THIS Is The Only 1933 43 ft Commuter Classic Boat Tour On Here! (And She Is For Sale!)
Vložit
- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- Jump aboard this classic commuter that was built by Stephens Brothers in the 1930s! Not only is this boat is excellent condition, but she is also currently listed for sale!
► Find out more about my business and how I can help you 👉👉 bit.ly/Yacht_Buoy_
► My second channel: / @boatbuoy_
► Music by: bit.ly/Epidemic_Sound_YB
►►► Find out more about this boat: bit.ly/Classic_Commuter_FOR_SALE - Zábava
Find out more about my business and how I can help you: bit.ly/Yacht_Buoy_
Wow what a beautiful old boat! I bet that all the craftsman that built this boat are long dead but their work is still here. A labor of love!😊
what a vessel. it takes real commitment for such a beautiful craft. the owner should get a medal for being such a great caretaker.
Agreed 🫡
WOW! 92 years old? She looks GREAT!
I have worked on vessels like this in the past, in the UK, but never ever seen anything like this one. This has been loved and respected
She's super cool. Imagine having her built then watching the Coast Guard shove off with _your_ yacht.
Have to keep a smile on your face for the papers " *Anything for the war effort* ".
She is a wee beauty!
With a 1m draft and 3.5m air draft, she'd be a perfect coastal cruiser and river/canal explorer (might be a bit high for some canals in UK,, but I believe she'd fit through the French/German/most of the Dutch river/canal systems too).
You could spend years pottering round the coasts and rivers of the UK and Europe/Scandinavia, and the Med too. She'd look a picture on the Amalfi coast or Cote d'Azure...
That's a full retirement's worth of boating adventure right there!
Now thats a real boat. Not piece of plastic
I lived for two years on a twenty nine foot pilot boat. It had been built in 1929 by the coast guard to take pilots out over the Columbia River bar to meet the ships entering the Columbia River. The hull was Cypress over Cedar ribs. It had no rot or water in the bilge. It was powered with a Chrysler crown updraft carburetor marine engine.
Lovely boat, only trouble is the upkeep of the woodwork to keep it in that lovely state, it means varnishing every year and loads of coats, I remember well being drafted to help my dad with a wooden yacht as a kid and the work involved.
depends, if she's been done with modern 2 pack urethane and is kept undercover she'll be good for 20 years or more.
You are very right. The sun is a killer for any coat. @@marvindebot3264
Not a problem if one knows what they're getting into and values stewardship of a fine old wooden boat. That said, I'm not one of those people and I'm the son of another not one of those people, so we never considered owning a wooden boat. But, goodness me! Look at that beautiful sheer and tumblehome, maybe it wouldn't be so bad... 🤩😍
Modern coatings have removed most of the pain.
Right you are!
My grandfather was the VP of the Alfred P Sloan foundation and he donated Sloans yaght to the government before it was confiscated by the government for the war effort. This way it was a tax deduction. The boat was named Rene and I believe it was 263 feet long. I still have the binoculars from the boat.
Thank you for this marvelous video. For more than a decade, as a child, my only home was an almost identical Stephens Bros. twin we named Launa Dos (if she is still out there somewhere, I would sure like to know about it). Beyond the maker and fit-out, she certainly also had a closely identical WWII history: appropriated for use by the Coast Guard Auxiliary for harbor patrols -- but in Los Angeles Harbor, not San Francisco.
By the way, when they were built, Stevens's 43-footers were definitely not just pond yachts, as several commenters here seem to think. Ours managed the Pacific Ocean's sea states quite well. The boat is well-balanced, and the displacement hull manages large swells with minimal pounding and rolling. We cruised Southern California's Channel Islands from San Diego to Santa Barbara, often making the crossing from San Diego to Santa Catalina overnight. Around 1955, when we made our longest voyage from San Diego to Santa Cruz Island, off Santa Barbara, and then back to San Diego via Catalina Island, the only problem was a bit of boredom from our slow but steady pace through the choppy sea.
My father belonged to the Coast Guard Auxiliary and was on many of those patrols. At the war's end, the requisitioned gentleman's yachts were given their freedoms via war surplus auctions. Dad jumped on the opportunity to buy the yacht he already loved. I have no idea what she cost then, but those surplus auctions were often poorly advertised and went for insanely low prices.
As a 5-year-old, I still vividly remember endless days of chipping away with hammer and chisel, putty knife, and scrapers, the armor plating of navy grey paint covering everything to reveal the marvelous wooden yacht. This leads to my first correction of the video. Yes, the cap rails and decks were teak, but the superstructure and all the internal cabinetry were mahogany, as identified by the wood graining shown in the video.
