Great start, "I'm gunna teach you two things" (as he holds up three fingers lol) about this boat.

Watched a million boat videos. This one, is by far, the most helpful and useful of them all. You have a wealth of experience James. Thank you for passing it along to us. And for making them fun to watch! Bring back the toilet jokes.

Thank you, love the fact that you are honest about engine and floor. Most if all telling it as it is £33k to run a 47 foot boat as a ball park figure. This takes nothing away from the boat but shows real professional sales from a professional sales company. Its clear you want people to be able to both buy and run there boats. Don't worry about the helm as other boat UKpostsrs can talk about them.

I worked as a broker / salesman / IT in the yacht brokerage world for many years in the 90s and 00s, the one thing I learned above all else was never buy your own boat, borrow someone else's. Portofino was a superb boat I borrowed one a few times, the Princess V 40s were better quality though in the day. Dunno what Sunseeker are like now I have not been on anything more glamorous than a fishing boat for years now. Interesting video, brought back some good memories.

Best video to date, these funny and brutally honest reviews are great. Keep up the good work James 👍

This has to be the best and most comprehensive presentation I've ever seen. A little humour goes a long way too. Thank you James

Really enjoyed that. Brilliant explanation on the ‘V’ drives. Love how straightforward and thorough you are regarding the costing. Learnt what GRP is ‘Glass Reinforced Plastic’ = every day’s a school day. Becoming a big fan of you James xx

Super! Love the way you are open and honest about the real costs of running a boat - breath of fresh air !

Well, contrary to some others' views, I love this ... perfect for us. Nearly bought one a year ago. And, a very amusing review James, keep 'em coming, I like the warts and all style. Very refreshing. I'll be in the market later this year for something very much like this... I'm only an hour away from you so I'll come and have a look.

Best sales man ever👍

Brilliant review/Vlog/ Info....amazingly honest and really a pleasure to watch. Look forward to more of these :)

Great video and love the honesty!

I hate salesmen that won't be upfront about costs. Guess that means I really like you and your channel.

I only came across your channel a few weeks ago and think ive watched them all. You’re the channel that EVERY BOATER / POTENTIAL BOATER needs to see. Ive seen some reviewers gloss over known let downs / visible damage with boats over the years when they are just simply reviewing someone else stock boat… (likely ££ involved and they dont want to not be invited back) as the person selling this boat, you still call a spade a spade. Brilliant. I’ll be keeping an eye on your stock, id buy a boat from you guys over the phone based on your word alone. More vids!!

Maybe mention the distance and cost with much slower speeds. I admire the honesty, this has got my thinking about how I can own and run a boat. The transparency allows me to understand what is required! Love this channel.

I’m an American. Aside from the fact that you remind me of Ricky Jervais, I’d like to say thanks for the walk-through. Especially the bit where you break out the numbers. Cheers from across the pond, sir.

Your videos are getting better and better, I like your sense of humour 😆 The cost section was really good broad brush, and makes sense. Very refreshing with your honesty, makes me want to buy from you!! Loved the comment regarding the ice makers…..Keep up the good work.

What a brilliant review ! I can't afford to service the the toilets on this boat, let alone worrying about v drives and what not. But when I can afford it - I'll be listening to James.

Honesty and professionalism makes a huge difference. You deliver in this video essencial information to any potential buyer in this category and they will be thankful for that. Liked video and subscribed channel. Thank you.

Lovely boat and that’s a good honest overview... 👍🏻

Great honesty...Many thanks! Out of my league for sure.

I like how at 0:27 you said "two things" while having 3 fingers up. 🤣 it made the video even better !

The video was exceptional your honesty explaining everything perfect.

Lovely boat and a great team you have there at Boats U.K., looked after me when I bought and sold my boat through them. Give it a couple years (when I’ve retired and got some more time to enjoy boating) and I’ll be down to see you all again.

