Excellent video as always, Nick! We have asked Dufour for official permission to rename the sail locker on all sales particulars and we will refer to it as nothing else moving forward 😂😂. See you again soon.
Yeah don't forget it's got a sail. Who can be @$$Ed with messing with those nowadays?! It's also got a puny little engine. Not having twin powerful ones and associated kit will reduce the cost a lot. People want fast motor yachts, not piddling along at 5 knots in a light breeze and having to priss around with the rigging every 10 mins. And the boat builders are still making a massive wedge. A sail boat probably only costs 350k to knock together and they are hawking it out for 550k. Welcome to boat building where the rich and wealthy get fleeced. Some clients will pay silly prices for a bespoke craft and the boatbuilders know it!
@@PreservationEnthusiast that is just your opinion. Sailing is wonderful and a completely different experience than going fast and burning lots of fuel. Sailing can offer much more in my opinion.
@@AQUAHOLIC I don't need to be in the marine manufacturing industry. Whenever you have luxury goods with bespoke finishes and extremely wealthy people with very large disposable incomes, certain things are going to happen! At least my mark up was only 57%. You should be talking to OP who thinks typical mark up is 300% 😊
Please do more sailing yachts, I fell in love with them❤. Just learned how to sail within a week with nonstop sailing (10+ hours a day) and learned alot
I am also watching another youtube channel. They as a couple travelling with this yacht and I was always curious about the yacht itself. After a week I just saw the tour video of that yacht on my favourite channel. Big thanks to you because you made me love yachting and I cannot stop watching :) thank you for the video !! Greetings from Turkey
Hi Nick,Thats nice to see a sailboat again on your channel some time ago and with this time a Dufour 470 with a lot off space onboard 3 bedrooms one ensuite and one shared the galley in the middle rare but very nice enough head space when you are tall big cockpit and all the winches electric great Thanks Nick great show ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Dufour, an old name & very popular many many years ago. But generally smaller boats back then. The yellow lighting in the main saloon didn't do the light wood any favours, the forward cabin looked so much better without it. Over all it looked a little functional in the trim department considering it was a hi spec boat as you mentioned. That said a big boat for the money.
that kind of propulsion system should really be the standard going forward. if properly implemented it gives you the best of both worlds and ideally means you rarely going to need the diesel engine while at the same time giving you redundancy if either of the two motors fails for any reason. Ive recently seen that in a video from the well known Sailing channel Gone with the Wynns where they had a problem with one of the diesel engines on their catamaran and simply used the electric motor on that side while running the diesel engine on the other.
Thanks for the whole engine/motor thing. Pedants like me really appreciate that. ...and I've never known a deck locker to be called... that! It makes me think of the Jimmy Carr/Susie Dent joke on Cats does Countdown.
"Hey Alexa, why does Nick think a 3rd Gen Alexa is a funky alarm clock" ? 😂. And I'm not saying anything about that particular hole. 🤪. Lovely yacht tho, very homely feeling. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Hello Nick! My personal goal while watching each of your videos is to try to determine what watch you are wearing. Sometimes you make it quite easy by gesturing with your left hand as you did with this video revealing your Pepsi Rolex GMT Master. Other videos I’ve been required to pause and zoom in on reflections while attempting to figure it out. Sometime you should do a short about your obviously extensive collection! Keep up the great work!
great video as always, nick! any plans to bring us the omikron OT60? i refuse to watch another channel’s review until you’ve thoroughly presented it to us first
I looked up the specs, and the ballast weight seems rather light, maybe not intended for blue water sailing. I’d love for you to find an Island Packet 439 to tour at some point.
What a beautiful sail boat. I love the electric motor idea. Though the concern for me is how dangerous the batteries might be. Like the ekectric cars that somehow get water into their batteries or have a bad short due to an accident and the car burns into the asphalt because the fire departments have no way to extinguish them if the start burning and are forced to water the local areas around the car to keep that from starting on fire as well and let it burn itself out. Can you imagine being off the coast, hours from rescue and your battery bursts into flames? I would rather have an electric motor powered by generator as the electric motors are more efficient and push more power to the shafts because they require no transmission. Just an on/off switch and a throttle to increase and decrease the power. You can shut them down with no issues and if you are in a really bad storm and your stern keeps coming out of the water, the turning of the shaft is not going to damage the nonexistent transmission or the electric motor, as to stop the shaft turning all you have to do is reduce power to zero when it comes up and shove the throttle forward when it goes back down.
