Nordhavn 63 In Depth Review with James Knight

hi i'm james knight your tech and yes we're here to walk through a nordhaven 63. i know you're all looking forward to to the walkthrough but we're here at 1200 us highway one and before we go to the 63 i just wanted to take you on a quick tour through the office um one of the things i want to talk to talk about on the boat is maintenance and maintenance records how important those are and uh coming through the office here where we're headquartered at allport cove i can show you how important these records are and why so come on in and i'll show you around yachtech's waiting area and we have folks lining up at the door to buy boats or have them serviced this is a waiting spot which is pretty nice i had this mural put up on the wall a couple years back well a few years ago now time flies pandana chris ella took that picture and we kind of changed it around a little bit put some palm trees and some birds in it and walter did this beautiful mural for us which is gorgeous and then over here well that's just to remind me of a trip that i took on a 62 to kodiak island a couple years back 6224 fishing trip absolutely stunning loving loving alaska and looking forward to getting back up there again hopefully soon so uh come on through and i'll show you the other mural that we have in here actually i had this done because this room seemed kind of small volta did this volta by the way does all of that wood touch up he does uh teak work and faux painting he's an amazing artist and uh if there's uh any leaks or black wood or wood damage we bring him in i used to do it myself but i don't have time for that anymore so volta does a far better job than i do um touches up the wood and most of the time you can't tell he's been there he did this mural at the back which again it's pandana you can tell that we like the 62. um sure made a difference to this room when you put it in we've got our conference table here when we bring folks in we're talking about buying boats or when all the staff are in we're having a staff meeting up here you'll probably recognize this photograph which was actually presented to me a couple of years back when we sold stephen carroll's seabird and uh they brought that to me after afterwards i think ken williams took that shot so i love that and then on into my office here which is a bit of a mess we've always got lots going on so sorry about the mess oh you probably recognize that one too it's all about the 62 in this office can you tell that of course is a famous picture of great pearl braun and tina's boat at the start of the north haven atlantic rally in 2004 and uh volta again painted that for me awesome 6207 up there at the top that was an original advertising piece that naught haven't had at a boat so that was called temenos at the time it's been through a bunch of different owners now um i think it's now still called splendid temenos originally a half model that i carved of endeavour for my dad and i gave it to him many years ago and then in 2008 when he passed away i got it back so and uh over here we've got files of all the boats that we've sold over the years um 2011 to 14 to 17 these are all the boats that we sold in 16 17 18 19 20. okay more importantly we're going to go talk about maintenance records here you can see the yacht tech records i challenge anybody in the world to show me their records of servicing nord harlems uh more than we have here in palm beach gardens florida so this is um and these are all the numerical order of the votes that we've worked on so we start here with the 35s going back through uh 40s we got chipmarsh in the middle here spoke to him the other day haven't seen and that's 14 number 18 going back through the 40s we got 40 uh 40 40 40 number 53 through 43.05 okay so those are there we got 4306 through 43 17 okay we've got 43 some 46's tom mackey uh we've got all kinds we've got hanuman that was just recently sold 46s and 47s we got a lot of that we've got callan anita bloomberg there that was an 8k that 46 that we just sold 46.82 um and then 47s 47s 47s we did a lot of 47s uh you check this out i mean these are all full of records of things that we've done on these boats right there's 50s clayton and deanna i've gone for good that's uh ghost rider 50 21 rick and michelle riordan okay um 50s and 55s and 55s we've done a lot of 55 somewhere in here we've probably got brian finn brian called me the other day and asked me from australia cairns australia said hey could you could you do a video a video of the 55 we will get there eventually brian for you and uh he said also that he still watches the videos that i did when i was in australia handing over the boat by the way he bought that boat from me sight unseen and uh we're still friends that's good 55s so yes we got a lot of 55s in here and here's a pretty good example of a history a history of a boat that we keep here in in this office so 55 number 25 which you all know now as mermaid monster the original owners are in here the second owners douglas and linda who are avid followers linda thank you very much she commented on that last video uh very enthusiastically so their boat was uh aries two uh which was again we keep the keep a record of the hull numbers because the names change so um and then cathexis she became cathexis 55 25 that's all the records of the work we did for them and then aries you know aries two that's in the wrong spot turned into eventually as you can see here mermaid monster okay we don't have enough room for it all in here so kathy actually moved got a couple new filing cabinets and this is a kathy my bookkeeper she's wonderful she keeps keeps me under control most of the time so we got 60s 62s 62s look at all these records of all these boats that we've worked on 63s 63s promisa which is now bravo we're going there but having these records is is very important and if you're buying an odd oven you might want to call us because we may have records of the boat that you're buying or better still come and sit down with us we'll go through the records we'll show you what's been done and then we can go we have a better idea of what goes through owning what you go through when you own one of these boats how much money you're going to spend in the boatyard to fix the things that need fixing i don't think there's anybody else in the world in the world that has as many records of nordhaven service that we do here in the palm beach gardens but if you think you do call me we're off to see the 63. hi i'm james knight matthew here behind the camera we're down in not so sunny south florida today i was excited to get down here for some sunshine and some nordhavens and uh we're going to be filming between the showers here unfortunately but time is limited because i'm on the move we uh we just walked down the dock pretty excited i had to walk past quite a few of my old customers boats and this amazing place we're full of trawlers nordhavens krogans celine's they're all here anyway the third in a series of videos that we're doing about nord harvest to start with and the third video is on this beautiful nordhaven 63 bravo it's a 2016 uh that is now with her second owner and this boat is actually for sale unlike the last one we did this boat and i'm pretty excited about it so we're going to step on board here uh and show you around the boat i said to matthew after the last video i said well the first video was an hour long the second video was two hours long i'm going to make this one three hours long and we'll see who can stick it out but matthew won't let me do it so we'll we'll probably keep it limited to an hour and after two hours so we came inside here just to talk about the boat a little bit first i'm gonna do a walk through a walk around the outside because uh we're in between showers here and i'm watching the radar there's probably rain coming here shortly so we'll do the outside do that real quick and then we'll come back in but it's windy out there also so we apologize up front for the sound out there matthew may have to play around with a little bit it's not the ideal day to do this but i'm heading to hawaii tomorrow morning early to go and do some repairs on a boat out there for a couple of days so we had to squeeze this winner squeeze this one in now and the weather is not perfect however the boat on the other hand is perfect i mean this boat i just had a quick walk around before uh before we started this and i know the bow because i sold it to the present owners a year or so ago a little bit longer closing in on two years um but this is as close to a 10 as you can probably get on a used vessel or a pre-owned vessel i mean she is stunning really so um we're going to head on outside and uh look at the swim step the arc cockpit the side decks the four deck we'll go around the outside up top there's some nice features up there that you won't see on some of the other boats and then we'll come back in and head to the engine room do the pilot house in the cabins so come on outside and we'll look at the swimsuit so everything on this video is positive about this boat because the owners are right next door here and they're listening to me and i can't say anything negative because they're gonna overhear me the swim step the swim step is fantastic look at how huge it is now there's no teak on the decks on this boat so no t decks to worry about the size of this swim step is well i don't know we're talking four four and a half feet something like that it's a massive swim set which is great if you want to put kayaks back here or pull up a dinghy to work on it also on some of the boats the swim step being so huge creates a a problem at the back of the boat some of the early ones there's nothing back under there and when you're in an anchorage and you're swinging out and the waves are coming in underneath they get under there and they bang and they really shake the whole boat this boat was built with a wave attenuator so under here there's a piece of fiberglass that drops down and there's nothing for the waves to get caught underneath so you don't get that banging noise from under the swim step which is really cool back here we've got a a glenn denning shore power cord retractor a couple of inlets there and but the main one here is the short cord retractor which is really nice to have and it's all hidden away obviously when when the top is down and protected from the elements we've got a dive ladder there as you can see the stem of that dive ladder is quite large because it has to flip over this large swim step but that's an ideal ladder if you're diving again back here is a great spot for diving you've got lots of room for your dive gear and your dive tanks and what have you and the ladder is built so that you can get up there with your fins on check out this uh this door here on this on the stainless hinge matthew i'll have to come around here and show you this hinge uh fabricated like everything on the nordhaven very sturdy and uh and beautifully polished token amount of teak on the back deck not too much not too little just a nice piece of teeth to keep to keep you occupied when the sun's shining and you've got nothing else to do okay we have the same these aren't quite as sturdy as on the 62. you know they're uh they're more like some a lot of the newer boats they're they're not built as tough as the 57 and the 62 but still fairly sturdy for a nordhov and of course we've still got the out opening doors and yes we all know that they are vulnerable when they open outwards like that especially on pilings if you look down the side of the boat you run in on a piling here it's going to catch that door and rip it off and yes david your door is in the shop being repaired right now you should have listened to me in the last video i know you're going to be screaming at me okay these cleats particularly on 47s i don't know about 63 so much but they stick out here not quite so bad but you do have to be careful they stick out a little bit and they'll knock you if you run into them on the 47s they stick out more and they catch your shorts everybody with with shorts have have ripped pockets from walking past oh awesome thing about the newer boats that nordhan's doing now at these window frames um i don't know if you can catch that matthew