Great video! I learned what a drive is and types of floors! Very informative! Spoke in a clear manner and speed! I loved it! Good job!! Also gave up some things to be wary of but without shaming the boat or turning a potential customer off! I would be happy to have you a ms a sales guy!

thank you for your honesty

Beautiful boat! Cracking sense of humor!

I appreciate the honesty and its quite a fun review. Cheers!

Absolutely brilliant informative video, one of the best I have watched. Thank you.

Great insights and details for any potential boat owner! Thank you!

Great video and really good info. Keep this type of content coming please as enjoy the boat reviews.

Saw this as an ad in game for a shipping app. I never pay attention to the 30 second ads much, but this was a hoot! I watched the entire thing! You could easily do standup, so understated and clever! The only ad better than this one, is the Alkaseltzer Mama Mia TV ad from the 60’s! If I ever get a business going again, I am going to hire you to perform in my advertisements! Tell your boss that I said so. That way, they can’t cry about losing you one day when you get an offer for what you are worth!

Such a beautiful craft.

You crack up me up :) great video 📹

Thank you so much for your honest review. I have a 80 meter luxury boat, Joking. but i will look into a boat with oars.

Great video, especially the running costs explained

Nice to see the full picture of boat ownership. I really liked the honesty and so became a subscriber. 👍👏

Excellent honest review. More please.

Excellent 👍 thanks for the information

I like the straight forward sums with no bullcrap.

Great video, easy to watch and good bit of banter! Subbed

I really like this channel only just found it. Love your honesty, brilliant that. Really enjoyed the video thank you.

I had that boat, same color, took 20 people off the Hudson into Manhattan. Great ride.

Great Vid! Thanks for the math. I spent some time converting to US Dollars, and it still makes sense. I'm sold on Sunseekers, just because of the looks. Shoot, I've spent so much on boats in my life, (and by the way, not a penny wasted) My next boat will be a Sunseeker.

From James' illustration with the 20 pound notes AND his video shot of how close together the engine/V-box/shaft mechanicals are located, another V-drive negative becomes obvious: a less horizontal shaft angle. Couple that with the V-drive mechanicals to service, and one REALLY has to want that larger aft cabin.

First time on the channel and I've learned more about boats and the cost of running them than I have anywhere else 👍

It was at that time, when you did the cost breakdown, that I realised I will only ever own a jetski!. Nice video thanks

Thank you for giving us a true and honest review of this boat. Many people don't seem to point out any flaws in their reviews. If sunseeker compromised on the floors and engines, which is visible, I wonder if they also compromised on things like the hull and stringers to save money.

You are the best salesman in the Universe. Pure genius and I am not as did not have a clue about the 20 euro notes example! Brilliant. Thank you.

Great honesty!

Another great tour, which was also enlightening. Had to turn the volume on the TV up though! 😂😜

Thank you great review

Just watched the first 6 1/2 minutes and this is by far the best boat review and hilarious sense of humor I’ve seen in a long time. I’m definitely a new subscriber I look forward to seeing more of your reviews. Absolutely love the humor and honesty! Bevy of beauties, ice makers are horrible, trash in wine cooler, speedometer inaccurate etc 🤣 now this is helpful!

Great video, the humour makes it. brilliant to see a video like this that's local! Even sold the top man there some bits today

Have just watched this video, I’m would never be able to own a boat and don’t wish to, having said that this was a very interesting video on ownership and running cost, you confirmed my thoughts, very enjoyable video. 👍

That was informative. Great job

Incredible insights and really some fair statements. Would love to buy my next boat with an advise like this.. thank you James!

I learnt more in this video than all other boat reviews combined:) subscribed:)

Class vid. Very informative. And well prestressed. I really enjoyed this. M.

nice little boat, good presentation of the costs.

Honest, sincere, professional and quite funny vid. Lots of respect, sir.

Great job with this video

Best honest video out there!!

Very useful video Thx!!!