I did notice that if you slept in the guest cabins the way they're set up with the pillows at that end that one person would be liable to bust their head on that protrusion near the vent?
It's no Gulf Craft Majesty 175 but Mr Burnham sir because I don't know how to sail I prefer motor yachts,but if I did know how too this sub 50fter is a little stunner to have I'd be very happy,what a great layout and plenty of options, top find as ever sir. Nick I'm curious, every time that you do something stupid//silly like breaking something on a Galeon or trying to close a 2nd hatch before closing the 1st hatch you famously say "I'll edit that out later" (one of the lines in the Aquaholic drinking bingo game,like Contemporary or little ship feel etc)do you ever actually edit out something because it is so stupid//silly 🤔 just curious, anyway all the best from Cornwall 🤗👍✌️
I don't understand why anyone is still buying just a regular combustion engine when they could have electrical + generator which not only is more efficient but breaks down less often. Cheaper, cleaner.
Hi Nick. There's a hell of a lot to like about Dufour Sailboats, if you restrict your Sailing to the Mediterranean. I was personally extremely interested in vying the new 44, but they have refused point blank to build one for me with a shallow enough Draft of 4 feet 6 inches, for outside the Med ! Even though I had sourced, and was prepared today for the custom design , build, and delivery to the Factory of a Canadian made Lead Wing Keel, which could give me what I actually need - a draft shallow enough for the Bahamas, and other great anchoring spots around the Caribben, safe travel along the ICW, and so many other places, and I may still resort to ordering their joke of a shallow Draft, and Sail it up to an excellent Boatyard in Massachusetts, and have them fir a Custom Wing Keel for me there, but tbh, I may as well buy another make of boat, which supplies them with Yanmar inboard diesels, and save a pile of money in the process? Dufour have turned out to be as big a disappointment as Elan Yachts, sad to say. Best Wishes. Bob. PS. Great Boat Four by the way. 🤔🌟🌟🌟👍
Hlavně mi neříkej, ze to budu mít taky 😂😂😂😅🎉 Pořad me stojíte peníze 😂😂😂😂 Pořád…. Kazdej rok jsou to vysoký desetitisíce 😂😂😂😅🎉 Za to cestování jste me taky stali spousty peněz… Celej svět se rad dozví, jak je to možný… jak je možný, ze státní struktura neustále nekoho okrádá o peníze 😂😂😂😂 Všichni pořad čekáme…
This new “huge width” trend makes them a poor performance sailing yacht. Even the boom is shorter. What is the point really..(from a real sailor :) ) just get a normal boat :) great video as always, thanks Nick
12:07 he was actually right. this is the correct term for small storage on the stern of a ship - Google it 👍🏻love your videos, would love to take you for a pint
Some worrying details and quality control such as electrical tape wound around the speaker cable above the lazarette, the unprotected air ducting, and the very squeaky floorboards. Nick, as for "glory hole", best not Google that.
So you can have an electric motor that would charge from the generator. Guessing that’s diesel?? So what’s the point of an electric motor 🤷♂️🤷♂️ surely solar panels would be better for charging.
This boat is a laugh. Totally useless at sea. No handrails to hold on to, the saloon becomes a dangerous place when heeling. Just as the galley where there is no way to brace yourself when heeling. Nice boat for the marina. But that is not what sailing yachts are built for…
Excellent video as always, Nick! We have asked Dufour for official permission to rename the sail locker on all sales particulars and we will refer to it as nothing else moving forward 😂😂. See you again soon.
Fantastic!! 😆
Finally a boat that doesn't seem 300% overpriced. I like it.
Yeah don't forget it's got a sail. Who can be @$$Ed with messing with those nowadays?!
It's also got a puny little engine. Not having twin powerful ones and associated kit will reduce the cost a lot.
People want fast motor yachts, not piddling along at 5 knots in a light breeze and having to priss around with the rigging every 10 mins.
And the boat builders are still making a massive wedge. A sail boat probably only costs 350k to knock together and they are hawking it out for 550k.
Welcome to boat building where the rich and wealthy get fleeced. Some clients will pay silly prices for a bespoke craft and the boatbuilders know it!
I wouldn't want a boat like that though. I want one with proper engines that you can do 30 miles per hour and razz all over the Med.
@PreservationEnthusiast Have you been in the marine manufacturing business long..? 🤔
@@PreservationEnthusiast that is just your opinion. Sailing is wonderful and a completely different experience than going fast and burning lots of fuel. Sailing can offer much more in my opinion.