but these are frp they're five uh fiberglass window frames instead of metal so no more corrosion to worry about which is really nice now of course the doors are still uh diamond seaways and they do have corrosion around the stainless hinges so yeah it's not a brand new boat it's a 2016. you can see the corrosion already tiny little bit um i need to get on that but the boat's been cruising this summer it's down here now so maybe we'll get on that now that it's down here but generally speaking the doors are in really good shape and the glass the glass at the bottom of the door is really nice glass at the bottom of the door in the slum when we get back around there that you'll see it that's a nice addition and the scupper drains right the freeing ports down here these are huge spring ports nice and wide extra size so when you do have the deck of wash you can uh you can expect the water to flood out of there and free the the deck space of water fairly quickly diesel fills all right matthew and i were talking about diesel fills here this is one of the things that really bugs me a little bit it's windy here i don't know if you can hear this well but uh you know we're in a bit of a wind tunnel here so um i was actually on a celine the other day and a krogan a krogan 58 and uh and a celine 58 that we just sold and and the first thing i did on that celine 58 was put fuel in it within you know uh the owner said uh let's get some fuel there's a field truck in the marina within half an hour we have the fuel hose in the boat and it was amazing how quickly that boat took fuel that's selena not only that but i was impressed because it and matthew's going to show you a little video of it because we took it yesterday it had a little catch area underneath so if you do end up with a little spillage when you when you're full right it comes out and it drips into this catch area and not on not all over the deck i really like this little little catch area here now why don't some of the other manufacturers do things like that so invariably when you're filling up you get a little bit of fuel spillage once the foam comes up the pipe if you're not quick enough to turn it off you don't want that on your teak deck well on the saleen it doesn't go on the teak deck it drops right into this little trap here and then you can get it out with an oil pad what a great idea huh now why can't lordhaven do something like that anyway just a thought good handrails good hand holds everywhere and unlike the 62 this does not have a headbanger it's all free and open there's really nothing to bang your head on unless you're six foot seven david out there in california yes i'm going to measure the ceiling heights for you once we get inside um big guy yes you could probably own this boat absolutely superb uh beanie uh rip crafting a gorgeous thing it's probably a 45 50 000 dinghy under here very very nice maxwell windlass and the wide extra wide pulpit there with the little walkways on the side this is really nice lots of space up here to keep your feet away from the anchor when you're deploying or retrieving the anchor if you're up here so so that's nice this is uh i'm sure this was an option okay so this boat does not have the port side controls it does have the option to put it in there if you want it but it does have the starboard side controls right here so the option to put it in there is there but normally speaking you would have uh if you're going to have controls at the off station and controls on both port and starboard you would have a mavs micro commander electronic controls the problem is if you have uh most controls like this those are cable controls it's a bit more difficult to put extra controls in the port side and back off but that can be changed we've put mmc's in for people if they wanted them obviously we've got a bounce turn thruster start stop buttons horn and windlass control in here this is a great spot for looking out over the side of the boat looking down the side of the boat keeping the boat parallel to the dock when you're parking as i talked about in one of those last videos a great vantage point for driving the boat and pulling into a marina like this doors doors and windows all in superb shape of course again glass on the bottom which isn't always there very nice to have on this boat the recess for the man overboard uh life ring and up here this is a big thing so this seating area was changed on this boat instead of normally when you see a seating area as you saw on the 62 when we did the video on that boat it was turned around and the seating area is here and you're sitting looking at the back of the the pilot house which is ridiculous really why not put the seating area this way around and then you can sit back here and watch all the people on the dock down there having a group meeting a group meeting of nordharvan owners check them out hello hi guys and before we go inside um you know we've got lighting on the overhang here and speakers up there also uh for the people sitting here so you can have your cocktails or your dinner and you're in the shelter from behind the pile house you're not in the wind extra high railings also unlike some of the earlier boats we've got extra high railings so they they're right in here and you're very unlikely to be falling over these railings and a very nice uh canvas top on the spot now of course we don't have the flybridge but who needs a flybridge all right let's come on inside as you've figured out by now the 63 was on my list of favorites we're here we're doing the 63 because the 63 was the boat that took over really from the 62. you know the 62 kind of died it was uh it it's a wonderful boat but it it is dated you know it's one of the one of the first boats that north oven started building back in the early 90s i think um it you know i followed the 46 had the canoe stern as you saw in the video the engine room is very very difficult to get around in it is a fantastic boat performance wise i'm going to have matthew show you a video of that 62 running alongside this boat actually the 62 that we did is up in washington that's a different boat but we've got hull number 29 callan anita's boat um we did a video jay and i uh when when i first sold this boat we were headed up the east coast together and i could i was driving this boat we could not keep up with the 62. they kept they they were gonna they were gonna wait for us we were gonna cruise together but they couldn't they couldn't stick around and wait for us every day we took off together and i'd see them disappearing over the horizon you know and it got a little frustrating actually this is not a fast boat it's all relative a knot makes a big difference over the course of 24 hours right 24 hours if it's not faster they're 25 24 miles ahead of you at the end of the day and actually the reality was they were probably more than a knot faster than us and so you know we'd set off in the morning and within four or five hours they were gone over the horizon um i have some great video of that boat and this boat jay taking video on one direction myself taking video in the other direction uh of the two boats side by side and i think it was in the auburn mass sound up there somewhere and it's interesting to see the performance of these two boats and we're going to try and incorporate that video matthew is going to try and incorporate it into this video so that you can see how those boats these boats the 62 and 63 perform side by side at the same moment in the same sea you're going to find that quite interesting i get excited about a boat like this i mean how often when somebody calls and says i'm thinking about buying a boat like bravo you know how often can you say come on down you will not be disappointed you are absolutely 100 sure that anybody that's thinking about buying a 63 when they set foot on this boat they are going to be stunned and will not be disappointed so you can come from anywhere around the world and look at this boat and know that she's nice she's a pretty look at this cherry wood interior there are a couple of little splotches here and there but i would say that the wood interior is probably 98 99 perfect the headliners they are slightly different material to the normal magella they are actually uh and i know i know carl gets frustrated with these headliners when i touch them because it leaves marks on them and they drive them crazy so they have like a um a flow to them they're they're all they're like suede headliners and when you touch them you get fingerprints so yes it drives them crazy sorry carl back here in the back of the pile house we've got a small captain's cabin the cushion's not on here right now this was the original owners used this as a workout room so there was actually a spin bike in here and uh chrissy used to do her bicycle workout training in here so this folds down actually and then there's a mattress that drops on here to turn it into a bed this is the stack the dry stack comes up through here uh you can see the cladding on the exhaust right there all nice and clean like brand new not unexpected and then the thing that i really like about the 63 here is this uh head and it's not just a head which you can use obviously underway if you're on watch in the pilot house and you want to use the head it's right here so you can kind of be in the bathroom and you're only you know seconds from the helm position you've got a nice sink there and on top of that you've got a shower so i'm going to get out of the actually matthew can come around there and look but you've got a full-size full-size shower here with lots of headroom uh i got a client that called me the other day saw the videos dave in california he's six foot seven he said please let me know how much headroom i've got in these bows i know everybody wants more information and it's difficult to incorporate it all but i did go round and measure in this particular bow because the 55 the 60 and the 63 all came out of the same mold they they're they're they're similar in some respects they're they're very different in others headroom wise they're similar they've all got lots of standing headroom so they're fantastic matthew is tall i can tell looking over his head and some of these spots they are probably seven foot high in some places so that's awesome if you'll really talk again i love the fact that you got a shower up here because that means that this can be utilized as a captain's cabin and the person that's staying up here doesn't have to share a shower with somebody downstairs so uh three-tier railings up here also similar to the outside of the boat uh nicely uh nicely installed here and also some of the boats have this um this railing right here actually oh there it goes so i can hook it up so this is designed so that in a heavy sea obviously because it's a long way down those steps they're not as steep as the 62 steps which is nice you'll see in a second as you go down they're not rounded they don't have that you know uh sandpaper sanding your ankles as you go down but uh and not quite asleep but it's a long way down if you fell so um it's nice to have this little uh gate here to stop you falling down if if you're in a big seaway okay nice sized chart tables port starboard here and there is room for two uh studs if you wanted to this boat has one behind the wheel we did look into putting the second one in for these guys but uh eventually you know it was it got put to the wayside i don't know if it'll happen or not it will be a bit tricky it's going to be tight it would have to be a slimline instead but it would fit in there and of course some of the 63s do have twin stitch i'm not sure if they push the wheel off to start it a little bit this wheel is closer to the center line the center line is here we are off to start it slightly which is a bit odd but that's fine but the thing that i do like about this helm position is you've got this massive center line uh forward window which is which makes it look very modern and they've extracted that that center mullion at great expense the previous owner told me when we uh when we sold the boat for him it was a fairly expensive uh deletion so um yeah the layout of the instruments uh all there in front of you has got real nice big wide screens touch screens on here the