Internally, Launa Dos was virtually identical, except that she had substantially more sleeping capacity than the boat here. In the forward cabin, the back of the port-side bunk folded up to be hung on hooks to provide an upper bunk for additional sleeping space. I know, as I slept at various times in the upper and lower bunks. The original bed on the starboard side was originally just a flat mesh held by springs to a surrounding steel frame. I attribute my bad back today to too many years of sleeping in what was essentially a hammock. I finally convinced my father to spend a night sleeping it, and it was replaced within a week by a thick plywood insert topped with a foam pad - but too late for my back.
The after cabin was our dining room and my parent's bedroom. The seats on both sides folded up as per the port-side forward cabin to reveal 'double' beds extending under the decks, while the folded-up seat backs served as upper bunks. A good-sized removable folding table fitted between the bunks. I presume this was in the original fit-out, given the way it was mounted on two brass stanchions that fitted into reinforced sockets in the deck. We had a kerosene heater set up very similarly to the coal burner shown here. Otherwise, as closely as I can remember, cabinetry details throughout are identical down to moldings (given that all of my worldly goods had to be fitted into them along with my parents and little brother's stuff). For several years, we lived with the original galley ice-box before eventually replacing it with a fridge, as shown in the boat here.
Heads are the same, except in my days, they were hand-pumped and flushed directly into the ocean (wouldn't be legal today). As far as a hot shower is concerned, you've got to be kidding.... Real people used the shower blocks provided by most marinas or jumped into the ocean. Water was hand pumped into the galley sink and wash basins from the fresh-water tank under the cockpit deck. Dad eventually replaced the original tank with a larger fiberglass tank he built himself. (In the early post war era, along with restoring Launa Dos, he also transformed a couple of 38' war surplus landing barges into quite successful albacore trollers - so he knew how to maintain boats). He also fibreglassed the entire cockpit, which tended to leak around the edges. I think this was done after his favorite albacore troller sank out from under him because of seas coming into the fishing cockpit through the scuppers and leaking through the deck that had not yet been properly sealed after some work on the steering gear while he and his partner were icing down a too-large catch too early in the voyage before enough ice had melted to compensate for the extra load.
As far as running gear was concerned, Launa Dos was definitely more powerful. It was equipped with twin marine petrol engines (possibly installed by the Coast Guard?). Taped inside the chart table in the deckhouse was a record of the certified speed trials from when she was in service as a patrol boat. From memory, her certified top speed with a clean hull was 17 kps - in any event, on maximum throttle, Launa Dos left quite a good rooster tail in her wake. As I recall, our normal offshore cruising speed was 10 kts. Also the wheelhouse didn't have any tacky chrome plating -- only solid marine brass looking like gold from hand polishing (a chore that I was sometimes lumbered with). The brass binnacle was also more functional than flashy. The ship's brass bell is what we had, and sometimes put to its intended use when we were beset by pea soup fogs in Los Angeles's Outer Harbor. One such fog I remember was so dense that I could not see the reflection off the water of a 3 cell flashlight I was pointing down from the deck.
One more point that one of the other posts reminded me of is that Launa Dos's original twin motors were Chrisler Crown low-compression Marine Engines, which require special unleaded marine petrol.
Launa Dos's davits were semicircular rather than angled, and our tender was my Sabot class sailing dinghy that fit quite well in the existing cradle. One item I never saw was the Stephens Bros. builder's plate, so I never knew exactly when Launa Dos was delivered and would very much like to know (I expect it would have gone missing some time in her war service). But given the exactly identical details between the internal cabinet work in my family home and this boat, I would not be surprised if they were built side-by side. I doubt this degree of similarities between hand-crafted masterpieces would have been achieved in any other way.
Yes, the beautiful wooden motor yachts (and sailing yachts) do require A LOT of maintenance! Annual haul-outs for bottom cleaning and fresh anti-fouling paint to keep the woodworms, barnacles, mussels, and assorted other plants and animals looking for a home at bay. Inspecting and replacing anti-corrosion devices, shaft bearing (poured babbit metal), inspecting and replacement if needed), inspecting all through-hull fittings, re-caulking possibly leaking seams). Also, a good time to check for and replace any wood rot. In the late '50s, I seem to recall an ~ 2 ft length of the teak plank to replace a bit of suspect decking cost something like $150 (around 1956!). Inside, it was also a good time to check all the oak hull planks and ribs that could be accessed under the floorboards and behind the cabinetry and other woodwork for dry rot (poking with an ice pick was the usual inspection method). If any wood rot was found, the plank or other structural member had to be cut out and replaced with healthy wood, to keep the rot from spreading. Painted canvas seals on the fore-deck and cabin tops had to be checked for possible leaks, patched if needed, and painted. Teak decks required oiling and re-caulking to seal them. Stripping, hand sanding, and re-varnishing the marvelous mahogany woodwork is never-ending (weather permitting). I think that is why Dad finally decided to move ashore and sell our marvelous wooden palace.
