JustBob
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 12, 2016
- Messages
- 496
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Mahalo
- Vessel Make
- 2018 Hampton Endurance 658
One question and a few observations.
The question is what is the air draft of the boat?
-Sleeping quarters. Even the third stateroom is still very comfortable. Even more, like the crew cabin. Even for a boat not with a crew, there are just those rare times everyone comes and you have comfortable space. Many European boats in this and larger sizes have crew cabins that are unfit for anyone to actually have to spend several nights in.
-So many smart little things. Look at the stairs to the flybridge. Very nice. Good doors to both side decks.
I just think it's an extremely well designed boat.
B - addressing your question/thoughts:
Airdraft is 19' to top of hardtop, then the antenna mast is another 6' or so with the domes. We don't have many bridges to contend with here in the PNW.
Crew quarters/Laz. On all of the boats I have seen of theirs, this aft section is built out in crew quarters. Quite luxurious as you pointed out. I'd certainly have no problem staying there. We don't have, don't anticipate a load of grandkids. While I'm sure there will be a few times where we could take advantage of the crew qtrs, I opted to build the space out as a working lazarette. I wanted a nice tool bench, lots of storage, nice access to items like the watermaker, and so on. The laz also has a wet locker that we can store fishing items/traps, etc. Can you say Nautical Man Cave?
Stairs/Well designed. In the "Meet Mahalo" section of the blog I mentioned the stairs, how all of them are very much "house like." This became a main selling feature for us. And it seems like every day on various forums I read another instance of a boater being injured on his or her stairs.
If you watched the video, you may have noticed that there are internal stairs from the salon to the crew quarters/engine room. We have that too, but of course leading into the laz. So one doesn't have to go outside the boat in order to do engine checks, fetch items from the laz and so on.
Previous boats have a somewhat cumbersome method of closing off the crew qtrs from the salon, at the top of the stairs. HYG worked with us to instead do a door at the bottom of the stairs which we feel will be great.
Very much appreciate your thoughts/interest! JustBob.