hull from Norway to California through some vicious Atlantic storms. She arrived in Newport Beach with very little damage and so gained some extremely "sales helpful" attention in the maritime press. From that point on the company began to grow, and with increasing sales the notion of larger yachting craft and "expedition" types took hold. I was a 16 year old high school artist when Peter took a chance on me one afternoon and allowed me to propose some varied upper deck supports for the trawlers which wound up in production... a pretty big deal for a kid.

Peter's first experience with serious seagoing began as an officer in the US Merchant Marine officer during WWII while working cargo ships on the North Sea routes from England to Russia and back. Following the war he had a moment's glory acting in films at MGM but determined that boats were more to his liking and so started out in sales by opening "Peter Varney Lido Yacht Sales" in Newport Beach. He would some years later connect with builders in Norway and start the Romsdal line in hopes that others would one day share his belief that the primary design elements of Norwegian commercial trawlers might prove both a handsome and physically successful form for a line of seriously oceangoing yachts.

Any information re Romsdal trawlers or any personal experiences willingly shared on this forum would be greatly welcomed. Patric McMenamin / West Linn, Oregon

I think because of the type of boat that it is comparable to.

Some Malahides and Romsdals had twin diesels with one shaft.

Some Romsdals had Detroits with belt drives, IIRC.

I think because of the type of boat that it is comparable to.

Some Malahides and Romsdals had twin diesels with one shaft.

Some Romsdals had Detroits with belt drives, IIRC.