£800,000 Yacht Tour : Hardy 42 Hybrid
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- A remarkable hybrid diesel electric cruiser from Cockwells, the Hardy 42.
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That is a very impressive boat. What an adventure that will be for 3 years, that is my idea of heaven.
Did it in a big Motorhome in USA, Saw 38 States!
That's a really innovative boat, giving the owner the best of both worlds with very little (if any) compromise. Absolutely loved it. Thanks for sharing, Nick.
Out of all the boats I have seen, this boat fit me like a glove for my wife and I. Just perfect for me. Arm rest on the operating sets with controllers and coffee cup holder. What a boat! I love this thing. I love to fish and this boat could be made custom for fishing. I will remember this one.
Give Cockwells a call I'm sure they would be very happy to talk with you.
Really like this one.I reckon will be outstanding for its designated cruising routes.Master suite looks great.Highly impressed with the total package to be fair.Will be keeping an eye on Hardy from now on.
Very intersting to see a hary and a hybrid in one. Thanks Nick. Hope you have a great weekend too.
Thanks, you too!
I have always loved Hardy's and in general everything with a trawler/commercial pedigree. Very practical boat. Thanks again for the tour.
I am sure more companies will adopt this hybrid configuration. It just makes so much sense.
This is revolutionary for sure concerning boats. I mean electric propulsion.
It needed to enter also in the world of navigation this concept, isn.t that so ??!?!
Just imagine a lot of lithium batteries on the botton of the boat, keeping stability & boat ferm on position, but not only ... think at the range in silent mode and a lot of other advantages i guess.
It is a beautiful dream for future. As other subscriber said, i will keep eyes on Hardy from now on.
Nice tour as always Nick. Thanks for sharing ... To the next one. Keep it up my friend !
RESPECT !!
Hardy hit the nail on the head with this when it first came out, the only thing that put me off was the twin engine configuration. This deserves to be a popular set up. Well done to Cockwells, they have come a long way.
I really love these well designed practical ‘little ships’. Great walkthrough and detail as always. Thanks Nick.
Superb boat. The hybrid design is still a work in progress, but this shows that it is one solution that will enable boating to develop in the right direction.
Greenlimes Hybrid system is much superior - better package and NO generator - the electric engine is also a generator.
reminds me of the "Great Loop" restrictions in the US. Going from South from Chicago on Lake Michigan to get to the Mississippi river there are bridge height restrictions that define the max boat height for the entire loop
nice to see hardies back on the radar.great sea worthiness and with this one it has options of propulsion for the owner.
OMG Happy Friday! I love a Hardy :) UPDATE okay, so having watched it, this is my favourite boat of all time - thanks so much for sharing Nick!
That Rhine/Med/Canal du midi is my dream trip!!!
Hi Nick. Like this one, very seaworthy boat. Great layout and the hybrid is perfect for cruising ecologically and economically. Lots of manufacturers are going hybrid. Awesome video thanks 😊
Glad you like it!
I think it was Bering that hooks all of it to a gear box where the engines can be used to turn the electric motor that can act a a generator and removes the need for the separate generator and they put a battery bank in its place. I am still surprised that no one has used the roll-able solar panels as a roof owning to add extra power sure it will wear out in a few years but compared to the cost in gas it can save it will still be cheaper. Neat boat but man will I hate working on that generator.
What an amazing vessel . That is just genius having the hybrid system like that. Plenty of room on board as well. Looks bigger in the inside. Thanks for bringing this one to the channel Nick. Hopefully we will get to see more boats like this one
First look I thought there was a hot tub but psych its seating. Thank you Nick.
Very nice boat especially like the hybrid system
Me: say it.. say it..
Nick: “.. bit of little ship-“
Me: {happy subscriber noises}
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Interesting set-up, love the hybrid system, I think that the best small boat I've seen on your channel Nick for a long time.thanks again for another great tour.
