£363,000 Yacht Tour : Haines 36 Offshore

[@douglasthompson296]

Thanks Nick, a simple no nonsense useable boat. The cost won't break the bank it looks possible to spend extended stays on board. Cheers Nick

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

[@kelanooniel8127]

If i ever own a boat its because of you. I love you affordable tours.

[@tiagocruz5399]

Supporting a family owned business. Good on you!

[@jaimiemadden590]

Nice and compact, makes sense to get the one cabin layout. The twin engine configuration would be my option . Thanks for the tour Nick

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thanks for watching!

[@mmsmits2868]

Very nice, simple, unpretentious boat. Thanks for the tour!

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thanks for watching!

[@Renol70-N]

Beautiful craftmanship and the plaque with the names of the builders, is a real nice touch. I'd love something like this, great tour thank you, have a nice weekend !

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Glad you like it! 🙂

[@jb3558]

Well - firstly, on the unusual opening doors - I have patio doors exactly the same and they are brilliant! Save space and open up better than bi-fold. Secondly, your reviews just get better and better Nick. Your unique 'take' on every little thing with comedic quips here and there just make these reviews unmissable. In my opinion, you are the best presenter of anything on KZbin......Happy New Year to you

[@AQUAHOLIC]

You're very kind, thank you! 😊

[@nicbennett6554]

Brilliant tour, brilliant boat, brilliant company, and the local brokers to Haines (NYA) are brilliant too. 😊

[@kevinmcintyre6503]

Hi Nick, another great thing about your channel, is that is regularly encourages me to look up the boat builder’s website and have a closer look at their specifications, floor plans and other models. Haines build some nice boats indeed. I used to own an aft cabin boat, and particularly like the rear lower stateroom that Haines builds in some of its boats. Their price point is also much more within the reach of regular folks. What a charming boat to end the year on. Well done and here is one final congratulations on your work in 2024. (sometime, tell us how you lost weight! It’s the new year and we will all be boarding that bandwagon)

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thank you! A lot of walking on steep hills! 😄

[@michaelcaffari3997]

Great small sensible boat especially for a couple of even solo use. Always twin engines for me. Great review Nick.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thank you!

[@The-Droll-and-LazyJoker]

Happy holidays, Nick! The quality of the Haines 36 Offshore shines through, for a couple's 1st real boat or for their last. The galley down gives the boat a certain panache, while still able to engage in a conversation with the person at the helm. It appears that lockers in the master cabin don't have a top on them therefore, allowing natural sunlight in from the windows above, and great ventilation. Also the perfect spot for a fire extinguisher, between the helm and the helm seat in its own cubbyhole. I noticed most fire extinguishers on boats are usually located in one of the hanging lockers down below, which of course is kinda inconvenient especially if you have a fire in a galley up situation. To sum it up, if you don't mind me absconding with one of your quotes... "a proper little ship"

[@AQUAHOLIC]

I'm glad you like it! 🙂

[@peterjordan-turner8789]

Lovely boat, and a great showcase for UK boatbuilding.

[@nutronhammernutronhammer]

My favorite kind of boats, functional and solidly built.

[@peterbrameld696]

hi Nick, I’ve not been commenting recently because I’ve not been too well, I’m lucky to still be here at 80 years old but a happy chap. I love these relatively low cost boats because they represent something that had I started being interested in votes, younger I would’ve been able to afford. Thanks for a fantastic review, I really appreciate that despite it being a cheaper boat you do not ski pond detail which is highly commendable. All the best to you for 2025, and thank you for all the pleasure you’ve given me in 2024, cheers Peter Solihull.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

I'm sorry to hear that, hope 2025 is the year you are on the mend! 🙂

[@nojnoj3069]

Hello Nick. I hope you had a lovely Christmas day . We all wish you a happy new year and hopefully you'll be over the million subscribers by next Christmas.😊

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thank you! You too! 😃

[@richardspilsbury8456]

