A very special bluewater sailboat in Southwest Harbor, Maine!! - Ep 5
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2020
- Attention Bluewater sailboat seekers!! Captain Q heads to Southwest Harbor, Maine to check out a very special vessel. A clever deal was found on this Stevens 47, a sister ship to the more expensive Hylas 47. See what makes this sailboat special and how it's the ultimate adventure platform.
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Good to see the Old Girl Again!!!.... I am the son of former owners! When i first saw her she was Green... Parents had her painted blue... Made her look so much better.. Those davits were definitely a pain to use but they were Solid stainless... I never minded how they looked but i like things over designed for strength.. much like the boat itself.. sad they are gone but i understand i guess... they pre date my parents ownership as well. I think the wood work was all gloss at one point but that may be my memory going on me... may She sail on!
I have a feeling Captain Q may have forgotten more then most of us will ever know. Thanks for sharing Captain your knowledge of the classics is becoming a "lost" resource to the sailing community. But thru the magic of You Tube can live on forever somewhere on the internet.
I love this man. Every single video is a master class. So happy I found you Captain Q.
Love it when you find a comment that reflects what you’re thinking. Cheers !
I concur.
Captain Q and Randy, First of all, I can tell the love you have for each other! Almost like a father and son. It is obvious to me that Captain Q's passion for sailing was given to Randy. Earlier in my life, I sailed but only small boats on a lake. I enjoy watching your videos because it causes me to think about picking up the habit again. Again, GREAT videos.
As I enjoy catching up on all your past videos I am amazed at the price points you two are able to discover and share with us. Thank you for sharing.
You had me at "Davit Reduction Surgery" :-)
I really enjoy and appreciate these videos and the captain's insights.
Thank you for sharing
Brian
Captain Q, I can’t thank you enough for providing this channel for learning. I’ve only owned Lasers (well, and one Santana :-) but am looking at something to live aboard and sail in the Pacific NW - your wisdom is really appreciated as a newcomer to bigger water vessels.
those are perfect starter boats to learn the basics.... keep going... you can do it!
Just found your channel yesterday and have binge watched every episode. I love the banter between Captain Q and Ran-Day. I am in the market to purchase my first sailboat and look forward to learning more about them from your channel.
LOVE these videos. please keep them coming! :) Thank you so much for producing them.
immediate thumbs up from the keen observation of the fleet of one footers. :)
Those Hinckley One Footers are well made!! 😄
@@YachtHunters I hear they're unsinkable, but not in a Titanic sort of way.
I’d say they’re more likely two-footers! ;)
Captain Q. Thank you for your entertaining and brilliant explanations. My goal is to learn as much as I can about sailboats so your show is invaluable.
Looking forward to the update of this vessel now that the davits are gone and can't wait to see it under sail!
Very nice review. I just found your channel and was enjoying the various reviews when this - a boat I know very well showed up. I have worked on and sailed on Hurrah in the Chesapeake, Maine and to and in the Caribbean. The Stevens 47 is a great boat and Hurrah is a very well taken care of example. She is a great boat!!!
Love your reviews.
I used sail a lot on Lake Michigan but not for years.
Your walk arounds bring some of that back for me.
Thank you
Glad you like them! I grew up on lakes Ontario and Erie and little lake Chautauqua (ny state)...but love the taste of the salt sea spray
thank you for you rnote
What a fantastic boat/sailing channel. Look forward to the next video
Great video , thank you for your knowledge
Love your videos and your knowledge!
i like the layout below & on deck 3 sails teal nice yacht
great find, i like the radar pole, and a very well designed aft cabin.
Thanks 👍
Love the channel, love the boats. Good job Cap!
Much appreciated! Welcome aboard!
I looked at this boat in Annapolis when I was shopping. She's a beast! Good for your daughter and her family! We will look out for them!
Is a beast a good thing 🤔
A really nice video once again. A fine sailboat as well.
Love this informative and entertaining channel.
this is a great video! what a great family!
Great channel thanks captain I’m learning lots 👍🏼😀
Thanks very much, Jay. Welcome aboard and Happy New Year!