one downside i always says i touched on outside in the wind is that we do have cable controls now some people love the idea of cable controls the morse controls there because there's really nothing to go wrong um there are they are a little bit clunky you know there's a bit of slop in there and it's not not ideal and if you want multiple stations if you want to station on port and starboard back aft as well the way to go is electronic controls because then you know you can have as many stations as you want basically with this with the cables you can't have multiple cables going to different places so that's the downside and then the wing engine over there has its own most controls as well we've got two autopilots right here we've got the fleur we've got our abt uh controller for the for the stabilizers and of course this boat has electric thrusters now people are always asking what do you think electric versus hydraulic hydraulic versus electric well a hydraulic package on one of these boats is about a hundred thousand dollars something like that um yeah you can run them all day long as long as everything's serviced and working properly and you and your coolant uh your hydraulic cooling is working properly you can you can lean on those thrusters and you can spin the boat round in circles and you don't have to worry about overheat the downside to electric thrusters is of course they can time out on you they will time out on you if you if you hit the thrusters and hold them and you're using a lot of electric thruster you've got a limited uh time scale to operate them so they are rated for three minutes three minutes doesn't sound like very much but actually if you lean if you lent on those rusters for three minutes that's a long time when you start you know counting it um the advantage of electric thrusters is they're actually a lot simpler than hydraulics there's not as much to go wrong as long as you keep your batteries in good shape and you don't start you know you don't neglect the fact that batteries don't last forever um you know electric thrusters are good um i was talking to the owner this morning and when you're waiting for a bridge in the intracoastal having to start the wing engine or you know get your hydraulics up and running to to get thrusters through a bridge or something that's kind of a pain it's not necessarily good for the wing engine either to sit there idling away at high rpms or running away at a high rpms with no load on it whereas with electric thrusters if you want thrusters in a pinch you don't have to worry about starting something up or energizing anything all you do is you hit the two buttons here boom they're on and you can run them i'm not going to run right now because i don't know if there's any divers around always a good idea to check for divers before you operate thrusters so um so in that regard i think electric thrusters are really quite good um if you want to adjust the lines or something when you're at the dock all you've got to do is hit the button and run the thruster you don't have to start start anything up other than that anyway that's enough about thrusters got our uh all of our controls along the top um and the distance actually just want to comment on this the distance here between the floor or the sole the pilot house sole and the top of the dash is a lot less than it is on the 65th the 60 and the 55. now there may be some different boats out there or it's starting to rain again there may be some different boats out there but um the owners of this boat nora is is uh vertically challenged and uh she's she's not tiny like blue but um she is she loves this boat because she doesn't have to stand up on the step on the stint on the 55 day home before this she had to climb up on here to look out of the window and see where she was going whereas with the 63 she can actually see over the top of the dash without having to have a stall or anything so the little things it doesn't seem like it would be a big deal but actually for a shorter person it is an issue on some of those boats 55s in particular okay another thing that i wanted to point out here are the cushions so you don't really think of it but whenever you get on a boat that's had cushions that have been redone when they get older you know i don't there's one lady in palm beach gardens that does cushions for us she's very expensive diane um she does a fabulous job and those cushions i have seen her cushions and they look like factory not having cushions but it's very rare to find somebody like diane that can replicate a nordhaven cushion these are factory cushions and they fit perfectly the yard out there does an absolutely amazing job of their uh soft furnishings they are perfect and these of course they've they're four years now this boat's been used quite a bit so they're a little squished here but you know not not not awkwardly they still look basically new the table here no dents and divots starburst or sunburst sunburst table um again thick solid uh a herky table and the visibility from here the visibility is fantastic on the starboard side you just walk over here and you can look out the back and see who's following you don't have to worry about that sorry that was the port side the other started i got that wrong in the last video too i do know my port from starboard but i'm doing a lot of walking around back and forth so this is the starboard side not so much you can't really see out of the starboard side you're looking into a mirror if you want to check it you've got to open the door or go into the head here but you've got plenty of plenty of visibility on the port side and then of course sitting here in the pilot house looking over the foredeck i love this perspective when you're running a boat i like sitting at the back of the boat i like the art pilot house boats because i really like to see my boat out in front of me and uh you know there are people that don't like having their dinghy in front of them but i personally like to see what's going on the downside is uh having enough pilot house boat that the davit is up there on the foredeck and davitz as i mentioned a little bit in the 57 video uh you know these newer davits this one is a steelhead actually has a plastic cowling on it but they are susceptible to corrosion and the problem with having a davit up on the four deck and you find this with the 76's uh perhaps the 86s and um you know all of these house boats 68s that davit gets covered in salt every time you go out that's not good the advantage of having a forward pilot house boat is the davits on the back so it's more protected it doesn't get salty every time you go out but you know you give and take on some of these things and i like having my four deck in front of me i like the motion of the boat from back here i prefer this uh kind of motion to to a boat with the with the pilot house forward um so everybody uh you know different folks different strokes i guess so this boat has a small electrical brake panel down here for electronics 12 volt and 24 volt it has a 12 volt section that's powered by a 24 to 12 dc converter and that powers things like the vhf radios and instrumentation anything that's 12 volt is on that section so um i think that's about it for now we've got we got a black uh area of headliners up and up here that helps prevent reflection on the forward windshield which is nice to have good size storage drawers huh remote thruster controller that's another thing that you don't get with the hydraulic thrusters dutch doors always nice to have dutch doors when you're running uh in warmer climates or if you're up in maine you can open that top door it's pretty nice to have okay and on down again this staircase same position as the 62 north haven but much less steep and it doesn't have the rounded bull nose with the the calf scraper on it gorgeous galley here on i was going to say premisa there bravo what we don't have though is a doorway or an opening window we do have a small hatch above here that hatch has an alcove in the side of the pilot house which sticks out on the port side so it might collect a little bit of air but perhaps not as much air flow as on some of the other boats particularly the 57 i showed you where where there's a side door and you can use it to get rid of your garbage i mean your vegetables this window here is a non-opening window and non-opening windows actually to me from a service perspective uh more desirable because you don't have the corrosion you don't have the moving past you're not going to get sea water or leakage or anything like that so it's one less thing to worry about as far as you know service and having to deal with it when it starts sticking or or getting getting salty and corroded check out these full-size refrigerators and freezers okay so this sucker wow that's that's stocked up okay so there we've got a sub-zero uh refrigerator and then down here we've got a freezer drawer and then down here we've got another freezer drawer an ice maker this is another freezer drawer this one's turned off actually that's how much space there is they don't need it all so that's a refrigerator drawer that's a freezer drawer down there and then we've got another refrigerator up there so all kinds of refrigeration storage there bravo has an electric oven and a propane cooktop and i really love having a propane cooktop because when you come into the net to an anchorage at the end of the day you can run the cooktop without having to run a generator and also you don't have to worry about on off loads of an electric cooktop with the with the generator so that's really nice and another thing that i really like about this galley is that they've already got in here a filtered water faucet so that's nice to have you've got your regular force here for hot cold for washing dishes but also pre-filtered water which is really nice here we've got a trash compactor which actually that's a large trash compactor takes up quite a lot of space but you know uh beautiful woodwork on the front of that same matching woodwork on the front of the dishwasher here ge dishwasher storage drawers little airplane aircraft catches there to stop things from rolling out when you're in a big sea i like those we don't need them here because we've got these big heavy duty catches on the refrigeration those are really nice to grab a hold of if you're in a seaway to open these doors you don't have to put one hand on the door and one hand on the catch up top you know it's all in one which is really nice because you can be hanging off we've got an insinkerator there with a air switch right there storage under the sinks um lots of storage up on top similar to the 55 storage there's windows on the back side so that you at night it's lighted through those frosted windows and then there's glass storage wine glass storage up here you've got these rails where you can store your glasses your wine glasses up there apparently they're not using those right now but that's nice to have and the lighting looks fantastic at night when you're in the salon shining through what else we got over here um oh a little uh spice rack storage microwave this uh plenty of storage in this galley i think it's time to move on check out this cherry woodwork it really is gorgeous looking around this boat it's tough to find any imperfections other than that suede headliners that we talked about up top they do have marks all over them i'm going to have to brush them for a car um but yes very nice no tv lift there is no tv lift on this boat the tv is up there uh not an ideal viewing angle where i'm sitting right now but uh i have actually been on this boat and watched a movie one night sitting over there and uh you know it works out real well tv lifts are an interesting uh device um i'm sure that you all know about them and i don't know if any of you saw my video on a tv lift on a 64 when i was up in washington but we i'm gonna go over that again because we've had a couple of customers now that have had accidents with tv lifts if you have a tv lift uh keep your kids away from it they are not safe and the tv lists most of the tv lists on the older nord heavens do not have any kind of uh resistance stop so if if there's excessive amperage they just keep on going so if you put your finger in there