What a brilliant boat, very versatile and built for purpose. That would be my ideal way to spend my next three years.
A very nice boat and it certainly looks like it can cruise for long distances comfortably! It is also great how they can ask for the boat a particular way and it will be made specifically for them! Thanks Nick!
very nice boat...love the Hybrid capabilities
A nice manageable yacht with some great features, I like the layout and trims. Will be a great adventure for the owner. Thanks for the tour Nick.
Nice break... Lived on a Carver 1990's 38' for a couple years. Only aggravating thing besides marina putters at 3:00am was the covered marina. Aluminum or "Al you mini um" as you Brits would say. Evening thunderstorms made for a racket. Worst was roosting gulls clanking around on the aluminum along with the scotch, bourbon, vodka fueled sight seeing marina putters at 3:00am. Sounds of engine Glug, glug, glug glug, drunk captain "yaaaaa - - Party --- yee haw ----, crunch, oh shit, fast glug, glug, glug glug, along with tap, scape, tap, scape, tap, scrape of the gulls overhead on the damn aluminum awning. That is when you wished for rain. lol
Actually love the propulsion system, very impressed with it.
What a great boat with both diesel and electric, like that very much, thanks for the video Nick.
Glad you enjoyed it
David just did a video on the future of Yachts (For Sale), where he mentioned hybrids as well as fuel-cell yachts. It's so good to see this. I'm extremely intrigued by on-board solar- and wind-powered hydrogen generator plants for fuel-cell drives, and although I don't think we're quite ready for that yet, it's definitely the future of yachting. Thanks so much for this tour!
This is the type of boat that is the example of the future of boating. Its sustainable, but it is durable and capable
This video has made me look out for Hardy boats in the future - simply brilliant how they have gotten the most out of the limited space.
More Hybrid/low emmission walk throughs would be amazing. I'm reasearching solar/battery electric options.
This is about as good as it gets. ~ 15nm range in batteries, if you pushed the pack size to the extreme you could probably get a 30nm bank in a boat.
The limitation is the energy density. Diesel fuel has 20x as much energy per liter as the most advanced lithium ion battery packs, which adjusted for engine efficiency (Electric motors use that energy more efficiently than diesel engines) gives diesel fuel a 10x volumetric advantage over batteries, assuming you're using the best battery technology on the market, which you're not.
And then, assuming you sacrificed the space required to carry those batteries, you have the problem of actually charging them. At 480v 100amp shore power, an energy delivery capacity which is certainly rare, if it exists at all, people more familiar with marinas would have to chime in, you're looking at a charge time of ~ 12 hours AT BEST to get 100 equivalent diesel liters of usable energy, which means it is going to take days to charge those battery packs in the absolute best of conditions.
When considering solar panels, it's irrelevant. The amount of solar panels that could be reasonably fitted to a boat would produce so little power relative to the size of these battery banks it's not even worth considering, like filling a swimming pool with a squirt bottle.
So yeah, outside of gimmicky applications or extremely specific circumstances like this boat (which still charges the batteries using diesel in the end, the electric motor is really just there for noise free crushing between docks, so there's no low emission advantage to this at all), electric boats don't exist. The battery technology to store the energy required to move them doesn't exist, and the electrical infrastructure to charge some theoretical batteries in a reasonable amount of time doesn't exist either.
I've been looking forward to seeing what Cockwells have done with Hardy. Thanks Mr B
Thanks Nick very interesting video you must have an incredibly good short-term memory to remember all those facts from your first walk around before you start video.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Yeah absolutely love the concept. Being inland and coastal opens up so much choice. Now if only someone would make a cat A boat that could also do inland.
Nice boat, still prefeer the Hardy 50 :) Thank you nick for a great video!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Nick.
What an interesting and challenging design brief: I want a passage making canal boat!
Kudos to Cockwells for accepting that challenge and coming up with such an interest boat.
