40 years of design progress in 1 yacht | Princess 68 used boat buyers' guide | Motor Boat & Yachting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Our resident used boat expert Nick Burnham (aka. @AQUAHOLIC) explains how to find a good Princess 68 on the secondhand market.
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Possibly the best Xmas present a unexpected review by Nick - happy holidays to you and your family
She's really chic, I like the crew/overflow cabin. One of the best layouts I've seen. With that enclosed fly I could see it used in here in The Netherlands just fine. Thanks for showing us around.
I stumbled across your videos on Facebook Nick and have now become obsessed with your excellent yacht tours, they are so thorough and well presented. Many thanks and please keep up the good work!
Beautiful! - l loved the enclosed flybridge, looks great and adds to the usability of that space. Great review as usual Nick, thank you!
Hi Nick. A big Princess fan. This one is suited for the UK weather. Huge master suite. Ive spoken to santa 🎅 and because all the team at MBY are on the good list you can now choose the 100k boat. Great walkthrough tour thanks 😊 Wishing you Nick, Hugo and Jack a merry Christmas.
I do like princess design and quality its definitely top notch
Yay! A bonus Nick video for Christmas!
Amazing boat with an amazing price tag to buy & own no doubt!
Thanks MBY for bringing us Nick on Xmas eve 🍺🎄🎉
Brilliant tour Nick thats my dream boat.
Another wonderful tour and such a fabulous boat.
Looking forward to next years treats 😁 Happy Christmas
Awesome job Nick!
Lovely Boat indeed, am always torn between a Princess and Sunseeker but its hard to go past this vessel. Merry Christmas Nick and Family Cheers from down here
I have to agree with you there James. Although the Nordhavn and Gulf craft have some design elements I would love to mesh with a Princess or Sunseeker
So awesome on Xmas eve to have an Aquaholic attack! Love it Nick! Cheers from Maine! 🍻! Best wishes to you and your family for 2021
A very respectable bit of kit. The only outdated aspect is the porthole style windows but that's mainly cabin 3 and 4. They were in transition to bigger windows.
Super boat, super review. Thanks.
Princess is just on another level imo. No Italian design over the top bs, " just" classy interior that oozes quality.
I agree. Many yachts these days are way over styled and seem to have a poor quality. Princess is known for building heavy, though yachts that are simple in design
Yes blewyd, Galeon is a good example of that, looks like Vegas, but has no taste. Lots of bling bling no soul, no class. Princes is on a whole other level.
@@TheKarivirtanen I totally agree with that statement! Great comparison
blewyd 👊😎
Lovely yacht Nick and a huge saving on the new price. Great size to be still manageable by an owner operator. Have a very Merry Christmas 🌲 Nick and keep up the good work.
The going rate seems to be £1.85m for a 2016 model
Princess has such great builds. Everything feels so nice. I wish they had pod drives though.
The F45 has Pod drives 👍
Hi, Nick, another great video! I'd like to see you do a tour of a Sirius 40 DS sailboat one of these days.
Thanks Nick....hope you and your loved ones had a happy and safe Christmas
Every time I think I love another boat, along comes another Princess 8)
Thank you Nick another great vlog. Great way to brighten ones day.
I like the 'Crew Cabin'option as a bathroom/changing room for swimmers,etc,so you don't drip through the ship.I always see them that way when aft placed,and not needed as crew quarters.
Another good video Nick thank You......Well that's it for me it's either Princess 68.or the barvaria sail boat..
That is a rather fine boat. Princess does a magnificent job of the mechanicals for sure. That was an excellent tour. Have you done this before🤔
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Merry Christmas Nick and Motor Boat & Yachting
Very nice boat. Stellar tour and guide. We’d love to see more tours from this guy. =]
Very nice.
Great review Nick. Lovely boat. It was on my Santa
Hey Nick, in a future video could you explain in more depth how the heating works on the boat? Is the heat generated from engine coolant in the same way a car heater works? Or is it electric?
Reverse cycle air conditioning is electric powered. Not linked to the engine.
5 Ways to Heat Your Boat
Cooling temperatures can keep you off the water, but adding a cabin heater can warm your cabin and heat up your next boat party. There are many ways of heating your boat, lets explore some of the more popular methods of staying warm that can keep you on the water all winter long.
1. AC Heaters
One of the simplest methods is to use an AC electric heater plugged into the boat’s AC electrical system. Many models are available, but heaters designed for a marine environment are usually preferable. Electric heaters designed for the marine market are usually made of stainless steel and/or other materials that resist the corrosive marine environment. They should have some sort of safety switch that will turn off the heater if it is tipped over. Some models are ignition protected, meaning that they are safe in gas-powered boat engine rooms. Models without ignition protection certification should not be used in areas where gasoline fumes are present, for obvious reasons. Electric heaters are best suited to boats that either have an AC generator or are usually at the dock where shore power is available. It is not practical to run an electric heater through your inverter, as it will draw the battery bank down too quickly.