Insanely informative and fantastic production with an easy going presenter. Why can't most YT videos be like this?
Wow, thank you! Cheers!
Am enjoying your videos. Looking forward to allot more
More to come! Thank you Hayden
Awesome!
Beautiful boat!
FENDERS!! (not bumpers)....drives me crazy!! Love the videos :)
I learned something watching this video.....Stevens verses Hylas. This is a very attractive vessel capable of taking its owners anywhere.
incredibly roomy with that nice wide beam.... the after cabin is like a small manhattan apartment too!
Love this channel, would have liked to see the engine access and location a bit more. Thanks captain q.
there is access from all sides except top. panels come off the front both sides and one in the master cabin to reach trans... more accessible then other boats I have worked on.. i was on another one were the sides were fixes in place due to modifications.
A wonderful family cruiser that can take them around the world.
I just found your show . I really like the boats that you show. I have just turn 65 and I am looking for a boat to sail an learn to sail the right way ,the more I witch the more I learn . I am hoping for a 35 ft. or 45 ft. Center clock pit below 39,000 . Again you are very helpful don't stop cap.
Thanks so much for the kind words. We'll keep hunting for the best possible deals! Cheers!!
A 35-45 foot boat is a lot of boat to learn on. A 24-28 footer is a lot cheaper and big enough for day sailing and overnights.
Beautiful.
Love the boat.
Great walk through, really appreciated the secret of Hylas as well
Every boat he comes across is lovely and wonderful and enormous. A giant ice box? How about a freezer front opening. Show some crap so not and then.
Sadly that video was delayed by the yards In ability to let us know when we could shoot as md the captain tends to weary after lunch and his mental faculties can be slightly filled. Ddorry
As always, great tour Cap! From the looks of the drawings, the space behind the aft bed, under the reverse transom looks to be empty dead space. If it were at all possible, I'd probably try and cut a couple of swim steps and a shallow swim platform into it. Would make dinghy boarding so much easier and safer. No idea why this wasn't standard with reverse transoms of the era.
I believe they've filled that space with two lazarets - one of which is sealed off for the propane tanks - in which case you'd have to give up some storage. Could be worth the trade off depending on where you plan on cruising. On my last boat, we had a small folding ladder that attached to the midship toerail that worked well.
Wonderful looking boat!
Incredibly spacious and perfect for the large family that is going to go to far-off shores!
@@YachtHunters i don't have a large family and have search for compatible people to join me to no avail. So therefore I need something big enough to cross the Atlantic and bounce down to the Caribbean myself. With all lines leading to the cockpit for safety.
A friend of mine and I sailed his Hylas 44 through out the Philippines and elsewhere in the South China Sea. Great quality .Even in heavy weather you always felt secure. I'm sure the Stevens 47 is the same.
That sounds pretty dreamy! it's such a spacious boat and a great adventure platform for short-handed crews or a big family - and to know the Hylas can be had for about 1/2 the price is a nice inside secret. Was the center cockpit wet in the heavy seas?
@@YachtHunters We have just finished a 36,000nm, seven year loop of the Pacific and the cockpit was fine. Any of the waves that did enter the cockpit came from astern or abead and would have been worse in an aft cockpit.
Beautiful boat and as mentioned seems tailor made for its new owners and their needs. Can't believe how roomy it is below and will allow the kids to distance themselves from each other when needed. A vital detail when its a famalies home ....
Thanks
Love the 1 footers! Lol
Been a climber many years. How cool Mark S. Is your son in law!
excellent quality videos, professional and some gorgeous yachts. I can't believe the prices there in the U.S. cheaper than Australia and nicer boats.
Sounds like a trip to the US (post-Covid) might be worth the expense?? Thanks for the encouragement! and kind words!
If you buy through a broker, expect much higher prices. As the boomers die off and and multiple hurricanes have scared many people off the waters, the boat yards are overflowing with great deals, if you buy from the owners.
