This one is well named - it really does have the feel of a camper/RV on the water IMO. I always enjoy the smaller vessel videos myself, just to see how efficient the manufacturer has been in maximizing the limited space. With 3 berths (2 cabins), one head, dinette, galley, and cockpit, I'd say they did pretty darn well. The range seems a bit low compared to what we're used to seeing of course, but for a leisurely river cruiser, the speed and distance will be understandably much lower than coastal cruising. For under 200k, this one does seem like a great option for small families wanting an option for weekenders, etc. As always, I really love the variety of craft on this channel.
i kind of like the reviews of these cheaper yachts more than the mega 10M+ yachts. These sometimes have very innovative features, are practical and basically have what you need.
Although coastal and open sea is great, there's something very appealing about inland waterway cruising. This is a lovely little boat for that, just right for a couple to take off across northern Europe.
I love what Balt Yacht is doing, really grabbing that lower cost segment by the scruff of the neck and innovating to still offer excellent experiences. A boat like this will do well anywhere coastal/freshwater.
I was thinking the same thing. If they made a model that you could drop the small rear cabin and turn the space into laundry/storage id be all over this.
Within the video can now be found all of the out-takes. Brilliant. This is a wonderful vessel for just starting out or for a small family that wants to do some cruising. Many thanks!! 🍷
Interesting idea, but I'd want solar panels in more areas, enough to charge the large bats to some degree. Second thing I noticed is no rubber seal on the mirrored access door to the electronics from the bathroom. I see that as a possible ingress of moisture. Great video as always, thanks.
First few seconds… perfect for the Norfolk broads. Then… electric wouldn’t work there. Then… power options and charges from shore power! Great package and great tour 👏🏼👏🏼
Hi Nick, Indeed this is a very intresting yacht from Balt Yachts this Suncamper 31 with that cozy cockpit and the open salon and galley with the big windows all a round a double aft cabine very nice and spaciious and in the bow a other double and single bed with a wet head great I am imprest by this yacht. End this one have a electric engine super nice for the Dutch canals and lakes Thanks Nick what a show ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I think that is a great little boat, looks nice from the outside and onboard is really nice with good finishes and I think the helm looks good too. Electric seems a good way to go for river / lake cruising especially as it can recharge from normal power supply. Great tour Nick thank you.
A super little craft for our waterways. It might be a little too big for some of our canals, though. Especially for some of the tunnels. If it isn’t, then she would be perfect. 👌 Yet again, another superb and comprehensive tour. Cheers, Nick. 👍
Very nice vessel. I can see adding a generator,a couple more solar panels and their batteries, to increase range, and have electric cooking. Putting about rivers and lakes for 'The Great Loop', and fishing for dinner while enjoying endlessly changing scenery.
How cool is that if you had a home on the broads just tie it up at bottom of garden then when weather nice jump in and pop down the pub or restaurant I like this a lot
This is really nice boat. Great for couples or small families for a weekend getaway. I would like a small diesel generator for backup. Otherwise it would be absolutely perfect for the intercostal waterways here in North Carolina where I live. Great review Nick. Thanks.
Great tour as always. Nice little river & lake cruiser. I don't remember hearing where the infill cushions in the rear cabin went, but I assume the dinette table is the place for them 😉 Any cheaper and it would be in my price range 👍
This is a VERY WELL designed boat, maximum use of space! A great short trip or weekender vessel! Decent price for the technology. A bonus design would have panels that could charge the engine batteries as well so they can charge if you're moored off shore.