I'm sure the family will enjoy their extended trip.
i like hybrid systems. im surprised more yachts don't have them. im sure money is the reason though. the synthetic flooring looks good too. good vid
Loving the hybrid aspect, clearly a direction boats need to move in. From 2040 fuel is going to be very expensive with few cars using it, so motoryachts need to get ahead of that game.
This one is really clever indeed! Great tour, Nick! I think boats like this Hardy will be the future in the very near future.
Looks like the perfect Great Loop boat.
Nice boat, interesting hybrid system. There seems to be only one propeller, thus this is not redundant. Perfect for inland, but a bit risky on open waters.
Thanks for the tour!
Awsome, another Hardy! Thanks Nick
Enjoy!
Bingo !!
Aft cabin….. hybrid drive….. spot on….. 🙂
Want that one 🇬🇧🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thank you Aquaholic!
My pleasure!
Forward-thinking owner!😀 For many of us, this one boat will do the job: crossing the channel, cruising Continental rivers, and working offshore in the Med. Inside, all is tidy and complete!
This boat conjures up enchanting canal cruising thru France and Britain.
Just me and my soul mate... I hope she knows how to drive. If I ever find her.
I already liked these, but now they just got much better.
Nice boat. I'm particularly impressed with the hybrid system. Thanks Nick
Alot of thought has gone into this. A three year trip would be amazing
The hardy 50 is my fav yacht this might top that!
BZ, they hybrid concept is up and coming and a technology to watch for.
That was very interesting Nick. Thank's to you!
Really interesting to see a hybrid system. As amazing as the big traditional engines are they're not the kindest to the environment and also the ability to have quiet electric engine at low speed inshore seems like a win win 👍
Impressive! Electricity is the way to go forward in our world!
A very interesting boat, I remember I asked what the electric future of boating was last year, this has crept up as a surprise, excellent
Beautiful !!!!!!!!! Love it. I want one !!!!!
What a brilliant and beautiful design tailor-made for a specific mission. I envy the owners who plan a four year journey through Europe's inner water-ways, the Mediterranean and English channel. An example of how bigger is not always better.
This would be the perfect ‘Great Loop’ boat
Would love to see the 65 in the near future, for sure. Quality job as ever, Nick.
Very interesting boat . I like that they did not skimp on storage with this one . Really nice boat .
That’s the idea! Happy travels
Got to this late for me. Love the varying content you give us Nick. This is a beauty. What a feeling it must be to be at the helm on that top deck, wind in your hair and friends by your side. Great stuff
You do such a wonderful job of showing off these yachts
@aquaholic: I would VERY much like to see some tours of Powered Catamarans. I know other people tour them, but I much prefer your tours, as I feel like I get a better understanding of the layout and use.
Also, if possible, there's a really cool solar powered cat, I would love to see you tour.
Again a really interesting boat , & I can see you in this ,
Really practical boat. Does the trick. I really like the hybrid systems. V clever. Glad to have seen that one Nick.
Excellent video Nick
Like that one. Saw you yesterday cruising down Riviera Way. Looking very dapper with the roof down. 😄
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Actually I was thinking of making a similar trip. Really great to see the solutions presented here.
What a brilliant boat, so practical. Watch out for upcoming battery technology such as solid-state lithium which would make a boat of this type even better with maybe 7 or 8 hours running on one charge. Maybe a couple of years away now. Great tour Nick.
The manufacturing hurdle for solid state is non-trivial. More like a decade or two.
I did see a thing about iron-air batteries which are cheaper and hold more energy but are massive. I think one is washing machine size for 10kwh I think 🤔
@@DIY-DaddyO iron air are low voltage, so you'll need to chain a lot of them to replace a single lithium ion. And the problem with lithium ion in boating is not cost but energy density. Iron air might have a place in vast land-based power plants but it's the exact opposite direction required for boating or other space-limited applications.
