Boat Report
Pearl 50
Shining example:
the stainless steel
engineering and
detailing are superb.
o you spend much time cruising with board your boat. Not so on an aft-cabin boat. Here, all is
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friends? Fifty-footers may feel like big boats serene. Separated by the expanse of the saloon, you and your
after a few hours on board, but after a few guests can bang around as much as you like and disturb
days and nights cooped up with even your nobody. The physical separation adds an extra degree of
very best friends, they can seem remarkably seclusion too – no more bumping into your bleary eyed
small. However thick and well padded the pyjama-clad guests, unless by choice. It’s really only after you
bulkheads and doors, few of the boats I’ve have spent a week or so on board an aft-cabin boat that you
slept on board can keep the worst snoring fully appreciate just how much extra privacy and tranquillity
or the most energetic passion of your guests from fi ltering they provide.
through the walls. And there’s no respite in the early hours But there is a catch – and for some it is defi nitely a deal-
either, as the sounds of the morning’s ablutions splash their breaker. Cast around for the aft-cabin boats on the market
way from the heads compartments. The noises that are only and what do you fi nd? The likes of Aqua-Star, Hardy, Trader
gently intrusive in your house can become penetrating on and Sea Ranger, wonderful boats for sure but all very
MBY From January 2007
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