There is not enough surface area for solar panels to provide any meaningful amount of charge, the idea is to keep all domestic system power requirements away from the propulsion batteries
Balt Yacht have built nearly 20,000 boats since the company was formed in 1992, there are well over a hundred SunCamper 35s on the water used by leisure and commercial owners. Not to mention all the other brands that Balt Yacht build under license. Is that enough experience 😉
Realllllly good little boat,,,,,, something I should be looking at,,,,,,, having NEVER captained any sort of boat,,,, apart from a punt in Oxford!!!!! But in my mind ,,,,, I’m captaining a 70+ footer on the open waves,,,,,,,, REALITY Will kick in soon,,,,, hopefully not🫣🥺😳👍🤗🤗🤗 Yet again quality presentation Nick
Nick its a fab little river/canal/lake boat for the price. Lightweight hull materials too, minimum maintenance and its not trying to be something its not. 👍
It's no Gulf Craft Majesty 175 that's for sure but Mr Burnham sir people all around the world spend weeks and weeks travelling around in a campervan or tow around a caravan touring the roads systems,this is no difference for river systems and very well done,with a total of 5 births available which you only tend to get 4 on the road equivalent I think this is a good little package. I think holiday companies like Hoeseasons offering canal holidays with their narrow boats and their bigger modern camel boats should look into this one to offer a budget alternative 🤔 as always thank you Nick all the best from Cornwall 🤗🖖✌️
Not so much in Europe but that opening in the front would be perfect in Australia because you could pull right up onto a beach and hop straight out onto the sand
Lovely boat..... however I've noticed something.... If there's a couple in the front cabin who like privacy at night and a couple in the aft cabin... how is the aft cabin couple suppose to use the head??? Also I'd have made the dining area into a U shape seating to make watching the TV easier for 4 people.... Still a lovely boat though and I'd definitely look at one of these for just me
Hello from Canary Islands. I think that this boat is perfect for daily rent (about 8 hours), it have good battery duration, no gasoline or diesel extra cost, with a good habitablility on a litle boat (9,4 meters). I want one. 😁
A French canal, a lump of cheese, and a bottle of wine? Ok, I'm in. Interesting to see the more unusual and affordable boats here. Unfortunately, not for me, my boat has to get from Lymington to France for the wine, my wife would love it.
Hi Nick, you know I try to be as honest as I can be in my comments. This is not for me, as you know in the Highlands this thing is next to useless, for freshwater I used Loch Ness a lot and it can be like the North sea at times. This wouldn't cope. Great video as always though pal. Hope the sniffles get better soon.😊🏴
Seems like a very nice boat perfect for the Norfolk Boards. I wonder what the approximate charging time is from shore power? I can see a lot more boats going electric although I think hybrid is the best solution at the moment for larger vessels.
Great Video! Wouldn't it be more practical if, the solar cells would also charge the motor batteries or would this type of charging degrade the batteries too much?
@@cheffscream Power. Watts. I work on solar powered systems. People seem to think solar power is some kind of magic solution. It is most definitely not. There is not enough energy converted from sunlight on the small area of solar panels on that boat to charge the main battery by any significant amount. You would probably need 10 to 20 times the number of panels. Nowhere to put them on the boatm
I’m thinking that the dining table might lower and be made into another sleeping area? With the diesel version do you lose the rear cabin? What’s the price comparison for the three engine options? I think the little neuk in the rear cabin would benefit from a small toilet to make night time pee’s less intrusive on the main cabin
Looks OK, like the concept and the esthetics, every compromise and design choice they made was the right one but the end result is a boat I would probably be totally disappointed in owning especially at this price. But more choices is better than less and if this gets people enjoying the water then its a nice boat!
Nice little boat. I'm a little confused, though--you did a video on this boat's "big brother" the 35 not that long ago, and this one actually appears to be £25k more, despite being a much smaller boat?
Forgive me if someone else asked this question, but, is the ONLY way to charge the batteries for the electric motor from shore power? You can't switch over the solar panels to charge either the house batteries or the batteries for the motor? That seems like an obvious design feature. Any comments from anyone? Greetings from Texas....John B.
The only boating knowledge I have is from watching Nick. My question is if you still need to have gas/diesel on board for heating/cooking/water heater why not just go with the gas engine? I feel unintelligent asking but is it something I’m not understanding?
this boat world be perfect if they would offer a larger solar array and make it able to charge the main batteries. if their numbers are correct this boat will only use 2kWh to drive around for an hour, looking at the roof there should be space for at least 3kW worth of solar panel so on a sunny day you could keep going all day long without losing any charge.
