With all this in mind, the captain and crew went big. We were invited by Alex and Gisele (the Dutch / Belgian couple who you've met in here before) for a trip out on their newly purchased Nordhavn 55. They are big boats. Vast in comparison to our "small Nordhavn" indeed.
This was their first trip out since Alex with two experienced Nordhavn skippers delivered the boat from Scotland to the Hamble river. We were honoured as the owners of the smallest Nordhavn ever to be invited onto their huge craft.
The weather was so so kind. Sunny, gentle winds and the right tide times for a little trip to Lymington and back:
Alex deftly extricated the HUGE Nordhavn from her berth and headed down the Solent. He looked quite the part too:
and remarkably relaxed. We were most impressed with how quiet and smooth the boat was - quieter than the very lovely N63 "Due North" indeed. Coffee and carrot cake were, of course, provided by Gisele and the crew, seen here in the HUGE saloon:
Yes, the word huge seems to be popping up regularly.
Arrival in Berthon was also stress free, Alex backed into a finger berth as though he had been doing it all his life on HUGE Nordhavns. After an excellent Sunday roast in a local pub we headed back with the sun gently setting astern of us. Late season boat trips just don't get any better really (especially as we did it without burning any of our diesel!) So you can appreciate how the 55 looks:
#Nordhavnenvy - until it comes to the cleaning and polishing that is.
Deborah keeps telling me that the very best things are smalll....they are sparkly and typically in small boxes.....so it’s not HUGE you want but small......
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