What a treat to get a tour of Dyksta's personal boat, and to sail it with him and his wife! Thanks for sharing some history of the boat, etc. Very impressive!

One of the best travel shows on TV in the US. Wonderful and down to earth people. So great to see the KZread channel. Love Distant Shores!!!

Wow! Great to see and hear the ideas of mr Gerard Dykstra. He's absolutely a legendary designer and sailer.

@DistantShoresTV

2 жыл бұрын

We agree! Yes Gerard is indeed amazing!

Wow What a treat, fabulous famous boat to get to sail on and what an experience to go sailing with Gerard Dykstra! Completely jealous.

Beautiful location. Thanks for sharing your sea trials on these magnificent sailboats. 👏

Thank you Paul and SHeryl for all your amazing videos

Thank you for sharing, looking forward to seeing what you choose for your new boat

That forward-facing gimbaled nav station is thoroughly brilliant.

I've seen allot of your content over the years.... This is simply delightful. What a honor. Of course the boat is as cool as one would imagine. We are impressed, Cheers!

Great to follow your search for a new boat.what a privilege to sail such a wonderful boat with the designer!! can’t wait to see what shipyard you choose!! Good luck Fair winds ⛵️

This boat is so much better than I thought it was, and it's already my favorite boat

Good for you! What a treat that must have been going through Lammer and sailing with the designer!! I noticed how quiet the cabin was under sail. Great boat design albeit a tad “cold” without the contemporary wood furnishings… but hey you got a bit of the calvinistic experience right off the bat 😀. Welcome to The Netherlands 🇳🇱!

Absolutely love your channel and your TV show been following your adventures since Oswego in 1994.

Thank you for sharing this great sailboats! I hope you will find this perfect one :)

Great to see the coverage Bestavaer boats get!

Love the pilot house. living while actively sailing.

@ZeffyZ

2 жыл бұрын

The view forward seemed limited. Might still feel the need to go outside for checks?

@LoanwordEggcorn

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZeffyZ In bad weather, the pilot house has plenty of visibility.

Nice. Glad they’re also making smaller version 36’

The gimbald table to the left of the stove was very cool. They must have been fixed together? The ability to shift the ballast as needed on a small sail boat must be considered quite a luxury. I would love to see what it does in heavy weather. It was a beautiful boat. Thank you for the brief tour. Looking forward to seeing more. 🤝🤝🤝😊

what a a great boat designer, i didnt know who designed the black pearl till i seen this video, i love that vessel and the maltese falcon as well. dont think id want to be cleaning the bottom of either though :) thanks for the updates and showing us some well built vessels.

@LoanwordEggcorn

2 жыл бұрын

Dykstra did Maltese Falcon and later Black Pearl.

Great video.cheerx from Courtenay BC

@DistantShoresTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dennis :-)

Nice!

My dream boats I am very happy for you! kind regards Alex

lovely video. You both look like you had a great day :-)

@DistantShoresTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dave! 🤗

Also nice to know is that Gerard Dykstra is also a winner of the Whitbread Round the World race in 1977/78 as navigator and watchleader on Flyer.

@DistantShoresTV

2 жыл бұрын

Yes thanks Leo. I think that picture we included was Gerard at the nav station on that same race😅

Very cool..

Sailing keeps you young - Proof

@DistantShoresTV

2 жыл бұрын

Very true! Gerard and his wife are both very inspiring ❤️

@Drew-eo2oj

Жыл бұрын

Many sports can be played to keep you young. Certainly terrific that we sailors can enjoy being on the water as boats become more and more short crew friendly.

.. Cheers to you ..

Well, that was enjoyable! Very nice to see a legend is naval architecture still sailing one of his 'final' designs for 60,000 nm to boot! Personally, I do not enjoy the lines of the KM Yacht boats, although I do enjoy the very cool engineering that takes excellent advantage of weight distribution! I prefer the Alubat Cigale 16, or the Mark Lombard designed Gulliver 57 with it's Finot rear dining table!

@LoanwordEggcorn

2 жыл бұрын

OK so I had to check those out. The Cigale 16 in particular has a lot of practical and clever design ideas. I think a comparison with the Bestevaers is apples and oranges; more traditional thinking vs newer. Both have merits and probably appeal to very different people. Frankly I prefer the avant garde too.

