THIS Is a €555,000 STEEL Classic Motor Yacht (2,700 NM Range)

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-09

[00:00:07]She was launched in 1971 from a shipyard on the banks of the Xan River in the Netherlands. 54 years later, she still turns heads. The round build Hack 60. 18 m of Dutch steel built to a hole form that has defined serious longrange motoring for generations. That deep round BGE underbody was designed to keep her steady and comfortable whatever the North Sea throws at her. She has been comprehensively refitted. She's ready to go. And in this video, I'll be giving you the full boat tour.

[00:00:51]Hello and welcome back to the channel.

[00:00:54]This is another boat that I've been looking forward to showing you around.

[00:00:57]Let's be honest, it's not often you get to have a look around a 1960s era explorer yacht that is in good condition. And that is exactly uh what this boat is in my humble opinion. I'm not a marine surveyor obviously, but when I look around and you just look at the the woodwork on board, all the nooks and crannies, you get a sense of how well looked after a boat has been. And for me, it's been a real honor to come on board and make a video about this boat. The fact that she's still sailing, you know, 60 years after she was built, I think is testament to the build philosophy uh that existed uh in the '60s and still exists today, to be fair.

[00:01:38]As always, I'm going to be really interested to read the comments. Uh I'd love to know what you think, especially the engine room. And also, as well, if you are interested, I'll be doing a deeper dive uh about this boat, about the builder. I'll try and find out as much of the history of this boat as I can, and I'll write a blog about it.

[00:01:54]that will be on my Substack and you'll be able to find that by going to the link in the comments. A big thank you to my premium subscribers on my Substack.

[00:02:02]Uh with your help, I'm able to fund these trips. Anyway, I think this is one of the rare occasions where a genuine salute is needed uh to pay respect to this boat. So, without further ado, let's crack on with the boat tour. And remember, if you have got access to a boat you'd like me to feature on my YouTube channel or on my Substack, then feel free to get in touch. Just look at that bow. Steel handbuilt in Zandarm in 1971.

[00:02:32]The lines of a Dutch yard that knew exactly what they were doing. Standing here at the stern, you start to get a feel for what 58 tons of steel means in person. hole plating between six and eight mm throughout. She does not just feel solid, she is solid. That round build hull at the water line, that gentle curve, that's not just aesthetics. That is what gives her a rolling, forgiving motion in a seaway on a boat designed to cover 2,700 nautical miles without stopping. That is not a small thing. That is the difference between arriving rested and arriving exhausted. She was last hauled out and worked on at Talma Shipyard in Franica.

[00:03:20]So, let's go on board and have a proper look around. So, if you are in a nostalgic mood, I think you're definitely going to enjoy having a look around this one. It really does feel like you've taken a step back in time when you step aboard this magnificent little ship. Now, what we'll do, we'll go around the upper deck first, have a look around there, and then I'll take you inside uh and show you around the interior spaces, and of course, we will finish in the engine room. Starting off here, you can see we've got some seating both on the starboard and the port side there. We've just boarded through that uh boarding gate that you can see uh on the stern. You have some uh pretty much freestanding kind of furniture configuration up here as well. So you can bring up additional tables uh if you want to. You can see down here to my right we have the the bolards and we also have a winch down there as well because let's face it, it's not going to be easy bringing this big little ship alongside without some additional help.

[00:04:26]I would have thought so those kind of touches really do come in handy. It's always interesting going on a boat like this one that was built in 1964 because most of the boats that I feature very modern have got modern systems on a boat like this. You kind of almost have to imagine what technology uh the builders would have had at the time when they built this boat. So that's pretty much what you see uh as we walk around here.

[00:04:52]Walking along the porch side deck. You can see you've got a nice wide side deck scuppers down there as well. Decent height on the ball walks with a C railing that leads us all the way up onto the Portuguese bridge as well. And also we have more handrailing on the super structure. The overhang here means that we are going to be sheltered when we're walking around the upper deck. And if it is happening to be absolutely bucketing it down, uh you're going to still going to get some decent uh shelter when you are up here, maybe when you're coming alongside or throwing off the lines before you head off on your adventure. You can see just in front of me now, we've got two steps that lead us up onto the Portuguese bridge.