@@AQUAHOLIC I don't need to be in the marine manufacturing industry. Whenever you have luxury goods with bespoke finishes and extremely wealthy people with very large disposable incomes, certain things are going to happen!
At least my mark up was only 57%. You should be talking to OP who thinks typical mark up is 300% 😊
Nick, I lost it when you said "huge glory hole." In American English, at least, that's a very particular hole in a partition Lovely boat
It's the same in British English too.
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I'd call it a brig for unruly teens , daughters boyfriend?
@@AQUAHOLIC Try the Urban Dictionary ;)
@@AQUAHOLICUh huh 🤔😉
A huge what now? 😂
😂
😅
😂 😭 🤣
Thanks for the tour Nick great as ever.
My pleasure!
Love to see a sailing boat now and again. Great tour. 🇦🇺😊
More to come!
Please do more sailing yachts, I fell in love with them❤. Just learned how to sail within a week with nonstop sailing (10+ hours a day) and learned alot
More coming!
So lovely sailing yacht, with lots of room for family and/or friends 🙂 Thanks for a cozy tour😃
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am also watching another youtube channel. They as a couple travelling with this yacht and I was always curious about the yacht itself. After a week I just saw the tour video of that yacht on my favourite channel. Big thanks to you because you made me love yachting and I cannot stop watching :) thank you for the video !! Greetings from Turkey
Nice use of space. The light colors make it feel more spacious.
A wonderful review by Nick! As always!
Thank you kindly!
I prefer motor yachts... but she's a piece of art!!!! Thank you Nick!
Another Friday, another yacht... Perfect!
Enjoy!!
Very nice Nick. I love the sound of the electric options!
Gorgeous yacht, brilliant saloon amd galley. Beautifully fitted out. Thank you Nick for showing this wonderful sail boat. 👍👍
My pleasure!
Absolutely beautiful! ❤ Electric engine sounds pretty good!
I am more for motorboats, but this one with the hybrid package could be quite nice. Thanks 😊
That's a great price for this yacht, I love the interior it is nicely laid out and great finishes. Thank you Nick for another great tour.
My pleasure!
Gap between the biminis is so you can watch the sails while helming/trimming.
I was about to post the same comment
Now this is a well thought through layout Nick. Just ❤this boat
Hi Nick,Thats nice to see a sailboat again on your channel some time ago and with this time a Dufour 470 with a lot off space onboard 3 bedrooms one ensuite and one shared the galley in the middle rare but very nice enough head space when you are tall big cockpit and all the winches electric great Thanks Nick great show ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
You're very welcome! 😃
As always a perfect tour. Thanks Nick!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dufour, an old name & very popular many many years ago. But generally smaller boats back then. The yellow lighting in the main saloon didn't do the light wood any favours, the forward cabin looked so much better without it. Over all it looked a little functional in the trim department considering it was a hi spec boat as you mentioned. That said a big boat for the money.
At least it wasn't full of reflective shiny wood
Been a while since you toured a sailboat. Lovely. Have a great weekend Nick. K
Thanks, you too!
Hey Nick,
I'm not a sailing yacht fan, but what a beautiful yacht. A top job as usual by your good self 👍 🇲🇹
You're very kind 🙂
that kind of propulsion system should really be the standard going forward.
if properly implemented it gives you the best of both worlds and ideally means you rarely going to need the diesel engine while at the same time giving you redundancy if either of the two motors fails for any reason.
Ive recently seen that in a video from the well known Sailing channel Gone with the Wynns where they had a problem with one of the diesel engines on their catamaran and simply used the electric motor on that side while running the diesel engine on the other.
Very well priced for the amount of vessel. And, of course, fantastic tour as always! 🍷
Thank you kindly!
Glad you liked it !
Thanks for the whole engine/motor thing. Pedants like me really appreciate that.
...and I've never known a deck locker to be called... that! It makes me think of the Jimmy Carr/Susie Dent joke on Cats does Countdown.
As a yachtsman I'm always pleased to see the different layouts of modern yachts, although I regard hull windows as more of a liability than an asset.
Keep up the brilliant work Nick
Great yaght, good price and good tour.
Lovely sailing boat and excellent video nick ⛵️🛥🚤👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
Many thanks JQ!
That table is quite unique and clever,
Great tour, always nice to see an "I'll edit that out later" too :D
Nice to see a sailboat with the added extra of the electric engine..... sorry motor😅 very nice layout. Great start to Aquaholic weekend! Nick.