I still have a few pictures of the exterior from Catalina Island and San Diego Harbor, but none of the interior. Unfortunately, the closeups are from a phase when the hull was painted black. Father eventually came to his senses when he observed that the black absorbed enough sunlight to dry the wood enough to crack the caulking.
I loved that home, because she took me to some wondrous places. And to reiterate, I would love to know more about her birth and early life, and what happened to her in her old age after the family moved ashore to find some space for our other stuff. I was living away in college at the time so I am hazy on the date when she was sold into other hands, but this was probably sometime in the period between 1958 and 1960, or even a bit later. If anyone wants to share this kind of info, my email is william-hall@bigpond.com (in Australia).
She is a piece of art! A real gentleman's Yacht!
Thanks for posting this. You’ve kind of fulfilled a long-held wish for me. My grandfather had a 42’ Stephens built in 1930. I grew up hearing stories about her, but she was sold before I was born. I only had a few pictures and always wondered what the interior looked like. I imagine it looked very much like this boat. Thanks again. It was great to see this.
Class and beauty. Nothing better.
I'm not a boat person, however I would live on this beauty.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
That's such a deal at €168,000. It's a gorgeous vessel.
She would be ideal for the Venetian lagoon, cruising the 15 miles or so between Venice and Chioggia. The storied craftsmanship of Italians could keep her going for another hundred years and she would be a natural for charters. Americans especially would love it.
It would be great to see her end up there.
I agree, but why do you think Americans would love it more than anyone else? It's certainly not of a current style and almost none would know anything of her origins.
I love this yacht. I keep coming back again and again to see her and wishing I had a use for her and a place to keep her that would keep her safe from the elements. But alas, I just do not have either. But still, she is inspiring to see so I will return again soon to admire her beauty.
Thanks for watching (again and again) it really helps with the algorithm. This beautiful boat certainly deserves a good home
This is a museum piece that should be kept inside and take it out for that rare weekend trips. I’m sure this would take a lot of cleaning and maintenance to keep it in excellent condition.
Wow, hat is off to the owner - looks like a brand new boat. Amazing.
It is absolutely beautiful. Unfortunately I could never afford it.
What an amazing boat! I cant believe this boat is ever used. It looks brand new. I want to learn from this owner on how he cares for and maintains this beauty.
Tourists should not be allowed near this boat.
3mpg is crazy.
This is absolutely beautiful!
🫡🙌
I know that engine room was a big shock to you 😊 The perfect example of old and new never gets old! 🙂❤
Wow what a fantastic boat with such a rich history and such a modern engine bay
OMG! This actually brought a tear to my eye, fantastic job!
🫡
This is truly a special boat. Thanks for the tour
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 🫡
Dearly love old yachts. Magnificent! Could not afford the maintenance on 91 yr old engines.
But, wow! Would no head out to sea on her, not even the Channel, but puttering around would be fun!
There are worse vessels in the Channel. Being a twin engine is huge peace-of-mind.
Did you not see that they are new engines?
Incredibly beautiful yacht! Like a floating work of art! And as safety on the water is premium, having the Yanmars on board is not only sensible but essential. I love this one ❤❤❤
🙌
Excellent price for this yacht! I love the classics and the fact that she served in wwII makes her even more attractive. I wish she had a longer range but for a coastal cruiser she will make some yacht owner very happy!
True, rgds
Absolutely lovely! An operating museum piece.
It really is!
Ho trovato questo video per caso e sono rimasto colpito dalla bellezza di questa barca di altri tempi. Il restauro l ha riportata allo splendore originale. Gli interni, i legni, gli arredi e gli oggetti di uso nautico hanno un fascino invidiabile. Certo che fra restauro, impiantistica e motori nuovi , sarà costata una fortuna, ma per un amatore di questo tipo di barche sarà un investimento che aumenterà di valore nel tempo. Bellissima barca, complimenti!
Grazie per la visione e grazie per aver lasciato un commento!
If I owed that boat, I'd dress the family up in 1930s clothing and sneak in and out of the fog, building a legend of a ghost ship. We'd be drinking champagne and smoking cigarettes
A really beautiful boat
I have been on old boat like this and you feel the age . this one is amazing.
