Look aboard this new Swan 48 - could this be Nautor's most popular ever?

At under 50ft and under €1m the new 'baby' cruising Swan looks set to storm the market. Toby jumps aboard during its premiere in Cannes
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[@hogey74]

I was devouring yachting mags as a kid in the 80s that were donated by enthusiasts to my Australian school. Them and the UK Car magazines... To this day, those Swan ketches hold a special place in my heart and mind, like the music you hear at a certain time in your life. But in the decades since, the ridiculous cost of such conveyances has slowly made me less enamored of them, even as they've become even better. But today, as Toby walked down into the cabin of this one... whoa. I still couldn't justify owning one for my own occasional enjoyment... they'd have to be something many people could experience. But today I got that old thrill and just want one again.

[@andre1987eph]

Oh My Goodness. The most beautiful sailing yacht

[@TheSailingFamily]

One of the prettiest monohulls I've seen in a very, very long time.

[@timwright4676]

A future classic: utterly beautiful in every detail.

[@yachtingworld]

Before you ask.... Base price starts at €810k ex VAT

[@MrZrryan2]

thanks for answering the most common question of every boat review, ever, in the history of boat reviews :) Honestly, thanks !

[@larspardo4309]

price is one thing, maintenance another...

[@MrSfirius]

800k Seawind 1600 cat

[@deanrobert8674]

Lars, Sorry mate I don't get y people say this, when everyone knows the answer.

[@tony8074]

Now where did i leave that $100 million of mine?

[@martinortiz575]

This boat seems to be a serious thing. The quality is perceived everywhere. I like it so much.

[@crusadeagainsttomatoes2518]

I checked out a 1984 Swan 46 CB... my god that is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. These new, modern hulls are great for space, speed and comfort, but that 1984-style hull is just more beautiful.

[@7rays]

I was a part owner of a Swan years ago...the quality was impeccable and has, apparently, only gotten better. Awesome boat at a remarkable price. Great video too! Thanks for sharing!

[@MrPutman]

Swan make the best. Just a stunning boat that you know will be great fun and a great performer.

[@returner323617]

Very nice. Yes, I'd also swap to the 2-cabin + storage layout. Not terribly keen on the mainsheet setup, but could learn to live with that I suppose, but, seriously a manual toilet in a circa €1m boat..!

[@mhazelbaker9181]

My new favorite yacht for sure!

[@guyhmajor]

Just stunning, no compromise!

[@thomasl2974]

Lot’s of quality boats and sailing yachts are built along the shores of Ostrobotnia in Finland, Swan, Baltic, Targa and Sargo plus many more. What they all have in common is that they are yachts and boats not rafts with a sail or engine. They also share the very high quality in carpentry.

[@ssnoc]

Now THAT is one beautiful sailboat ⛵️ ....

[@LucklessGun]

these production sailing yachts are getting damned pretty

[@pekka75]

Beautiful boat! 😍

[@andrewlabat9963]

I really like that Interior and your right, the two cabin layout the best way to go for personally owned by a couple with the occasion friends.

[@mosca3289]

I’d be happy on that little Swan. Nice review 👍🏻

[@Lilou34650]

What a Beauty ❤

[@bertfarin8755]

Nice review Toby, thanks. Yes, I’ll take mine as a two cabin boat, as well. Hey Swan, welcome to the 21st Century...where have you been?

[@ZoneTelevision]

Beautiful boat. Nautor Swan are nice. I like the BRENTA's also like the SPIRIT boat line as well.

[@markrussellfilaroski5035]

"class" is a perfect description

[@jefferypriest9057]

Absolutely gorgeous yacht- I’m partial to a classic look and wish it could be built with a single large wheel like the Swan 45.

[@Whitemoon548]

Beautiful boat, thank you for your detailed and easy to follow review. Could I ask you to make a review also on the new AMEL 60? Ciao and grazie from Italy 🇮🇹

[@yachtingworld]

Thanks Elisa - and yes, hope to be doing the Amel 60 next week

[@grantmoore8889]

Stunning

[@BigDaddyLee666]

Beautiful boat

[@NautilusYachtManagement]

Love it! ❤️

[@sparky191]

That's a beauty. Great review.

[@TheJamesthe13]

Beautiful.

[@MattBargain]

Swans are what most sailors aspire to.. True for me and Andy Shell. Difference is we are two boats apart... 😅

[@williamyamm8803]

Vraiment sublime !

[@user-nj4hw9oi3p]

Шикарная яхта! В такой жить можно! Класс!)))

[@ericvuille1956]

Really bautiful in this combination. Cabin behind the kitchen has few place. And the cockpit doesnt look very conforatble to sit.

