Classy British newcomer at a surprisingly attractive price | Swallow Whisper 300 yacht tour | MBY
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- At the 2021 Southampton Boat Show, Motor Boat & Yachting editor Hugo Andreae took the chance to tour the Swallow Whisper 300, which was making its global debut.
Swallow Whisper 300 specifications
LOA: 30ft 6in (9.32m)
Beam: 9ft 4in (2.85m)
Engines: 2 x 70hp Yamaha outboards
Top speed: 26 knots
Starting price: £150,000 (inc. VAT)
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Proper Captain Pugwash ! Loved it. Great to see a boat made in Cardigan.
Craftmanship at its finest.
Spectacular design and innovation.
Thanks for the video.
At only 2 ton you could trailer it....
Very economical to use and such a practical layout
Hi , a credit to the builders for the price and would make a great weekender , you missed the water catchment for the loo . You can not by a good rib for the price and if they build sail boats , they know what there doing . I wish them every success for the new year .
Love it...only thing that caught my eye....would love to see a wood panel behind the buttons on the helm. That metal plate is nice, but I believe wood accent would tie it all together. Love the boat, well in!
I’ve had sailing boats for a long time but this boat looks great, might look at one of these too, like the outboard idea, saves a lot of problems
Nice to see a wooden boat with a fresh look
Hi Hugo. A beautiful wooden motoryacht. Loads of fine details all around. Made for the wife. A very nice 30ft cruiser. Great walkthrough tour thanks 😊
Thanks. Glad you liked it
Loved this innovative and practical design. Fab big cabin windows, roomy head and bed, plus great economy! This is going to be a winner!
I’m from Texas Gentleman and the first thing I was thinking “ WONDER IF DUAL 450Rs a single 600” Love this Thing REGARDLESS!!! Continued success To You and the rest of the Team ✊🏽
What a fantastic boat. Feels to me like the proper way of making boats. All the smart mechanical details. Very nice!
Such a refreshing change from the usual "Midlands-Navy Tramp-Cruisers" currently clogging up marinas around the coast!
I love the thought and detail that has gone into this boat. And the price point belies it’s quality. A beautiful boat and an excellent example of function driving form. Love it 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Well done Matt, she a stunner! Deserves to be a success.
What a lovely boat. A timber motor cruiser made in UK at a fair price
That's a mighty good looking, very smartly designed boat. I wish them many sales and the owners lot's of fun operating them!
Beautiful to look at, lovely finish and lots of really smart thinking. It would be so good to see real business success for this brand.
A real beauty. I hope you get to take her out on the water next year.
Me too!
Surprisingly attractive price !!!! Looks like a second hand boat for me again.
What a fantastically efficient harmonisation of elements - that is British Boating Style at its best. (Although those fold out glass holders are a collision, mess and repair job just waiting to happen once a few drinks have been imbibed.)
very nice I hate power boats, but this one I would have! What a fantastic design.
Thank you Hugo for this nice show from you with the detail explanation of everything a beautiful boat this is the Swallow Whisper 300 but with a name like this I expected electric outboard motor whisper thanks again Hugo a great show again
My pleasure
A beautiful looking boat. It would be great for the great loop in America. The Great Loop is a system of waterways that encompasses the eastern portion of the United States and part of Canada. It is made up of both natural and man-made waterways, including the Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, the Rideau Canal, and the Mississippi and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The entire loop stretches about 6,000 miles. Usually takes a year to do
that's nice a new old school wood power cruiser.
A very pretty boat with great eco credentials.
The only thing I wasn't keen on was the throttle placement. Seemed to be a bit to far back when standing (might just have been a camera angle thing though).
Great eco credentials? 2 x 70hp Yamaha outboards?
@@jools2323 yes, 2 X 70 hp outboards will be very economical indeed and being petrol will have fewer nasty emissions than a comparable diesel engine.