A real sailor's boat

Very cool boats, enjoyed that, although slightly disappointed not to see the water ballast in action. Best sofa ever on the 53. Old fashioned cabin but very cosy. Not the endless natural wood everywhere is a nice change. It must be great cruising while feeling safe with these boats. Interesting to think metal boats can still be light weight, never realized. (but please consider holding the shots a bit longer so we can take it all it in without pausing all the time)

Since sailing is your life obviously you surely deserve your own custom design for comfort. Carbon rigging is fine sailing close to a yard, but repairs will not be easy in far locations. Regular aluminium is preferable in that case.

Wow, what an impressive boat. I want one. Not for sailing cold weather or water places. I think I am allergic to that, but to bounce off any reef I hope i never encounter with the bottom or keel.

That's one weird sculpture at 0:23. At 1:29 that's welds, baby! Mr. Dykstra knows the difference. This boat is a lesson to anyone who makes any useful thing.

Wow Mr Dykstra one of my favourite designers. I love Frers but for exploring aluminium yatchs , Dykstra n1. Love the Dixon's Moody as well but would be better in aluminium

I got to say, that's some confidence naming your yacht company "Bestevear" (Best Ever).

@MetalMike50

2 жыл бұрын

Bestevaer was a nickname given to Michiel Adriaanszoon De Ruyter, one of the important Dutch admirals of the seventeenth century. The crew loved their captain and called him ‘Beste Vaeder’ (best father), which was then shortened to Bestevaer. The word Vaer also means sailor, seafarer. Thus, De Ruyter was not only the best father, but also the best seafarer.

@Wearyman

2 жыл бұрын

@@MetalMike50 well I was going for a silly pun, but I will accept an interesting history lesson in return. Thank you!

@tomriley5790

2 жыл бұрын

@@Wearyman I think the pun was not lost on them either :-)!

@nooneanybodyknows1321

2 жыл бұрын

@@MetalMike50 Thanks for sharing.👍

👍

Fantastic boat, I to would like to have seen the working of the ballast system. What kind of a price do these carry? Thanks guys and happy sailing!

Good morning from your fans from St. Petersburg! We have been watching your travels for many years - first on TV, and in recent years on KZread. A big request - add Russian language to your subtitles. Thanks! We love Paul & Cheryl and wish success to the Distant Shores!

Great vessels for sure! Are you in the Netherlands until the build is done?

@DistantShoresTV

2 жыл бұрын

I’m flying over there (to NL) tonight for a visit! Then more longer visit as the build gets advanced

On this boat, can you hand steer in the pilot house should the autopilot fail? Do you prefer a wheel a bit aft of the pilot house rather than a tiller at the stern? Thanks for your time. L…) Webhead STL

Did you consider the Garcia Exploration range? They seem to tick all the same boxes as the Bestevaer...

Nice, Makum is 183km away ;)

Let us know the design of your new boat, please. Also, what kind of features are included for cold water sailing? Insulation, heater, hull thickness, and such. How is the fresh water tank kept above 0° Celsius when sailing in arctic conditions? Is the bow modified a little to help with heavy ice? Sorry, I love such technical stuff.

Minnies in Newport beach CA has lots of mast parts. Also not being a wise ass but aluminum pipe is an easy way to make custom spreaders. My neighbor lost his stick and did a fine job making some. The bases are the had part but well within your skill set. If that carbon mast is otherwise good you should jump on it.

@bradfordsimms715

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry wrong thread

Money is a great friend to have. 😁😎

@ZeffyZ

2 жыл бұрын

But don't forget the Shards started with building their first little boat and sailed with it for years and years. This is the equivalant to us saving a lifetime and upgrading the house/flat.

Sehr schön …tolle Boote

How fast is the boat on a broad reach? Would it be transpac competive speed?

The suspect comes those water tight doors are to confine the water you already have inside the boat in case that something goes wrong in that crazy water ballast piping. And for the steering: that hull has a rudder higher then a tall man when you manoeuvre in reverse you simply cannot hold it. It swings abruptly left and right it can really hurt you badly. Once we called all this stuff design flaws.

@Drew-eo2oj

Жыл бұрын

Truly you better have solid control on the tiller in reverse, I would like to have had the designer discuss that.

En que parte del mundo vas? Saludos desde Panamá

Way cool boat... didn't like the settee with the rounded inner "corner"... 😉

@SVImpavidus

2 жыл бұрын

Almost as cool as Impavidus 😉

i prefer the look of the orion 49, more modern. like the ed joy 56, beautifull boats. wonder what theyre like in the tropics?

@harmseberhardharmseberhard9908

2 жыл бұрын

These boats are very well isolated and well ventilated and work as well in the high altitudes as in the tropics. But you surely would paint the decks white just to not burn your bare feet walking around.

