€610,000 day cruiser unlike any you've seen before | FIM Regina 440 yacht tour | MBY
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2024
- Reporting from the 2023 Cannes Yachting Festival, Motor Boat & Yachting's Alex Smith takes us on a full tour of the FIM Regina 440, which was making its global debut...
FIM Regina 440 specifications
LOA: 44ft 7in / 13.6m
Beam: 13ft 1in / 4.0m
Engines: Twin 440hp Volvo D6 sterndrives
Top speed: 38 knots
Starting price: €610,000 (ex. VAT)
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Great, honest review Alex, thanks!
Plenty to like about this boat and the small oddities are ones I could work with. Like it!
Thanks. It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea but it's a great looking, well built and thoroughly entertaining boat from a young Italian company full of fresh ideas. The fact that it will stick in my memory long after others have faded away suggests to me that they're getting a lot of the most important things right.
I just found myself thinking 610,000 is pretty cheap for a new boat these days. Then realised it's about 609,999 more than I can afford.
Guys get a wide angled lens setup pls
when it comes to my wife's comforts, I'm afraid this boat offers too many compromises. It's a lovely piece of work, but as is usual, not for all. Thanks for this interesting review.
beautiful boat but that shower is ridiculous. It should be dedicated to the "stateroom" because the day head is for toilet activities. There's an outdoor shower for those who want to rinse off. LOL - and "it kinda works' is an unusual comment to hear
Nice
I was a little confused until I was able to break the code and translate his positive MB&Y spin to simple English: 1) Singular and distinctive = crap; A really interesting solution = Are you F%&#ing kidding me ?
How did you manage to present the ultimate lazy, third-rate, cheap-out bodge (a locker front made of fabric netting held by POPPERS) as a "quite useful" feature ? Those poppers in the corners are well over 2 metres apart, so the entire locker front edge is flapping totally free in the breeze, but you expect the LIFERAFT to stay in its place ? A liferaft secured by one single popper on each locker CORNER ?
UTTER MADNESS ! What's next ? Silly string holding up a mast ? Or a wastewater pump-out fitting that doesn't have a drain ? Oh, wait...
But look at the lovely swoopy windows...
Most of these videos (not just from MB&Y) are more sales pitch than critical review. Every feature is praised, even if the praise contradicts something they said earlier. When they mention a manual opening sun hatch or window they praise the fact that there is no mechanism to break, but when it is electrically opening they praise how easy it is to use. Pick a lane!
@@d.z.7485 Sure, they need to keep advertisers and owners of boats happy, and up to a certain point I let it go, but when they praise features that are demonstrably and obviously dangerous or just completely idiotic, it makes me angry. There are pros and cons to many things - powered or manual hatches / sunroofs, as you mention, for example, or matters of taste or *groan* fashion - but some things are just plain wrong, or done for one reason only - saving money.
Making a storm out of tea-cup. I visited and tried the FIM 440 Regina in about one meter waves and nothing came out of its place. To be honest sometimes, many times nowadays life rafts are in impossible to excess spaces, let alone take out in emergency situations so I actually liked that this was fairly accessible. To me the FIM 440 Regina was the surprise of the Genoa boat show, for its hybrid sport cruiser ability and day boat exterior area spaces which matches those of a Pardo or a Fjord, with accommodation spaces nearly to the level of a meter smaller sport cruiser. Also this was hull #1 some of things the reviewer mentions are up to change, like the seat bolster, and the fore-deck table which is to be changed for a bigger one.
@@PowerYacht That liferaft "locker" doesn't even have a lip to it - coupled with a flapping fabric netting "lid", it is basically open to the weather and on the same level as the cockpit deck. Rain, spray, even dirty water from washing down the decks will just slosh into and around the locker and remain there. And the bottom of that liferaft (which is a soft case, not a waterproof hard case) will sit in a wet, dirty, salty, chemical broth for entire seasons, without ever drying out. You may think that is a storm in a teacup, but I think it is idiotic and dangerous, and one short hop in a brand new company demonstrator boat being kept in immaculate show-room condition by the builder is hardly relevant to how well the design features will last in the real world.
And if you are going to use poppers (which are designed for securing fabric awnings and screens, not holding down moving cargo), they should be placed so that any load is sideways, in shear, not on the face. How do you remove a popper ? You pull on it, in exactly the same direction as the load on that "locker" fabric. You are expecting the popper to resist opening when you exert a force in the same direction as it was designed to be opened. What else has this wrong-headed design philosophy been used for on this boat ? Waste water outlets with no drains, for starters...
So is “slightly imperfect” code for “utter cr@p
So many stupid design flaws being passed off as “features”