[00:05:34]But yeah, straight away, I mean, I've only looked around this boat for about 15 minutes prior to filming. The term little ship gets used often, but I really do think that does apply here.

[00:05:45]This genuinely is a true little ship.

[00:05:48]Okay, right, let's come up the steps up onto the Portuguese bridge. I'll give you a quick look in the wheelhouse. Give you a sneak peek in there. Of course, we will go into more detail in a few minutes.

[00:06:02]And then we emerge out onto the bow. The deck up here is pretty much laid out how you would expect.

[00:06:09]Got some bolars over there on the port side. Same over here on the starboard side. A decent amount of flare on that bow as well. So, as you're punching through those heavy seas, uh you're going to get a minimal amount of water coming over the bow. Under that hatch is where we get access down into the anchor locker or the chain locker. And if I step over here, you can see we've got these brass port holes that lead down into the accommodation area. So, two on the port side, another two over there on the starboard side as well.

[00:06:44]But yeah, very functional and as you would expect from something from 1964 with that kind of little ship feel. And I promise I won't say little ship anymore. I know it'll probably start annoying people, but it's rare that you get to go on a boat like this. So, yeah, I'm just happy to be on here. First look at the uh the wheelhouse there. You can see those vertical windows with that clear view window here as well. So, for those of you who don't know, if you are out in some really heavy weather, uh, and you're getting green water coming over the, um, the bow as you're punching through the big waves, even with the windscreen wipers moving as fast as they can, you're still not going to get a consistent visibility. And really, what this does, you have a disc in there that spins around really, really fast. So you still get to uh have a look out and get a relatively clear view, hence the name of uh what is ahead of you even when the weather is against you. You can see as well we have the overhang here, the lip that runs around the wheelhouse and that grab rail as well. Moving up onto the brow, you can see we've got the search light site over there on the starburst side. Two VHF antennas up there as well. And look at this old school starboard. navigation light up there. Moving back after along the starboard side deck, you can see we've got some uh life rafts up there.

[00:08:08]Old school life rafts. Now, this door does lead us into the engine room. It's another way of getting into the engine room. Uh but we will be entering through the internal door uh rather than this one. Right, let's head back off. There's a boarding gate down there. You can see that just cut into the ballw walks. Come back out into the cockpit. Over here on the right hand side of the cockpit, you have a serving area with some storage underneath. And then to my left, we have a ladder that takes us up onto the coach roof. So, let's have a look up here. It's actually the first time I've been up here, so I'm going to say it as I see it. Okay, so here we have um what is a boat deck. You've got a crane over there on the starboard side. So, a slewing crane. The cradles down there.

[00:09:02]A mast that can be lowered if you need to lower that. But there's a good amount of space up here. I've just noticed as well that if you wanted to, you could get some uh canopy up here to protect yourself from the from the elements when you're using the uh cockpit if you happen to be somewhere where the weather's not too good. Moving forward over on the port side have a life raft.

[00:09:25]And here we have our kind of old school funnel up here with a hatch just forward. And you can step up here as well.

[00:09:34]You see our rayarine static array radar down here to the right. That is where we find the search light that we were just looking at. You can see we've got some trickle vents dotted around here as well. And just down here, you can see the old uh setup for the compass, the old school magnetic compass down there as well. But actually standing up here, you get another really nice view of that bow and all of the other boats that we've got here today at Devulk in Sneak.

[00:10:07]Snake, sorry. So, forgive me. Sorry to my Dutch viewers. Snake, not Sneak. Uh Grand Banks over there on the right.

[00:10:14]I'll be filming that a little bit later on. But anyway, back to the boat in hand. Let's walk um after along the port side here. I'll show you the uh the formast.