This one is well named - it really does have the feel of a camper/RV on the water IMO. I always enjoy the smaller vessel videos myself, just to see how efficient the manufacturer has been in maximizing the limited space. With 3 berths (2 cabins), one head, dinette, galley, and cockpit, I'd say they did pretty darn well. The range seems a bit low compared to what we're used to seeing of course, but for a leisurely river cruiser, the speed and distance will be understandably much lower than coastal cruising. For under 200k, this one does seem like a great option for small families wanting an option for weekenders, etc. As always, I really love the variety of craft on this channel.
It's probably docked more than 70% of its lifetime, though. So, those range numbers probably won't matter much anyway.
@@9VARZ Good point.
i kind of like the reviews of these cheaper yachts more than the mega 10M+ yachts. These sometimes have very innovative features, are practical and basically have what you need.
Although coastal and open sea is great, there's something very appealing about inland waterway cruising. This is a lovely little boat for that, just right for a couple to take off across northern Europe.
Hmm might have to leave daughters boyfriend at home if whole family go! 😢 A very nice, practical little runaround. Thanks Nick😊
He can always sleep on the extended bathing platform! I'm sure you can fit a small tent there ;)
He sleeps aft, the daughter on the extra bed in the bow cabin. NP.
@@AIRDRAC you mean the dingy towed 300ft behind the boat?
@@jstefa2 hate to be your son in law😂😂
Of course, that's what the canopy is for, he'll be camping out there!
Thanks for the signature mirror wave! I truly look forward to that in every video
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I love what Balt Yacht is doing, really grabbing that lower cost segment by the scruff of the neck and innovating to still offer excellent experiences. A boat like this will do well anywhere coastal/freshwater.
I do like this occasional change of pace
Love this, Nick. I could see myself living onboard all summer. ❤
I'm glad you liked it 🙂
I was thinking the same thing. If they made a model that you could drop the small rear cabin and turn the space into laundry/storage id be all over this.
I always love these small boats segments.
Within the video can now be found all of the out-takes. Brilliant. This is a wonderful vessel for just starting out or for a small family that wants to do some cruising. Many thanks!! 🍷
Glad you enjoyed it!
Interesting idea, but I'd want solar panels in more areas, enough to charge the large bats to some degree. Second thing I noticed is no rubber seal on the mirrored access door to the electronics from the bathroom. I see that as a possible ingress of moisture. Great video as always, thanks.
It's all rated for sea use, I'm sure a little moisture is fine. The door closes tight unless your spraying your showing into to it, it will be fine.
First few seconds… perfect for the Norfolk broads.
Then… electric wouldn’t work there.
Then… power options and charges from shore power!
Great package and great tour 👏🏼👏🏼
hmmm, that's what I thought...
Shore power to charge up, gas to cook, then diesel to heat the boat??
They're called Cushions Nick 😛. What a cracking little river cruiser.
Pretty little boat 😀 I could totaly see my little family on this for a few days😀 Thanks 😊
Lovely, and we're getting slightly closer to my price range, Nick!
The boats in my price range float around me while I bathe. 🤷♂
I could see myself coasting around the okanogan lake with this and having a good time. thank you Nick.
Wow what a lovely little boat and with 2 beds it’s a fantastic weekend getaway, i think it’s just so very versatile brilliant 👍👍👍
Hi Nick, Indeed this is a very intresting yacht from Balt Yachts this Suncamper 31 with that cozy cockpit and the open salon and galley with the big windows all a round a double aft cabine very nice and spaciious and in the bow a other double and single bed with a wet head great I am imprest by this yacht. End this one have a electric engine super nice for the Dutch canals and lakes Thanks Nick what a show ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Nice to see smart solutions on a smaller boat 👍🏻
I think that is a great little boat, looks nice from the outside and onboard is really nice with good finishes and I think the helm looks good too. Electric seems a good way to go for river / lake cruising especially as it can recharge from normal power supply. Great tour Nick thank you.
I"m glad that you enjoyed it 🙂
Very clever little boat there! Has more room in some ways than my 37' Rinker. Love it and thanks as always Nick!