it's coming off okay oh the blinds check this out i like the idea of doing that in the morning in the bahamas it's really pretty cool in this boat in pertinent areas there are red lights one in particular here in the galley you can see that if matthew pan's up it's nice to be able to turn all the bright white lights off at night if you're coming down here to make a sandwich or get a cup of coffee or something you can run with the red lights of course there are always red lights down down below too it's courtesy lights at the floor level but it's kind of nice to have that red light there plus and the people that originally built this boat were sailors of course avid sailors still are sailors and um you know they uh they thought this thing out fairly thoroughly so there's a red light here also on the way down to the engine room this is the starboard side all got to point out these uh phantom screens those are pretty nice to have this one on here there's one on the aft door and they have them in the pilot house also so started side down towards the engine room area we'll head down there in a few minutes uh between that and the galley we've got this companionway here going forward past the electrical panel the main electrical panel where we've got control of our uh sure power coming in on the starboard side we've got generator control so this is our shore power we can select generators or shore power uh we've got our uh main ship service here uh we've got our inverter service 110 volt inverter service there and on the on the other side so the forward side of this panel we've got control of our 20kw generator the 9kw generator there's a ghost uh burglar alarm uh intruder system on this boat um very expensive system that was put in monitoring system that you can monitor with your phone or your ipad um if anything happens on the boat uh when you're not on board you'll know about it because it sends you a message outback converter controls smart gauge keep track of your battery power and then we've got our hvac here so our air conditioning heating air conditioning and a 24 volt dc panel up here we can monitor our battery voltages right here with this rotary switch bilge pump controls all here all right let's head on forward oh starboard side absolutely fantastic pantry look at that and nice and neatly organized these folks have obviously put some thought and effort into keeping track of what they've got on board and how long it's been there so they've got their little uh tubs that's really nice to have little tubs all full of their groceries and rice and beans and what have you okay master stateroom master state room queen birth uh walk around uh six foot seven i think six foot seven six four eight i think it would be just about you'll be brushing the ceiling there david okay and lots of lots of locker space hanging lockers cedar line smells like cedar um again locker space shelf space full-length mirror tv tv looking for the speakers there they are speaker speaker look at the thickness of that door just like you would expect on an old oven solid as a rock nothing lightweight about this boat now having said that sorry i knocked him over having said that i say nothing lightweight about this boat these boats these more modern boats are not built as heavily as the north having 57 and the not having 62. you know those touching boats they were built like tanks this one not so much still heavier than probably uh the krogans and the celines out there but uh not quite as heavy as the original nordhammers now we got all kinds of headroom in here man we've got uh over seven feet of headroom seven feet of headroom uh in here and also in the shower this uh boat a master shower there is equipped with a steam bath turn that sucker into a turkish bath that's really nice with a seat back in there so if you are taking a shower underway you can sit down before you fall down that's really nice take my heads single sink which is all you need on here and then of course uh you've got these oval over ports which are nice to have and you can raise those up and hook them up get some fresh air in here i'll leave those open right now madison cabinets tower bars and just enough space in here to make it comfortable all right moving on before we get out of here one more thing these you see the stripes on those windows they're not normally striped i'm going to show you here these are quite ingenious these little things you can move them back and forth right to let light in or to block block the window so people can't see it so there's actually no blinds on here that we just have these little things which quite work quite well now the later boats you'll see the early boats the early 55s they had small ports oval ports like the one in the in the head there the later boats have these big ports because some people worry about the fact you've got those big ports on the side of the boat big big glass ports there are uh cover uh covers dead lights that go over the top of those they screw in so if you are going off on a long ocean trip you can put stainless covers over them if you're worried about the glass but never heard of one breaking yet moving forward this would be my stateroom or at least it was last time i took a trip on the boat and you can close this door here and close this stateroom off completely again nice solid door cherry starboard side we've got a shower head sink not huge but generous enough an opening port moving and moving forward again we've got on the starboard side a little office area here there is a stall that goes in here it doesn't have the swing out stall that some of the boats have on earth like the bus and the early boats but uh there is a struggle that goes in here and down here is the access underneath my feet is the access to the forward hold or the garage as as some people call it forward stateroom walk around queen very comfortable very spacious your guests won't want to leave that could be a problem you don't want to make it too comfortable for them but anyway this is quite comfortable this is where the david post comes down some of the 63s the early 63s did have problems with leakage down the davit post and if there's been that problem you can usually see corrosion down here but this one's pretty clean and again large uh hanging lockers seed aligned love the smell of cedar okay we're going to go on down to the uh hold down here and show you where the water maker is and some of the gear down here okay come on down there's plenty of room so we're down here on bravo's uh forward end we're under the down in the bow this is the bath rusted tube behind me so you can get a picture of where we are on the boat um it's much more spacious down here than it was on the 62. i know a lot of a lot of you cringed as i crawled down in the in the forward hold on 62 where the batteries were in the bow thruster uh pretty uncomfortable down there actually but um you know it's all it's all there um when i uh started talking to matthew about doing the 63 next i was talking about doing a script and actually i've got in my phone some notes that i took things that i wanted to talk about and i said to matthew we're going to do a script on the 63 and he turned around to me and said what do you want to do that for he says just look at stuff and talk about it that's what you do so i'm looking at stuff and talking about it right now and i'll hit my script shortly and see if i missed anything like the horn on the 62. that was stupid i talked about it several times and never did it so i'm glad you pinned it to the to the comment section jay thank you very much anyway we're down here this awful lot to talk about i could probably spend half an hour down here talking about all the different bits and pieces the water maker is up here in the front end of the boat um the water maker is a complicated piece of equipment basically water makers all work the same way don't need to go into all into all the ins and outs of it but it's taking water from this from the ocean obviously filtering it through some filter cartridges and then uh pushing it through a membrane at 800 psi and the product water comes out the other end and the excessively salty brine water gets discharged over the side so i could probably do a long video on how water makers work but we're not going to go into that now this is the fresh flush for the water maker i heard carl flushing it earlier today it takes water out of the out of the tank and and pushes it through the water maker to displace all the salt water that's left behind after you've been using it and the idea of that is fresh water that's been sent through a chlorine filter or a carbon filter to take out any chlorine uh you know displaces all the salt water in the machine and that prevents bacterial growth in the water you want to do that every seven to ten days well two weeks says in the manual every seven days but the idea is that that fresh water won't grow bacteria like the salt water that's left behind bacteria is a killer on what to make of membranes for all you guys out there that are wondering about water makers once you have one you got to take care of it it's the one piece of equipment on these boats that you have to meticulously take care of every uh every week or two weeks you've got to fresh flush it the membranes are the critical part of the system and those membranes are rolled up pieces of fiberglass stuffed into a tube they're in the top of the machine up here and if you don't take care of them basically those membranes they've rolled up sheets of fiberglass with little teeny tiny holes in them those holes are so small that the salt won't get through but the fresh water does get through and the problem with that is if those holes get bigger you end up with more getting through them and eventually the salt can get through so and if the holes get clogged up i.e you know if you run the boat in a marina that has oil or oil in the water particularly near a fuel dock or something where people are putting soap on the water which is not allowed um that that oil will get into the membrane and clog up those little holes and then you don't get enough product water coming through so you've got to be really careful with watermaker membranes and the and the big thing is bacterial growth you've got to minimize that so that's where we why we fresh flush regularly anyway there's the water maker there's a hot water distribution distribution manifold up here that's where the hot water comes out of the water tank which is right in front of matthew there and then the cold water is through this uh manifold right here that's distributed throughout the boat to all the uh faucets and heads and what have you and you've got control here you can turn off all the different lines going to the different areas of the boat also up here we've got batteries for the bow thruster and the windlass up here and we've got a grey water this is a manual gray water pump right here so there's a handle for that somewhere here it's probably clipped up somewhere oh right down here so that drops in there if you want to manually pump out the grey water tank that wouldn't happen very very often because there's an electric pump right next to it there's a t24 right there sea land so the gray water tank on this boat is what did we say matthew 110 gallons i think 110 gallons great water tank and i think the black water is 120 gallons right he's nodding thank you um the black water manual pump again is here and the black water electric pump is right here so it's all very available if you need to work on it one of the things that i do find on these boats are 60s 55s and 63s because again they're all they have they came out of the same mold right so the there's a lot of similarities about them these pumps permeate smell and unfortunately and don't agree with the way this was done on water as they they have these pumps in line with the electric pumps so whenever you're pumping out the black water tank that is being pumped through this manual pump and and then discharged over the side of the boat in this case there's a discharge valve on this side over here you'll see it shortly but so when you turn that black water electric pump on it's sucking the uh the sewage out of the black water tank and then it puts it through the manual pump