Looking for a VanDutch 40

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What Chris Craft do you have, there are a few hundred models...?

Any 40-footer has better seakeeping than the CC22, (even most 20-footers have), and a smooth ride is probably the VanDutch 40:s most outstanding feature, apart from the avant-garde looks and Awlgrip colour palette. The quality is about the same (average), but the price tag ten times bigger. Try one out.

There is always 3 or 4 parked up together just down the road from you in Golfe Juan where the sales office is, surely they will let you have a decent trial? URL removed

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Hi Joh, I like open boats a lot but if you want my advice forget vandutch. Here few reasons for not buying : starting from materials, which are low quality, the bow is not good for a planing hull, in rough sea there is the risk to hit the waves with the bow and make a 360. The bimini top is too low (not possible to stand under), and the pilot is not covered by it, the engine room is too small and this cause overheating of the engines and difficulties in mainteinance, the piloting position is not ergonomic at all, there are no portholes under, which gives you the feeling to be in a tumb, there is no space for a tender, the sea keeping is nothing special, the boat is quite noisy and difficult to resell.
The line copies the Wally, basically it is a Wally for poors.
If you like open boats I can give you few advices. Have a look at :
1) Cantieri di Sarnico Spider : 43 feet with 2 cabins and 2 heads,high end quality, volvo penta ips 600 40 knots maximun speed low consumptions and high end materials. Powerboat of the year 2007. Very good sea keeping, V hull 18 degrees at transom. The boat is super silent. You can find used in great conditions for about 250/300.000 us$
2) Itama 40/45 : an ever green, fantastic sea keeping, EEC A class omologation, solid hull, 2 cabins one head, 33/35 knots maximum speed, engines either Man 450 or Cummins 480, deep V hull 22 degrees bow to stern. Ferretti group which means a fantastic Customer Service world wide. You can find used once starting from roughly 300.000 us $
3) Riva Rivarama : another evergreen great class but quite expensive to maintein and to buy (a good one used will cost minimum 550.000 us$. Engines Man 800, maximum speed 40 knots, one cabin one head plus independent cabin with one berth and head for one crew member. High consumptions and low range, hull variable V, A class, Ferretti Group.
4) Magnum Marine 44,very difficult to find used and super expensive, 48 knots max speed with Man 800, arneson surface drive, one cabin one head. 24 degrees deep V hull bow to Stern, great Sea worthiness.
5) Wally tender or Wally 47. Personally I do not like them, but at least you will buy the original and not a cheap copy.
Hope I could help you in not making a big mistake buying a Vandutch.
I have an Itama 45 2013.

The Van Dutch 40 may be similar to another Scandinavian design called the Fjord 40. Plumb bow, angular lines.
I remember a review of the Fjord 40 in a British yachting magazine that indicated the Fjord 40 was remarkably wet boat, not surprising given its plumb bow with zero flare. The article also implied the Fjord 40 rode rough, although like most magazine reviews the criticisms were muted. Cool looking boat, however.

And in talking about VanDutch, does anyone have any idea who is building these decidedly not Dutch boats for them now? Is it now Coauch? They sure failed in their pairing with Tiara and then Marquis. It's my understanding though that the lawsuit with Marquis was settled and they planned to continue to build there, just at far less volume than originally promised. They continue to call themselves a Dutch Manufacturer, but outsource everywhere but there.....

I'm sorry but a company that won't tell you where they build their boats on their website is not one for me. Does anyone here know what they're doing today? How their sales are? They show 20 sales centers.

I prefer the Blue Martin Evo 43