@@darthkek1953 You may be right there, however Murata are apparently already shipping such a battery, though with a very small charge capacity, aimed at hearing aids and similar devices. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
@@derbyshirebirdwatcher6054 yes they do have that application, and someone else talked about iron that'll have advantage in large-scale power plants. But for EVs be they cars or boats, we don't have much hope on the immediate horizon.
Really like the layout on this one, but that seems like virtually zero freezer space and not much cold storage in general for a boat that is meant to spend a long time on.
my thoughts exactly
also would be nice to know the capacity of the fuel tank
@@jimboforuk Yeah, I was curious about that myself.
That’s a steal for £800k.
Another great review Nick.
I readily agree Nick. This is a rather special boat
Love the boat! But all I could afford are those cool socks you had on 😎
very nice engineered yacht, the builder and owner have come up trumps with this one
i have been following silent yachts range and saw all the footage about them for years now.silent 44 which is only sold in australia.if that was to come over then it will be a shocker for legacy manufacturers...
Great boat, sounds like a meet the owner is needed!
Fantastic boats which are not covered enough. Have only seen a couple of videos on Hardy and would love to see something on the Hardy 65 flagship. Great video Nick.
What a very “practical boat really like it thanks for tour Nick 🇨🇦
Such a lovely, practical and very capable boat.
This really is the future of boats. Builders have to work out how to move away from huge diesel engines. Fantastic boat
great video...wish you had mentioned the air scoops up front
This is the future of propulsion i think, I'm interested to see what princess and sunseeker and the likes come up with
thanks for sharing this interesting boat Nick .... this is a real practical live aboard for cruising canals a really interesting, clean, practical (yes i said it before) filled with nice features that you can live a comfortable life on the boat ... it has all the mod cons of home
Glad you enjoyed it!
3.5 m bridge clearance is only on Rhone-Rhine canal, all others have
Awesome man you've gone your research very well. I work at Cockwells and did some of the work on that Hardy
dope tech for sea vessels. hope to see this kind of propulsion more often. thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Great boat. Great tour. For me, this boat would be ideal. Thank you.
Love the socks Nick!!! Serious Hybrid and perhaps the way of the future over the next 5 or so years (until they release super batteries) and well thought out upper deck plan for their cruising future.
I see this boat has King’s Lynn on it. My home town!
Probably wouldn't have bothered with a fly-bridge for that kind of journey! Anyway love it when Nosy Nick starts opening the cupboards to show us the space always makes me laugh 😅 Otherwise I do like this boat looks like loads of fun and defo can take a bit of rough!
And says meile appliances
For a short trip, sure. But week after week after week in the French summers? They'll enjoy the heck out of that flybridge.
@Just think buy at £800k sell at maybe $£500k three years later. So your costs are £100k for 52 weeks whereas a smaller charter is £50k per week. If you did well in business or profession and are retiring with a few million, then £300k for three FULL years of memories and experiences might seem a great reward for a hard working life. And that's assuming they don't have ongoing revenue from investments offsetting that.
@Just think i'll be honest that a slow crawl around canals and rivers isn't my idea of fun, not for years, though I do fancy hiring a barge for a week or two.
Love it already in the intro. Would be my objective for a boat too.
Now that is an amazing boat river & sea what more can you ask for nice review Nick.
Nick dropped another one and my lunch became very tasty indeed! This is a great boat for what it's been built for and if I owned it, I'd use it exactly as intended, doing both coasts and inland waterways. Great find and great tour as always :-)
I agree! I often watch an Aquaholic vid with morning coffee, or having a quick lunch. Don’t ask me why, but it works!
That was outstanding!
Interesting boat! Very nicely laid out! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I really like this, I've always been a fan of Harry's and this just cements my liking of them. Great your as always and I'd love to see a video of the 65.
Great tour as usual Mr B 👍
Superbly fit for purpose, which makes it perfect I’d say.
Very nice!!!! Love the layout and features....