Germany's answer to the Axopar 28 | Ryck 280 full tour and sea test | Motor Boat & Yachting

If you thought the battle for fast weekender supremacy was a shoot-out between the ultra-slick Nordic brands, you might want to take a look at a new name from the mighty German Hanse Group. Alex Smith takes a test drive of the Ryck 280...
Ryck 280 specifications
LOA: 30ft 1in (9.16m)
Beam: 9ft 3in (2.81m)
Draught: 1ft 9in (0.91m)
Displacement: 2.04 tonnes / 4,497lbs
Fuel capacity: 300 litres / 79 US gal
Water capacity: 88 litres / 23 US gal
Test engine: Single 300hp Mercury Verado V8 petrol outboard
Top speed on test: 38.8 knots
Cruising range: 106nm @ 20 knots
Fuel consumption: 45.4lph @ 20 knots
Noise: 79.5 d(B)A @ 20 knots
RCD category: C for 8 people
Designer: Bill Dixon / Hanse Yachts
Starting price: £150,000 (inc. VAT)
Price as tested: £163,000
(inc. VAT)
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[@clifbradley]

Damn Alex, phenomenal review and having a camera person really makes a difference and you can tell you were more relaxed and were able to articulate how great this affordable-ish boat is. Great job.

[@nicbennett6554]

Brilliant review - dare I say your best to date! Love the boat with all the options to make it yours, user friendly, fast etc, only think I’m not a fan of is the name!

[@ben.oderso804]

Very nice presentation by the team, and especially well moderated by Alex Smith. Best boat review ive seen in a long time.

[@coalitionperformance5901]

Very good review - good personality and flow. Thanks for taking the time to do and share this for free. And please don’t let the petulant anoraks who have moaned about 1 piece of terminology overshadow this.

[@RandomGuyRandomNumber]

Constructive criticism. Look it up.

[@andrebrammer2214]

Well done mate! Your best review ever since.

[@Utexa_]

Great review. But whats up with the camera shake?! The b-roll doesnt have it.

[@jacktyler7599]

IMO Alex and Dan Jones (BoatLife) provide the two most thorough assessments - in the harbor and underway - of recreational & pleasure boats on KZbin. And this new batch of near-30 footers, similar in design in many ways, deserve this kind of careful analysis. Really good stuff.

[@davepritchard8239]

A very exciting, action-packed presentation, that really makes you feel you’re belting along in the boat!

[@offshore.anglers]

These are all the rage and that's great, but a four season boat or a weekender? Not so sure, I mean I can't see where you put fenders, lines, flare pack, lifejackets, food, spare anchor, the pack away cabin sides blah blah.... is it really more than a day boat?

[@neilbaker7629]

Great review. Thanks. Fine boat, although I feel other brands do this style a little better.

[@SoundzAlive1]

Hi, the only thing you could have done better in this review is to use a camera with stabilisation even an iPhone would have done a better job. lOve the Ryck. André in Sydney

[@JoshRichmanDesign]

How much $$ in California?

[@BillWalkerSD]

The new guy is pretty good at this! Well done, Alex! With the color scheme of this boat and the grey weather, at the start I was wondering why the video was in black & white, until I noticed Alex's blue jacket!

[@korean_foot_traveler8655]

It seems to be really exciting to ride such a beautiful boat.😀👍👍

[@craiggibson2062]

Best review without doubt, very journalistic...thank you

[@Ian-gf8id]

I expect the overall value point would be a lot better than an equivalent Axopar but the fit and finish seem a little on the cheap side. For me, being somewhat shorter than 6' tall, the non-adjustable helm seat would be a deal-breaker.