2. Fuel Burning Heaters
Fuel burning heaters are among the most popular. Diesel heaters are commonly used with boats that use diesel fuel for propulsion engines as they have a ready source of fuel for the stove. They are available as bulkhead mount as well as floor mount, and may or may not have a fan to circulate the warmed air. All require a flue (stovepipe) that exits the cabin of your boat to dispose of the exhaust. Some heaters use natural convective draft, while others use fan-assisted draft to assist the removal of the toxic exhaust. Some of these heaters have a window, which allows you to enjoy the sight of the burning fire inside the stove. Propane (LPG) space heaters are available with “direct-vent” through fitting and flue cap, where the combustion process is completely isolated from the inside of the boat. Some of the better designs have an oxygen sensor, which will shut off the fuel supply if the oxygen in the cabin reaches a dangerously low level. A few solid fuel heaters burn charcoal briquettes or wood. These also require a ducted flue or stovepipe, as well as a source of wood or charcoal. In the past, coal was used, but modern solid fuel heaters are not designed for coal burning, as it burns too hot.
3. Hydronic Heat
Heated water can be circulated by a pump through tubes or hoses running through the boat to small radiators (heat exchangers) located in the cabin areas that require heating. The heat from the water is transferred to the air by small fans blowing through the heat exchangers, thus heating the boat. These fans can be thermostatically operated, so you can have separate zones of heating, allowing different levels of heat in the individual cabins. The source of the heated water can be from your main engine cooling system, heating coils installed in diesel or propane stoves or ranges, or it can come from your domestic water heater via heat exchangers installed in the water heater. Most marine water heater manufacturers offer optional heat exchanger loops in the water heater, allowing you to heat your galley and head domestic water from the engine, or the heating of water for space heating with the above-mentioned fans/heat exchangers. Multiple zones also are a feature of this type of heating, but add to the complexity and cost of the system. An added benefit is that the bilges, lockers and stowage areas that the hose or tubing runs through will be warmed and de-humidified, decreasing mold and odors common in the colder months.
Hydronic furnaces, which use diesel or kerosene fuel to heat water that is pumped throughout the boat in the same manner as the engine/water heater/radiator system described above. These heaters usually require less maintenance than the forced air furnaces, as the thermal cycling is not as extreme. These types of heaters have a delay between the starting of the heater and when you begin feeling the warming of the cabin, because the water takes some time to heat and circulate out to the heat exchangers and fan that will be warming the air. This hydronic method has many optional ways of connecting to other components, allowing the furnace to serve multiple heating purposes.
4. Forced Air Furnaces
There are several makes and models of forced air furnaces available. These heaters burn diesel or kerosene fuel, exhaust fumes are ducted overboard, and the heated air forced through ducts installed in the boat to distribute the heat. These require rather large ducting in the boat from the heater to the areas of the boat that require the heat. You will feel nearly immediate heat output once the furnace is started.
5. Head South to a warmer climate.
Very nice too, always love a Princess Yacht 👍
Nice to see the inside, only got to see the outside of one
Nick: The word you seemed puzzled abut is Oriented not orientated which is meaningless and does not actually exist. From orientation, people think that the logic would be orientated. In fact, the word is oriented instead. Just clarifying the apparent questioning and uncertanty of the word being pronounced correctly. Thus the correct form for Oriented comes from the ROOT word Orient (Verb) "To find/give direction" thus Orientation also follows it comes from the root word Orient, also Orienteering from the same root word Orient "to find/give direction" as previously mentioned. The same word means countries in the EAST though that is when it is used as a Noun not a Verb. Orient Noun is Countries in the EAST, Orient Verb is "to find/give direction".
😁 part of his charm to play with words 👍
In UK English 'orientated' is the preferred option. That's what I thought anyway, and a check on Google seems to confirm that. So what you're saying is true, but only from the perspective of American English.
Nick will have hesitated because we hear so much American English over here now that it makes people unsure.
Similarly with 'Schedule'. The British pronunciation is 'shed-ule' and the American pronunciation is 'sked-ule' - but I hear more and more Brits using the American pronunciation these days.
p.s. Americans 'orient' something to make it face the correct way; Brits 'orientate' it.
@@richardgreenwood3355 preferred option does not make it right. Like English people who think preferred option is hospikal rather than hospital. Point of fact that actually. For wording is what I said. They're are many other words people say that do not actually exist and just because people say or write them down doesn't mean they exist. Preferred ways do not make them right regardless. Such as irregardless being a non word. It is preferred but still a non word. It's actually a double negative and nonsensical. Regardless is actually the word.
@@MorDreadful You have prompted me to do a bit more digging around, which has allowed me to better appreciate your point. I've heard that many of the differences between American English and British English have resulted from American English staying 'true' to the English of several centuries ago whereas British English has continued to change. No doubt there are examples of the reverse happening.
