EXCLUSIVE: Birth Of Hull #2 Of The EXTREME PASSAGE MAKER 78 Explorer Yacht! 

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The reason Steve extended the swim platforms is it uses the weight of the water to hold it down in following seas. Those seas on the platform help lift the bow and let the yacht surf. It's pure genius at work

Looks like a Steve and Linda Dashew design.

Looks like fpb78 grey wolf🎉 Steve and Linda Dashew.. the dream going’s on🎉🦾fpb yachts. The windows must be black and the body grey😘

Looks good. Some amazing boat builders operating out of Turkey these days.

A great design,, we shall watch till she is in the water,,

Wow, love it. Just need those lotto numbers to come up !!

OUTSTANDING! These yachts remind me a great deal of the Dashew FPB line of yachts. Good job Yacht Boy!

Good looking boat 🚢

Hello. I've enjoyed watching and liking your videos. I was wondering whether you could do a video just dedicated to the classes of seaworthiness of these yachts. Perhaps using some of the examples that you have in your videos. I always interested in being educated about these kinds of wonderful boats, and I have no doubt that having a better understanding of what these classes are and their capabilities and limitations would be something that your viewers would enjoy. Cheers. Brian

Nice! One has to admire experienced owners

Looks like the FPB 78 Cochise... I think the swim platform is too short though. It should have a fold down stern extension that is as tall as the deck house when up adding 8~10 meters to the hull length at sea while keeping the boat less than 80 foot in harbor maneuvers. Length equals speed and efficiency. Also, maybe it can have a flood-able bow. At speed, in calm seas, valves can open to allow water to free flood into a bow compartment and keep it digging into the bow wake instead of riding over it. A reverse rake and a slight tumble home will help too. For greatest efficiency the propeller axis should be in line with the flow axis of water where the prop is. An inboard motor driving a prop through a shaft generally does not allow that. Maybe they could use a podded propulsor; something like a Thrustmaster T-Pod 90kW Permanent Magnet azimuthing thruster in a diesel generator / electric drive setup? A 10~20hp retractable azimuthing bow thrust can also be added. This has the added advantage that if the main pod fails, the docking thruster can be lowered to tug the boat around at low speeds.

From than angle, the thumbnail looked like a catamaran 😀

SOOOO Nice to see expplorer Yacht's going green,Will Dump my diesel guzzeling queen in a heart beat to do my part. LONG overdue. Great Vid. waiting excitedly for the updates on this one. Keep up the great job,Always happy to wathch your work mate. Thanks !

Dashews design limits the lifting of the stern from following seas. It does this with the swim platform that allows water on it and using that weight to hold stern down. This is why he had modified some of the platforms on his yachts. The narrowing at the stern and the platform keep the stern down allowing the yacht to surf

I swear you like dropping these vids on euromillions nights just to tease us 😂

What a great boat love it

Very nice!🇺🇲

It does look like the FPB-78, which also has the same efficiency and self-righting ability.

Looks like Arksen 85, yacht buoy did a good review on that.

Looking forward for a LRC-65 deep dive review.

👏🍻

Bering 78 anyone? Guess Antalya is a pretty small town.

Hello have you heard about the NZ boat the Circa 24m, vessel,Circa Marine decided they wanted to build their own long-range, fast passagemaker, Sorry just wished to put it on your radar Please. Regards Glen

Self-righting? 7000nm range? I'm in! :-) Thanks for sharing.

A truly exciting boat.

A bespoke FPB!

I'd like to see her next to an FPB 78 to see the differences between them, that said, she's my kind of girl!! Sorry I've been missing for a while,...Life. Please tell me you're going to be invited aboard for her sea trials? I love this hybrid drive and would love some more information about it Cheers John, I should be back for a while now.

I have to give you respect here you do mention Steve. He is the master behind this design and the arksen one also but these will never come close to those performances. These people are just copy cats.

What does hull 2 mean. Is it a mockup process of the development of the boat?

Another FPB copy. Looks good.

Can this yacht reach to asia?

Which ones better? This or the Bering 70?

These are based on the Dashew FPB series.

If I were to order one of these it would be without the John Deere power plants, and would go with power plants that would have more world wide support infrastructure as I'd be doing the routine maintenance myself, and John Deere has a reputation for not supplying maintenance info outside of its dealers.

How much $?

active stabilisers are a no for me - too many moving parts and added complication

So an FPB by another name… I’d imagine Steve Dashew and Cerca Marine are flattered.

Is firefly still in business?

Cost???

Why is every single yacht builder in the entire world all based in Antalya, Turkey?

Hi mate....sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but aluminium is not free from corrosion. It corrodes, just not as swiftly as steel.

It’s pretty much a 100% rip off of the Circa NZ built 😅 PB78, the bigger sister of the PB64. That said they’ve made a pretty nice job of the build. When Steve Dashew retired from producing boats under the Dashew brand he declined to allow Circa to build these vessels. A couple of years later Circa teamed up with LoMotion design to build an even more advanced vessel than the Dashew boats. Mollymawk was the first 24m and was followed on with a second vessel. The efficiency of Mollymawk was nothing short of astonishing..

Impressive it is not. It is a repetition of a theme. This type of hull is not new and a number of yards have already produced similar designs. True is that in Turkey labor is cheap, substantially cheaper than in the western part of Europe. That' s a fact. If their metal working is of similar quality needs to be viewed and depends under which rules the hulls are made. Lloyd's 100 A1, Veritas, ABS, GL, or the lowest, RINA. However, take it as a fact that Turkish shipyards do not sleep and their products are becoming better and better.

I wish English people could pronounce "aluminum"

Gotta be honest...looks like an Arksen. I know the hull design is more like that of the Dashew FPB and follows that proven Vripack design from the early 00's or aughts...it works though. At least they aren't leaving it bare aluminum like the Dashew's. Those look absolutely ugly and utilitarian.