Addicted – Built with Azimut’s usual modern and flamboyant style, this 70’ flybridge yacht built in 2010 screams “Euro”. With room for eight guests in four staterooms including a large full beam master cabin and forward VIP, “Addicted” is a great choice for a young family.
Triple Treat – “Triple Treat” is a large volume 70’ Ocean Alexander built in 2011, building for a more mature audience Ocean Alexander ensure their yachts feel spacious and elegant, satin finished woods and cream accents are complemented by large windows and high ceilings.
Princess 63 – Viking Sport Cruisers built by Princess Yachts in the UK pride themselves on delivering quality and comfortable yachts in this size range, and their experience shows. With four staterooms, a larger than expected main deck and well appointed flybridge, this yacht is a great choice for anyone looking in this size range.
Hi everybody. Welcome to this week’s Insider Yacht Review. This is the brief roundup as always of the three boats that we have for you today. The full length reviews are available down below if you’re watching this from the Insider Yachting website. I’ll also put a link at the end of this section just up here so that it’s easy for you to click on. If you’re watching this on YouTube or on iTunes then I will also put the links just in the right dot below. Let’s get stuck in.
Addicted The first boat that we have for you today is called Addicted. It’s a 70 foot Azimut. All the yachts this week are around 60 to 70 feet. They’re all flybridge style. It’s a little bit difficult to see this in that photograph there. It’s not the best cover shot for their brochure. Actually its interesting looking at the three brochures this week you’ll be able to see how different brokerage firms put together their brochures and the quality of the brochures and the quality of the photography. That’s something to bear in mind when you’re choosing which brokerage house to represent your boat for sale. There’s a big difference in the quality of the brochures, so it’s something to bear in mind. You’ll notice that going through these reviews.
Back to Addicted; it’s just over 70 feet. It’s about 70 and 9 inches. They’ve rounded it up to 71 here. The beam’s a very good beam for this size. It’s 18.5’ and the draft is pretty standard at five and a half. They all use the deep V style hull so they’re not going to be as shallow as some of the styles are. But a great hull, great seagoing hull is the deep V sun seeker also use it as well. At cruising speed is 28 knots, maximum speed of 32. It’s fantastic for a boat of this volume. It’s down here in Florida. It’s actually in Miami at the moment. It was built in 2010 by Azimut, like I said. They call it a sedan cruiser. You’ll probably know it better as flybridge style if you’re over in Europe. The accommodation in this is pretty good; its four state rooms. Out of the three boats that we have for you today, it’s interesting looking from one to the other, we have a 63 foot and two 70 foot, and the two 70 foot boats, one has four guest cabins, the other has three. But then going down to the 63 foot and that also has four. It’s interesting to see the different use of space. Here they have crew cabins as well; separate crew cabins enough for two crew, if I remember correctly. The engines on here are the MAN engines. They are quite popular with the Azimut. They also use MTU engines. A lot of the boats in this range or this style will use MTU engines because they’re so high-powered and they’re generally pretty compact as well. That’s a popular choice for a lot of these manufacturers. Has its pluses and minuses because it’s a compact engine. The MTU engine, it means it’s sometimes a little hard to work on. It’s nice to have those caps in there with the ACERT rating which is the higher-powered rating caps are always pretty popular; very easy to work on and easy to get to all the different components on the engine.
This one’s listed right now. The asking price is two million nine hundred and sixty-nine thousand; and a great looking boat. We’ll go into the photographs in detail for the full brochure review.
Triple Treat Our next boat up for review is called Triple Treat. Now this is in Ocean Alexander; this the other 70 foot yacht. Now Ocean Alexander have a different sort of approach to this style boat. They tend to cater a bit more towards live-aboard owners. They’re a bit more mature in their interior styling. By mature, I mean a bit more traditional; it’s a lot more woods and neutral tones used, whereas the Azimut that we just saw is a bit more of a European modern style.
Its 70 feet long, the same beam as the Azimut eighteen and a half feet, roughly the same draft as well, five foot five inches. It’s again fiberglass. All of these boats that we’re reviewing this week are all fiberglass, and also here in South Florida. Manufactured in 2011; this is a year younger than Azimut by Ocean Alexander. They call it a motor yacht. It’s interesting seeing the different descriptions that the different manufacturers use. You’ll see here this only has three guest cabins. Now I mentioned earlier, Ocean Alexander tend to cater a little bit more towards the more mature boat owner. It’s nice having those three cabins because that type of clientele generally spends a lot longer on the boat. That means they have bigger cabins, a lot more space to maneuver around, a bit more luxurious feeling, and its nice having those large cabins when you’re spending so much time onboard, and if you’re a live-aboard owner, then even more so.
This has the caterpillar engines. I think they’re the C18s that they have onboard here. I’m not 100% sure of the speeds. It doesn’t detail it here, but we’ll see all that good stuff in the full reviews. Now this one’s also listed and the current price is two million six hundred and ninety-nine thousand.
Princess 63 Onto the last of the three today; this is a Princess boat, or a Viking Sport Cruiser, Princess’ are linked with Vikings over here; the boats that are built in the UK. Princess is a UK manufacturer. The boats are built there and then shipped over here for this final fit and finish and some of the electrical work to happen over at the Viking yard. That’s why they’re called the Viking Sport Cruisers. Also after market and after purchase sort of service is all done by Viking. Great boat, it has a good pedigree and history behind them. This is a … I’ll just flick through to the … okay, this is the first page of the brochure. I’ll just run through the specifications here.
It’s a 63 feet long. It is shorter than the other two, but, again, it’s a quick sneak peek of the brochure here. I can see it actually feels pretty open and luxurious on the inside. It does have a lot narrower beam. It’s two feet less than the other two, but remember, it’s seven feet less in length; so sixteen and a half feet is the beam and a very shallow draft just under nine feet … sorry, just under five feet at four foot nine inches. This one’s also built in 2010. There’s the Viking Sport Cruises; it is essentially Princess. Fiberglass hull, again, it’s here in the US it’s actually in Avoca which is just north of us right now. Slightly less on the fuel and water than the other two, but then again it is that much shorter. It’s listed right now for one million seven hundred and ninety-nine thousand dollars.
There you go, that’s the three that we have today; all great boats, all very interesting to see how the different manufacturers approach their own sort of take on the flybridge yacht. I do these reviews every week and if you want me to shoot you a quick notification of when the latest reviews are up then there’s an option just down below called, “Be the first to know.” Leave me your name and your best email address and I’ll just shoot you off a quick email when the latest ones are up and ready to go.
Now, the other couple of things that I’ll tell you about briefly, we do yacht packs for each and every one of these boats. In fact, I have one ready to go and created for every boat that’s currently on the market. What this yacht pack does is it gives you the full brochures which we’ll run through in the full reviews, it also gives you pricing analysis and some other photographs and inside information that we have. We put this all into a packet, an email-able pack that we call the Yacht Pack. If you want any inside information or pricing analysis or lots of photographs for any of the boats then over on the buttons on the right-hand side here there’s a yacht pack button, click on that, leave us the name of the boat and your email address and we’ll get all that good information off to you right away.
The links are down below for the full length reviews. I’ll also put them here. You should see them now. Just click on any of those. As I said, if you’re a YouTube or an iTunes watcher, then the links will be down below. Thanks for joining me and I’ll see you in the next review.
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