this
is the fleming 65 and i know it's not a
brand new model
it's a very interesting model so we
thought we ought to put one on the
channel they actually started building
these
in 2005 and tony fleming the man behind
these boats
has taken hull number one on a cruise of
over 60
000 miles which perfectly demonstrates
exactly
what these ocean bashes are all about
now this particular boat has got a pair
of 405 horsepower
cummins diesels and 10 knots the range
is two and a half thousand
miles the price just over four million
dollars
excluding v80 so a pair of sliding doors
grant access to this saloon which is
very traditional at design and layout
but it is beautifully
put together and it's just really
sensible practical boat building for
example the fact that you've got this
overhead rail that runs all the way
forward until you meet
the banisters means in rough so you've
always got something to grab onto
and steady yourself there are a couple
of different layouts you can have in
this area you can have another table
over this side if you want you can have
a couple of
armchairs instead of this l-shaped
seating but whatever you go for you have
this
wonderful sort of range kitchen with the
breakfast bar domestic appliances twin
sink
dishwasher four burner induction hob and
of course the american style
full height fridge freezer now here the
deck split if you go down this companion
where you get to accommodation which
we'll look at in a moment but first
we'll head up
this one of steps which takes us to the
bridge
which is extremely business-like it's
very fit for purpose
this is a boat where you're going to
cover thousands of miles so it's really
focused
on the helmsman if you're this huge
ship's wheel you've got all of your
screens communication you have nav you
have radar you have all the boat systems
through these bottom screens is here but
there is also
backup for all of this manual backup as
well it's a boat with redundancy
built in fantastic helm position here in
this fully adjustable
helm chair you have this remarkable view
out over that
purposeful four deck and you have this
little dinette area as well so crew can
come and join the skipper maybe you'd
have
breakfast here if you were on passage
but this area can also be closed off
from the saloon
with a pair of doors so that at night
maybe on a night passage the saloon is
separated
from the skipper and there's also a day
heads up here which is a useful addition
it says a lot about this boat's
intentions you have an almost commercial
specs set up here
at the helm you have the twin screens
where you can show a whole array of
information this boat's always got radar
you could have the chart on one side etc
and then all of the boat systems are
viewable through this bonding screen
here so you can see all of the boat
systems
lit up down here you can control them
all from here but there's also manual
redundancy for all of that so if the
screens were to go down you were to lose
power
you could control everything from the
switchboard
this is also where you see the controls
for the fin stabilizers this boat has
got
and again you have your twin throttles
and you've got
sticks here for the bow thruster and the
stern thruster
a really nice feature of the 65 design
is this internal access
from the bridge up to the flybridge
which means as well as the cockpit
access you can get up to the top deck
from here as well and it's what i was
talking about earlier about that mix of
passage making intent with comfort so
you have a really nice comfortable
dinette up here of course you have your
flybridge helm as well which gives you a
fantastic view
in good weather out over the four deck
and then aft
this is dedicated to storing the tender
which is launched on and off this deck
by the crane that you can see
down here this is an owner-run boat so
it has to be a safe and practical boat
to move around on and it really is i
like the fact that you've got boarding
gates
on both sides so you don't always have
to get on and off at the transom and you
have a railing wherever you are there's
one that runs all the way
along here as i move further forward
there's one to help me up
these steps and there's another one up
here as well it's a very safe boat
to crew and you also have sliding doors
here so you can get onto the side decks
from either side of the bridge
again that's very useful means the
skipper can pop his head out and
communicate with the crew
easily enough again railings absolutely
everywhere
you have this portuguese bridge as well
so you can easily move around the front
of the wheelhouse
to the opposite side deck there's gates
both sides here just to cut them off
from the portuguese bridge if you need
to again railings railings
tall railings here and then you get up
here to
the anchor or anchors obviously you have
space here for two
excellent access to the windlass and
then under here you just have
a lot of storage space and it's also not
a bad place to catch the sun if the
weather suits
down to the accommodation then and there
are a few options on this boat
this particular one here to starboard
has got bunk cabins but it's also set up
as a bit of a study
as well behind this sliding door here
you have
the washer dryer and support you have a
twin on this boat but you can have a
double
if you want they'll also do a full beam
midship's master if you want that
as well to star but this boat has got a
day heads
and then the master suite on this boat
is right forward
here in the bow where the headroom just
rockets
really really good and you've got this
nice sort of well here
with the skylight in the top so the
light pours down on top of the bed
again the cabinetry it just feels really
solid and really proper of course this
cabin
has its own ensuite engine room access
on the 65
through this enormously hefty hatch
of course there's a ridiculously over
engineered stand
to stop it dropping on your head and
then you're down here through a
nice shallow run of steps into the
lazarette first
where you have loads of storage where
you also have access to from these
hatches so you don't always have to open
this hatch
just to drop stuff into the lazarette
steering system all that stuff is all
really accessible
down here but to get to the engine room
you have to open this watertight door
as less of an injury more of a surgical
theater it's so well lit in here it's
spotlessly clean and everything is so
brilliantly laid out of course there's
only crouching room here headroom is a
little bit
restricted but it's still very easy to
get to everything especially with these
smaller 405 horsepower
cummins you can have 800 horsepower
men's or thousand horsepower
mans but these are the smallest blocks
so it makes them very easy to work on
but you notice that they've even put
mirrors this side of the fuel tank so
you can inspect
that side engine visually without having
to climb over and look at it and of
course it's the same
on that side you've got all your fuel
filters here clear bowls so you can
easily
inspect the quality of fuel by your eye
there are four fuel
tanks there's a fuel switch system fuel
management system so you can
move fuel between the tanks you can
polish it on the way through as well
loads of redundancy there if you do pick
up some bad fuel and you have good
access
also to the thin stabilizers we're just
in the corner of the
engine room here thank you very much for
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