€595k STEEL Liveaboard Boat FOR SALE!

Explore this stunning 1951 steel boat transformed into a luxury liveaboard, perfect for navigating Europe's waterways. Boasting modern amenities, ample living space, and a robust Gardner engine, this vessel combines vintage charm with contemporary comforts. Best of all, this unique liveaboard boat is currently for sale.
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[@YachtBuoy]

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[@GHOSTINPLAINSIGHT]

Oh holy shit! My dream boat!

[@radsk8rbigollies594]

This boat would feel like an actual home! This is more my style than the modern yachts. This would feel a bit more functional AND homey.

[@GHOSTINPLAINSIGHT]

I'd ship it here to America and spend the rest of my life cruising the river system in middle America. From Minneapolis to NOLA, Mobile to Pittsburgh, And the Great Lakes to Okeechobee!

[@GHOSTINPLAINSIGHT]

@@Navy1977 I’d find a way to make it work!

[@dylanstrijker]

@@GHOSTINPLAINSIGHTit can even almost do the great loop! Unfortunately I believe it’s to long for one canal and the sea is only possible with very calm weather ofcourse

[@marvindebot3264]

While I'd ship her to the US she is quite seaworthy, she was built for the North Sea and that's hardly a mill pond. @@dylanstrijker

[@dylanstrijker]

@@marvindebot3264 she wasn’t build for the North Sea, she was build for the canals and rivers. I do agree the ships are pretty seaworthy, but they aren’t equipped for it (I own one).

[@nicovantol7363]

I find it a verry good idea to rebuild a former cargo boat intoo a big living boat. Because in Holland we have lots of waterways and lakes,so you can live on the water in a perfect boat !!! There are a lot of fishingboats now to buy because of the fishing problems we have in Holland. Now you can allso buy an old big fishing boat and transform it in a big yacht !!!

[@TrogART]

Yes please more barges, love them as well as some of the new replica ones! Built one myself and my that. was a steep learning curve.

[@YachtBuoy]

Will do!

[@TrogART]

Jolly good, good boy@@YachtBuoy 😁

[@joesantos3717]

Beautifully laid out, i would personally change the current office into a massive pantry with cold storage and convert the studio into an office, lay at least 5000watts of solar panels on that roof with a 10kva lithium battery bank and a water maker/purifier. That crane would be handy for a small jetski on the roof too. Wouldnt set foot on land for months ...

[@dylanstrijker]

I own one too! Currently renovating (almost done). Was much fun to watch! If anyone has any questions about these types of ships in general I would be happy to answer!

[@truthseeker2321]

Do these ships go out to sea,or are they strictly for rivers? I remember seeing them in Germany over 40 years ago while stationed there, but I never remembered to ask anyone.

[@dylanstrijker]

@@truthseeker2321 strictly rivers if you use them commercially to ship cargo. The sea is possible if you own it as a yacht.

[@ssttvooo]

its been a dream of mine now, a few years to revive one of these old steel hull ships. renovate it into a floating hotel. i had got a ship in 2019 but with the struggles of covid, i had to give up on the Canadian coastguard vessel. one day.. mark my words fam

[@YARCHLRL]

Definitely unique.

[@randydavis8021]

Love this boat. Beautiful

[@jamiebray8532]

Man this thing is just massive. For the price you couldn't get a house no where near this size for the same price. This is an outstanding deal for a live aboard. The day head looks like an old gas station bathroom. You know the ones that had the hand drying rag that kinda ran a loop through a metal hanging box. Same utilitarian colors & all 😂. Man this boat is just so awesome! I love the wheel house with it's old nostalgia look. I'm a big fan of the old wood look. You'll never be room poor on this boat. I could definitely see this cruising the intracoastal on the east & Gulf Coast. Making shore stops in several places like Savannah, Charleston, Mobile, & St. Augustine just to name a few. Me being from Savannah I could definitely see this docked up somewhere close to River St in downtown Savannah.

[@williamwebberjr8045]

Awesome yacht. I am considering the great circle route in the US. NY- Chicago - New Orleans- NY. This has some open passages / great lakes and lots of locks and canals. This looks to be a fantastic vessel for such a trip. Dare to dream.

