[YachtNews]

It seems that converting older and old vessels into 'yachts' or at least that has yacht styling is quite a popular thing to do. We have seen many successful conversions over the years such as the Bart Roberts, Wega and so on. For the most part they people in charge of the conversions do quite a good job. One of the Latest i have seen is this converted tug. Her name is the M/Y Ariete Primo. She is 45M long and 9.5M wide, built in 1967 and refitted/converted 2006. She has a cruising range of 4000 NM.
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[KCook]

I expect the original crew wishes they had that Jacuzzi pool!

[lurker]

I read it somewhere that Bart Roberts was a lousy conversion job. Which is one of the reason why it had such a hard time on the market. Mind you that I think it was overpriced to begin with.

The owner worked on the boat as project manager himself and I am not sure if he is really qualified for that job. I have also seen the pictures of the conversion progress, not all that impressive.

Giant got some serious problems, too. Man that boat runs so **** dirty. I wish it can get out of the Med sea and stop ruin the air over there.

[YachtNews]

Originally Posted by lurker

I read it somewhere that Bart Roberts was a lousy conversion job. Which is one of the reason why it had such a hard time on the market. Mind you that I think it was overpriced to begin with.

The owner worked on the boat as project manager himself and I am not sure if he is really qualified for that job. I have also seen the pictures of the conversion progress, not all that impressive.

Giant got some serious problems, too. Man that boat runs so **** dirty. I wish it can get out of the Med sea and stop ruin the air over there.

True: I have never seen a yacht put out so much BLACK SMOKE in my life as a ************ and enthusiast as the m/y GIANT.

[lurker]

To be fair, not all converted yachts are bad. But in the case with Giant, if you they aren't even willing to spend money on the engine, you really have to wonder where else they have cut some serious corners. As much as I love yachting, we have to be reponsible to the enviroment, too. Of course two new engines and the cost of installing them with a conversion like Giant is not cheap, but get the job done right. I don't think the guest will enjoy the aft deck much with black smoking over their head.

I have always wanted to get an aft house explorer yacht when I get older. A retired Canadian coast guard vessel can be a good candidate for conversion, though I am not so sure about that anymore with the expected high oil price in the future.

[YachtNews]

Originally Posted by lurker

To be fair, not all converted yachts are bad. But in the case with Giant, if you they aren't even willing to spend money on the engine, you really have to wonder where else they have cut some serious corners. As much as I love yachting, we have to be reponsible to the enviroment, too. Of course two new engines and the cost of installing them with a conversion like Giant is not cheap, but get the job done right. I don't think the guest will enjoy the aft deck much with black smoking over their head.

I have always wanted to get an aft house explorer yacht when I get older. A retired Canadian coast guard vessel can be a good candidate for conversion, though I am not so sure about that anymore with the expected high oil price in the future.

Yes, the Bart Roberts turned out to be a pretty ok conversion. She was an ex/ Canadian Coast Guard vessel too right?

[lurker]

Originally Posted by YachtLuver

Yes, the Bart Roberts turned out to be a pretty ok conversion. She was an ex/ Canadian Coast Guard vessel too right?

IIRC, she was. I think there were few ex-CCCG vessel on the market recently. One of them was a 214' offered by the same company that did GIANT. I kinda look into it, but once I saw the black smoke pumping out of GIANT, no thanks.

The ex-German Navy research vessel Planet was on the market, I contacted them but they pulled the ad and told me that it was off market. Don't know what the story was. She is a beautiful ship, a bit too big as a yacht for me.

Another issue that I have with conversion is that you really don't know what happened on that ship before. For all I know an ex-coast guard vessel could've pulled some dead bodies onboard during a rescue. Gives me the chills know that dead bodies were on my yacht.

[theyachtsman]

Sure looks pretty in the pics,although I guess thats the point,too bad