[00:10:25]Look at the size of that steaming light up there. An old school steaming light just there. Okay. Right. Let's head back down the ladder. I'll step down onto the boat deck and then we shall go inside and have a look around at the interior spaces. But first, let me just navigate my way down this ladder, which is always easier said than done when you've got one hand on the camera and the other hand always looking something to grab. Okay, let's start by having a look in the saloon. I mean, check this out. This is where we really go back in time. The woodwork on here is absolutely stunning. It really is, considering she was built in the '60s.

[00:11:11]The owners over the years have quite clearly taken good care of this boat. To my right, we have uh an L-shaped seating area down here. Let's have a look at this picture of her underway in all of her glory. You can see there. But I even love these lamps that are on the bulkheads.

[00:11:30]In fact, the last boat that I went on that uh they say was a bit older. I was on the uh former converted motor torpedo boat. Actually, I made a film about that. You can see that on my playlists.

[00:11:44]But walking around this, I get the same kind of feel from that. They just the nostalgia is kind of really kicking in now. You can just imagine in the ' 60s when this boat was launched and she was handed over to her new owners, the family on board, just enjoying this boat straight out of the shipyard. And here she is over 60 years later. But let me know what you think so far. Um, moving forward, we can see we've got lots of cabinetry everywhere.

[00:12:14]Audio entertainment. Should we call that an entertainment system? I don't know.

[00:12:18]Let's just call it a CD player rather than an entertainment system. We have some storage up there.

[00:12:25]Radiator you can see over there on that bulkhead. But let's descend down into the after accommodation so you can have a look around here. I wish I could describe to you the smell as well. She just smells just authentic.

[00:12:40]I think that's the only way that I can describe it. Just the wood. If you've ever been on board an older boat, you'll know exactly what I am talking about.

[00:12:49]So, over there on the starboard side, we have one birth here.

[00:12:56]Old school port hole over there that can't be opened up. Bring the camera back around to my left. So over on the porch side, we have other birth and a vanity area down here as well. And look, we've got a practice old school salute in that mirror.

[00:13:15]Look at these lamps, though. I don't know whether you can really kind of make out the detail of these lamps in this lower light, but look at that.

[00:13:23]Okay, let's move through to the bathroom.

[00:13:28]We have a sink here, tower rail down there to my right, traditional port hole there that can be opened up, brass port hole, and then just in here is where we find our wet head. So, shower over there to my left, toilet down there to my right.

[00:13:48]Of course, you do have some uh storage under there as well. Okay, let's come out of here.

[00:13:54]Go back up the stairs. You just come down and then I'll give you another quick look around the uh saloon just so you can see it from this angle as I do a nice slow pan across there. You can take it all in.

[00:14:11]But yeah, let me know what you think so far in the comments. I love reading your feedback on these boats to see what you think. Right, moving up through here, we find our galley over to port.

[00:14:25]So, very much a traditional layout galley here. We have our countertops with a fiddle, but also grab rail on here as well.

[00:14:36]And you can see that h yeah, this boat is really designed to go out in pretty much any weather. We have a four gas burner hob down there to my left.

[00:14:46]Microwave down there. Nice window up there that can be opened up. Get some ventilation.

[00:14:53]But I can picture myself here cooking up a meal for the crew whilst you're on the way. And also now you get a first look at this uh wheelhouse as well. Nearly 3,000 of you have signed up for my blog on Substack now and it reaches nearly 100,000 people each month. It is a great way for me to feature boats from all around the world.

[00:15:14]And a big thanks to my premium subscribers who make these trips possible as they are all self-funded. To find out more, head to the link pinned in the comments or scan the QR code on your screen. Now, check this out. Traditional ships will there ships.

[00:15:32]And then coming up here, you can see we've got our monitor. So, our charts will be displayed on there.

[00:15:40]We have our voltage uh meters just down there to my left. As I pan across the helm here, you can see all of the traditional dials and gauges there, but also mixed in with a bit of modern technology. So, a rayarine multi-function display over there on the right hand side. Just down here is where we find the controls for the bow and stern thruster throttle control lever here for the single engine. And then under this cover, you can see we've got the Rayarine autopilot controls there as well. Moving up to the brow, you get a better look at these traditional windows. The clear view window straight in front of us.