That is a really no nonsense boat at a sensible price, thank you for the tour.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

[@FLGurl]

Great vessel and presented very well -- as always. Many thanks. 🍷 Hope that you had a terrific Christmas Nick 🎄

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thanks, hope you did too! 🙂

[@FLGurl]

@@AQUAHOLIC Oh yes! 😄

[@fidel681]

Can't beat flinging cushions around!.. Haines make some lovely boats, did like the 1 cabin layout as gives more space....Thanks for this Nick, good weekend 😊👍

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

[@MinistryoAgriculture]

I am bemused by the absence of a quicker access, even partial, to the Engine(s). For such a handsome practical craft that seems a remarkable oversight. Would still love one, though. This or a Targa would be my choice to pootle back and forth across the North Channel.

[@willsullivan7074]

Nice boat! Looks very comfortable. Small boat owners have got to love her manuverability.

[@richardkeen1996]

Another first class review Nick! Wishing you all the very best both with work and with leisure in 2025.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thank you, same to you! 🙂

[@davidl6757]

Nice alternative. Perfect for a couple the way this model is set up. Love the details and wood work. Great tour

[@bill8784]

Nice boat particularly suited with a couple to one cabin. A lot of windows and glass which I guess is for light and the views.

[@rexpayne7836]

Nice quality boat. I'd go for the extra sleeping capability. Great video, and thanks for a great year. 🇦🇺 👍

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

[@TheMangohammer]

Happy Friday and happy Christmas nick🎉

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Same to you! 🥂

[@KiwiKoNZ]

Merry Christmas AQUAHOLIC from New Zealand! ✨🎁🎄✨

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Hey New Zealand! Happy Christmas to you too. 🙂

[@scottdynek2728]

Quite the boat! Bow and stern thrusters, a separate shower WOW! Could use a tad more speed, but great for puttering around the coast! Thanks Nick great tour!

[@pageant1fd]

Engine access for the daily checks is far from ideal. The rest of the boat is seems very well put together. Thanks for sharing.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thanks for watching!

[@SaM_MLT82]

Love this boat. Happy Christmas Nick!!!!

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thanks, you too! 😃

[@kreabea78]

Nice review as usual, nick. Thanks.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

[@SquidwardhatesEVs]

Great video Nick, gorgeous boat mate.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

[@GeorgeWMays]

Wow, that is a really nice boat ---- for not particular reason. Just a cool boat....

[@marcosilicani5775]

È davvero simpatica questa barca! I'arredamento artigianale in legno è veramente di buona fattura ma principalmente di qualità e solido, fatto per durare nel tempo. Mi piace! Approvata. Grazie per questo video.

[@jimwhitaker4327]

Proof you wear pants, still got those fabulous socks! Love all the tours, thank you, happy new year.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Happy new year!

[@kingjackupeace5844]

Sir Nick, I've been working through the holidays so I'm playing catch-up...I pray that you had a nice Christmas, Sir, and as always, thank you for all that you share with us! Merry Christmas Sir Nick!

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thanks, hope you did too! 🎄

[@ashleyhodgman5246]

You are right Nick, it is a very nice boat. Many thanks

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

[@Tristanbirdyt]

Merry Christmas Nick hope you had a lovely time. A lovely review and looks like a very capable boat and very smart Thank you very much.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Happy Christmas!

[@mishiaruiz3020]

"it doesn't really, I made that up" LOLOL 😂 at least you are honest. Another great video. Good job 👍👏🎉

[@manuelvanderslikke680]

Hi Nick, I am in shock did i see this right no shorts on this time but in real trousers looks even better 😉 and this time you shows us a Haines 36 Offshore and it looks very nice more a couples cruiser with a occasionally extra bed make from the dinette nice the galley below i like that and a double in the bow very nice Thanks Nick great show⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Back in the UK! 😄

[@Kim_Jensen]

Well rounded and simple 😀 Thanks for the tour 😊

[@Steve-Cross]

Thank you, Nick. I don’t think this one is a contender for the next smugglers. 🙂

[@Haraldsvensk]

Stylish and well-built boat...as they already did 50 years ago.