Thanks for watching!
A super little craft for our waterways. It might be a little too big for some of our canals, though. Especially for some of the tunnels. If it isn’t, then she would be perfect. 👌 Yet again, another superb and comprehensive tour. Cheers, Nick. 👍
I"m glad that you enjoyed it 🙂
That's such a cute little boat.
Very nice vessel. I can see adding a generator,a couple more solar panels and their batteries, to increase range, and have electric cooking. Putting about rivers and lakes for 'The Great Loop', and fishing for dinner while enjoying endlessly changing scenery.
Cool boat and a lot of nice features that won’t quit working like electronic doors and roofs.
Good little boat. 16hrs of battery life is impressive. Great tour. 🇦🇺😀
I"m glad that you enjoyed it 🙂
Nice little day or weekender boat, great fun times. Don't think I could abide a week though. Well done Nick.
What a lovely well thought out liitle boat.
great video as always. I like this boat - it's really interesting, I'm going to watch it again ❤
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
I like it! I must say though, I didn't see much of a seal on that door between the wet-room and the console electronic gubbins. 😮
Yeah I thought the same, and those small timber cupboard doors will eventually warp from all water going everywhere. Love the boat, hate the shower 😂
Practical, interesting solution, relatively accessible.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Great one! Thank you Nick. With much love ❤️
Great river boat, like the electric motor, so practical and not bad comfort.
Neat! Very neat! Effective simple boat!
How cool is that if you had a home on the broads just tie it up at bottom of garden then when weather nice jump in and pop down the pub or restaurant I like this a lot
This is really nice boat. Great for couples or small families for a weekend getaway. I would like a small diesel generator for backup. Otherwise it would be absolutely perfect for the intercostal waterways here in North Carolina where I live. Great review Nick. Thanks.
I"m glad that you enjoyed it 🙂
Great tour as always. Nice little river & lake cruiser. I don't remember hearing where the infill cushions in the rear cabin went, but I assume the dinette table is the place for them 😉 Any cheaper and it would be in my price range 👍
Nice! Thanks Nick!
I live in South West Florida I see this little thing as perfect for day excursions on our waterways
This is a VERY WELL designed boat, maximum use of space! A great short trip or weekender vessel! Decent price for the technology. A bonus design would have panels that could charge the engine batteries as well so they can charge if you're moored off shore.
There is not enough surface area for solar panels to provide any meaningful amount of charge, the idea is to keep all domestic system power requirements away from the propulsion batteries
Thanks Nick! I'll wait until these vessels have a little more experience behind them...great prototype though...😮😊
Balt Yacht have built nearly 20,000 boats since the company was formed in 1992, there are well over a hundred SunCamper 35s on the water used by leisure and commercial owners. Not to mention all the other brands that Balt Yacht build under license. Is that enough experience 😉
Wow ..cracking little boat.. but ... Affordable but ... .. well it is nice 😂👍🏴
I love the electronics panel accesible from the heads. Cant see any problems there.
Realllllly good little boat,,,,,, something I should be looking at,,,,,,, having NEVER captained any sort of boat,,,, apart from a punt in Oxford!!!!!
But in my mind ,,,,, I’m captaining a 70+ footer on the open waves,,,,,,,, REALITY Will kick in soon,,,,, hopefully not🫣🥺😳👍🤗🤗🤗
Yet again quality presentation Nick
Wow! These would compete with the ranger tugs!
Nick its a fab little river/canal/lake boat for the price. Lightweight hull materials too, minimum maintenance and its not trying to be something its not. 👍
Mr Nick look forward to your videos. Thanks
Glad you like them!
It's no Gulf Craft Majesty 175 that's for sure but Mr Burnham sir people all around the world spend weeks and weeks travelling around in a campervan or tow around a caravan touring the roads systems,this is no difference for river systems and very well done,with a total of 5 births available which you only tend to get 4 on the road equivalent I think this is a good little package. I think holiday companies like Hoeseasons offering canal holidays with their narrow boats and their bigger modern camel boats should look into this one to offer a budget alternative 🤔 as always thank you Nick all the best from Cornwall 🤗🖖✌️
You're very welcome!