[@nickwatkins5321]

I love that. Perfect for living on, but capable of little trips out

[@gideonding01]

lovely & fantastic boat!! beautifully crafted and refined..

[@charlierubenstein2886]

Beautiful home on the water.

[@alisavas9526]

Great tour, amazing liveaboard!

[@janicesullivan8942]

Lovely, I wish it were my home.

[@thebandthatisDAVE]

Absolutely stunning!

[@themanwithnoname2666]

Love your style of presenting.

[@YachtBuoy]

Thank you! 🫡

[@johngauntlett4915]

John, I think that would be a great small river boat to Charter to guests. You could use all four of the cabins as guest cabins and change the aft efficiency into a married couple as captain and stewardess /cooks cabin. Maybe find some space to put a third crew member on to act as stewardess to maintain laundry and cleaning duties. Obviously, cabin size would dictate the cost of the cruise.

[@polljones8921]

Ummmm because a woman couldn't captain this barge? A strong intelligent woman in your world is relegated to a serving role? Does the manual say it requires a penis to operate it, because rarely do your genitals come into play when you're operating machinery. Have a think about displaying your outdated sexism to the world before you comment next time

[@DerMarcus_27.Juni.]

I like it👍🏽.

[@wendyharbon7290]

The office would make a great sewing and craft room

[@johngaynor9383]

Fabulous live-aboard. Might be certain limitations, but overall? Great!

[@wendyharbon7290]

This is a great floating home, come inland waterway cruising houseboat too, more of these please

[@sdvc244]

Simply lovely vessel, it would be awesome to have and cruise, Cheers!

[@YachtBuoy]

Thanks for watching! 🙌

[@sheilagosney8890]

Absolutely love the master suite!

[@marvindebot3264]

That's not a boat, it's a small ship. What a massive amount of space, the wallpaper would have to go, however.

[@terryhughes7349]

interesting ship. Well presented.

[@YachtBuoy]

Many thanks!

[@cherylsemrau7100]

Lovely. I wish I could buy this boat.

[@PurgatoryVLM]

wow 👏🏾 love this type of content

[@YachtBuoy]

Thanks! 🫡

[@witchmellor]

That's a nice vessel John, thanks for the video ⚓

[@YachtBuoy]

Thanks for watching!

[@freddobbs4437]

I want it, bring it across through the Panama Canal and up to my property in Baja, Sea of Cortez.

[@justitia257]

Beautiful

[@leighmacbane5256]

Yes more boats like this but maybe in the 30’-60’ range?! Great site👍✌️🖖

[@YachtBuoy]

🙌😱

[@williamconway1287]

That looks like the the perfect boat to do the canals in Holland or France .

[@ruudkreuger9212]

It is a spits. Meaning it is designed as a freighter capable of fitting in the locks of Belgium and France. (And therefore also in the Dutch locks and canals.)

[@norarivkis2513]

I'm going to be living along the Dutch canals, and I would love to do it on this boat. She's awesome.

[@bernardkealey6449]

Seen her advertised and thought she was definitely in “best of breed” - but had been put off a bit as brokers only listed her “max air” at the 4m… thought she’d be too high for most French waterways… thanks for new info!

[@YachtBuoy]

No worries 🫡

[@muhammedoganay]

From the price point, it seems very logic to have this one. Boat house that you can move anywhere you want to go. Beside all of that, it seems ver spacious to me, more bigger than a lot of city center houses and flats😂

[@theworldaccordingtochris4370]

Lovely

[@christophermaloney5452]

Excellent video, and a beautiful vessel. The selling price seems to be very good. I'd keep the study as well. The studio offers great potential. Love it. Would like to see more of these type of boats. 10\10.

[@YachtBuoy]

Thanks for the comment 🫡 You will love the Selby barge video that is coming 🙌

[@stevelauda5435]

This would be a fine vessel to travel along the coast of the British isles, coastal Europe, Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean all along the entire shores of Europe and North Africa.

[@russellking9762]

Flat bottomed no way!

[@braddl9442]

Ok this one is much better then that man cave one you showed. This one I can get the asking price for makes sense. The other one needed like 100k in work on it. This is like an actual house with the amount of space it has. Like you get so much more space to play with converting old cargo boats.