[@DavidStroyd]

360k on a 36, the world’s gone nuts!

[@AQUAHOLIC]

And £50K for a top of the range Honda Civic, £100K+ for a top end BMW 5 Series. Billions of pounds were invented and sprayed into the air, inevitable really. 🙂

[@onefrazzer]

Very nice well thought out and put together boat like that a lot noticed some water in bilge when showing engine which i think is a bit of a faf to do daily checks

[@jonathanworthing6278]

Nice boat nipping across to France.

[@RowlandWITHERS]

Thanks Nick and have a Great New Year .👍

[@AQUAHOLIC]

You too! 🙂

[@scottgordon1781]

The hinge guy noticed serious set up in wall units in galley !

[@bobg1685]

Another nicely done tour.

[@philipmichaelhughes5719]

Thanks Nick👍 And a happy New Year to you…🎉

[@AQUAHOLIC]

You too!! 🙂

[@martinessien9458]

Commitment 🎉🎉 such a great example.

[@33trn]

As you say it does look like a really sensible practical boat, however the engine access seems to jar with that vibe.

[@deeser]

There's a practicality and design thought that matches bigger and 'better' yacht designers. Princess and Sunseeker, etc will respect.

[@tomconnor7786]

Wonderful, love to see boats I could, theoretically own at some point and this is a nice one.

[@ashleypierce8500]

Lovely boat. Thanks Nick!

[@justinrosssd]

Every time Nick says there’s an alternative for a galley up layout THEN says he will explain later, I already know what’s coming. However, I was not expecting two options for the second cabin!

[@chrisbmorningstar]

What a lot of boat for its size, happy new year 🎉

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Happy new year!

[@alistairkeppler2225]

Was that a water leak +- 13: 49 in the vid?

[@dougtodd24]

Second Comment. :) Hope everyone's had a lovely Christmas. This looks like a nice boat.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Same to you!

[@veryevgeniy]

Brilliant!

[@timepstein274]

Would also get twin engines for offshore use. Love everything about it except the obsolete helm gauges and screen from 10 years ago. In this day and age, dual, redundant screens and nothing else except standby compass is all you need for a fully redundant helm

[@bobuncle8704]

Right sharp. 👍👍

[@rtbinc2273]

Love these reviews of real boats for real people. I love super yacht reviews, but these are far more interesting. Frankly if I was going to get a super yacht I'd hire a good captain and let him choose. It would take years to learn how to run one of those. I could learn this. I just wish we had an Aquaholic in the US to show us American boats. We build a lot of boats but there isn't a lot of info on them. Is a Tiara better than a Scout or a Cruisers?

[@doverivermedia3937]

Good to see a British brand succeeding. No jaGuar 'copy nothing' bs here hehe 😅...

[@raoulk35]

Belated Merry Christmas from Ontario , Canada .

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Same to you! 🎄

[@CYBERBOIUK]

Lovely boat!

[@CB-ju4mz]

Perfect for a couple or an individual that has no interest in other people or has an occasional visitor.

[@Leo-Crespi]

Lovely yacht.

[@richardbloore9480]

Lovely ... Really lovely.

[@907T]

Lovely! I don’t suppose we could get one on the west coast of the USA. Perhaps we best move to the UK.

[@essexginge9167]

what a great boat

[@JUKA..AHA.]

Nice one !

[@Nezzer57]

Great tour. Could have taken your pyjamas off though, Nick... 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Style never goes out of fashion! 😎

[@Nezzer57]

@AQUAHOLIC Fair play! 😆😂👍

[@jamiep61]

Brochures are worth reading If someone wanted buy one, looks great 👍 Inside as well

[@davidhaines3044]

I see Haines, I click

[@AQUAHOLIC]

I can see why! 😄

[@mantas6293]

why does the shaft drip water into the bilge? (@13:48)

[@markshutt1476]

Except for engine access I like this. This 1 cabin design would make an acceptable live aboard for holidays/vacations, if you tend to stay in marinas. Engine access would be bearable if you lose the carpet and go with different flooring, which may be the way it's designed, carpet just for boat show.