Many would feel the engine room, should reflect and have vintage engines, to complete and make this vintage classic 90 year old motor cruiser picture perfect.
I have to say myself, I feel replacing older engines, with state of the art modern engines.
Does not distract from the beauty of this vintage classic vessels, especially if it help to keep her cruising for another 90 years too.
However, this vessel overall restoration of a 1930's and WW2 veteran, is so good you just cannot tell what is vintage and what is new.
The craft men's involved, should be given award for their work!
Maybe you should do a few CZcams videos, on craftsmen and boatyards. Who are doing these types of lovely restoration of vintage classic yachts.
Also conversion and restoration work, of vintage classic commercial vessels, the likes of old Tugs, Dutch Barges and Fishing Trawlers and Naval Vessels, into private luxury and period yacht and houseboat conversions etc.
Personally I hate so called nut and bolt restoration and conversion projects, of cars, aircraft or vessels.
That take the original vintage and classic car body, airframe and/or hull. Only to basically rip out everyone, to replace them with so called state of the art technology and ultra modern exterior and interior fitting out.
That there is little left of the original classic vintage car, or aircraft and/or vessel, it just destroy there soul as it were.
Yes you need to include in a good restoration and conversion project of a vintage and classic vessel.
To include the use of modern navigation and communication systems, which are blended in to the vessels overall appearance.
As well as modern fuel efficiency engines installed, plus upto date marine safety and fire fighting equipment to be installed too.
Let alone modern galley kitchen equipment and systems, plus food and drink storage too.
Or the likes of LED lighting, modern heating and air conditioning, solar and wind generation systems and battery storage too, equally water making technology too.
Let alone having state of the art grey and black waste water recycling and treatment systems, being fitted to help reduce marine environmental impact a vessel will cause too.
Though all of these included and hidden away where possible, into the overall classic and vintage appearance of an old vessel.
Because why buy an vintage classic vessels, just to turn it into an ultra modern vessel, if that is all what you are after?
Why not just buy a brand new yacht, at the next Southampton Boat Show instead is my opinion.
There are some very good restorations and conversions of vintage classic vessels, in marina and on inland waterway and around our coastlines too.
Though there are too many bad ones out there too, which have destroy the original character of a lovely old vintage and classic vessel.
This one you showed today on your CZcams Channel, is one of the best I seen in the last few months or years, more please too?
I am surprise at the price it being sold for too, only around £140K to £150K.
I would expect this vintage classic 1930's motor cruiser, would be up for sale in the range of between £250K to £300K.
Someone is going to get a great bargain here, think of owning this lovely vintage classic vessel.
To either cruising the European inland waterway and Coastal waters, from the Baltic Sea down to the Mediterranean Sea.
Or travelling around the British Isles and Ireland, plus the Scottish and English inland waterways too.
Or travelling across the English Channel on her, offering to taking veterans and family members, to visit the beaches of Dunkirk and Normandy and ports plus war cemetery and memorials too!
This is a very well-kept yacht built by the iconic Stephens Brothers. Turning to the engines, Classic turns to Restomod...with good effect. I would have taken modernization further, removing the coal-fired stove. Well...I like the Romance of the Classic yachts more than the reality.
Nice, so do we, rgds
You’d never know those engines were in a 91 year old boat!
so nice to see a boat without a ridiculous amount of sun layout beds
Beautiful A work of art .
Those twin sisters downstairs are Beautiful 😮😮.
Congratulations on hitting 50k subscribers. Well done.
Thank you very much! 🙌🫡
Boat big for outside, but small inside. Love It 😍
Hi from Russia. A great ship in good condition. A great and accurate job done. Interior and exterior are in excellent condition. Can't believe, that such accuracy can be saved in everyday use in offshore mode. It seems that it is saved in a dock or in some waveless and calm waters of a small river or lake.
Thank you very much! 🫡
@@YachtBuoy you are wellcomed
He's kept it immaculate...Well done :)
What a pretty boat with wonderful curators of this classic time capsule... Your tour really pulled on my naught strings. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 🫡
What a beautiful classic yacht
Stunning piece of floating history- thanks for bringing her to us. With those modern power plants I think running tours as you e said would be just the ticket assuming you could get it insured for that use.
Wow, she looks amazing, like she's just been made 😊
Reminds me of a Trumpy
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!! Can't believe the price . That's a classic boat for not a lot of cash compared to some of todays overpriced grp cruisers. Now where did I put my lottery ticket????