and then out over the side so you've always got something in these pumps and the lines the lines actually are pretty good this is a high quality sanitation hose that they've used on this boats and all the later boats have really good sanitation hose but these pumps do tend to permeate smell and when you open up the forward hold on on an older 55 particularly and a 60 or not so much on the 63s because they're all fairly new you sometimes get hit with a an odor and um it can be black water which of course is not particularly pleasant nobody wants black water odor on their boats it's confusing on these boats now that they've started to go to this trident i don't partic i don't use this trident hose on when we're doing sanitation hose jobs we use polyex which we uh there's different places that you can get it it's it is very expensive it's got a gray outer wall um it's shiny it's very easy to clean this is not i find that this stuff smells like rubber and because well it is it's a rubber hose and it smells rubbery and sometimes that can get confused with black water and sometimes it just kind of mixes with black water it's just in my opinion not a very pleasant smell when you come down here you know you're always like what is that is it rubber or is it black anyway i wouldn't use it i don't use it polyx is what we use so um looking forward here we've got a lot of different things we can talk about this is a anchor wash pump so this boat has a hydraulic system on it it does not have a full hydraulic system as we talked about it's got the electric thrusters this is the side power thruster motor right here but it does have star stabilization at rest and it does have a hydraulic anchor wash pump so that's what this is down here this is the hydraulic motor for it this is a pacer pump and it draws in water from this through hole over here so this is the intake for that pump and as you can see there's a valve right here so this valve is designed so that you and the normal position for it would be in the chain wash position there's a little indicator down here so right now it's in chain wash so we'd be pulling water from here and through the pump and then from the pump it goes up and over to the top and out of the bow to wash the chain as the anchor's coming up which is a really nice feature that you don't get if you don't have a hydraulic boat however the owner of this boat he wanted electric thrusters because we like electric thrusters for the reasons i mentioned earlier but he did want the hydraulic anchor wash which is a really nice function especially if you do a lot of cruising up in muddy places like the chesapeake bay and he did a lot of cruising up there kept the boat up in annapolis and he knew that pulling the chain and anchor up in the chesapeake bay you want a hydraulic anchor wash so you've got it this handle allows you to pick up not from the through hole but from the bilge so if you're on a long trip and you're worried about hitting something and taking on water in the front of the boat you leave this handle in the other position i'm not going to move it right now but that creates a situation where this pump is no longer an anchor wash pump but it's a bilge pump so it draws from this lockable from behind where matthew's sitting and if you were to take on water up front here you hit the button in the pilot house turns this pump on and it turns this into a massive damage control pump it's taking huge quantities of water out of the bilge and pushing it out of the ankle pipe it's actually down there's a lot of lead up here um that was put into probably even the you know to to trim the boat but the anchor washer uh or the bilge pump pickup is down in here all right so what else have we got up in here we've got two mark five headhunter pumps um okay up in the top there it's actually not that difficult to get to i can get up here fairly easily i can stand up in here and if i wanted to work on these pumps i was working on ammonite the other night um over actually late uh the other night doing fresh water pumps and that pump oh talk about a pain in the butt to get to in fact it was so difficult to get to that i changed out his uh backup pump instead i didn't do the mark five i'll have to go back and do it later but uh you can get to these very easily the downside i would not recommend somebody put two mach five pumps in a boat and have them side by side like this they've done it you got them one of the things i would recommend if you do have two mark five pumps mounted side by side is switch them regularly and use one pump one week and one pump the next week and then vice versa just keep switching back and forth and use them with regularity because the problem with the mark v headhunter is if you don't use it it sits there and it's got a stainless steel shaft inside and the shaft sticks to the seal so if you sit there for a year without using the backup pump and then all of a sudden you need it you switch over it won't turn and the seal and the shaft stick together and then you get pitting on the shaft and eventually the pump is useless if you're lucky enough to get to it before the shaft starts corroding there's a plug in the back of this pump you can take the plug out with a flathead screwdriver and you can turn the shaft inside so you'll you'll know if it's stuck because it just sits there and hums and it tries to go and then the the alarm light will come on so you take the plug out of the back and oh matthew's light just went out um take the plug out of the back put a flathead screwdriver in there break the shaft free of the seal and if you're lucky enough the seal will stay in place and you'll have rescued the thing if you're not then it's a thousand plus dollars for a new pump okay so there's a accumulator tank for the water system up here that's what the scrotco is up here we've got this is the switch to switch from main pump to backup pump and again uh switch back and forth regularly the anchor locker drain so this is a self-draining chain locker anchor locker that drains right here water maker outlet that's where the brine water discharges from the water maker this filter here is the chlorine or the the carbon filter that takes the chlorine out of the water maker fresh flush water chlorine is a killer for the membrane what chlorine will do is eat away those holes in the membrane and make them bigger once they get bigger you start getting more and more stuff through eventually the salt starts coming through and and then you you know your membranes need replacing up here we've got an oily water separator um this is a centrifugal separator that hopefully takes if there's any oil in the water it'll take it out a pre-filled filter for the water maker we've got the holding tank discharge valve over there and this would be the water maker inlet now not an ideal place for having a water maker inlet because we have found over the years that having a water maker inlet up here can be a problematic because if you're in big seas and the bow of the boat's coming out of the water you're going to suck air into the water maker every time the bow comes out of the water so some of the boats have an intake further after you don't have that happening if you're in big seas on that on this boat you probably don't want to run the water maker okay we've got our water uh okay so these are the manifolds for our water pumps from to and from the pumps and coming back to the pressure tank that's the accumulator tank up forward and then from there it would go back to the manifold that i showed you earlier where the water the fresh water is being distributed throughout the boat okay i think that probably concludes our tour of this area ready before we go one of the things that i do like to look at in here when when i'm down here is just get in here with us there's a coupling down in here on the bow thruster i always like to just put my thumb in there and make sure that it turns freely which i can do that's turning the motor in the blades that should be very easy to turn and if it isn't something's going on so i always like to do that when i'm down here because it doesn't take more than a second and i also look in there for any signs of corrosion or oil uh just to let me know if there's been any leakage okay we're moving on while i'm on my way out to the forward hole here on the on the 63 i just want to point out we do have a really nice led lights down there and there's a timer down there so you turn the lights on it's on a timer so you can't really forget to turn it off it'll just turn them so they'll turn themselves off there's also a blower down here that you can turn on this is the auto swap stop switch for the for the bow thruster so if you if you do have a problem with it and you or you want to make sure nobody turns it on and there's a diver down there push that red switch down there's also a fuse located inside that auto stop switch and then this one here is for the windlass so again if you want to turn the windlass off you just push that red button that disconnects the windows or push it in that's a breaker as well so that's for the maxwell windlass all right okay and heading on down the starboard side here so starboard side of the companionway about the middle of the boat we're running down here to the um i call it the captain's cabin it's not really a captain's cabin because the captain's cabin cabin's upstairs but when i last did a trip on this boat i really enjoyed being down here actually because you're right in the lowest part of the boat it's very spacious as compared to a 60 or a 55 lower deck if any of you ever been on a 55 and yes we will do a 55 for your brian finn um in here we've got uh on the 55 and the 60 you've got a chest freezer and a little workbench area and you've got a washer and dryer on the port start the side here on 63 we've got a lot more space and so we've got a washer and we've got a dryer both of those look like brand new like everything else on this book and then over here we've got another refrigerator which honestly i think it's hardly been used it may have been toned it's still dusty um still smells like brand new so that's a actually i don't know if that's a fridge or a freezer huh i'm gonna have to check i think it might be a freezer under here we have your little pipe cut which you know a lot of the boats have these the 47s have them um some of the 55s have them this uh comes out unrolls slots into here and pops into here and that becomes actually we could do it i guess and show you guys how that works how's that actually that wouldn't be a bad place to sleep i might have to try that next time we're out for a ride anyway so that's your hammock and then up here is your your birth that i used when i was on a trip because down here you hardly you hardly have any motion i mean you're right in the middle of the boat and you do have the engine room noise a little bit because you've got the engine running door right there so you know it's a little louder down here than it is in the other parts of the boat but um you're away from it all and uh and i don't think that's a handrail i think that's actually for hanging clothes when you pull them out of the dryer but more storage in here but there's storage everywhere on this boat and then uh you've got this little sink area a little work uh you know wash your hands when you come out of the engine room and then of course what you've been waiting for and i like having this window that's a really decent sized window in the door there that you can actually look and see what's going on before you open the door and you open the door head in here and first thing you do is smell see what's going on in here especially when you're doing your engine room checks are there any belts slipping is there anything that doesn't smell quite right and you got your hearing protection on because it is loud in here so when i so when i first came in here earlier on with matthew first thing we did was come down here to see how it looks and what did you say matthew is this new is this new and it sure looks like new i mean it is uh fantastic so we've got a 60 90 john deere here 325 horsepower main engine with all kinds of room around it i mean look at this so it's a little bit different to the old 62. chasing me around i was just showing you