Your pure Yankee sailor the most educated purest you’re the best
Nice boat
Captain Q, This is Captain Mark. I sailed my 37 Hunter Cherubini on Lake Champlain in the 1980 and 90's. If you have never considered it, why not try the Shelburne Shipyard and look at some cool boats!
You have read our mail I think. Lol. We have a target there soon
Same here, absolutely love your episodes. And I especially like this boat. Out of curiosity how much does it cost as is, if its still for sale?
This is the Boat I am looking for.
It's a really smart choice! It is incredibly spacious... and the cost savings of Stevens vs. Hylas makes it a really great value. Also, having sailed her, she is a very quick boat as well! We have a bigger/newer Beneteau episode coming up that you might like.... stay tuned!
We so very much enjoy your videos! Wishing for contact info on some of these boats! 😁
Contact info for the seller or broker can be found in the description below each video (you might have to click on ‘show more’ usually found just above the start of the comments section
It kind of reminds me of a Super Maramu. What are your thoughts on that boat?
Cars have bumpers, boats have fenders. Henry Hinckley just rolled over...
Especially considering we were on his dock!!! Sometimes we get a little too excited and lose our faculties :)
Must be a Maniac thing.....don't forget that soda is "pop" up in that neck of the wood! And, sometimes if you're in with a really old timer it'll be tonic! HAHA
Love your videos. Let me know if you come across another s&s 47, esp if it is for sale!
We have a slightly shorter S&S coming up ... stay tuned. Thanks!
Hi Captain Q, I'm from Hither but haven't seen you around? I love your videos, your knowledge of boating terms is incredible! 7000 years of sailing vessels have created a plethora of terminology and you've got it covered!
I have a question...I've noticed some rub strakes are really high off the surface of the boat. It makes me wonder is the designer was looking for some amount of lift caused by water hitting the rub strake mostly it the front. If you see the boat in heavy water you'll notice water hitting it, and it must create some amount of lift...wouldn't you think? Maybe not. Random fact...the upward force of the exhaust stream on a top fuel rail drag car creates 600lbs of down force, that's why sometimes when the engine cuts out, the car will be uncontrollable. Rub strake...lift?
I really don't think they thought of getting lift . The primary reason was saving the hull from barnacle laced dock dolphins . Actually i think they put them as high as possible thinking that the early boats designed to take an early heel to 15-25 degrees would keep them OUT of the water and thus eliminating any drag ..
but yours is an interesting thought though if valid racers would be covered with them thank you
Btw do you know any of my high school pals from Hither. Most graduated snd went onto Yon U
You probably need the second head if you plan on using all those bunks. Also the layout seems to be of a charter boat.
i think they plan to re install it
She was a charter boat at one point if my memory is correct..when my family owned her i believe some paperwork still existed from that time.. In fact i think all the ones built when she was were all originally charter boats.
The Stevens is nice, but I will stick with my Kelly-Peterson 46. Both built at the Queen Long Yard.
K-P 46 seems like a great one... we've were eyeing one that was for sale in Maine but haven't gotten to see it up close yet
@@YachtHunters She's a great boat. A true KP though, not a Formosa or one of the non-QueenLong 44's. In our neck of the woods on the coast of British Columbia in Canada, a good one will go for $225k CAD. These boats were some of the best boats ever to come out of that great yard - beautifully built and fantastic sailers. 180 nm days are possible on passage.
Also, my opinion on the passage to the aft cabin. The KP-46 has a passage with similar headroom but without the bending of the neck required on this boat. However, our passage is only about 30" wide, which means in a seaway you are always secure. I would be concerned about being rolled into that bunk while trying to pass through on a starboard tack.
Is settee only used on boats in the US? In the UK all home couches and sofas are commonly called settees.
Captain Q where did you get all those nice sweaters?
My Mom knit me a Fisherman’s knit sweater, almost 50 years ago , I still have it. I think she knit 25 in total.
Please tell us the story behind those sweaters.
Nice boat, family cruiser.
Aran Irish sweaters ..(what else would i buy lol)
If you are into proper sailor sweaters check "Islander genser" the Islandic type are amazing ! Devold of Norway makes great ones.