[@johnappleyard4123]

Great boat

[@louisrichard6046]

This is a very nice piece of Art

[@HellenicPandemic]

Toby, nice review, and nice that it doesn't sound so scripted this time. I have to say this boat doesn't seem like a good foul-weather cruiser, but that could be because the biminis are not in place for the show. If you could lend your thoughts on the new Amel, they would be appreciated.

[@yachtingworld]

Will do - hope to be sailing the Amel in the next couple of weeks

[@jamesbarker5326]

Primarily these videos are about storage....fascinating to a degree i never thought possible.

[@oliviogarra2990]

quanta elegancia!

[@fifich6953]

As always well presented, beautiful vessel...... unfortunately not a good price for my pocket🙆

[@qatarsailor7727]

Wow this is the boat ⚓

[@unggrabb]

There are yachts and then there is Nautors Swan. Enough said

[@music-man]

I second that !

[@williamyamm8803]

My dream boat ! maybe in an other life 😊

[@psystealth]

Beauty...looks kinda classic?

[@lagoriasuppachannel]

Pure love!

[@michael.e.maingot5338]

One of my favourite boats but I’ve found my new love for sailing catamarans now... Old monohull Days are a thing of the past for me

[@drx1xym154]

sounds like you are reconsidering.... one bigger better hull is better than three!

[@svflyer-fromzerotonineknot3125]

So let me get this straight.... The main sheet IS the cockpit table...???

[@MrTurridu]

For a fraction of a second almost makes me reconsider a catamaran, then I return to my senses : )

[@music-man]

I have been waiting with Baited breath! Make that 25 people that have ordered one. Im down its beautiful.

[@iForeverImmature]

nice! now the only thing i need to buy me this is money... a lot of it

[@drx1xym154]

just make sure you triple your money. - all boats need looking after!

[@dingo397]

I have a feeling this Model will sell like Hotcakes in the US, the under 50ft and the quality for the price....WOW !! Jeanneau and Beneteau that are constantly resold after 1or 2 yrs and have flooded the used boat market will take a major hit for sure.....Good Job Swan !!! A 50ft will also do good....lol

[@joris777]

24 sold already!

[@kentwood2914]

Good luck going from stbd to port forward winches with that table in the way.

[@derkhawkins2575]

Yes, please!!

[@Cosmic__Radiation]

If I had the money, I would buy it in a heartbeat! Well, after I see the other interior styles. I might like a color palate. Other then that, the interior is perfect for what I want and the deck looks like it would be a fun sail!

[@imid-ltd]

Toby: "I was told they really wanted to have a lift (a lifting berth) for storage underneath, but (yeah) the yard guys don't like that sort of thing. They wanted proper drawers in there (say) big deep drawers. Finish builders like to do things properly (good)." See, let honor go to the author of honor.

[@williamdykes2750]

Any know what the air draft is? I have not been able to ferret out that particular stat.

[@julieta203]

Interior layout seems larger than a lot of 60ft yachts

[@TAMBestBuild]

Nice. Tell me why have all the modern manufacturers abandoned mainsheet travelers. Seems crazy to me as this limits sail shape control.

[@Mahalo_83]

Compromise. The club50 has a traveller as its a racing class, whereas this is marketed as a cruiser with comfort and simplicity taking precedent over outright performance.

[@wilfdarr]

These are specifically aimed at the cruising market who don't give a whit about sail control (same people who buy a roller furling main sail): keeps it cleaner and simpler. I don't like it but I know people who would.

[@markcampbell7577]

Wow aft cabin and keel line stem to stern. The racing version adds retractable wing keel and blade keeled head sail. Edison generators unlimited range electric motor jets are standard.

[@markcampbell7577]

True to the name Swan

[@lisar9425]

Sooooooooooo pretty. Wistful at how pretty she is. Where’s my magic wand...

[@user-lp8nx2rz9p]

A little swan? Oh,it's largest size at little Japan! I consider that to get former Swan48 selling Japan,but change of mind. Nice boat except cost!

[@clarkkent2913]

One for me with a traveller and outer genoa tracks, please.

[@FranFerioli]

...and they can skip the rail for the self-tacking

[@sequeten]

Right you are Michaei, the traveller is a must. Cannot understand the arrangement!

[@DavePilotCH47]

Toby, do you prefer an aft owners cabin?

[@rfarich]

Beautiful boat. I'd like 3D jib leads on all boats, so much more efficient. I cant believe how much space on this 48' boat. Looking forward to seeing it next week at Annapolis.