how easy it is to get around this engine look at that yeah i'm small i know but lots of head room easy to get to everything i mean uh fuel filters oil filter changes are super easy um coolant tank checks we've got a record dual recoil filter here uh checking the sight gauges for fuel levels by the way the boat carries 2 359 gallons of fuel 2359. right i've got that right and over here so it has a little day tank now the last two videos that we did at the 62 and the 57 i told you about the fuel system and i told you how i like the fuel system on those boats the fuel system on this boat like a lot of the more modern what happens isn't quite the same they have day tanks this has a little day tank here and so what i do like as compared to some of the other boats like the celine we'll talk about the saline fuel system later on in another video i have been asked to do a celine we're going to work through the north haven fleet first but there's a lot of things that i like about the celine actually having got to know them a little bit now so we'll go into that but the fuel system is not one of them the fuel system on the nord oven however i really do like and not as much on this boat as it do on the 57 and the 60 but the day tank is gravity feed gravity feed i think is really important so the main tanks all gravity feed into the base of this tank so this would be the off port engine room port tank this is the forward port tank which is turned off right now and on the starboard side of this tank you've got the same configuration you have to open this back a little lock they're both turned off right now so you've got forward and engine room starboard on this side gravity feeding in there so right now we're running off of engine room port and then the gravity feeds so the main engine is here uh to the 20kw generator here 9kw generator and then to the transport manifold to if you want to draw fuel out of here the transfer manifold on this boat i think is under here yep right in here so this is the fuel transfer manifold if you want to move fuel around the boat so you want to draw it from one tank and put it in another tank or if you want to polish the fuel i take it out of one tank and put it in the same tank you do have the flexibility to do that through that fuel transfer manifold and you can put the fuel back in you can put it back in through the return manifold that comes back in here to the supply tank if you want to polish this fuel you can draw it out of here or you can polish the fuel in any one of the other tanks the the scale here on the top of this tank this is a measured box section here so if you want to do a fuel run that's a really neat idea no it happens put it on almost all of their later boats now um a little sight gauge here with a graduated uh display on how much fuel so you can actually do a measured run and you can uh close off your um gravity feed valve once you've got the pump the fuel up into here so you you know where you are at the start of the measured run and uh and then you can you can gauge exactly how much fuel you've used in in a one mile run or a 10 minute run or whatever you can calculate how much fuel you're using which is really nice to do oh let's talk about ventilation uh we talked about a little bit on the on the other boats and i said in the last video that it sucked on the 62 and that's because it comes the air is drawn in from one side and it gets sucked right back out the other side which is kind of stupid but vastly improved on the 63. big fans you can see there's one up here uh and there's one over there and i was talking to the owner about engine room average engine room temperatures on this boat he had a 55 before and he said well improved on this boat big fans they are controllable so up here you've got a controller you can actually speed the fan up or slow it down um much much better much cooler running temperatures you know i don't think we'd be making any modifications we've made more modifications to a lot of the earlier boats on the uh interim ventilation but on the 63s i'm not sure that it's necessary because i think not having did a very good job so access to the starboard stabilizer in here oversized stabilizers on this boat that has 300 these are monster stabilizers for the 63. the 55s and the 60s have 250s so these are 300s i think i mentioned before this has the star system stabilization at rest that runs off of the generator pto the 20kw generator so not bad access right here just if you want to get in there and take a look and make sure everything's running fine if you want to get in and service it then you can get in here take the tool box off the top take a hatch out the top and you can reach down uh and get to it uh same on the other side let me squeeze by you here great access to the stabilizer if you take the paper towels out of the way so um stabilizer in there what else do we have we've got the hydraulic cooling pump we've had issues with hydraulic cooling pumps in the past we're starting to use prime time pumps right now because they are much less problematic than the old jab scope pumps so i'm happy to report that this has a prime time pump don't usually have issues with those hydraulic heat exchanger back there reasonably good access to be able to get in here and take the cap off change the zinc um there's a little spinny wheel there that'll tell you if you want to come down here and check to make sure you've got water moving through there that wheel spins when things are operating um you got a shutoff on your engine uh port tank here this i'm sure there's one on the starboard side there for the other side and then this is auto center locking as you'd expect for a 2016 not having auto center locking as opposed to having to put manual pins in so that's cool these are the two pickups so we got pickups here for the uh hydraulic pumps this is the hydraulic tank hydraulic reservoir for the system uh pick up for the main engine pump and pick up for the uh pto for the for the generator also actually that might be vice versa i had to double check myself there i wasn't sure if i was right but yes this goes to the main engine hydraulic pump this goes to the generator pto hydraulic pump and i do see that there's a little bit of a leak in that plug under there which is kind of a pain it's probably very small because i don't see any weepage on the box underneath of it but i do see a little drip on that folks so that needs to get fixed there's always something to fix on any boat even if it looks like new another controller that's for this fan down here um nice big alcove as you can see the owner's got stuff for parts filters and what have you stored in there we're all tied in nicely um hydraulic gauges have been removed we talked about high hydraulic gauge failures we just had a hydraulic gauge failure on a on a big 76 and he pumped all his fluid into the build oops that won't happen on here that's the test gauge these are the test ports so that's already been taken care of this is the accumulator for the star system and uh over here we've got this is not like working on an odd oven 62 is it there's all kinds of room i like it we can get to the belts we can get to the wing engine we can get to the coolant reservoirs we can get to the fuel filters i love it and these engine mounts they all look like brand new that's good so this is a 4045 100 horsepower wing engine it does not have a pto on it for hydraulics obviously it doesn't need it the pto is on the generator for the star and of course because it's got electric thrusters it doesn't need a pto off the wing engine so this is solely for backup propulsion um the 20kw generator here the big generator easy access it's got the new style sound shield with one clip really nice and easy to take off this generator does not get a whole lot of use because with two people on this boat the way these folks have been cruising it you know the small generator probably does most of the work this is a big generator if you wanted to run all your air conditioners it's here for that um looks like new as you'd expect very slight corrosion down on the bottom edge right there that could do a little bit of a touch-up but other than that looks good um one of the things that you'll find with a dry stack is this there is moisture comes down the stack you know this is very difficult to keep all the rain water out we've had a lot of rain here this morning and you can see there's a little bit of moisture here i'm sure that's from all the driving rain that we had this morning so that's one of the things that you get with a dry stack you can't keep every little bit of water out of the boat under there you've got bilge pumps and um fairly shallow builds but this is a bilge pump strainer right there so if there is any debris in the building it gets caught in there before it goes into the bulge pump so when i'm looking at boat condition one of the first things i do is always look in the bilge in the engine room and so i'm happy to report that when you pull this floorboard up you can see that this does actually have a dripless seal in there which i'm not a huge fan of the driplet seal but in this case it certainly all looks very nice and clean it's doing its job the the bands the the hose clamps look like they're in good condition there's very little rust on there it's an aqua mat 22 shaft um i haven't put a magnet on it but uh it says in the manual that is acromet 22 so let's uh let's assume that it is and um i do like to see that the strainers in this case the 20kw strainer and this would probably be the 9kw strainer right there sure if it's got a label on it yes it does 9kw generator right there they're at down here in the bilge area so unlike the early nord ovens where they put them up on top and when you open them up and pulled the basket out you would invariably get a mess all over the floor in this boat if you pull the basket out and get a little bit of dribble it's in the bilge you can wash it down wash it away and uh and then just clean the strainer out and what have you you may have to clean the bilge out but um i like having the strainers right under here because it saved you making a mess in other places where you wouldn't particularly want to the other thing that i really like about the way this boat set out right now is that carl's got the owner has has cleaned out under the engines and there's nice fresh oil pads everywhere so it's always good to see under the engines fresh oil pads there's a couple of little oil stains on so i don't know how long they've been under there but it is nice when you've got fresh oil pads under everything you can always see when you come in whether you've got an oil leak whether there's an oil drip and more importantly if you do have an old drip you can see where it is because if it's an old pad and it's got and it's soaked in oil you get an oil drip you you have no idea but if it's a fresh new pad when you come in from a trip let's say it's a two three or four five day trip you can see instantly where those oil drips are and it'll lead you to the source and then you can fix it more easily right not much going on in the alcove back there other than this boat does have a wing engine tank a little 10 gallon fuel tank for the wing engine so it has a completely separate fuel supply um unlike the 62 and the 57 those boats have uh the wing engine fuel supply right off of those main distribution manifolds so that's kind of a nice thing about this boat and some of the small boats like the northern 40 and the 47 those boats all have a separate tank for the wing engine also so it's a nice feature another couple of outcomes there's storage for oil he's got his oil stored back there on the starboard side and on the port side here you can see we've got a whole load of oil and oil cans and five gallon drums and what have you back there plenty of storage for that somebody's put in a nice little starboard retainer there to stop things falling out all very clean and nice all right and moving back to the lads okay so agreed there's not a huge amount of headroom in here you're not going to be standing up obviously nobody's going to be standing in here but you know it's not it's a great area i mean unlike the 55 of course the uh the 60 and the 63 have a huge amount of space back here