Nice boat, but, can you find good deals with 6foot 6inch headroom?
Unbelievable that they got it for under 6 figures! Just marvelous. Each space was nicer than the last as you moved along the tour. Very excited for the new owners.
PS is there a story behind the trademark Capt Q hat?
There is Fernando and we will tell you all soon but you get a star for recognizing the TM ...hahaha thank s
Captain Q was also a brand of Rum in Korea. Vintage 1986 the Captain held mast on me many mornings. Also thank you learning a lot on sailboats
Do not like the cold but Maine looks beautiful
it is the best place on earth shhhhhhhh
Can you recommend a Maine sailing school for midwest landlubbers? I like Apostle Islands cruising.
Very nice boat.
I'm curious about some names you use in this video.
F.e.
Couver over the cockpit = is called SPRAYHOOD AND BIMINI
Boom Bag = is called LAZY-BAG
Boom Vang = is called RODKICKER
I'm right captain, or wrong?
Cheers
She is absolutely beautiful.
Hello! I enjoy very much your videos. How much for that excellent sailboat?
I think he said just under six figures, so maybe around $95k?
Just curious why they'd do the davit reduction rather than offering as a "go-with" on sale of the boat. Agree they're not attractive, but seem like a good idea? Maybe not a good idea that works out, but seems like a future owner may actually want them? So just how low 6-figure price is that anyway?
Captain Q, you mentioned your daughter (along with her husband) owns the boat. It’s currently listed for sale by Florida Yachts International. What would you say is a good-fair price for this boat? BTW I’m retired Coast Guard. Thank you
Their boat is not for sale and i dont see one on florida Int site sorry
Very nice. How much should it cost?
the Hylas versions are closer to 200k but the Stevens which often suffered from charter use are in the low 100s but this one was one owner owned and though still it needed a tiny bit of here and there fiddling was even less. a great buy you just have to hunt and be prepared to make a cash offer at best and the sell price of boats today may shock you.
The shape reminds me of a contessa 32 i know , stable, fast and seaworthy. Nearly 50 years old
More beautiful with age . Shes overtaken new boats twice her size .
Cheers for the old boats
God! A new love affair! I'll have to look to see what happened with your son-in-laws boat. Lord, you guys need to start a sailor dating service so that I and my significant other sailor could sail this beauty!!!! This might be my favorite episode to date. I love that sailing is such a huge part of your family!!! All the best as usual!
He just took it on an epic adventure through the northwest passage… his name is Mark Synnott and you can find him in the pages of National Geographic..or on Facebook/instagram. He’s a remarkable adventurer and person… instagram.com/m_synnott?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
@@YachtHunters Wow. The northwest passage. I went to his insta and it was so nice to see a photo of you with your family. Awesome. Seems like he will be writing about this passage in the future? I will look forward to reading/seeing more on it! Best to you all! (hoping that there is a new episode for me to watch!)
I love your channel, but I'm confused by this one. Is she for sale?
Also, it would be great if you could talk about the quality of the sails and tell us more about the available instrumentation in your videos.
Keen eye, Jonathan....this one is not for sale.... it's a special boat that belongs to a family member and mountaineer, Mark Synnott. He agreed to let us crawl over this new addition to his family as he starts to get her ready for some serious off-shore adventures over the next few years.
We'll definitely see what we can do to access the sails... often times they are bundled up for the off-season.... engines & electronics are a little tricky too but we'll see what we can do.... thanks for the suggestion - much appreciated!!
Hi there Capt Q, what is the headroom down below? Would i be OK (6'3)?
I'd exchange this for my 1987 Tartan 40!!
Is it still for sale? How do I find out more?
Unfortunately, she’s not on the market... but she is a member of the family and she sails wonderfully. Highly recommend the Stevens or Hylas (if you want a fancier finish)
I live in Indonesia snd plan to sail around the world. Need a boat that can do that comfortably & safely. What boat would you suggest?
.... I do believe that is known as a "cutter rig" ...
or a double headed sloop
Anyone know what that cabin cruiser is?