[@jimmyquinn9639]

Good video nick 🚤🛥⛵️👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Thanks Jim!

[@timotheosgodbold5841]

Excellent boat and not millions of dollars , would this make an excellent smugglers blues 3

[@bmanduprit2962]

is that price for that boat or the basic boat without options?

[@RussHollinshead]

Decent!

[@scottgordon1781]

Fair value for $$$ :-) one engine or 2 ?

[@LordLauderdale]

@aquaholic: why choose this over a Marex?

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Because it suits you better than a Marex, would be the usual reason. 🙂

[@darthkek1953]

I see the word "Haines" I think of the word "Jack."

[@sapphiresword139]

I like this boat. I do not like the idea of needing shore power for anything. Boat systems should be powered by on-board sources.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

And yet some of us without generators struggle manfully through regardless... 😄

[@mrshort2379]

I like it allot really. however, I think it is missing some accoutrements for an offshore boat, like twin engine ips, generator/solar power, water maker, gyro etc. etc. you would think a boat with offshore in its title would have those features as a standard, not optional, if at all optional. just saying but I do like it even if it is set up like a fresh water run about lake/river boat

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Good one..! 👍🏻 😂

[@Nick_G7IZR]

I appreciate it might be just me that it bugs, but why oh why do people slant their VHF antennas? It ruins their performance as half the signal is going up in the air instead of to the horizon - worse on a powerboat where the bow might rise under acceleration. Maybe it's the radio ham in me... 😁

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Maybe... 🤔

[@jaffaholland4039]

Lovely boat, but access to engine seems a real pain for daily checks

[@Yorkshiremadmick]

Why do I feel this is better than your Smugglers Blue??

[@princemarora]

VERY NICE - GOOD SIZE

[@PHILCHUDS]

I've always wondered , with todays tech , why no one has come up with an idea to run a microwave for obviously a limited time under the boats batteries ? Surely there nust be a solution ?

[@normanboyes4983]

There is.

[@johnsteinmetz4000]

While this boat is described as "offshore" and practical it seems to be missing some key features found in orher boats of the same size. Requiring shore power to use the microwave is not very practical. Also I heard no mention of air conditioning. For example a Regal 36 sedan

[@jamessullivan5168]

I was really impressed with the boat until you showed the access to the engine. That's an awful lot to go through to do a daily engine check. There needs to be a simpler way. Also, changing engines or doing major work looks like you'd have to dismantle the entire cabin.

[@NorthernContrarian]

Modern boats aren’t meant to be anything but buy and throw away. Like electric cars they’re disposable items. No one who’s a proper sea goer would ever put their money in these. There’s a reason almost all boats used professionally are made from steel or aluminium.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

No they're not..! 🤣

[@jamessullivan5168]

@@NorthernContrarian Number one: this is a separate comment and not an answer to my comment.

[@jamessullivan5168]

@@AQUAHOLIC Sorry...as NorthernContrarian seems to have taken over my comment. I figured, if anything, you might have elaborated on the real ease of access to the engine. Thanks!

[@AQUAHOLIC]

@@jamessullivan5168 It's pretty easy if you're not holding a GoPro with one hand and trying to make a video at the same time. 🙂

[@sirmurf]

I dare say you could run the engine to power the microwave.

[@AQUAHOLIC]

I dare say you couldn't. 🙂

[@boonsongnamgaew5973]

🙏 👍 🇨🇷

[@michaelmclaughlin6590]

Nice boat, but for £363k ??

[@AQUAHOLIC]

Yes that's right. That is the price. 🙂