@simonhantler8062

2 жыл бұрын

@@harmseberhardharmseberhard9908 the ventilation could be better with hatches facing forward when open, opening windows on front of pilothouse house. theyre no danger if done correctly.hard bimini over cockpit for shade.the desgns more of a cold climate yacht which is ok, thats what theyre for. very well built.

@harmseberhardharmseberhard9908

2 жыл бұрын

@@simonhantler8062concerning bimini, whether hard or canvas, we obviously have diffent tastes. A bimini in the marina or at anchor is something usefull, a 'nice-to-have'. But when sailing, especially in harsh conditions, the windage is far too high. In storm conditions dangerously high, in breaking seas inacceptably dangerous. And the feel for the wind, the free view on the sails is compromised. And believe me, you will encounter severe storms in the carribean sea quite often, the Arafua Sea can look really angry and the area around Madagaskar is no better. A sailing buddy with a 47' aluminum sloop suffered a severe knock down on his way from the leeward islands to Panama. And Laura Dekker finally capsized in the strait of sicilly. Thanks to grib files you can avoid most storms. But not all of them.

@donaldvanvliet9039

2 жыл бұрын

@@harmseberhardharmseberhard9908 dekker capsized? When was this ? Not during her circumnavigation.

Thanks for sharing! It doesn’t look anywhere near as comfortable as the Discovery. Does that bother you? Is this basically to sail amongst icebergs?

@LoanwordEggcorn

2 жыл бұрын

The interior is entirely customizable. Really they're checking out the hull and sailing characteristics.

Preference a Discovery 67

Thanks, great info. Have you considered the Boreal's from France?

Has anyone considered a hybrid aluminium hull but with a GRP deck to lessen maintenance and be less reactive to extreme hot and cold conditions?

@JelmerAchterkamp

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Look at Allure yachts

@tomriley5790

2 жыл бұрын

Garcia are built like this too, I'm not sure it's less maintenance though...

@timdunn2387

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomriley5790 I was looking at the nice shiny welds, and wondering how long they would take to oxidize, and I was also thinking how cold the handrails might be at 75N. Purely academic, nothing I'm ever going to test.

@blegi1245

Жыл бұрын

@@tomriley5790 Only the roof of the deck salon is composite on the Exploration range. On Allures the entire deck is fiberglass.

@paulnorman8274

Жыл бұрын

@@timdunn2387 All Dutch teach their kids to not lick handrails while wintering over, frozen into ice, in the arctic..... More seriously: For most people, there are definitely good reasons to go the Allures way: The boat beaches like an alu centerboarder, yet has a more human-compatible composite deck. Pretty much a win-win, if you can stomach the in-your-face "Frenchness" of them. That sort of construction is not very practical for full custom builds. Doubly so for sailors as lock-limit knowledgeable and particular as Dijkstra himself. His personal boat would never be a mass produced boat. Once you start wanting high load attachments affixed hither and yonder, for reasons apparent only to you, a metal foundation is much preferable. People often end up drilling and screwing and backing and fitting and caulking and gasketing stuff to composite hulls as well, but it can virtually never be done as verifiably as a professionally done and tested metal weld. So it's not really an open and shut case either way.

Thanks for your help Ukraine 🇺🇦🙏

Thats 500k+ Eur boat, it is very expensive so you expect everything exceptional - and it looks like it is.

Go look closer at Garcia yachts!

@andre1987eph

2 жыл бұрын

No they don’t. You’re thinking of Allures.

@nobody46820

2 жыл бұрын

@@andre1987eph You are right! I stand corrected. Stand by, editing post....

Do you think flexible solar panels on coachroof a of ALUminium boats are going to over heat and efficiency will drop drastically?

@LoanwordEggcorn

2 жыл бұрын

You could stand them off the roof a couple centimeters to allow air cooling underneath.

Don't they make a alu cat ?

@tomriley5790

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think KM have ever made an aluminium cat, they do build custom designs though so I'm sure they'd be happy to do it if someone wanted them to.

@OZ1DK

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomriley5790 yes, but I'm not worry about the alu or quality, but the resale value and the insurance for one off boats.

@nobody46820

2 жыл бұрын

KM does

Feadship use to be Amels Makkum. They build a yacht for Donald Trump back in 1987. It costed Fl. 65,000,000.

it looks like a safe but unsightly atomic refuge

@tomriley5790

2 жыл бұрын

They did build Axonite and did a range of designs based on her which are much more pretty but nobody ordered them.