[@paulnorman8274]

I can't imagine they have been able to out-cheap Axopar wrt fit and finish. Those things are, or at least were a few years ago, pretty sloppy. Upside is, they are rather inexpensive. And don't pretend to be the be-all-end-all precision fitting wise. Instead incorporating a bit of roughness into their persona. I'd be interested in the longer term, hard use consistency of quality of these. Dehler is built by Hanse as well, right? They seem to have a very good reputation as "everyman's" sail boats. I've looked at several Fjords, which are, I suppose, more "grownup" versions of this. And they have not been particularly impressive for their price. But that has more to do with what they cost, than what they are. I feel the same way about Axo: At the 28 price point, and possible that of lower specced 37s, they are a good deal. But once you get to the AMG end of pricing, I would find it a harder sell. Just too many slight gaps which look like they'll turn into annoying rattles over time. In general, on smaller boats at budgets indicating they will be only-boats (as in, not the tender for the "real" boat.....), "clever" shape transforming panels and hinges can add more than they remove. But once boats get bigger, such cleverness is no longer that critical. And the downsides of less permanent solidity, become more of an issue. This 28, like the Axo one, both seem to come down on the right side of that tradeoff.

[@gerhardvanwaltsleben8944]

Lekker man lekker 🇿🇦

[@borysnijinski331]

These are the only two words this guy knows.

[@gregoriomontalban]

Costs way more than the axopar, not as good though

[@reality-cheque]

I wish someone would make a proper day-boat, instead of always sticking in a cabin! I would love a Saxdor 270 or Axopar 28 or Nimbus T9 with more deck & 'dining' space and a large locker instead of a cabin. Not many people want to sleep on their boat!

[@Hyujin971]

Amen to that !

[@sophiedolman2230]

Great video Alex. Nice little boat. Fab

[@lawrencefoster2120]

I am serious about a dream engine boat.

[@borysnijinski331]

Nice sales job taking negatives and justifying them into positives. FYI, “freeboard” is the distance from the water to the top of the gunwales. What you are referring to as “freeboards” are actually gunwales.

[@paulnorman8274]

Freeboard is the distance from the waterline to the deck. On sailboats, and some powerboats, windage and/or aero limits gunwales to almost nonexistent, so the two are the same. But freeboard per se, is about deck height, as in water drainage.

[@borysnijinski331]

That is not a king sized bed.

[@aekara1000]

Any bad weather??

[@sharonbraselton3135]

Copl oat 300 hp oxe I used out ard one 300 hp jet outbard

[@notbilltan]

Camera work is so frustrating. So many videos which employ a separate cameraman focus too much on the presenter instead of the boat and the various features he’s talking about. Much prefer GoPro footage taken from the point of view of the reviewer.

[@RandomGuyRandomNumber]

Please stop talking about "freeboard" as if it means the sides of the hull. Freeboard is a measurement of a part of the boat, not a part of the boat itself. Just as "draft" means depth of the hull (or keel) beneath the waterline (not the actual hull), "freeboard" means height of the hull above the waterline (not the actual hull-sides) at its lowest point. When boat hulls were exclusively made of wooden planks, the "freeboard" may originally have meant the top-most plank (i.e. the board that is free of the water), but it never referred to the entire hull-side and definitely does not today, even if the boat is wooden. It's a minor niggle, but if you are going to use nautical terminology, please use it correctly - otherwise it is as jarring to hear as nails on a blackboard, and inevitably affects your credibility as a knowledgeable and professional marine correspondent.

[@borysnijinski331]

Freeboard vs gunwales.

[@RandomGuyRandomNumber]

@@borysnijinski331 Still going to take issue with the use of "gunwale" - this word refers to the top edge of the hull (originally the actual strip of wood that re-inforced the top edge of an open boat), at the sheer. The way this presenter was mis-using "freeboard", he was pointing out the entire side of the hull above the side deck, not just the top edge. But at least "gunwale" is a part of a boat, not merely a measurment, like "freeboard", so it would be an improvement. If one wished to be extremely pedantic, one could insist that the part of the boat the presenter was pointing at was the "ceiling" (the inner lining of a hull or superstructure), because the fibreglass moulding was double-skinned with an air gap between the skins, not connected structurally with foam or similar core material, so might not be truly considered part of the outer hull. But at that point, everyone gets really bored or incredibly stroppy, abuse starts to fly, people get compared to a certain prominent Austro-German historical figure and accounts get banned... so gunwale it shall have to be. 🙂

[@justice1justice167]

Sale it to Ukraine because only them is have money now 😂😂😂😂😂