[@wilfdarr]

3D jib leads on a non roler furling jib, a main sheet traveler, a Cunningham... ya I hear you but they aren't marketing this boat to us who like to fiddle for 0.1 more kt. It's aimed at busyness men who want to take friends/clients out for a relaxing sail. If we don't spin out at least once it was a slow day: if they spin out buddy goes home without a contract. I like the fact that it's not confused about its identity.

[@rfarich]

@@wilfdarr I had a boat with a self tacking jib once, at 57' it was easy to handle myself....but soooo boooring:)

[@rfarich]

Have you checked out the Pogo 36? Nice boat

[@wilfdarr]

@@rfarich And that's exactly the point! I'd rather have a pogo 3 or a pogo 4iler than a pogo 36! I'm not who they're marketing to!

[@wilfdarr]

@@rfarich I hear you, totally when I get older, but not what I'm about now.

[@jeroenjansen2709]

Why are the wheels so far back?

[@tammerlan]

E P I C

[@Lionn8563]

On swans i love the amaount of tique

[@ingriddubbel8468]

Amount of teak NOT the nonsense you wrote.

[@roscoejones4515]

Sound!

[@ianb5949]

If this boat is bought for cruising, where are the lee boards or cloths? I still prefer the S & S Swan 48

[@Greggspies]

Would want cover over cockpit like a Amal, so I wouldn't get splashed

[@marcusrwalker]

That is a lot of floor creaking, especially for that price point.

[@drx1xym154]

yes, yet the ambient lighting! 48' dry head + shower !!!

[@tigermagician6726]

With the double bed in the pointy end it is obviously meant to be tied to the dock.

[@markcampbell7577]

Take the heel out of the boat with a keel line stem to stern. Take out the bow dunk out with more displacement in the bow. The boom keeled boat is not safe or fast.

[@markcampbell7577]

This is academic keeling design. The normal pre 1800.

[@metegokce697]

I'd rather buy an Azuree 46.

[@Prayforwindandsurf]

Nice but for 900k US - too much for a 48 footer

[@weprinfilms]

It does seem a little pricy. Then again, the sister SWAN 58 is double at 2mil and it’s the same thing just 10 feet longer.

[@sucapizda]

Still think the Amel 55 totally rules in every aspect. Even the new 50 is nicer.

[@dingo397]

The new Amel 60' is a Monster.... but the very first boat I ever sailed on, was a Swan 57' and sailed it from Los Angeles Ca, to Sydney Australia.....I gotta have me some Swan....lol

[@sequeten]

The Amelies 55 is a motorsailer, there is no comparison

[@marcoantonioneves8450]

A very wet boat for cruising.

[@curtisprincemusic]

Personally there is no way I would cross an ocean on that boat. No after deck, aft coamings, just an open to the sea cockpit. Then no bridge deck! Couple that with dual spade rudders... not for me for voyaging. I’d have a blast with it in the Med! The Caribbean... I know this is the way these days, and the boats are beautiful, but to be caught in something like the Fastnet storm or the Queens Birthday storm I think would be suicide. Hitting a whale or a container with a spade rudder and you sink. Beautiful boat, can’t wait to look at one in Annapolis next week.

[@dr.z1657]

I was under the impression that spade rudders are, by design, much more likely to bend the stock in a collision and save the hull, rather than prying it open.

[@sunlovesailing]

Dr. Z Dr Z. The first thing we want to do is NOT bend the rudder post. For an off shore voyaging boat protecting the rudder is one of the most important aspects of the design. Having an exposed rudder, especially these days with so much debris in the oceans is, in my mind, and I would say the minds of most voyagers, very dangerous. Secondly, the top aft end of the rudder is like a can opener. It’s not necessarily the “post” we’re concerned with, although they will rip out of the bottom as well, the aft rudder will cut a hole in the bottom like a knife. No matter what they say about a breakaway rudder, it can still happen and does. Many cross oceans in boats like these, but I feel they’re a disaster waiting to happen. Why take the chance, just buy a boat that has a protected rudder like a Crealock 37. Simple,...one life threatening disaster of many to come,...averted. 😁

[@dr.z1657]

@Sun Love Sailing Thanks for your input. I can definitely understand the superior protection afforded by a full keel rudder, but the stock of both semi & full-skegged rudders is still subject to collision damage. And in that scenario, if bent, will rip the aft hull wide open. Whereas with spade rudders, a metal stock will typically bend before ripping open the hull, depending upon the material & construction. While that could jam the rudder & render it useless, I’d rather have to use drogues & a jury rudder in an emergency & save the hull, rather than sink. In particular, the Swan 48 MKIII has a composite stock, which will actually break away by design before damaging the hull. In addition, with dual spade rudders, the probability that both will be damaged catastrophically is fairly low, as the bottom of the inactive rudder sits barely below the water line at 22-24 degrees of heel- thus allowing one to still potentially use the undamaged rudder in an emergency.