Beautiful boat, would love to see it out on a test.
if the transom was more vertical it would make a nice luxury fisher
2.3 tonnes!!!! That's so unbelievable I assumed you'd made a mistake and checked online. Shame on me for doubting 😂😂🤣🤣
That’s a really pretty boat inside and out.
Excellent video Hugo
What a refreshing design! 👍🏻
Another great video from MB&Y.
Thanks James
Beautiful boat. but I have a hard time trusting a boat that is designed to be "recyclable". They should probably concentrated on making it not need to be recycled.
Wow I love the looks of this one, I wonder if bigger engines would fit, give it thirty knots 🤔. All for merry fisher money 👍🇬🇧❤️
more power some 300s lol (do love that they are covered)
Those who don't own boats : how fast can it go and how much faster can it go?
Those who own boats : we drive at 20 knots almost all the time due to cost & comfort.
@@darthkek1953 🤪 I'll take the MTI 340x off my wish list lol, have a good new year Kek. 😁👍🇬🇧
Neat that the owner was there
This is a great boat.
Clever, very clever.
Enclosed outboard engines. Not seen that before.
Just oozes understated class
Beautiful boat!
Very clever and attractive boat
GORGEOUS THING!! 😊😊😆😆😀😀
amazing yacht
Stunning!
Beauty!
Great surprise Fantastic boat with outboards did not expect that .
Super efficient with twin 70hp outboards and that fuel economy
I would love to see a seatrial
I have one conclusion is that sailboats manufactures do amazing job on powerboats other example is MJM BOATS USA
THANKS 😊
Yep. Hinckley and Oyster being two more:-)
Another is Solaris / Solaris Power Yachts.
Great looking boat, good price.
Very nice and I like the idea of big light boats that are efficient. Bit concerned about the spinouts on the buoyancy chambers, that's because they are air chambers which require a spinout, not so if it was pu foam filled, meaning if you hit a rock, you still have floatation.
There are some great ideas but I think it would make a lot of rattling sounds, ie the cabin door.
Cool boat though
You can get those small round soft pads at hardware or craft stores to soften the rattles.
Lekker man lekker
Wonder why more manufacturers don't build in ply wood. Oh yeah it's because it has the durability and lifespan of a lettuce.
Hiding outboard engines is just weird.
I'd also have concerns over how strongly the cabin roof is attached to the hull and the size of the front windscreen is far to big to survive a wave.
Very classy!
Awesome.
Wonder if the design is adaptable (bit bigger) for longer trips and stays on board, with more cabin comfort and enclosure
The water tankage is very limited and fuel is not huge. So I suspect it would take a lot of work and the result would be to leave its current "cheap but good" niche into a field with a LOT of competitors.
Looks a Beauty 👌🏻😎
nice boat👍
Classic.
When Hugo was flipping the seat, twisting it all up one-handed, the guy jumped in and was like "don't break my boat dude" and gave him a hand LOL. Get Hugo a camera guy, always so nervous and fidgety when trying to hold the camera and narrate.
Do the side vents on the outer hull at 11:02 have any function or is that cosmetic? Apparently, they do not connect to the engine compartment.
So perfect..
Your tours are great but who comes up with these oddball designs ? The shape of the hull looks like a 1930 rowboat !
I think it is beautiful.
Might make a nice tender for someone's superyacht, otherwise it's unimpressive.
The boat exists to sell to real people not to impress grumpy poor people on the Internet.
@@darthkek1953 🤣🤣🤣
Given you do not have a superyacht, this is an unqualified comment. That's what is unimpressive.
That has to be one of the nicest day boats I have ever seen, real shame that is is so under-powered though, needs twin 150's at a min, get rid of back cover and hang some meat on that jewel.
Plywood will rot out how do you fix it?????
Not another boat with a tent on the back. Any bit of cold weather and you’ll be spending your life re-varnishing it. It’s like an expensive mirror dinghy
What do you mean by sustainable??
We brits can still do it 👌🏻
Seems so light and fragile for that size,and twin 70hp🤯
Light, yes. But some explanation of why it is "fragile".
