its name.The result is a very spacious galley featuring expansive granite benchtops and a granite floor. Galley mod cons are all top line. The ceramic cooktop, oven and dishwasher are Miele. Under bench refrigeration is Leibherr, and a nearby wine fridge is Vintec, as is the second one up in the Skylounge. Perhaps the galley’s most remarkable feature though is a fan forced extractor and filtration system; you cannot have the seascapes scrolling past the galley/dining deck obscured by steamed up windows can you! There’s seating for six in the dining room at a beautifully inlaid timber table that could accommodate a couple more at a pinch. Each dining room chair slots into retainers incorporated into the table’s lower timberwork to hold them in place in bad weather. A timber buffet separates the dining room from the salon aft. Curving stairwells each side of the dining room bar lead downstairs to the forward bedrooms, crew quarters, and engine room and up to the Skylounge. You have to step down three steps from the dining room to the salon lounge where the entire port side is taken up with a large c-shaped lounge positioned opposite an entertainment unit set between pairs of single lounge chairs that can be moved about to suit. Onboard entertainment features Samsung LED widescreen TVs and a Fusion sound system driving Polk speakers. Views from the galley/dining and salon lounge levels are expansive to the point of panoramic through large windows surrounding them. Alternately, privacy is simply assured by closing the blinds. That’s 35 odd grand’s worth of Hunter Douglas’ best apparently; a sure indication of Hampton’s dedication to absolute quality with no expense spared that’s evident throughout this boat. At the aft end of the salon lounge, large bi-fold doors face the cockpit lounge outside. Beside these port side, most of the rest of the aft bulkhead is occupied by a big hopper style window. The salon’s aft bulkhead does not open fully in the currently popular style, but in effect, with both salon doors and the hopper window all open, both living areas are pretty well integrated. A Corian topped table over two metres long sits across the stern end of the cockpit lounge accompanied by a matching seat. There’s a wet bar against the cabin bulkhead underneath the hopper window. From the cockpit lounge, more steps take you onto a swim and dock access deck secured across the stern proper with hefty rails. A third industrial grade watertight door in the transom accesses crew quarters and the engine room from there. Full Width Master Guest sleeping quarters take up all of the forward area downstairs. A master stateroom amidship uses all of the available beam to fit a king size bed with plenty of space each side for vanity units and personal stowage lockers. If understated, the master suite will no doubt be a major selling point. It’s situated centrally where the hull moves the least with a dedicated ensuite hidden away behind the wall panelling beside the bed head to one side and an enormous walk in wardrobe to the other. Bev Schutt’s magic is particularly evident here too. Also very clever is the VIP suite in the bows where the double bed is set high with a step each side for easy access. As you’d expect in a boat of this quality, the clothes hanging space in all three staterooms is cedar lined. A second bathroom finished in easy-to-keepclean Corian is shared between the VIP suite and a supplementary twin single bed stateroom on the starboard side. There’s direct access to the bathroom from the bow stateroom through an internal door with another door in the central companionway for use from upstairs or the single bed (two of) stateroom. From the bedroom level, you need to ascend two flights of stairs up to the Skylounge. This Boating Pindara Magazine 94 Autumn - Winter | 2014
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