Sir I hope everyone Honest like you you’re right the boat is beautiful if we can afford it thank you so much and God bless you

Great video. Always interesting to know. Sound is much better. Cheers.

First time comment. Excellent review and I loved your honesty is this vid thanks for sharing with us.

Great walk around !!!!

I was about to take the plunge until you mentioned the plywood floor! Even my Bayliner 175 has a glass floor liner! :) Nice style of review. I've just subscribed and am going to look through your other videos. Thanks!

That's some real straight talk

Ha ha . What an honest bloke. Well done. Great insightful video. Best I go for something with oars!

Was working at sunseeker yesterday pulling a hull from a mold. Bit bigger than a 47 though. Its fascinating looking at the construction and how strong they are. Brilliant video though.

Yeh appreciate the candid details - tell me as it is sorta thing, without beating round the bush. Thanks bud

Great video James. As always loving your honesty and for sure this is a great boat……but still not a Princess!!! And agree on your estimate of annual costs-we have a V45 so not dissimilar overall and reckon that our is costing us around 30k a year without any finance.

Excellent, excellent review mate! #brilliant!!

Brilliant. Old shool salesman. Honest and on the ball. Great review 👏

Excellent show James ☺️☺️☺️

Saving up patiently for this.

Hi James. Honest, practical and humour video. Its good imfomation for a potential buyer comparison to fairline, princess. Great video thanks 😊

Lovely boat and one of my favourites at this size, I didn't know you had one, but two things for me as regards the engines and the V drive is that the setup is less fuel efficient than a straight shaft and that doing any stern gland work is very time consuming and thus more costly than other boats, one final thing that people either forget or ignore is that the high low platform also requires maintenance otherwise it could end up sticking when you least want it , yet more cost. Any boat of this size costs about the £30000 mark to maintain , my personal advice would be to put at least £5000 per annum to one side to cover repairs or breakages, she is over 12 years old now after all. Great video BTW and the sound is spot on now. :)

Ok here’s my Boston take away, 42k US dollars ( about 70k if you finance) I was thinking it was a lot of money but then I remembered he was using currency to explain the engines which made me think really what’s money for use it as a prop to explain something of just let it blow around the table it no big deal! I’ll buy two as long as we agree a the definition of a boat is a hole in the water which money flows thru. All joking aside, we’ll done! Informative and entertaining.

Thank you for all your knowledge sharing. With 10k of salary I think I can get one close to this

OMG finally we get a boat review giving us realistic cost of ownership along with the good, the bad and the what could be ugly. Anyone looking to get into boat ownership needs to pay attention to this.

Thank you - brings my scope creep back into line again - but please use that simplistic costing model for all reviews

This is the first video of yours that I've seen, nicely done, liked and subscribed..

First time viewing your channel. Fantastic……

hi, been following you for a short while, i loved this video and could you do some more like this, about sailing boats

Amazing channel

Love your watch mate! I have one myself.

Great video

Daddy Jimmy B🤗 Stumbling across your channel was one of the most pleasant surprises to me recently! A rare _thank you_ note to the UKposts recommendations 😊

Great and amusing video. It has made me realize, looking at the numbers, that If I saved; and budgeted, really well, I still could not afford this boat.

Fantastic info and video Looks like your mic gain is correct, but the audio in the video editing software itself should be boosted (good quality turned up is better than bad source quality at a high volume!) Thanks for all the genuine perspective on real world ownership, it is very helpful

Great video thanks

Great vid

About 30 years ago someone said to me a boat costs 10% of its cost to run each year. Still not a million miles out.

I don't know if you have experience or not, but I'd like a similar video about running costs for a sailboat in this category (sub 50 foot).

Loved this presentation 😊. But basically what I've heard, we're talking in general about 10-15% in maintains of the amount of the boat.. Love your channel btw 😊👍👌

Briliant!

33k plus 4k finance charge (pa) plus 20k (rep pa) is 57k a year, on a boat thats 280,000k , 20% a year, three year 60%. that's a realistic cash burn.