We're going to take a look at something a little bit different today. Behind me is the
Azimut Magellano 53. Now Azimut are well known for making very stylish flybridges, but they also make
a range of trawler yachts or swift trawlers at any rate, so if you notice it's got that very upright
vertical bow and a nice full beam and just a more stylish shape than the average trawler,
but let's go and have a closer look and i'll show you what makes it quite so special. So first up
it has what they call a dual hull, so it's a hull that's very comfortable both at displacement speed
and at semi displacement or semi-planing speed, so it's comfortable up to about 22 knots maximum,
but really where its sweet spot is is around the kind of 14-16 knot speed, now the price for this
is £1.2 million including tax and we'll get a closer look now on board. So first up we
can see that big bathing platform, that's a hydraulic bathing platform, you can obviously
store your tender on there, it'll sink down into the water, and then up the steps into the cockpit,
and you can see we've got gates on both sides, so you've got easy boarding access
on both sides, and then a very nice seating area under the cockpit, which you can see the
flybridge extension doesn't quite reach over that, so you've got a nice bit of sun there and a really
big seating area and then a proper little bar area here, so have a look under here we've got a sink,
oh that's quite a heavy one, got a grill under there, fridge, and that is the trash can,
very nice to be able to have a little serving area here looking out onto the cockpit,
and look how much space there is here, it's a really massive, massive space, there's actually
a pile of floor space in between. The other thing is, being a trawler-style yacht, you've got really
solid deck gear, look at the size of these cleats, got proper winches to haul it in, fair leads,
and then somewhat surprisingly under here, if we lift this off,
there we go, lift that off, pop that carefully on there,
under here you'll actually find a crew cabin, so let's swivel it up, up we go,
and let's take a quick look down there while we can. Okay here we are in the crew cabin,
not a huge amount of space it's fair to say, but you have got a decent transom window letting in
some natural light, got a decent single bed that stretches under the cockpit seating,
it's not quite standing headroom down here, but you can crouch well enough
and there's a little basin under here and a loo tucked behind the ladder,
so on a boat this size you don't necessarily need a captain, but you can have one if you want to,
or you can shove one of your kids down there. So moving on round,
it's got really, really lovely proper walkaround decks, now look at the size of those
bulwarks there, and the gauge the diameter of those stainless steel grab rails gives it a really
substantial feeling, there's this lovely T-capping along the bulwalks and pop-up cleats, so they fold
down nice and flat, means you don't catch anything on there, and then look at this foredeck area,
another really big outdoor seating area, there's a big electric table here,
you can see that goes up and down, you can adjust the height whether you want to make it a
great big sun pad or a proper dining area, but look how big this is, I can
easily see eight people around here no problem at all, and then storage, plenty of storage going on,
got the storage lockers on both sides there, just pop that away,
storage lockers again either side for all the covers,
and as you can see the decks carry on all the way around back into the cockpit and even
the actual access to the fuel tanks is hidden under a nice chunky piece of teak,
really good attention to detail. Now while we're outside, let me just put that down,
leave that in a good state, there we go, pop the seats back on.
Now the flybridge, again look at the size of these steps, you haven't got a narrow
ladder here, there's a really proper angled staircase, there's another fridge in there,
so look at that, just so easy to walk up the steps,
and here is the flybridge, so big seating area next to the helm, again a nice sociable layout,
the skipper can be at the helm taking charge of the ship with all his guests sitting around the
table right next to him, sort of pod style screen with the MFD behind it,
throttles all conveniently on a little extension here so it comes right to your hand
and you've even got the joystick, so this is powered by twin Cummins 500 horsepower engines
and crucially it has enormous fuel tanks of 3,200 litres, and with that dual mode hull
it gives a fantastic range, so at 12 knots you'll get over a thousand nautical miles.
Right then, while we're up here let's have a look, there's another wet bar up here with its own
barbecue and yet another ice maker, by the looks of things, yep we've got an ice maker there,
so you've got everything you need to have a barbecue, cool drinks up here and then this
aft section of the flybridge has been left clear, you probably can get the factory to put some kind
of permanent furniture up here, but in this option we've just got plenty of space, a few
bean bags to spread about, and a lovely area, you can just chill out looking over the stern,
and up here you can see this is the radar arch with all your radar and kit up here,
but there's also a little shower built in there, so if you come in from a swim you can be on this
aft deck area, shower off with fresh water and then chill out on the bean bag, nice idea.
Right let's pop back down and see what we have inside, so big wide opening doors,
a really nice link between the cockpit and the saloon, and then straight into the aft galley,
again very nicely equipped, look at this we've got a Miele induction hob
then a proper little oven beneath that. And on this side there's a mini Bosch dishwasher
and you can see this is a boat that's really been built for cruising, so
everything shuts properly, everything has its own place look, at that beautiful
woodwork, even in those cutlery drawers, but it just means that nothing is going to rattle around,
everything has a positive latch on it, and then the sink itself lives under there
again, so when it's not in use it's a completely free surface and nice and tidy. Tap pops up,
really good quality fittings, Azimut know how to do these things properly, they really do.