it's not like the 62 that curves in at the back end with the canoe stern that's very very limited space back there on the 62. this boat having almost a full beam back here it doesn't curve in very much at the stern has a massive storage area and uh you know you can get around so we've got a little 9kw generator in the middle um easy access from either side of the generator well in this case because it's mounted or thought ships uh you know the front side of the generator is yeah and again nice sound shield one clip easy off so you can look in that again this thing a little bit of cleaning needed but you know in in five minutes i'd have this thing looking like brand new um so this this has one thousand four oh hang on a second no three thousand two hundred and six hours as of uh a couple of months ago that's the one that doesn't work so yes quite easy access there for the 9kw we've got our batteries our house batteries stern thruster batteries engine start batteries and house batteries all back here in the lazarette and this look at the wiring on this as you'd expect from any nordhowen um the wiring and the layout the organization and the labeling this is where nordhaven have vastly improved over the years super impressed with what they've done with their labeling you can see what everything is you can see what the connections are so it takes all the guess work out of it if i'm coming onto an older nordham and i'm trying to troubleshoot the first thing you've got to do is start figuring out which which cable does what i'm not saying that i would be 100 sure that the labels are accurate but i think you can it's it's a good starting point so um you know i i really like that um the way that they put all the grommets in where the wires come through the floor look at these grommets you know there's a lot about manufacturers that just don't do things like that now no i haven't never used to and that's something that um i wanted to talk a little bit about the difference now between the 62s uh the 57s and these newer boats like this both the 63 the 60s um you know in years gone by uh there wasn't a there wasn't as much thought put into the running of the cables the running of the wires and the running of the hydraulic lines and one of the things that we run into with the older boats like the 62 even the 62 we were on in the last video is that the hydraulic lines let's take just the hydraulic lines they run there's a hydraulic line on a hydraulic boat that runs all the way through from the engine room back uh sorry forward up to the bow thruster that hydraulic line runs through several different bulkheads on its way from after forward and when they built the boats they really didn't think about the longevity and the fact that hydraulic lines move around so whenever you're in a pile house and you operate a bow thruster or a windlass you get a jolt as the pressure increases as you go for the bow thruster you pop that pressure up to 3000 psi and what happens is that hydraulic line moves around it jolts slightly every time you put pressure on it and over the years because on the 62s and the 57s they never really put any grommets in the bulkheads they weren't secure they just cut a hole in the bulkhead and ran those hydraulic lines through them they chafe a little bit on perhaps the ragged fiberglass in there it's very very difficult to see what's happening unless you've got a borescope or something to get in there and look because they built the boats around this stuff and there isn't good access to where the penetrations are through the bulkheads so those hoses they work back and forth in the bulkhead and the ragged fiberglass heats away eventually at the rubber jacket on the hose and it's not that the hose actually gets worn away to the point where where it fails what happens is that the fiberglass the jagged fiberglass eats away at the rubber jacket on the hose exposing the wire this wire reinforcements on these hoses and on a pressure hose it would be a double wall hose so that's two layers of wire that hold that uh give it the the pressure rating that it has for 7000 psi or something or more and um but once that rubber is worn away then the steel wire inside is exposed and on an older boat when you've got um you know some some salt water some water in the build uh in different places that starts to rust the steel and once the steel starts rusting it gets weak and eventually it pops the hose and we've had that happen a number of times so if you're looking at an older boat like a 62 or a 57 you've really got to ask that question did that main pressure hose running from the engine room to the bow has that ever been replaced because it's going to fail it's almost inevitable on these boats they really put a lot more thought into it so they where the hoses go through the bulkheads in a lot of cases you can see that they've got grommets in there the hose is secured better um going back to the 62 by the way trying to change that hose out is a nightmare because you've done it haven't you matthew i think uh they they cable tie those hoses in place and then they build the boat around and trying to get the old hose out with the cable ties around it is a complete nightmare so sometimes we have to leave the hose in place and then run a new hose through next to it um yes not easy matthew is nodding so um so not something i think that you're going to have to worry about so much on a boat like this very well done grommeted uh nice runs wires and hydraulics okay looking back here we've got air conditioners back in the back of this uh lazarette that uh they look like brand new in fact i think and i'll take the camera from you for a second so um i don't know if i could squeeze back in there but yeah you can see the air conditioners back there in the corner and of course this is the uh the glendoning uh tub there where the cable comes in and then we've got the generator star batteries over here here we've got the the output breaker for the generator on this side and then let's crawl around the other so there's a lot going on back here in the lazarette and of course wherever there's a lot going on with electrical uh distribution and batteries and generators and things like that you have to have a fire suppression system where you don't have to but not oven thinks about these things and these both have fire suppression systems in these areas so uh automatic fire suppression this if this goes off um it's gonna shut things off in the pilot house you're gonna get an alarm this is a pressure switch in the top of the bottle i think i talked about this in one of the other videos when the fire suppressant is released it shuts down you know it shuts down all the equipment sets an alarm off in the pilot house via this pressure switch on the top of the bottle okay i'm going to crawl around the back here and we're going to look at the steering gear real quick so obviously you can't have standing headroom everywhere you can't have standing headroom everywhere and back here uh we're under the aft deck so right above matthew's head actually is a is a hat where we could climb in and out to the to the cockpit but we can't expect to have a huge amount of spacing but we do have really good access so when we're doing our engine room checks we can actually crawl all the way back here and have a look at our steering gear make sure everything looks good really good access to our steering rounds we can check to make sure we don't have any oil leaks which obviously we don't on this it's all fairly new and clean and organized the top bearing on the reverse stock looks like it's almost new this is quite a nice little feature right here this is a catch tray so above this is on is a uh a removable plate in the deck and they are renowned for leaking and when they leak and drip on the bearing it rusts the bearing away so this one just in case it gets a drip they even put a little cash tray in here how thoughtful was the hat really nice so if you want to get in there and put the emergency tiller in to steer the boat then you just pull this out of the way you have to pull that hose out pull it out of the way and then you can drop your drop your emergency utility which by the way is this up here conveniently located right here um looking around at all the things that uh i like about this boat and uh and what nord haven't done here on these steering ramps and never used to think about this but now we've got bleed nipples right here on both of these we've got t's steering lines coming hydraulic lines coming in we've got t's with bleed valves so you can easily put hoses on these bleed valves go down into a bucket and bleed the air out of the steering system that's really nice um uh we talked about this this is the glendale bucket so when the shore power cable comes in uh is retracted the motors for that are up in the top but then it collects and winds itself up in this pin right here and then over the top of it nicely accessible are all the breakers for the shore power inlets so you don't have to go hunting for them if there's a problem and you trip a breaker they're all right here super easy to find even if you didn't you know anybody that's looking for a breaker is immediately gonna come down in here and they're right there so not hard to find these videos are fun to do um but i'll tell you even though i'm looking around for all the the good things that these boats have to offer i always see things that aren't quite right and i'm just i'm just noticing here back here this this is a i was going to talk about this up in the bow actually this is a header tank for the gear oil in the thruster in this case the stern thruster of course stone thrusters right here and that should have a little bit more oil in it obviously the oil has gone somewhere and i'm going to talk to carl in a minute the owner of the boat about this oil level because it should be up here somewhere now i do see a little bit of oil hanging on the bottom so it's possible that you know it's cracked or it's been leaking out of the hose or something but that definitely is worth looking into that oil level should not be down and when you see that it's down like that you've got to find out where did it go i don't see it underneath and i don't see any i don't see any issues at the base where the coupling is but the idea of course of having that header tank on the gearbox is that if you do have a seal leak in the lower unit on the thruster the the idea is that the weight of the oil will keep we'll it'll drop and the oil will come out instead of the sea water coming in but we will investigate the steering manifolds are back there on the back i think we talked about those on the 62 and the 57 the bypass valve is up there between the two you can see where it says autopilot they're all nicely labeled if you do want to operate the emergency tiller you've got to open up that bypass valve up there in the top and then this hose here we talked uh i think i don't know if we talked about we probably didn't talk about a horseshoe so one of the things on the newer bose is when they put a stern thruster in and it's on a horseshoe shaped tube they tend to collect air when there's been a diver on the boat either a diver or when the boat's been hauled out in the boat yard so before you operate the thruster you got to open this valve up there's no air in there right now because there's been no diver on the boat but if a diver was to go down there and clean the blades all of his exhaling bubbles would get caught in that tube and you have to open this valve to let the tube uh let all the air out of the tube before you operate the thruster all right we've got that we talked about that 162 i see a little bit of corrosion back there in the corner i'm going to have to talk to him about that as well uh a slight corrosion on on one of the manifolds back there that needs to be dealt with asap yeah so what not having does um as a lot of these manufacturers do like krogan and saline they make beautiful stainless steel work and oftentimes they'll use those uh skills that they have to make stainless steel uh manifolds and what have you to make stainless steel manifolds for a uh steering systems like this which is fine as long as it's tubular they've done box section before that doesn't work real well by the