[@gracevalentine1666]

Live aboard anchorages and marinas are rare these days.

[@kevinamsteam7816]

I see in this, a boat with a lot of potential. I would gut it and do a major refit to the interior spaces. I'd remove walls and make some of those small rooms into lovely suites. Replace the antique in the engine room and put in a pony engine through hooked up to a common gearbox. Put in newer and more refrigeration. Update the galley and lots more. As it sits, I think it would make a lovely floating museum of comforts imagined in the 1950s.

[@marvindebot3264]

The antique in the engine room is only a few years old (2011) and is the most reliable marine engine in the world, why on earth would you change it?

[@thecocktailian2091]

Um yeah, just get a new boat son. Leave the class to people that have it.

[@Clayton-yh7sz]

❤

[@jamess6203]

Beautiful boat however, all that glass worriers me in rough weather situations. But, maybe it’s not glass ?

[@KelleySL24]

These boat are not made for big waters they made for small channels

[@chrisperry4864]

This video is fantastic, I'm very new to the boat world , I'm currently in the market with a huge budget and didn't even think about this type of vessel 🤓 . Keep doing this videos 🎉great work

[@YachtBuoy]

Many thanks! I appreciate it 🫡

[@wickedcabinboy]

Built in 1951? What was its original purpose? Presumably cargo carrying. When was it initially converted to a pleasure vessel? And by whom? I assume this in not a blue water vessel but confined to harbor and inland waterways, or maybe coastal cruising as well. I love the aft cabin. There are so many possibilities...

[@ruudkreuger9212]

It is a spits. Meaning it is designed as a freighter capable of fitting in the locks of Belgium and France. (And therefore also in the Dutch locks and canals.)

[@1business2690]

very pretty. cannot imagine the upkeep costs. Hw much fuel to push that much steel down the road?

[@marvindebot3264]

19 litres an hour at 7.5 kts.

[@Magnificent729]

Luv it! I’m assuming it is capable of navigating the channel so it can come to the UK, or is it an EU only inland vessel?

[@Magnificent729]

@@Navy1977 thanks. Heard that later in the video doh! 👍🏼

[@Pixelplanet5]

the only thing im missing on this boat is a battery bank and solar panels. such vast unused surfaces where it could have easily 10kWp of solar power. combine that with a hybrid drive and you could motor around on electric power most of the time and only need the diesel for longer passages.

[@rexharvey8420]

A nice live aboard that in its current form I would not consider taking it to sea. As it would end up a serious mess below decks, looking as if someone had come aboard and trashed it! The sea does not forgive! But as a static live aboard all very nice, and a cheap way 'relatively' of having a base in one of many UK cities and towns with water access and moorings.

[@thecocktailian2091]

She's simply a river/ canal vessel. Some lakes if you can get there. Rough seas would doom her.

[@johnnyb7698]

Hi, this boat looks beautiful. May I possibly ask how much this lovely costs or could you steer me in the right direction to ask the person this question. Take care and blessings.

[@fortisfortunaadiuvat9262]

Beautiful, how much

[@tuvia4082]

Nice tub. Probably expensive to have a space in a marina.

[@NemeanLion-]

That’s wild. I don’t know a lot about boats, but is that sort of like a converted barge or something?

[@dylanstrijker]

Yes, used to carry things like steel coils and food for livestock to France from NL/BE. (All the way to sête!)

[@NemeanLion-]

@@dylanstrijker 👍

[@pirateatfourty]

well that is a very nice ship barge ,. if i lived in europe id buy her in a heart beat,my dogs and i would love it. looks like they would have a lot of room to run around. and be safe. me? not so much lol i have a tendency to fall overboard a lot. trip and yell out oh crap not again!. maybe id better not buy her lol what with sharks and krakens all over europe. . lots of krakens over there more than sharks

[@TinWhistleTV]

What category is this Barge?

[@JohnDSmith-po4nu]

Ahoi John! Liked this video very much, as I liked this liveaboard. Yet, I'm not yet quite sure on what type of boat I'd buy. Frankly, I'd look at her rather as a floating residence than a vehicle, so to speak. Most probably I'd take her for few 'coastal' trips around Ireland, through the Enlish Channel to Germany, around Denmark into the Baltic and so forth. If I'm not wrong, for such purposes she'd be certified as CE category B. What CE category is this barge rated?

