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WATCH | The €489,000 Vripack Searocco 1500 ‘Aegir’: Dutch Steel Rated for Winds Beyond Force 8
What her CE Category A rating really means, the 2023-2025 refit work, and what a 23-year-old steel hull asks of her next owner.
Sep 18
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$675,000 for 60ft of Australian Steel: The Reality of Bringing ‘Reel Steel’ Home
An ex-NZ Hakker displacement build with a Gardner diesel and 3,000nm range and the $250,000 shipping, delivery, and tax arithmetic that decides the…
Sep 17
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A 91ft Steel Explorer Yacht You Can Actually Afford?
Lady Marjan’s unique seller-financing makes this commercial-grade conversion a smart investment.
Sep 10
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WATCH | First Look: The Rugged No Limit Ships 1320
A premium preview of a swift trip to the Netherlands to explore a remarkably seaworthy, Corten steel motorboat before the full video drops
Sep 8
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WATCH | €595,000 for a CE Cat A Ocean Cruiser: Inside the Aquanaut Global Voyager 1500
34 tonnes of Dutch steel, twin diesels, and hydraulic fin stabilisation built to punch through Force 8 seas and the true arithmetic of transatlantic…
Sep 4
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He Designed It Himself. Now His $15,000,000 Solar-Powered Floating Mansion Is Looking for a New Owner.
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The $435k Dutch Kotter: The Romance and Reality of Commercial Iron
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What Does It Really Cost to Sell Up and Live Aboard a Nordhavn? The Honest Guide
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She Was Built to Serve. Now She Could be Yours to Command
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Twelen: The Ex-Government Sounding Vessel Turned Explorer Yacht Now Asking €149,500
A steel-hulled, round-bilged 1979 former survey vessel from an established Polish yard, freshly certified and asking €149,500
Sep 2
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The Nordhavn 46 MK II: What the New Entry Point Into Ocean-Crossing Ownership Actually Offers
What the new entry-level boat in the range actually gives you, now that the 41 is gone
Aug 31
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WATCH | Steeler Explorer 50 Pilothouse: Inside the Dutch Steel Yacht Built to Actually Live Aboard
A 15-metre Dutch steel pilothouse with a genset, a watermaker and solar panels doing real work, built for two people who intend to actually live aboard…
Aug 28
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M/S Northwestern: The 78ft Norwegian Working Boat With a £172k Price Tag and Three Names
A genuine commercial hull from an established Norwegian yard, currently sitting in Godøya and asking questions most brokerage listings never have to…
Aug 26
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The $700,000 Nordhavn Is Dead: The Unseen Currency Trap That Killed the N41 and N51
How Turkey’s inflation squeeze forced PAE to destroy the moulds on its hit entry-level trawlers and why 54 owners may have accidentally acquired an…
Aug 24
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The €450,000 Former Research Ship Turned Explorer Yacht That Can Launch a Submarine
She spent 24 years finding out what lives at the bottom of the Baltic and North Sea before entering the explorer yacht market
Aug 17
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WATCH | Salvator: The Honest Truth About Trawler Conversions
She was built to fish, not to flatter. What it really takes to turn a North Sea working hull into a go-anywhere explorer.
Aug 14
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Is Living on a Boat Cost Less Than Renting an Apartment? The Real UK Numbers
What it costs to live aboard in the UK, and when it beats renting
Aug 12
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70 Years of Steel: The $147,000 Gladding-Hearn Explorer
From her original heavy-weather design brief to her current Alaskan listing. I look at her capabilities, tankage modifications, and insurance…
Aug 11
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