way when you're using high pressure and steering manifolds they come apart so that they've been there done that but they also do make manifolds for their air conditioning system that's a bad idea too chinese stainless steel manifolds for air conditioning they don't last very long and that's what i'm seeing back in this corner over there so bad idea that needs to come out any metal manifolds in air conditioning systems especially boats that are in south florida or in the tropics where they're running air conditioning a lot those manifolds fail rather quickly also always look out for 90 degree elbows on air conditioning pumps right there this one needs to be changed out the boat has been cruising all summer um and and we have not been on the boat but now that it's back in south florida i'm going to make a little list there's very little to do on this boat but these are a couple of things that do it looks uglier than it is but that elbow has to be changed out immediately so um right but other than that you know when you when you look at the actual air conditioners you can tell they haven't been used a huge amount i mean these things look like brand new ones so that's really nice i'm impressed and we got blowers back here as well because this is a close-in area and when you're running the generator you do create quite a lot of heat back here so we've got blowers to extract some of that heat from the uh from the lazarette area okay i think we're probably good back here let's head back on up and uh we'll decompress okay i'm on my way out of the interim and i found a magnet so i'm gonna go check the show yep it's aquamat 22 it's not sticking it does stick it's a good magnet and it doesn't stick to the shaft so that's a quick easy way to tell what the iron content of the shaft is and if it's acromet 22 or 17. if it was a 17 shaft it would stick oh ha aluminum aluminum lightweight interesting i was just on my way my way out of the engine room and we're talking about you know things that we may have missed there's always lots to talk about i'm just everywhere i stand on the boat i look at something i think hey we could talk about that we can talk about this you know and thought about this if you want to cut the air off in this in this area it's got this little uh push in shut off so you can shut that vent off for the air conditioning it's an interesting way of doing it um see that on some of the other node heavens in different places too but more importantly fire suppression so i just noticed this while i was standing there it's always good to know where these are this is the uh the handle that sets off the fire bottle in the engine room and there'll be one for the lazarette too so it's good to know where they are and it's also very good to let people on the boat that are cruising with you where know where they are obviously think about the life jackets and the safety equipment and the fire extinguishers but always go around and and make a note to people that you know if there's a problem and you call to have the fire bottle uh set off you want to know where these handles are they're not always in obvious locations on every lord heaven like this this is in a fairly good location right by the engine room door so it's not difficult to find however in an emergency you might be hunting for it so that leads me to talk a little bit about fire suppression systems on these boats almost all of these smaller night ovens have a passive fire suppression system so there's a bottle in the engine room and there's a bottle in the lazaret we talked about the bottle when we were back there it's a really good idea when you're cruising to have the door from the engine room to the lazarette closed the bottle back there covers the lads the bottle in the end room covers that if there is a fire you don't want that fire spreading from the lazarette to the engine room we had a situation years ago on a 47 hover where the door was open there was a fire in the engine room and it did a huge amount of damage to the lazarette as well if the door had been closed it would have been a different story now and that leads me into talking about fire suppression a little bit so these fire suppression systems like i said a passive which means that there is nothing to sense a fire and set it off if there was a fire in the engine room there's two ways of the bottle going off either the engine room gets hot enough that the oil in the glass at the top of the bottle breaks the glass and the fire suppressant comes out and in order for that to happen it has to be very hot in that engine room i can't tell you how many degrees but it's hot enough that the engine room is destroyed and the reason i know that is because on that 47 i did the insurance claim on that boat i worked very closely with the owner i went and picked the boat up after the fire and investigated thoroughly along the way and found out a lot of stuff that i didn't know before about fire suppression systems and the owner actually set the bottle off himself by way of this little handle down here now he knew that there was a fire in the engine room you know you can always think about how things happen after the fact it was a little bit slow to pull that handle you know people think that the bottle is going to go off of itself it takes a lot of heat for that bottle to go off on its own and and as proven by that situation uh the bottle was set off by the owner pulling the cord and that breaks the glass in the top of the bottle the fire suppressant is released at that point and when the fire suppressant releases the pressure switch activates that shuts the engines and the blowers off the blowers get turned off so that they don't pull the fire suppressant out of the engine room because once you've let the bottle off you want all that fire suppressor to stay in the engine room you don't want the engine or the generators running because they'll ingest that fire suppressant by sucking in a huge amount of air you don't want that to to incorporate fire suppressants so they shut down the blowers shut off and hopefully the fire suppressant stays in there long enough to put the fire out well in that situation it did it put the fire out unfortunately the fire had already done a lot of damage to the engine room um and had burned through some of the hoses the intake hoses the rubber hoses down there that were obviously letting water in at that point so now the boat's sinking the owner was uh was uh you know lucky enough uh that he managed to get back in the engine room it was flooded uh no light obviously a black hole down there some people may say he was stupid for going back in the coast guard got him back to the boat because they had taken him off and he climbed down in there and found the through holes that were letting water in shut the through holes off and save the boat a month or two later he was starting to wonder if he would have wouldn't have been better to let the boat go but anyway um he did save the boat we went and brought the boat down the intracoastal and i got the job with my guys of repairing that boat um it took us about 16 weeks i think and cost about 270 somewhat thousand dollars to get that boat looking like it did after we were finished and actually i think the bow probably looked better when we were finished than it did when it was new several years later we sold that 47 and the survey i didn't tell him about the fire the buyers knew but the survey didn't know about it until after the survey and i brought it up and i said so did you find any uh evidence of a fire and the surveyor said no he said is this the boat that you repaired so i felt like i've done a pretty good job with my guys of of making that boat look awesome but it just uh is uh something to remember the fire suppression uh system it will go off when it gets hot enough but at that point you know all bets are off the engine room's destroyed it could have melted through in that instance had melted through a raycor filter and was depositing diesel into the fire and i'm not going to go into it any more than that if you want more information on what caused the fire and what have you we can probably talk about that when you come to my office and we sit down and chat if you're interested but uh fire suppression systems very important to know how they work what they do how to set them off okay we're going to head on upstairs so although i love the 62 and the 57 you know you can't get over the fact that the more modern nord herons like the 63 um if you don't want a flybridge uh you know and you and you love the 62 but you want a newer boat this is hard to beat you know you've got uh it's much more livable you've got everything on on one level what do you got two steps down there you walk through the boat you you look forward there matthew i mean you i'm sitting in the back of the salon i'm looking forward on on the port side there you've got the master stateroom i can see from the back of the boat all the way through to the guest guest cabin up forward it's all on pretty much on one level it's very very livable very easy to get around and and the big thing is the space you know the head room down in the engine room the head room here for tall people uh the cockpit space you got this barbecue i don't know if i showed you the barbecue back here there's a nice barbecue area on the back deck there's lots of room for deck chairs and you know sitting out and socializing um you know the salon area doesn't feel quite as big as the 62. but i think it probably is definitely has more headroom lots of hand holds up on top there it just it has a more airy feel about it rather than the 62 you tend to you're thinking you're going down it's almost like a sailboat you go down into the under into the state rooms under the deck there whereas here you've got bigger windows bigger ports and it just feels like you're living on it rather than in it if that makes any sense so i love it the downside is it doesn't have the long keel it doesn't have the bulbous bow it doesn't have the it's not a streamline it's not as fast as simple as that it's not as fast i mean this is an eight knot cruise right the nord have on 62 and the 57 are a nine not cruising although that doesn't sound like much and not over a 24-hour period like i said it's a you know it's 24 miles right um so over a long distance let's say you're doing a trip to bermuda um you know you're talking about uh you're talking about coming in uh you know a lot later it's a it's a big difference and the ride okay so we talked about the ride math he's going to put those videos up right now so that you can see you'll see that the 62 is much more stable in a headsee she rides a lot smoother whereas these these both the 55 to 60 and 63 all tend to pitch more so you'll see that in the video um but you know if you want an easy liver board you got you want to make like life easy on yourself this is uh this is a lovely boat and i'm really proud to have this on our inventory i mean a 2016 like this is is just it's a pleasure to show to somebody i know that anybody that i put through this boat is going to look at it and go wow you know this is amazing and the first person really to now we've got the boat down here unfortunately it's been a bit difficult to show the boat because she's been cruising up in maine just came down the east coast but now she's in south florida and i think anybody that's really is interested in a 63 who comes and looks at this boat they're going to go she's yeah she's this is the boat so i'm james knight yacht tech matthew behind the camera it's a pleasure to talk to you all um appreciate the uh the feedback on the other videos you know where i think where i put uh almost 50 000 views on that 62 video which was two hours long a lot of thumbs up on that thing i think we're closing in on a thousand you know i'm not really a youtube guy but i'm i'm getting in i'm getting into it i'm watching so hit the thumbs up hit the subscribe i think we're at a thousand fifteen hundred after two videos that's pretty impressive right matthew indeed so we'll uh we'll keep them coming and uh hope you enjoyed it i'm james knight thank you

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Length: 100min 12sec (6012 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 24 2020