Nice for the price nick not everyone can afford the luxury boats so good to see prices at lower end still a few quid right enough lol
electric propulsion makes absolute sense on this type of craft. very cool.
Electric propulsion is very well suited to inland waterways, there have been electric boats on the river that for well over 100 years
Electronics access panel right in the shower area always makes me nervous! Even so, that is a well designed cruiser.
I was waiting for this review
Awesome inland boat
Not so much in Europe but that opening in the front would be perfect in Australia because you could pull right up onto a beach and hop straight out onto the sand
It's the same on many lakes and rivers
I'd like some sort of soundproofed box over that motor, it could then also be used as a seat/BBQ area etc!
You can't hear the motor from the cockpit or the helm position
Really nice and I think fair price!
Nice Boat Nick❤️⚓️
Always like these videos and the cheaper boats well if you think 200,000 is cheap lol they interest me
As much as ones costing many millions 😊
The water vapour from the shower will 100% be ruining those electronics after a few years
Without a doubt. Gasket required
Lovely boat..... however I've noticed something.... If there's a couple in the front cabin who like privacy at night and a couple in the aft cabin... how is the aft cabin couple suppose to use the head??? Also I'd have made the dining area into a U shape seating to make watching the TV easier for 4 people.... Still a lovely boat though and I'd definitely look at one of these for just me
He forgot to show us where those infill cushions go but I have a feeling you can push that table down and put those cushions in there
Watching TV on board a ship is a waste of time
Hello from Canary Islands. I think that this boat is perfect for daily rent (about 8 hours), it have good battery duration, no gasoline or diesel extra cost, with a good habitablility on a litle boat (9,4 meters). I want one. 😁
So the only heads is inside the front cabin??? what do the rear cabin occupants do when the front have gone to bed??
Interesting alternative to unwieldy canal boats and their narrow cabins! Look forward to ownership reviews...
A French canal, a lump of cheese, and a bottle of wine? Ok, I'm in. Interesting to see the more unusual and affordable boats here. Unfortunately, not for me, my boat has to get from Lymington to France for the wine, my wife would love it.
Hi Nick, you know I try to be as honest as I can be in my comments. This is not for me, as you know in the Highlands this thing is next to useless, for freshwater I used Loch Ness a lot and it can be like the North sea at times. This wouldn't cope. Great video as always though pal. Hope the sniffles get better soon.😊🏴
Lovely boat. Note you didn't tell us what the cushions, the ones stashed in the aft cabin, were for.
Cute little traveler but needs marinas. Personally would love more solar powering to lessen the need for shore power.
Nick, you forgot to show us where those infill cushions go 😂 ? I was thinking perhaps they go where the dining table is ??
Correct
Would have found more space for solar panels :-)
liveable boat !
Tks .
I may be wrong but did it have a gimbaled cooker? A good boat, great value.
Yes it's a gimbaled Domestic cooker
@leegibbonshome thank you for replying. I wonder why, I can't think I've ever seen one on a motor yacht.
Seems like a very nice boat perfect for the Norfolk Boards. I wonder what the approximate charging time is from shore power? I can see a lot more boats going electric although I think hybrid is the best solution at the moment for larger vessels.
When watching, I always wonder where he is. As soon as I see a water as green as pea soup I know it is Southampton
Great Video! Wouldn't it be more practical if, the solar cells would also charge the motor batteries or would this type of charging degrade the batteries too much?
Not enough power from the solar panels to charge the propulsion batteries. Solar panels are not magic.
@@geoffwoodgate7450 Thanks, I didn't knew those batteries needed such a high voltage (or is it ampere?) in order to charge.