Over on the starboard side again, a positive latch to the fridge, look at that, that's a proper
sized fridge, and a freezer up top, all neatly integrated, so it's slide shut with the door.
And then over on the starboard side you've got your AV system
And again, look at this, positive latches on absolutely everything, so if you are in a bit of
a seaway nothing is going to slide out, but look how beautiful it is when you want to access it,
beautifully done little holding trays for absolutely everything. What have we got up here?
There we go again, look at that, beautiful, all properly held in place, soft close and then
lock it in place and it's going to stay nice and secure there whatever the sea.
And again more storage,
now this is the main saloon area, you've got, again a big seating space with a high-low table,
I think the controls are over here, so you can see that goes nicely up and down,
and watch this, so look at that, all unfolds absolutely beautifully,
so that you've got a properly large dining table when you want to,
there's no fiddling about with awkward supports underneath it, the whole thing just opens up
and makes a dining table, and then when you want to have a more sociable or informal
coffee table, close it all up again, swivel it back into place and then
down it goes, and you've got a really nice chilling area with a nice low coffee table,
you can sit around again, you're right next to the helm, so when you are skippering the boat
you're very much part of the action. The other thing I like here is you've got opening windows
everywhere, so there's a nice opening window by the helm, there's another window over by
the galley, and of course those big doors behind you, so you've got a really nice throughput of
air. So, the helm itself, again got the joystick throttles for those twin 500 horsepower Cummins,
and the wheel is quite low, I mean the helm seat itself is electric, so you can
bring that right down, but it is more the kind of traditional ship's wheel, that sort of vertical
ship's wheel, that just means you can chill out, put it on autopilot, nice big screen
and trundle away for those thousand miles at 12 knots. So coming down onto the lower deck,
remember this is only a 53 foot boat, so look how much space we've got,
there is the master cabin, it has this kind of offset bed idea, and it does work really well,
it means you have more floor space around the foot of the bed, good headroom all the way around,
nice big hull windows either side, and then the bathroom itself is part of that beam,
so rather than having a full-beam cabin and then a bathroom tucked behind it,
you've actually got the bathroom on the port, sorry the starboard side here.
Behind the door very nice marble sink and a proper walk-in shower cubicle with a little sit down area
and plenty of space in there,
very nicely detailed, got all these mixtures of different textures, kind of fabric front,
nice hanging locker, automatic lights in there, very pretty little bedside reading lights,
now coming back through here there's a space under the stairs,
you probably could put a washing machine there if you particularly wanted, but there is another
location for that, which i'll show you in a minute. Now then, moving forward, there is a twin
guest cabin on this side on the port side of the boat, twin bunk beds, not the largest of cabins,
but you can certainly get a couple of kids in there, and again a big hanging locker, and then
over on the other side there is actually another small cabin, in this instance they
got it set out more as a storage area, lots of places to pack your stuff away, but that can be
made up as another bed, so that is the fourth cabin, believe it or not on this 53-foot boat,
and both of those have access to the day heads on this side, so you can see again we've got
a shower cubicle, this time it's one of the circular ones with a door that slides around,
but that also has access to the forward cabin, which we'll have a look at in a minute, so
this second bathroom is shared across the guests, now moving further forward this is where the
washing machine is currently stowed, that probably could fit in that other locker under
stairs if you wanted to, but in the meantime it's out there in this kind of lobby area, so the nice
thing is it's not really going to disturb anyone, and then moving into the bow section,
now this is where you can see the benefit of that vertical stem on the bow, because it means the
beam carries all the way forward, you've got a lot of space in here, very smartly done, nice chair,
you can sit down and read a book, windows either side, good storage, again nice hanging locker,
keep the moths away, automatic light, oh it smells really good in there too, and this is
that access through to that shared bathroom, so you can see how it is ensuite, and if there's
only two couples on board then you can both have your own ensuite bathrooms, if you are cruising
with more people, particularly with children, then you'll have to share that second bathroom,
but think again we're talking about a 53-foot boat here and there are those four potential cabins,
not to mention the crew cabin, which you already see in the stern. So one more thing to have a
look at and that is the engine room, let's have a look under here, we can lift that up,
okay, let's drop down here, you can see it's quite a steep ladder, but we can get down here right,
and here we go, so let's look forward, first these are the two 500 horsepower Cummins engines,
they are both on v-drives, you can see the shafts right under there, so the drive comes off that
way and then reverses back towards the stern, it means the engines don't have to be quite so far
forwards leaving more accommodation space ahead of them, but you still get the nice traditional shaft
drive feel, nice and reliable and simple, got the fuel strainers, two per engine, so you've always
got some built-in redundancy, you can swap over to one of those, one of the fuel filters cleans
out the other one, and then swap back. There's a generator here to keep everything running,
there is room for a Seakeeper stabiliser if you want one, I don't think this boat has got it,
and we can see the large fuel tanks on either side, that gives it that fantastic range,
and then moving further aft we can see a little technical space in here for the steering.
So there you go, not quite stunning headroom down here, it's crouching, but plenty of space to get
to both the engines and on a proper cruising yacht like this, that is exactly what you want.
That is the Azimut Magellano 53,
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