[00:16:26]But I can imagine being up here back in the 60s as you're motoring around the coast.

[00:16:36]And look up here on the deck head. I mean, these charts, they look like they're the original charts that actually came with the boat. Look at that. I'm not going to touch it too much cuz it's quite fragile. But yeah, these must be the original charts that came with the boat when she was launched. Up here we have some trickle vents in the deck head. Over to my right, we have a door leads out onto the starboard side deck and another one over there on the port side, too.

[00:17:12]So, you get access straight out onto the side deck. You can see the chairs here.

[00:17:16]They're kind of freestanding at the moment, but you can pretty much set this up as you want really. We do have a navigator's chair over here on the uh left hand side. And here we have the builder's plate.

[00:17:31]So yeah, look at that.

[00:17:34]You can imagine the conversations that this builder's plate has been privy to, the sites that she would have seen over the years as well. Some more storage under there for your charts.

[00:17:47]We'll have one last look around here.

[00:17:49]Before we go down below and check out the accommodation, this is where we really go back in time. Just notices as well, big radiator located there. Okay, let's descend down into the accommodation.

[00:18:07]I'd love to know, whoever buys this boat, I would love to know where she ends up.

[00:18:14]So yeah, if you do watch this video and you do end up buying her, yeah, feel free to stay in touch just to uh it'd be interesting to see where she ends up and what the future holds for this magnificent vessel. Okay, over here on the port side, we have another twin single cabin sink over to my right with a vanity area as well or the mirror. trickle vents up there on the deck head. Port hole over there to my right and another one over here to my left as well with some hanging locker space in there. We come back out into the companion way.

[00:18:59]You can see we've got handrails uh on this bulkhead here. Nice lighting down here as well. And moving forward, we come to the second cabin. So, another twin single cabin in here.

[00:19:15]So, you've got a bed down there to my right and another one over there on the left hand side that can also be used as a desk area, I'm guessing, cuz you've got the mattress underneath and then you've got this that can fold over and you can fold that away. But this would make a nice study area, I guess. Up here, plenty of storage. Again, port hole. Old school port hole there with some more trickle vents up on the deck head. And again, we have our sink in here with some storage underneath that and a radiator down there to my right. Good amount of headroom here.

[00:19:53]Yeah, I'm not having to bend over or anything or duck down. Well, I wouldn't be bending over. I'll be I'd be on a very small boat if I was bending over to get into a guest cabin, but you know what I mean. I'm not having to kind of crouch down to walk around in here.

[00:20:07]Let's come back out into the companion way. Over here on the porch side, we have another head. So, earlier on when we was up on the uh up on the bow, I showed you the uh two windows.

[00:20:24]This is what is on the other side. Oh, we do have a shower through here as well. Nice decent sher in there with some more trickle vents on the deck head.

[00:20:34]That must be an old school extractor fan, I'm guessing. There.

[00:20:39]Yeah. And then to my left is where we find the sink with some more storage underneath.

[00:20:47]Okay. Let's come back out here into the last cabin. As you probably guessed by now, the owners uh of this boat, I'm guessing when she was commissioned, they didn't want a double bed.

[00:21:04]They have instead opted for twin singles.

[00:21:10]Okay, that's interesting. Right, let's come back forward. And here we have the last cabin on board. So, starboard forward cabin. Again, twin single.

[00:21:20]Another couple of port holes up there.

[00:21:24]And then moving forward now, this isn't actually being used as a shower or hasn't been used as a shower, I'm guessing, for some time because we have our MLE uh is that a dryer? Washer dryer.

[00:21:39]Well, we've got our MLE uh let's call it a washer dryer down there to my left.

[00:21:43]But yeah, I guess back in the day this would have been uh the standard kind of setup on a uh shower for an on suite. So you got the wooden floor down there. But yeah, there we go. That is the accommodation. Now let me show you around the engine room.