@hotelperla6241

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomriley5790 DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM, COGITA PRIUSQUAM DESPICERE! ave tom

Received a notice from DirecTV today that as of April 4 they will no longer carry the AWE channel 387. No more "Distant Shores" for me. I called to protest but got nowhere. that was the only channel on my DirecTV that carried the show. Where do YOU watch the TV program? We will be leaving DirecTV over this.

Feadship was called Amels in the 80s. It did a makeover of the Trump Princes I. I watched it leave in 1988, I think. The Donald later ordered for the building of the Princes II by Amels. But then he ran out of money…. What did he do? He bought the wharf, and let it go bankrupt, so didn’t have to pay for the super yacht he had ordered…. Some elements of the hull are still lying around there at the wharf….. So Makkum got to know Donald Trump back in the 80s already….By the way, beautiful ship, this Bestevaer. I sail at the IJsselmeer regularly myself.

If you are looking for something new I'd say make it something out of the ordinary. Maybe a junk rig? Or a dutch sailing barge? I'm about to attend university to become a naval architect specializing in sailing ships, what i want to eventually have for myself is a boat inspired heavily by the hull of viking longships and the top deck closer to a dutch barge, probly with a twin/bilge keel. (Probly going to be cheaper than other boats because I don't care for all the fancy decorative stuff they out I'm most boats.

Alot of spaghetti on the 53'.

@ZeffyZ

2 жыл бұрын

..forcing them to lean quite far out to get at the locks and whatnot.

Will all the metal disturb the anthropogenic life force energy fields?

@harmseberhardharmseberhard9908

2 жыл бұрын

😂 No, definitly not. Ask all the professional seamen on commercial ships and fishing vessels or on Navi ships, whether their anthropogenic life force energy was ever deminished. Or ask me, who has been sailing on a steel sailingboat for more than 25 years, more than 30.000nm, have been living on a steel boat for 3 years full time and never felt more alife than during this time. Perhaps something with the antropogenic life force energy fields theory is wrong?

@tomriley5790

2 жыл бұрын

Just as much as the flying spagetti monster.

@paulpaul9914

2 жыл бұрын

@@harmseberhardharmseberhard9908 What's your steel sailing vessel? Thnx. PS Already a large body of knowledge involved going back for as long as people have been writing. I can't spend any time in the north east corner of my house for example.

@paulpaul9914

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomriley5790 has that been located yet?

@harmseberhardharmseberhard9908

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulpaul9914 My ex-boat...I sold it one year ago. A 1984 Fruit de Mer, 37', centerboard (deriveur), internal ballast, 3.79m wide, lwl 9.40m, weight empty 10,5t; 4.5t internal lead ballast, galvanised round bilge steel hull, build by Form Ocean in Nantes (now out of business). Naval architect: Michel Joubert. Nice and robust woodwork by Garcia. Fast and able boat. Not bad to windward, but really fast on beam reach or off the wind in a blow. When surfing downwind in big seas up to 15 knots without feeling unsecure. Was very happy with this boat. But now too big, too much work for an old man. 😁

With all the IMO Ballast Water regulations these days. You would now have to use your potable water supply, otherwise you have a boat you can't leave your country with.

@DistantShoresTV

2 жыл бұрын

That's a good observation Carl.. I am pretty sure Gerard will have done that correctly for any new builds with SALT water ballast. He also has 2 fresh water tanks so was also using potable water for ballast but much less weight with just 400-500 tanks I think he said.

@JohnJohn-cu7nk

2 жыл бұрын

From what I've heard it's for ships not pleasure yachts /boats.

@carlthor91

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnJohn-cu7nk Already, before entering NZ waters, you have to have a scrupulously clean hull, or face a very steep fine. I bet if they found you had Sea Water Ballast Tanks, and no treatment system, as the larger ships do!!! I do not wish to be in that captains shoes.🤦‍♂😱😱😱

@tomriley5790

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting point - I'm not sure the IMO regulations apply to this small a craft. Either way it's not really what they're aimed at - the Ballast water they're aiming at is the stuff used to replace the weight of Cargo/Oil on merchant ships and then transported half way around the world before being dischraged. On this boat you'd discharge your ballast water from the upwind ballast tank every time you tacked, plus the tanks themselves are obviously devoid of sunlight, which should mean no plant growth. The other alternative would be to fit a filter and UV system which would use power but should solve the problem, or chemically treat the water before dumping it.

@carlthor91

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomriley5790 Less systems, less maintenance. Less cost. Other than a cargo ship, slip a little lead in.

Dont like all the winches and clutches on the mast