So I will happily acknowledge that you are correct when you say that 'orientate' has developed out of 'orient' making the latter the correct word, but I would refer you to the page below which states that 'orientate' is not actually 'wrong'.
www.dailywritingtips.com/do-you-orient-yourself-or-orientate-yourself/
I guess it's what you grow up with. Unfortunately language constantly changes and dictionaries are there to REFLECT and RECORD how words are used and not to DICTATE how they must be used. As I get older I find myself frequently cringing at people's pronunciation, grammar and spelling and I have to remind myself that language develops and things change, and so I have to accept that rules I was taught as a child may no longer hold true. Constant frustration!
'Hospical' is definitely wrong. For now anyway.
I am a bit of a fan of 'skelington' though! 😁
@@MorDreadful p.s. I don't think I've ever heard 'irregardless' until you used it in your comment; though I've now seen it referred to in the 'oriented' VS 'orientated' discussions.
I don't know where you are? Are you in the USA? I've not come across 'irregardless' in the UK so maybe it's not got here yet - I hope it can be stamped out before it arrives. Mind you, we do already have to suffer the coexistence of 'flammable' and 'inflammable'! 😞
11:30 Hmmm, I may grab a cold one when I'm done filming? lol
Whoever originally spec'd that boat certainly ticked the upgrade options list! I really like the enclosed flybridge, for UK use that makes a lot of sense 👍
Typical Princess quality!
Motor Boat & Yachting couldn't pick a more knowledgeable yachtsman than Nick to do piece...! "Used boat expert"...? Let's just go with BOAT EXPERT.
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HI NICK, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE VID THIS YEAR,,,, COULD YOU INCLUD ENGINE HOURS AND GENERATOR SIZE ? HAPPY X MAS TO ALL .. REGARDS RICHARD .
If she's for sale, can you put a link to the listing? thanks.
I only watch nick on this channel!
No outside deck tour Nick, was the weather bad?
You'd think when you were designing a yacht like that you'd figure out how to get more of a galley area with Real sized stainless sinks. Just saying LOL Merry Christmas to all and to all a good-night
Only more recently do you see aft galley with any "real" fixtures. This one is an exception to the rule because it has full size fridge, cook top, oven, and full size dishwasher. I'm telling you look around and you won't find that in any aft galley from this year / size.
Out of curiosity, if you didn’t choose the crew cabin as an option, what would be there instead? An empty void or would it be sealed up and useless?
Usually a storage area 👍
Massive storage for toys and gear.
Did anyone else notice that there were no bow/stern thruster controls on the flybridge? Why would that be omitted?
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Awesome Princess bruv👍🏽👍🏽.
Thx u 🙌🏽😤💀♎...
The idea of a £55K “option” is deeply upsetting to me. For that I’d want to get the actual flybridge not just a plastic roof...
height of the engine room?
Nick would I be wrong in saying that because Princess has the power plant access on the exterior of the boat that they make no claims that this is a challenging weather yacht such as Nordhavn and just a late spring to fall warm weather boat for the discerning boat owner. Typical Princess.
I'm a bit behind here, what happened to Nick's channel?
Aquaholic is still going strong, but he somehow has the time and energy to post at least once per month on our channel too - some say he never sleeps...
@@MotorBoatYachting Some say that he has diesel in his blood. That he has retractable flybridge in his car. . . . . All we know. . . He's call the Nick.
I'm always reassured when the rich drink stuff like Fanta too
Only 260 miles range? 🤔
What year is this
This one is a 2016 model
*sigh* no wave in the mirror , I am soooooo disappointed. Just kidding Nick, Beautiful boat and really well looked after .. does the booze come in the price? lol
For £1.85m, I'm sure they'd throw in a bottle of bubbly!
How much does this go for?
£1.9m seems to be the going rate right now
Stunning boat, unfortunately all it has done is remind me I need to do the lottery.
How much used?
£1.85m
How much ??
£1.85m seems to be the going rate for a 2016 model...
.....but is it "ice rated " ?
Nope, you'd need a metal hull for that
@@MotorBoatYachting Sorry, I was being glib. Love the vids. Keep them coming! Out of interest, which yacht, if money was no object, would you choose under 40 metres, to run and own?
I'm sorry but that greenhouse on the top looks hideous. If it's too cold, drive it from down stairs. For me it spoils a really nice boat.
It is Removable, just like any other canopy in the cockpit for example
@@turre1160 I know that, life's too short to mess around with canopies. Just untie the string, hit the go button and get out on the water...
what happen with your channel mate?...
Nick's a regular guest on here, he posts at least once per month. You can see more of his vids on our channel at: th-cam.com/video/Wfrb7zJQqa0/w-d-xo.html
Not "wowed" by this boat. Somehow interior kind of bland. I actually like the Princess 60 that you reviewed better.