New Sunseeker 88 Yacht Docking & Seatrial - Captains View of this £7,000,000 Luxury SuperYacht 

me also, just love this videos

You're welcome!

Glad you enjoyed it, these are great fun to make.

You bet!

Thanks, will do!

But not at night. You would be blind for Navigation while cooking.

Yup for sure, I am going to try some more "interview" style shooting this autumn with some ideas I have planned, let's see how they work out.

£7,000,000 boat cheap screws

I'm not gonna say that I don't love what I do...having grown up into a marina business with my family, boats is all I've ever known. Once the sea is in your blood, very hard to get away from it!

Not stupid at all but reality with every berth scenario being so often different, sensors wouldn't really be reliable. There are some first gen systems out there from Raymarine and Volvo which do offer this kind of capability (and I have tested both) but I think the tech has a long way to go before we will honestly see it as a "std fit". In terms of cameras, these are becoming a lot more common and yes I would have a full system on a boat of any size. Whether you boat with covers up/various overhangs that make it harder to see behind/to the side etc, they are a brilliant docking aid. In the grand scheme of overall purchase cost, they are insignificant and anything which brings the skipper confidence in close confines of a marina is well worth it!

Hi Richard, might have been misheard in the wind. All modern nav kit will do some kind of autorouting but they need a chart card in for detailed cartography. (which will be along the lines of how your Garmin works - good kit!) In this instance there is no card installed as boat not pdi’d or delivered to end user (she’s now off in the Med so the Capt will I’m sure have his own preference installed), so I’m running on my iPad for the purposes of just showing you were I am in the vid. We do a lot of passage planning on an iPad these days, the Navionics software is so good, I would (and do) happily run it for offshore deliveries. Often the boats I move around haven’t been fully commissioned, so I tend not to fully trust the kit.

Hey, it’s a cellular model as you need the gps inside (I’m not sure on the newer iPads if you also get this feature on a WiFi model and could then just tether to a mobile phone for map updates) but on my generation iPad this wasn’t the case.

What's the biggest boat 2 people can handle with today's technology?

Can you own a yacht like that, get near a harbor and hire a captain to come aboard and dock it? How does that work?

Up to about 90ft is realistic for a really experienced owner to operate without crew but I would say typically around 70ft you start to see more and more permanently crewed boats. It’s a lot more than just daily driving on a larger boat, it’s the daily cleaning/system checks/tidying beds etc that most owners want assistance with.

Hey it's Navionics. Annual subscription to different parts of the world.