It has a honeycomb construction and is apparently extremely strong. See Aquaholic's walk through at the same show.
With a few extras you are at $1,000,000. I can buy some really nice 50 foot yachts for the price of this toy. Try $350,000 and you might be in the right price market.
30', prices start at £850k, are you mad?
Lovely boat but the margins on this must be extremely tight. I hope they survive.
How does one recycle grp covered wood?
Exactly - Mixed material is extremely hard to unmix and recover. I guess you set it on fire and recover some energy and maybe the glass. Then put it in Landfill. Much the same as GRP.
It will never sellin the US if it’s marketed as a plywood boat
It’s a composite hull with a multiply wood core high tech hull etc no one buys a resin coated plywood boat as they have a terrible reputation in America my guess is your description is incorrect it’s probably infused not coated
Wood Boats are best.
I think for around that money I’d rather have a Saxdor 320 gto
The seat mechanism at 2:00 looks very feeble.
Lovely day boat that Hugo. What happens to your thumb. Ouch. !!
DIY injury. There’s a reason I’m a journalist rather than a builder!
Pretty boat. But wooden cored! Nope. I’ve seen what happens to wood cored boats…
What happens? Genuinely interested to learn. 👍🇬🇧
I think there is a big difference between a sheathed marine ply construction such as this, and a cored hull.
@@cookiemonster2299 water works its way in, usually via intrusions (screws, bolts, mounts etc). Once in, it rots the wood and eventually the structure fails. Repairs can be a huge ordeal, depending on how much rot and where it’s located. Lots of boats in the 70s, 80s, 90s were wooden cored. Some with plywood, marine plywood, balsa…all eventually have issues to some degree. There are ways to mitigate it via properly sealing any/all intrusions but it’s time consuming and expensive. Newer materials can be used for the core, like foam or Coosa, but again, those are costly.
@@malekodesouza7255 thanks for the reply, sounds like a nightmare. 👍🇬🇧
@@cookiemonster2299 , there are only 2 holes below the waterline, for the seacocks. These are overbored, epoxy filled, then re bored. Underwater she is completely sheathed with multiple layers of glass set in epoxy, which is far more waterproof than GRP. This method (WEST SYSTEM) has been used since the 70s and is extremely well proven. More time consuming than conventional GRP, but stronger and lighter.
Not what I think of when you say box section
150K for 30 ft …. 😳
Entirely made of wood except for all the metal bits.
Come on guys - Aquaholic covered this same boat at the same show a few weeks ago. Dont u check his channel before publishing?
there's no dibs
Don’t care about a cross eyed review from the vanillaholic
@@stevesmith866 You're too kind! 😄
@@stevesmith866 Your mum must be proud.
You can buy 2 houses for the cost of this tiny boat. Prices are ridiculous. It's cheaper to buy a home and build a boat on your property
Where are you buying a home for £75k?
@@MotorBoatYachting Texas. You should travel more and get a clue
Its sad that things got so expensive, so 150 thousand can buy you only something like this. While it is nicely designed, the equipment, the engines, the space, and the finish of the boat are not very impressive compared to the other modern 30 footers. Fragile and spartan in my opinion
Less is more
And very expensive.
With more plastic than wood it is not "sustainable" as this guy tries to sell it, nor is it pretty. Build quality seems quite fragile overall, and with140 hp it is seriously underpowered. No thanks.
It's not underpowered in the least, 25 knots is perfect. It's designed for fuel efficiency.
You try finding a bot in its class that you like that has its fuel efficiency. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT MISSION.
In what way is it fragile overall? The company has been building boats for more than 25 years. They likely know more about boat building than you. Cruising at 20 knots is perfect. It is not underpowered.
Looks like a 1970s boat. It's underpowered and looks cheaply built. This boat will fall apart in a year. Stick with sailboats.
Would never even buy a British Dingy...
Over priced fuel sucker! No thanks…
850k pounds for that, it looks like a toy
150k pounds.
looks like a cheap toy !