Acadia – A perfect example of how a dedicated yacht builder and an experienced owner can create a beautiful and practical yacht. Very impressive.
Northern Answer – With large open plan salon and dining, country style kitchen and large exterior deck spaces, this Pacific Mariner lends itself well to chartering.
Patience – A luxury interior, high quality finish & exceptional cruising range make this yacht a must see for serious trawler buyers.
Hi everybody welcome to this week’s insider yacht review. This is the brief roundup of the three boats that we’ve got for you today. We have 3 sort of trawler style boats, 3 fantastic boats. The full review as always is down below just underneath this window, so click on any one of those 3 links to watch the full length review. Now if you’d like to be the first to know when all these reviews are up and ready to watch, then towards the bottom of the page the, be the first to know opt in, leave us your name and your e-mail address and we’ll send you a quick notification when those reviews are ready to watch.
So the first boat out of the three that we have today is called Acadia. Now I really wanted to put this one into the mix this week because it is going to be in the Palm Beach Boat Show, which is coming up towards the end of this week. It runs from the 21st to the 24th of March. So this one’s built by Lyman Morse. It was built in 2004. This was built by a sailboat, it’s a yachtsman wanted to have a power boat that had a very shallow draft that he could be out for multiple days without having to come back into, back into the dock to either refuel or take on water. So it’s a very, very high spec boat this. It’s a fantastic boat. It’s beautiful on the interior. The hull is fiberglass or type of fiberglass process called scrimp and it’s sort of resin infused fiberglass. It’s a very, very solid structure that you’ll end up with this process. The military use it for a lot of their larger vessels up to about 200 feet. So the strength compared to its weight is very, very good and actually out performs steel, so that’s why they use this process so much now and they’ve actually one some test with it for submarines as well, so it gives you and idea of how well this process performs.
So it’s a semi-displacement hull. The speed is pretty good for this style boat. It goes up to 25 knots. She’s 84 feet long, just under 20 foot in beam. She’s here down in South Florida. As I said before it was built by Lyman Morse, who typically they do sailboats. They do some of these sort of trawler style boats. There are only a couple of them out there built to a great specification as I said and maintain their value, really, really well. So this one’s a fantastic chose if you’re an owner operator. It really doesn’t need full time crew on this even though it’s 84 feet, in the same size and other styles would really need sort of crew to operate it. But it’s built to be an owner operator boat, so it’s very easy to handle, easy to maintain. She has great fuel consumption down to as low as 14 gallons per hour doing around 10 to 12 knots. So a great, great choice if you’re looking to just go out somewhere, be sort of off the charts and have a nice sort of secluded few days or a week off of the dock.
She actually has a great workshop room in this as well. So we’ll go into this now. The engine room or the engine compartment you can access that from underneath the aft deck, so you have two huge doors that open. You actually have enough access where you can dismantle the engine and pull the engine out of these hatches without having to do any other destructive sort of work. The generators and the battery room is in a whole separate compartment from the engine room. All the pumps are separate in this little generator room. So it’s been really well thought out and very, very well executed. You can actually switch all of the engines off, kill the engines and the generators and run the boat for about 24 to 36 hours just purely on the batteries. So it’s a beautiful, beautiful interior as I said. They actually shipped in all of the wood, all of the mahogany from South America because the owner wasn’t happy with the quality of wood that you can find in the United States. So I’ll leave it at that. Great boat. check out the full review.
So the next one we have is called Northern Answer. Now this is a Pacific Mariner boat. Now Pacific Mariner was actually purchased or the name was purchased by West Port. So all these boats now are built by West Port and the idea was to have an equally as sort of reputable product but in the smaller size ranges. So that was the idea of West Port buying this and they actually execute really, really well. Coming from sort of a large boat background myself and an engineering background, you can always tell the quality of the boat by the equipment that they put in it and the way they execute the installation of that equipment, so not disappointed by this one at all. She has a great layout even though it’s only 85 feet, has nine guests that can be accommodated in 4 state rooms, so it’s nice. A lot of the time you find this size boat will have 3 state rooms, nice large state rooms but only 3. So it kind of reduces the usability of the boat but here it’s nice that they have the 4 state rooms there.
Very, very fast up to 25 knots, again cruising speed is 22, 85 feet as I say, 21 foot beam, so it’s slightly bigger than what we saw with Acadia but with this you will need to have a crew to run it, 1 probably 2 people. Here it’s here again down in South Florida. This is newer. It was built in 2011 but it was a 2012 model. It’s a really nice layout, nice interior, has a great sort of country kitchen area there up forwards, and it kind of feels like a bigger boat than it actually is. But she has a very nice fly bridge, nice exterior, sort of usable space. You can see the Pacific Mariner sort of lines and quality there but just a few little tweaks by West Port with their experience in the larger boats. Great boat, nice option for someone that doesn’t want to go to the 100 foot range.
So the last one out of the 3 that we have today is Patience, now this is a Marlow boat and the Marlow’s are very well-known in the sort of true trawler style. The last one that we looked at, the Pacific Mariner does the transition between the motor, the pure motor yacht and the sort trawler style. You can still see trawler bits in there but it’s kind of moving towards the … towards the motor. But this Marlow pure trawler sort of caters towards the older sort of clientele that are looking to sort of just stick around New England. They’re very good New England boats, real shallow draft, 82 foot long, 20 foot beam. It’s 4 foot 10 draft which is incredible for that size boat, beautiful interior.
The wood package that they have inside this boat is second to none as far as I’m concerned, beautiful uses of sort of satin finishes and high gloss finishes. They have the teak and holly. There’s some ash in there. They have a mahogany throughout, real, real nice. You’ll see in the pictures when we go through the full review. So this was built in 2008, as I said the Marlow’s. The Marlow’s were actually built in Taiwan. They have a state of the art facility over there. It’s only 4 years old the yard that they’re built in so real high tech yard and sort of owned and operated by all of the Marlow people from the states.
The Marlow sort of series that they always use real high quality sort of fixtures and fittings all the way from the toilet system to the main engines, majority of them have Caterpillar engines in them, which we know from previous reviews, great, very easy to maintain, very easy to work on. So a great option. It does say the speed here. So up to 24 knots which is pretty good for this style boat. Typically the trawler styles will be sort of slower but Marlow cranked that up with using the Caterpillar engines to push it to 24 knots.
So 3 great boats there. As I said at the beginning the full review links are down below on this window and if you’d like any more information on any of the yachts that you see today or any of the yachts that we’ve done previous interviews on, then we create what’s called a yacht pack. So for each of the boats we include the full brochures, some other comparable boats so that you can see sort of prices in the different ranges. We include a few other bits and pieces of information and bundle that all together in this yacht pack. So click on that get the yacht pack button that’s on the right hand side here, enter the name of the boat that you’re interested in and we’ll just forward that off to you. We have them all right there ready to go.
So thanks for joining me again and watch your reviews and we’ll see you next week for another roundup. Thank you.