[00:22:01]Now, for those of you who are new to my channel, this is the first of my videos that you've seen. My background is uh Royal Navy RNLI, but not in an engineering capacity. I was in uh the warfare branch. The reason I'm telling you that is as I come in here, the machinery in here is going to be very much as it was in the 60s. So, I'm not going to kind of try and guess what everything is.

[00:22:29]I'm sure many of you watching this will have the kind of knowledge that can decipher everything that we're seeing here. Of course, I can see we've got our Cola generator down there to my right.

[00:22:40]All our manifold systems over here on this bulkhead.

[00:22:44]This is where the knowledge of my viewers is going to be gold because I'm I'm pretty sure you're going to be able to tell me what all of these systems are actually for.

[00:22:55]Looks like we have some sort of uh compressor over there.

[00:23:00]And then moving down here to my left, of course, we have the beating heart of this majestic vessel, the engine, the original engine.

[00:23:11]And check that out.

[00:23:15]There's so many pipes down here. Old school pipes.

[00:23:20]I guess if you are a mechanic or a marine engineer, this would be like being in a candy shop walking around here. I'm sure of it. All the switch gear up there on that bulkhead.

[00:23:35]And here we have some analog dials.

[00:23:39]Water temperature. I'm not sure what that one says. Um I don't speak Dutch, unfortunately.

[00:23:46]Oil temperature.

[00:23:50]That must just be RPM.

[00:23:54]And then over here we have a little workbench. Look, check this out. A little workbench area with some tools up there. So, if you need to do some uh basic maintenance, you've got that right at hand. Give you a bit of a closer view down there. That must be the fuel tank for the generator.

[00:24:16]And then down here is where we find the heating system for the boat. And then back over here, we've got some more stuff. I'm not going to pretend that I know what all that is. All that piping is, but you can see that this is the ladder that leads up onto the starboard side deck that we looked at a little bit earlier on in the boat tour.

[00:24:40]But yeah, I'm guessing that when this boat was probably built, they would have had a dedicated uh engineer on board.

[00:24:46]I'm guessing for a boat of this size, maybe. I don't know. In the 60s, were the owners as hands-on as many owners are now or did they have somebody? Did they have a uh marine engineer or a stoker as we used to call them in the Royal Navy on board at all times? I'm not sure. Again, that's probably something that you, my viewers, will be able to tell me.

[00:25:09]Got a port hole up there that can be opened up to get some ventilation in here. But yeah, there we go. That is the engine room from a 1960s era motor explorer yacht. Let me know what you think in the comments.

[00:25:28]The single engine, a Mercedes OM 355, 195 horsepower. a commercial diesel, so not a marine special, but parts and engineers for this engine exist all over the world. The Cabola diesel boiler was new in 2025.

[00:25:47]One unit heats the entire boat and supplies domestic hot water running off the vessel's diesel. The Cola 8 kW diesel generator has just over 2,000 hours on the clock, and for a unit like this, that is quite low. Managing the electrics is a Victron Quattro system, 24volt, 5 kW inverter, and it will take shore power and generator input at the same time. She's also got five separate battery banks, all isolated from each other. When it comes to her tank capacity, she can hold 4,800 L of diesel spread across three double bottom tanks.

[00:26:28]That is just over 1,000 gallons. She also carries 4,000 L of fresh water, which is around 880 gallons. In terms of speeds, she cruises at 7 knots, burning around 7 L an hour, and she'll push to 9 1/2 knots if you really need her to.

[00:26:47]When motoring, as her cruising speed, you can expect a range of around 2,700 nautical miles. I'd like to say a big thank you to my friends at Devulk Yacht Brokers in Snake for letting me come on board and to the owner as well for letting me come on board and show you all around. Now, if you'd like to find out more about this particular boat, then I'll leave a link to the broker's website on my link tree page that can be found via the link in my video description. Just scroll down to featured boats currently for sale.

[00:27:18]Thanks for watching. Let me know what you think of this boat down below in the comments. Don't forget to subscribe as well if you haven't already so you don't miss my other videos. Until next time, fair winds and following seas.