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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…
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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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August 2026
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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WATCH | The €149,500 Dutch Classic Wintered Indoors for 25 Years
We step aboard 'Timeless', a 1991 Klaassenvlet 13.60. Built in steel with a 1.25m draft, her 25 years of indoor winter storage and recent 2026 refit…
Aug 7
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Commercial Lines, Private Comfort: Evaluating the €349k Pilot 50
Built in steel by VDL Shipyard, this 32-tonne motor yacht borrows heavy-weather pilotage DNA for genuine offshore cruising. We examine the reality of…
Aug 6
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