We were at the Hinckley yard.... so be prepared to be dazzled: www.hinckleyyachts.com/models/talarias/talaria-55/
Where can I find info about these boats.
Info to purchase boats we review is located in the description - either the broker or seller.... in this case the boat was purchased recently by a family member. so it's not for sale. Otherwise, check out Sailboatdata.com for detailed specs on the boat - a 1982 Stevens 47
Very nice. Do you ever find good cruising Cats to look at?
Cats are on our list but they're harder to come by in New England.... it's high up on our watch-list though! Cheers!
HINKLEY ONE FOOTERS 😂😂😂
quackers
@@YachtHunters Very stabile in rough seas with the ability to leave at a moments notice. 🦆
What w\s the closing price ? That will help to value other boats. It's most helpful to get an idea of funds needed. It's great to hear your fixer-upper comments too! Cheers,....
Good point! When we are allowed to , we will disclose selling price but that is not the case here but it was below ask of 120K remember cash is king ...and offers are the queen ( i just made that up haahah but it sort of fits ) Pay only what you can afford and enough not to loose the boat of your dreams thank you..
@@YachtHunters qq
are US boats imperial or metric- I mean things like dimensions of tubing, nuts and bolts, engine fitting s_ that kind of thing?
On a older boat like our Stevens 47 they are a mix of both !
Are they imperial or metric? Yes. Well, unless you're taking pipe threads, but let's not get into that. Also, nautical miles are neither imperial or metric. Simple, right?
At least to my knowledge there are no Whitworth!
@@burtpowell1344 Not that I have found yet any yet. After eight years I think I have touched every system but then I always find something I haven't replaced yet.
I am 6’ 2” tall so key question for me is what is the headroom?
The Captain and Ran-day are both 6'1" so we would say it's 6'3" or over throughout.... there might be a few spots where you'd be a little snug....
I was going to ask this as well. From what I’ve read of Hylas’, assuming the interior is the same, the headroom is 6’3” which would put a proper kink in my neck :(. I love these boats otherwise!
Whats the price on a Steven's boat this size
Does the boat have a water maker? 💧
Oh my, so now how am I going to sleep?
count the waves you go over .....
Looking for a boat just like this
just like this ? :hylas 47 or stephens 47
This is the perfect boat is it still available for sale?
Unfortunately, no... a family member snapped it up and is planning to take her around the world starting in a few years
nearly perfect for me, but 6 feet too long
check in this Thursday for a great value that will get you afloat ....fast :-)
What is the price of the boat
Sold
I have serious issues concerning the seaworthiness of this vessel. It showed no signs of either Freixenet, nor any Dinti Moore, aboard. I've heard plenty of stories of vessels not being able to circumnavigate their own home port, let alone, sail to the far ends of the Earth, without those two necessities on board.
We always hope that the surveyors will pick up on this sort of problem when they discover these boats certainly it is critical and nothing to be scoffed at or overlooked and it’s a surveyor hands in his bill and there’s no discussion of it I don’t think the buyer should pay the entire bill
How (what search vehicle) did your son in law use to find this boat?
I believe it was a mix of online sources- Yachtworld, Sailboatlistings.com, etc. He also conferred with a few friends in the Annapolis area and he was quite focused on this particular model so that made it somewhat easier.
Oh, not for sale.
is there some reason folks dont want to give the price on these ships and make you jump through hoops to find out how much to make the check out for ????????
This one was off the market as it was purchased by a family member... but we still wanted an excuse to go crawl around it :) If it's for sale, we'll post the price so keep that checkbook handy and get sailing!!
@@YachtHunters i do like this one its layed out perfect for me .....
@@freebird1ification agreed!! it's pretty remarkable how roomy it is throughout....
Is this beauty still available?
She is not… we toured her just after she was purchased by a family member
@@YachtHunters thank you cap'n! She is a beautiful vessel! I'll find my 2nd dream boat eventually!
What is the price
this one was purchased by a family member. At the time, the asking price was $120,000 USD
Sold
How much$
asking was 120k