Heyman 42

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The presenter sails the boat in strong wind and shallow, steep waves: the sheer rises to a sharp bow that "cuts through" the chop, and with enough drive she was averaging about seven knots.

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On steering, the presenter notes the single rudder is mounted well aft, behind the counter stern, and gives "a useful amount of feedback". He got some weather helm at one point and balanced it against keeping drive through the waves.

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The presenter shows the engine bay: it is a big space and good for dropping an engine in or removing one, but there is no side or forward access, only from above, so the forward end is tight. He suggests side access from the lockers on either side would improve it.

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The presenter calls it built solidly, with multi and unidirectional glass and vacuum infused bulkheads, built in a yard in Estonia that the designer visited and found impressive.

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The presenter calls it a premium niche boat, with only a few built a year; the quoted price covers a very inclusive spec with electric winches, furlers, sails and a bow thruster. Extras on the boat shown were the davits, an extra plotter, the washing machine and the reacher.

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At boot Düsseldorf the presenter says Heyman is a design studio rather than a shipyard, with boats built at different yards. This pilothouse was built in Estonia, four boats had been produced, and this one is hull number one. At the end he adds that they build only up to five boats a year.

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The presenter says that despite its full-bodied hull the boat sails, "unlike, say, the Nauticat", which he describes as more of a motorsailer whose heavy construction and high freeboard hold back its performance.

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He points to a semi-balanced rudder with a semi-skeg and a saildrive, and says that judging by the lines the boat really sails.

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The engine compartment has a Volvo 75 with good sound insulation, twin Racor filters and a reinforced 12-volt alternator, and the yard also offers Yanmar or Nanni engines.

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The presenter says the saloon windows are double-glazed real glass rather than plexiglass, which he says adds thermal insulation and means they will not go cloudy. The boat had spent a year at sea and still looked new.

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He is not planning to buy but calls the boat "a total success" and well built. He quotes a price of 680,000 euros for this configuration.