Thank you very much!
"Hey Alexa, why does Nick think a 3rd Gen Alexa is a funky alarm clock" ? 😂. And I'm not saying anything about that particular hole. 🤪. Lovely yacht tho, very homely feeling. Thanks for sharing. 👍
Hello Nick! My personal goal while watching each of your videos is to try to determine what watch you are wearing. Sometimes you make it quite easy by gesturing with your left hand as you did with this video revealing your Pepsi Rolex GMT Master. Other videos I’ve been required to pause and zoom in on reflections while attempting to figure it out. Sometime you should do a short about your obviously extensive collection! Keep up the great work!
Sounds like a good game! 😃
Odd to say, but I really liked the layout of the heads. Both with separate shower areas, and not the cramped feeling you get on some other yachts.
great video as always, nick! any plans to bring us the omikron OT60? i refuse to watch another channel’s review until you’ve thoroughly presented it to us first
Maybe
@@AQUAHOLIC i shall be keeping an eye out! cheers
Nice boat! Thanks for sharing! 👍👍
Thanks for watching!
@@AQUAHOLIC 👍👍
Im not very good at sailing, but i would want to learn better if i had this one, very nice.
Funky alarm clock, huge glory hole :)) This is what makes Aquaholic tours authentic, i like the professional, yet relaxed style of presenting.
Stunning. Ah just spotted a problem, a 1.5l Vodka bottle won't fit in the storage.🤣
Happy Friday nick 🎉
Same to you!
Very spacious interior. 👍👍
Nice sailing yacht nick go for a goid trip
I looked up the specs, and the ballast weight seems rather light, maybe not intended for blue water sailing. I’d love for you to find an Island Packet 439 to tour at some point.
What a lovely yacht, not so sure about the terminology about the hole 😆 keep up the good work Nick.
Thanks, will do!
Seems to be good value for money compared to some motor yachts…. Nice boat and tour.
Glory hole😂 ffs nick 😅😂😂😂 can you also try and show us some bigger crewed sailing boats please
Can you please share how power wenchers work in your next boat video? Really curious😊
Never thought I would hear about a glory-hole on aquaholic!
Ok Nick no gimbal cooker and an origami table makes it interesting 🤔
What a beautiful sail boat. I love the electric motor idea. Though the concern for me is how dangerous the batteries might be. Like the ekectric cars that somehow get water into their batteries or have a bad short due to an accident and the car burns into the asphalt because the fire departments have no way to extinguish them if the start burning and are forced to water the local areas around the car to keep that from starting on fire as well and let it burn itself out.
Can you imagine being off the coast, hours from rescue and your battery bursts into flames?
I would rather have an electric motor powered by generator as the electric motors are more efficient and push more power to the shafts because they require no transmission. Just an on/off switch and a throttle to increase and decrease the power. You can shut them down with no issues and if you are in a really bad storm and your stern keeps coming out of the water, the turning of the shaft is not going to damage the nonexistent transmission or the electric motor, as to stop the shaft turning all you have to do is reduce power to zero when it comes up and shove the throttle forward when it goes back down.
I did notice that if you slept in the guest cabins the way they're set up with the pillows at that end that one person would be liable to bust their head on that protrusion near the vent?
I would have thought the split bimani would be so you can see the main sail when it’s up.
Good afternoon Nick
Good afternoon Michael
That aft locker looks hazardous when tacking. Just blocks the helmsman from going between the wheels.
I guess the owner who specified it on this boat felt that he was able to navigate his way safely around it. 🙂
Is it just me who can smell these videos? The teak, the fibreglass resin in lockers, carpet and then move to engine space?
A typical seamless Aquaholic tour lol 😂
You're very kind 🙂
Superb yacht Nick 🎉 and………. with a huge glory hole 😳 whatever next 🥳⭐️
Nick do you do the DIY back at your house? I bet you get a man who can in. Or even a lady. Another great video
I'd have a sailing yacht over a motor boat anytime and id have one of these.
TH-cam is not letting people like your video
Nice 👌👌👌
So the title says £550k, I'm curious what sort of maintenance cost you'd have on a boat like this?
Much Prefer the Moody 48 DS. I know you did a review of the 21 DS a few years back but the newer model is the dogs dodahs
High spech but could have got struts that didn’t come apart to access the water maker
When you will come to India ?