Hey Yacht Buoy when I saw the picture of this boat I about fell to my knees, This look like the same boat that belonged to a friend Bob that I had lost contact with many years ago....I have to wonder if this is the same boat that was dock in fort Lauderdale fl. at one time My friend Bob lived abroad behind some huge restaurant. I got to know his boat because him and i rebuildt an Generator right where the engines are today, which the enige compartment you show was change greatly.. i remember that bell,, and My friend BOB had a ring tie on a cord that swung from the ceiling to a hook between moulding of the front glass which Bob and i spent hours trying to swing the ring to the hook. . If my member serves me right i think Bob was telling me somthing of the same of this boat history.... Seems eerily. the control helm seems diffrent... thanks for the video ....Butch.
Those engines had me drooling....... (Indeed, if drooling created money I could probably buy her!)
The crew that manned her in WWII must of thought they’d fallen in a “tub a butta”. LoL
The engines are very nice! What a surprise!
Not into boats, but that looks like the Senator’s yacht (Charles Durning and Katherine Ross) from the movie “The Final Countdown”
Lovely looking boat and a great price!
Whst a beautiful craft !! Gorgeous!
She is indeed! Thanks for leaving a comment!
Simple a great beautiful boat! Excellent!
the 1933 boat I use is only 26 foot long and still in the process of work being done.
A stunning vessel, I would have preferred a Cummins re-engine but that would be thirstier.
Thank you for the kind words on boat and owner. Dora is now for aution and it is soon. Pls follow and make use of this opportunity!
A beauty!
If I had the privilidge of owning this vessel, I would be fulltime liveaboard on her.
Wow! This boat is loved. but high maintanance. If I was to bring her home I'd move her in fresh water to avoid salt corrosion and keep her under cover when not in use.
@@Navy1977 Absoloutley no question.
pretty looking boat
When I first saw this I had hoped it was one of the 'little ships' that were berthed in Ramsgate marina for a number of years, was called the Sundowner at the time
Reminds me of the boat that Cary Grant had during "Father Goose" in the Pacific.
Worth every penny of its cost.
That is beautiful
beautiful!!!!
Beautiful boat and the price isn't bad! I assume there is no generator aboard? For overnights that would be a nice addition, even if it's a small one.
Splendid.
Very nice boat.
A Very Beautiful! Vessel.
I love this one
美しい小型艇ですね！！
🫡🙌
I will bring this boat to Lake Wakatipu to compete with TSS Earnslaw😁
Very cool
Love you the yacht is ok tour great!
QUE LINDO MORARIA PRA SEMPRE NESTA EMBARCAÇÃO MARAVILHOSA QUE DEUS ABENÇÕE SUAS VIDAS E PROLONGUE MUITOS ANOS A MAIS PRA CURTIREM NESTE BARCO .
This is the nicest boat I've ever seen under half a million. If I had half a million I'd give the owner £300k and keep the rest for whateve maintenance it needs.
Those Stephens yachts are fabulous, but you better have deep pockets to maintain, or the wherewithal to do it yourself.
Looks like Hermann Goering’s boat.
So beautiful! I shall look down the back of the sofa and see if I can find £150k :chuckles sadly:
Good luck!
Same boat in the 1980 Movie ''The Final Countdown''.
Beauty
1930s while Americans were suffering from the Depression the owner of this craft was plying the waters in grand fashion
elegant.
It's called love and care. If you don't have it stay away from me..🎉🎉
wow, i feel like rintintin
Our 1933' 35' C.P. Leek (They , became Pacemaker, Honest!) was an amazingly similar looking design 8' shorter with a six foot cockpit Single screw a '49 Dodge flathead 6 that had already served its first life driving a New York City taxicab. Full 3" thick White Oak Framing, Hull 1 inch white oak ,and the inner was hull 1/2" White Cedar I think my Dad paid $1500.00 for it in 1962 I had to take swimming lessons in case I fell overboard, I think that only happened once when docking and I was at least 9 years old, when that happened, so no worries!
That is a beautiful boat.
Those motors sound and look good. Nice little diesels.
The price freaked me out. Well under 200k is mind-boggling.
I'd have thought at least half a million.
Where is it and what is its registry. 😊
She is at De Valk’s Loosdreicht marina - check out the link in the description 🫡
bravo merci
Habe ein ähnlichen Backdecker, Bj. 1932 L. 14 Meter, B 3 Meter, 80 Ps aber nicht in dem Pflegezustand 😊
Ok, I'll fantasize about owning this.
It's more realistic than pretending I can afford a $100,000,000. Yacht. 🤗
There's a lot of upkeep there. Fine if you have the skills and time.
Change the coolant hoses !
Love the boat but high maintenance.