[@billyslide7645]

Might be a neat greater-looper

[@marvindebot3264]

Too long for a couple of the locks worse luck.

[@dexagalapagos]

I'd be worried about a steel hull that old. Even with regular maintenance, it could've rusted away significantly during the 73 years it's been on the water.

[@kevinvandal8595]

Its a fresh water boat, it will be fine with proper maintenance

[@ruudkreuger9212]

As a freighter they dock every 4/5 years for inspection and, when needed, replacement of hull plating. If you fail to do this, insurance is off your ship. Only the years and circumstances of its live-aboard period is of interest. Since it was moored in sweet water and had a recent hull inspection it is probably A-OK.

[@dylanstrijker]

That’s why the hull of commercially active ships like these are measured every 5/7 years

[@michaelwhitney4196]

No Ginny?great vlog ❤

[@YachtBuoy]

Next time!

[@dennissimo7546]

Is this a blue water cruiser or a coastal cruiser ?

[@doobybrother21]

neither. It's a converted cargo barge made for inland navigation. The mention of 'time at sea' and 'sea-going' is disingenuous at best.

[@elissaann-ij3tb]

How do the lamps not fall over in the bedroom, they don't have camping hanging lights. And more secured baskets so stuff don't fall over.

[@damnyankee656]

How on earth do you get the motor out should you need to replace it

[@jimc4731]

Nice but a little too long for me. Docking fees and maneuvering prohibitive. JIM😘

[@Wedgedoow]

I can only dream, but they are free.

[@ShandiNicole1982]

Kinda like it, but seeing we live in Hawaii…

[@stevethornhill3304]

I didn't see a freezer

[@user-jw6ps2lf9o]

👍🔊🌐

[@raykirkland555]

Is that david gilmores old boat?

[@damnyankee656]

787 US. Notbad at all. Too many bathrooms however. Perhaps it could be used as a BnB

[@shellybelknap1524]

is it still for sale?

[@YachtBuoy]

Yes, she is! Link in description

[@wendyharbon7290]

Question as she is flat bottom, how safety is she in coastal waters or making short sea passages, for example crossing the English Channel or the North Sea, or the Irish Sea? Or making crossings over to the Western Scottish Islands and Orkney's, plus sailing around the Scottish Western, Northern and Eastern coastline too? Or even travelling around the Baltic Sea coastline, of Denmark, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden and Norway, maybe going up the Norwegian Sea Western coastline of Norway too? Or maybe cruising along the Western coastlines of France, Spain and Portugal down to Gibertal too, before sailing along the Mediterranean Sea coastline of Spain, France, Italy and Greece. Or are Dutch Barges the wrong vessel, for this kind of family or retired couple fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat, or is a trawler conversion a better option which has better seakeeper hull? For the UK and European waters, with family and friends visiting now and again, for long weekends or for a week or two holiday's, maybe even for a month. Which would you advise a Dutch Barge or fishing trawler conversions, for a fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat, along with how much experience, knowledge, expertist too, plus training would a retired couple or family, say a husband and wife plus teenage child or children need to operate such a vessel by themselves too? The reason for my question, my partner has sailing experience, knowledge, expertist, like yourself is a armed forces veteran but is disabled now, I am a civilian with no experience, knowledge, expertist of being afloat or at sea. So changing a permanent home on land for the likes of fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising liveaboard explorer houseboat, I do have questions but we both enjoy travelling. So I can see the appear of having fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat, no packing for trips and no flights, trains or buses and coaches, or stay's in hotels and guesthouses etc. Or the appear of a fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat lifestyle, with different views outside whenever you want a change, pull up anchor or untie mooring lines and sail away to somewhere new or warmer, but being disabled myself too how practical is it for a Disabled Couple to liveaboard? I would love to hear, from any disabled people or disabled families, who do live or have fully time or permanent liveaboard cruising explorer houseboat lifestyle too?