It's no Gulf Craft Majesty 175 but Mr Burnham sir because I don't know how to sail I prefer motor yachts,but if I did know how too this sub 50fter is a little stunner to have I'd be very happy,what a great layout and plenty of options, top find as ever sir. Nick I'm curious, every time that you do something stupid//silly like breaking something on a Galeon or trying to close a 2nd hatch before closing the 1st hatch you famously say "I'll edit that out later" (one of the lines in the Aquaholic drinking bingo game,like Contemporary or little ship feel etc)do you ever actually edit out something because it is so stupid//silly 🤔 just curious, anyway all the best from Cornwall 🤗👍✌️
Not if I can help it! 😄
@@AQUAHOLIC 😂🤣😂🤣 had one on you today 🥃 cheers 🖖
I don't understand why anyone is still buying just a regular combustion engine when they could have electrical + generator which not only is more efficient but breaks down less often. Cheaper, cleaner.
Hi Nick. There's a hell of a lot to like about Dufour Sailboats, if you restrict your Sailing to the Mediterranean. I was personally extremely interested in vying the new 44, but they have refused point blank to build one for me with a shallow enough Draft of 4 feet 6 inches, for outside the Med ! Even though I had sourced, and was prepared today for the custom design , build, and delivery to the Factory of a Canadian made Lead Wing Keel, which could give me what I actually need - a draft shallow enough for the Bahamas, and other great anchoring spots around the Caribben, safe travel along the ICW, and so many other places, and I may still resort to ordering their joke of a shallow Draft, and Sail it up to an excellent Boatyard in Massachusetts, and have them fir a Custom Wing Keel for me there, but tbh, I may as well buy another make of boat, which supplies them with Yanmar inboard diesels, and save a pile of money in the process? Dufour have turned out to be as big a disappointment as Elan Yachts, sad to say. Best Wishes. Bob. PS. Great Boat Four by the way. 🤔🌟🌟🌟👍
Hlavně mi neříkej, ze to budu mít taky 😂😂😂😅🎉
Pořad me stojíte peníze 😂😂😂😂
Pořád…. Kazdej rok jsou to vysoký desetitisíce 😂😂😂😅🎉
Za to cestování jste me taky stali spousty peněz…
Celej svět se rad dozví, jak je to možný… jak je možný, ze státní struktura neustále nekoho okrádá o peníze 😂😂😂😂
Všichni pořad čekáme…
I would not want to work in that galley in any kind of sea. Apart from that, it is a well thought out cruising yacht at a reasonable price.
3.681 x 2.43 = 9 knots in round numbers
This new “huge width” trend makes them a poor performance sailing yacht. Even the boom is shorter. What is the point really..(from a real sailor :) ) just get a normal boat :) great video as always, thanks Nick
The point, as always, is customer demand. It's what people want to buy. 🙂
Like watching live TV
12:07 he was actually right. this is the correct term for small storage on the stern of a ship - Google it 👍🏻love your videos, would love to take you for a pint
Buying it for the big Glory hole
Huge what now hole? 😅
Some worrying details and quality control such as electrical tape wound around the speaker cable above the lazarette, the unprotected air ducting, and the very squeaky floorboards. Nick, as for "glory hole", best not Google that.
Glory hole in America means something WAY DIFFERENT
So you can have an electric motor that would charge from the generator. Guessing that’s diesel?? So what’s the point of an electric motor 🤷♂️🤷♂️ surely solar panels would be better for charging.
"Call it what you will"...Probably not a "huge, glory hole" XD
Huge Gloryhole eh Nick
My last name. No relation unfortunately. If the family wants to claim me I won’t object.
I'm getting strong 'caravan in rhyl' vibes from the woodwork and fittings. Just looks cheap not luxurious in any way.
Very nice to see a sail boat but i prefer motors and you going to get a lot of stick about that glory hole 🕳 lol
Well designed boat maximising every inch inside and nice bright materials too. Usual 10/10 Nick. Have you considered doing this for a living?
That's a thought! 🤔
This boat is a laugh. Totally useless at sea. No handrails to hold on to, the saloon becomes a dangerous place when heeling. Just as the galley where there is no way to brace yourself when heeling.
Nice boat for the marina. But that is not what sailing yachts are built for…
I was also concerned about the hand rails which look very flimsy.
The heads in the owners suite had what looked like a pull up, stick shower head in it as well, like they have in smaller boats.
Sorry Nick, did you just say ‘Glory Hole’? 🤔🫣😂🤣😂