[@sunlovesailing]

Dr. Z I have to say it’s hard for me to imagine the force it would take to break through a full keel and break a rudder. I would have to say that would be impossible. Even the skeg of our boat is so beefy it would take tremendous force to break through to the rudder. Where as there is simply and absolutely nothing protecting a spade rudder, if there’s something in the way, it will collide with it and sustain damage. As for bending rudder stock, as I mentioned earlier, the aft top edge of a spade is a can opener, it’s not the rudder stock bending that holes a yacht, it’s the upper aft edge of the rudder piercing the hull “behind” the rudder when struck and bending the post that causes holing. In over 40 yrs of experience I’ve never heard of a full keel boat having it’s rudder taken out by a forward collision. Being thrown back on to the rudder when hove to I’ve heard of. On the contrary I’ve known of many boats with spade rudders holed by collisions with the rudder, going forward and astern. But to each their own, as long as we’re all out there sailing and enjoying the ocean and it’s many wonders! Best

[@dr.z1657]

@Sun Love Sailing Thanks for your input & explanation. I better understand now the ‘can opener’ effect you were referring to. That does, however, seem to be obviated by the use of a composite stock, which the Swan 48 MKIII has. Beyond having a backup inactive rudder on this model, there are also several emergency/auxiliary rudders and vane gear systems that are commercially available. Is there anything similar to the Swan in both length & design with a skeg rudder?

[@ColGadarby]

Shit that's a lot of teak to look after ! And hot underfoot.

[@drx1xym154]

I would guess there are options, at a price.... teak is not always bad - project boat! give it a few years.

[@rainmaker3700]

Hey, how about reviewing some trailer sailers?? ;)

[@philskype101]

I have a beneteau 48 oceanis it wasn't 810k euros.

[@stefankrewerth6808]

Beneteau Oceanis inspired design

[@Mac65]

Price does not match the value but to each his own

[@VonBluesman]

I love your professional videos and your presentation. As much as it deeply saddens me, we live in two entirely different financial worlds. The same applies today as when I was a child, ‘look but don’t touch.’ All I have is $150,000.00 American cash. Maybe some day a wealthy lady will marry me and we can sail the world. Thank you for the video.

[@scottslotterbeck3796]

Buy used. Boats are like cars, they depreciate. Just be careful.

[@voltsnbolts8879]

@Bokehify Salty eh? The youngest ever billionaire is a woman. Made the money herself. There are many many rich self made women buddy. Sucks you're an incel, but try not to be so salty..

[@ArazQizilbash]

Swan made by IKEA.

[@davexjs5889]

Toby just the name says family car / real estate /boat sales BEWARE.

[@ericv4756]

I lovely your videos yet....you need to invest in a way of getting a steady cam during your walks. DJI makes great ones for less than $200. I watch your videos on a large screen and after 5 minutes I'm nauseous. Your walking and jerking about is hard on the stomach. Really! Great videos but for that. Great job. Love them.

[@philmaggs2248]

Gunboat 68! Sorry my bad...

[@mosca3289]

Phil Maggs 😂

[@dukekelloway5328]

Swan doesn't seem to have the same impact today as they would have a couple decades ago. The level of innovation on this boat coupled with the layout leaves much to be desired considering the price. The lack of exterior character is especially shocking.

[@TheSailingFamily]

The clean outside lines are one of the best parts!

[@grad98cofc]

Way too much teak....unless it’s flexiteek.

[@ambrogiofogar]

anonymous

[@vincent5]

What. A. Boat.

[@obidamnkenobi]

People who can afford these don't watch youtube, they have people to do that for them.

[@firebir11]

Who cares...sailing is a cerebral experience

[@larspardo4309]

what sailor in their right mind goes to Cannes to buy a boat?

[@TheSailingBrothers]

i am not in love

[@weprinfilms]

No? Why not?

[@wilfdarr]

Ya I liked the video but the thumbnail is click baity, so no thumbs up on this one.

[@johnturner2175]

It would be nice to see less weekenders and more world cruise boats. Know way I or anyone I know would put a young family on anything your showing.

[@ppapdddar6159]

Where are the solar panels? (Just wanted to throw in my freakish retarded comment as a good chunk of the people commenting in this video)

[@2490debrick]

Good grief at least sound interested!

[@tigermagician6726]

Expensive floating cottage beside the water. Pity really.

[@epistte]

Very nice.