[@PAPPYKING-LUNA-REYES-ii8pi]

"White Elephant boat". Lol

[@frederikdejongh92]

This is former dutc cargo schip cald a spits these ships ar verry strong build and now its even stronger you can make the cross the north see and go to the netherlands even you can go tofrance this ship is made for france there are lengte 38 ore 47 meters long and 5,10 meters wyde

[@doobybrother21]

Since when is Merelbeke in Holland?

[@frederikdejongh92]

Read the tekst merelbeke is belgium bud i ment is to make the cross over the nothsee you can make it because its that strong build

[@rcac1023]

Did not see any AC system.

[@Franklin-pc3xd]

How do keep the rats off that thing?

[@rstuder9454]

full auto pellet gun...

[@knutarneaakra6013]

6 mm? Not a lot😊

[@missychan63]

There is only one "i" in the word aluminum... 😂. I don't understand why other countries insist on adding the second one.

[@joeydepalmer4457]

I take it you can not take that out on the ocean

[@matthewhorvath322]

Looks like a canal boat-no keel. I met a guy while I was jogging in Camargue (South of France) that had a real nice liveaboard. He said he would occasionally (very rarely) take it out on the Med. Only on dead calm days & close to shore. If the seas gave any indication of picking up, he would head back to the canal PDQ.

[@andrewpodmore2440]

Possibly under the right conditions ans with an escort to round kent and cross the channel getting you in to the French canal network that goes as far south as Carcassonne

[@zaniwoob]

The spits is a type of cargo ship especially designed to traverse the French canal network as it fits the canal locks. This ship can take you from the Netherlands all the way to the mediterrane via the interior of france. It's a lovely trip. There are travel videos of this route. Of course it can take you to Germany Poland and the Donau all the to the black sea.

[@santaclause7676]

there is ocean going ones out there.

[@jeffbledsoe4131]

Only once...

[@Tadrjbs]

Looks longer than 38.2'

[@marvindebot3264]

Meters mate, not feet

[@johnmachin2521]

Love your videos but I wish you would not call deck heads ceilings there are no ceilings on a boat or a ship I am a shipwright and no ceilings were called ceilings there are all ways called deck heads.

[@mdquaglia]

175 horsepower for a 125 long ship? Did I hear that correctly??? How does that make sense???

[@doobybrother21]

Yes you did hear that correctly and it's more than enough.

[@timakey4678]

That thing looks like it can barely wait to flex in the middle and break in half. Other than that it looks pretty cool.

[@joesantos3717]

It was a barge designed to carry at least 400 tonnes of material..the way the she fitted and weighing only 180 tonnes that will never happen.

[@dylanstrijker]

It’s build that way tho😆

[@masterofreality1552]

I would put a pool table where the office is.

[@user-sc8dh4vn4v]

All I'd do is put dry ex stack on her so you can hear the 8lbx sing ❤❤❤❤

[@markjones1337]

6mm hull. My narrowboat was built in 2002 with a 10mm hull. 6mm is hull is a joke.

[@markjones1337]

I think anyone who owns this boat who has to rent out the arse end of it, is on their arse. Thus any future buyer is buying in a buyers market.

[@user-xt5oe2gm5v]

I always wanted a barge. Not.

[@thecocktailian2091]

I will never understand why every single person aboard needs their own damn bathroom. It is getting so bad we are getting vessels with 1.5 bathrooms per person. It is a colossal waste of space and completely antithetical to sailing.

[@bdb1052]

Lol having shared a bathroom with 4 other dudes for several years I completely DISAGREE 😂

[@Dr.TJ_Eckleburg]

Counterpoint: you’re very wrong

[@tianzhou1244]

It's a luxury boat..

[@thecocktailian2091]

@@tianzhou1244 So the formula for luxury is #of bathrooms / sq inches x # of users? I suppose that is why I would make a terrible posh person, not wanting to #1 in one bathroom, move to the next to #2, wash my hands in a third and finally dry my hands in a fourth.

[@gekayp9165]

Try fishing for a living snowflake. 1 toilet between 4 men thats shared with 4 others while your working.

[@jameswhitewater6127]

Take this "thing" out to the north sea ..bye

[@randydavis8021]

Love this boat. Beautiful