@@cheffscream Power. Watts. I work on solar powered systems. People seem to think solar power is some kind of magic solution. It is most definitely not. There is not enough energy converted from sunlight on the small area of solar panels on that boat to charge the main battery by any significant amount. You would probably need 10 to 20 times the number of panels. Nowhere to put them on the boatm
@@geoffwoodgate7450 Well I would have thought that the produced amount would be enough to at least give a little bit of a boost to your range
@@cheffscream They could do but it would be tiny. Then how would you charge up the house battery?
i know i drop this cheeky comment here and there but here it's a real good show so... Smuggler's Blues 3 ? :)
I’m thinking that the dining table might lower and be made into another sleeping area? With the diesel version do you lose the rear cabin? What’s the price comparison for the three engine options? I think the little neuk in the rear cabin would benefit from a small toilet to make night time pee’s less intrusive on the main cabin
You still have the aft cabin with the inboard diesel option.
Yes the dinette converts to a generous single or cosy double
I didn't see any windscreen wipers. Are they hidden?
Yes it has twin windscreen wipers, they tuck in under the fwd overhang
nice one
No crew cabin?
Nick would you have one?
I like yacht very much
Hey Nick what are the engine options as far as size/power
Petrol outboard 50-115hp, diesel inboard 30hp
Good afternoon nick
Good afternoon Big J!
Where to plug to charge on the river or on the sea?😂
Literally any marina. As mentioned, it can charge from normal shore power. 😂
Looks OK, like the concept and the esthetics, every compromise and design choice they made was the right one but the end result is a boat I would probably be totally disappointed in owning especially at this price. But more choices is better than less and if this gets people enjoying the water then its a nice boat!
I'd be more interested in it if it had a diesel generator to help charge the batteries. There's no electrical docking anywhere near where I live.
Why have a propane cooking range and oven?
So that you can cook without being plugged in to shore power. My boat has the same.
Nice little boat. I'm a little confused, though--you did a video on this boat's "big brother" the 35 not that long ago, and this one actually appears to be £25k more, despite being a much smaller boat?
This is for the electric version, 50hp petrol outboard would be £30,000 less to the same specification.
You had a balt syn camper before. What's the difference with this ?
The size
Nice
Not sure a bathing platform is needed for inland waterways, could have used the space for better at the stern perhaps?
Hence the 29 version without the extended platform
Bathing platform provides easy low level access, plus storage space for bikes and paddleboard
What is the battery capacity in kWh, so we can compare it with a car? 400 V 96 A gives us a power figure, not the capacity.
4x 10240 Wh
@leegibbonshome Thanks. 41 kWh is remarkably small for a boat, but then I guess it's not intended to do anything strenuous.
Forgive me if someone else asked this question, but, is the ONLY way to charge the batteries for the electric motor from shore power? You can't switch over the solar panels to charge either the house batteries or the batteries for the motor? That seems like an obvious design feature. Any comments from anyone? Greetings from Texas....John B.
Correct solar charges the bowthruster and domestic batteries only, the panels are 300w. It would only be a token gesture on the propulsion batteries
What a great little boat. A caravan on the water. Nick, did you have a cold when you recorded this or the mic was covered?
An electric boat, with diesel heating and gas cooking!
Yes. That's correct.
The only boating knowledge I have is from watching Nick. My question is if you still need to have gas/diesel on board for heating/cooking/water heater why not just go with the gas engine? I feel unintelligent asking but is it something I’m not understanding?
Some people want the quietness and efficiency of electric power whilst underway.
@ that’s understandable thank you for informing me. Love what you do Nick!!
this boat world be perfect if they would offer a larger solar array and make it able to charge the main batteries.
if their numbers are correct this boat will only use 2kWh to drive around for an hour, looking at the roof there should be space for at least 3kW worth of solar panel so on a sunny day you could keep going all day long without losing any charge.
Sounds a bit like an electric egg beater...
Solch ein Boot habe ich im Sommer in Boltenhagen Ostsee Deutschland gesehen. Preislich interessant. Leider gefällt uns die Optik nicht.
As the saying goes; if you’re floating, then you’re boating. A bit tight. Different type of boat for sure.
That shower design seems like a bad idea: to have the panel to all those electronic wires / electrical wiring be IN the shower? LOL what?
At least have some beefier rubber gaskets around that hatch.