@@philipadastra I can't stop laughing, sorry. I mean, I am happy for you that you see this this easy. I do not know where you live, what are your possibilities. But where I live, making this amount of money is close to impossible. And saying that everyone can reach such impossible goals is a terrible myth this western culture is trying to spread. Since, I am not sure if you saw, 99.999999...% of the people on this planet can not make this much money, even if all they do just working for this. This is not a reality for most of the humans today, sorry.
@@Sonnell I hear you. I’m simply trying to change your approach to your dreams. Wishing is not a plan. Neither is blaming your environment. Change those thoughts to “one day I’ll own” and don’t ever let your surroundings stop you in living?
It just makes sense for Med performance cruising, and further of course. You only sleep in bunks. That's all. But cockpit, storage, sailing, saloon, galley... That's what's really important. Well done!!
@@yachtingworldThat is horrible boat for Ocean Passages unless you you'll be sure of great weather. That cockpit would be a disaster after a hundred waves crash over or 5-7meter following seas. Too much pretty. Not enough Sailboat
What exactly is so out of the box on this boat? The gimbaling settee? Ok, i hadn’t seen that. Nice novelty. All the rest is just a refined variation of older designs (for the layout : remember the beneteau sense 50? or the shipman 60 for the gangplank? etcetera) Not much new under the sun i’m afraid…only so many ways you can design a monohull, and most ideas have been done before, until they start with foils and such😂
This boat is so different from the norm among the volume builders. I'm really grateful for the long format of the review. This is a stunning vessel, and would be a privilege to own and sail. I love Oysters, but they've gotten so large and heavy, that this would be a strong contender in the 50' range. Best wishes to Pegasus.
I have considered such boats as Amels and Hallberg-Rassy, but my dream boat is a Pegasus 50. The Pegasus is an ultra-long-range capable sailboat that is also friendly to me, a disabled vet, and my wife who has mobility issues. The two steps between levels are great. The ergonomics are great for single sailing. Safety is built in to include a fast cruising speed. The boat would allow my dream of circumnavigation while my wife would bask in the comfort and lifestyle at anchor. I sm only a lottery ticket win away!
You had me in the first half. Cockpit and saloon look great. Cabins are bit sparse and ... open. Whomever gets stuck with the port side berth needs to be an exhibitionist!
Pegasus just nailed the design of this boat to a Hall of Fame. Every last square centimeter is bristling with intelligent and tasteful choices. The performance of course is the star of the show, but the boat just massively exceeds expectations everywhere else. The accommodations are pitch perfect for safely hosting a family or crew who are underway, turning them into sponges to let every part of the experience soak in and quickly synchronize mind and spirit to the conditions. So many boats pit their crew against the machine first to make war with the elements, or attempt to isolate them from understanding the Job #1 of the boat, which is sailing. This is what harmony looks like. Everything aboard is pragmatic and singularly focused on being the most obvious and best way to do its job, and each zone of the boat is built to serve her and her crew while being under sail. I think Pegasus have really set a new benchmark for performance cruising here, full stop. Just incredible.
I never really got the point of having really big cabins in a what is essentially a boat for a couple with some friends or kids visiting occasionally. You don’t spend time in the cabin unless you are sleeping. So why waste space on that? This is a fantastic departure from the norm. Well done.
This is exactly what I think, beds are for sleeping in, when not sleeping I'm in the living/deck areas. Thou in this instance abit more room for the master area would be nice since 2 people have to live out of it. At the loss of storage but I would be looking at maybe losing the master wardrobe to gain standing space for dressing etc "shrug"
Hello Toby, I was on this very boat last year at Internautica, Portorož. Such an innovative breath of fresh air for an owner’s yacht compared to boats crammed with cabins and heads for charter. Reminded me a bit of the Beneteau Sense range but with more luxe.
Love this! A different take on what makes a bluewater cruiser than lets say Kraken. On the pegasus luxury comes in the form of sailing performance, modern materials and good ideas. Crafty slovenians!
Yeah, it's a low drag tandem torpedo keel. Great solution - very high AVS (125º), should have great dynamic stability - but should be costly. Great B/D as well. I'd guess this combination of light winds performance and stability is pretty rare on a boat this size. This is a very well (and I'd guess expensively) designed and built sailboat (sailing wise, I don't like the interiors), I'm surprised by how relatively affordable it is (for people who can drop this kind of money on a boat, not me).
Looks like the Tandem Keel, originally designed by Warwick Collins 40 or more years ago. I had one cast to fit a small bilge keeler in the 80s. Worked a treat.
Love this design, cabins for sleeping in, space for living in with windows out on the world also giving you a good protected area when you're sailing. Great built in Bimini. Good sailing performance in light winds. Great for mediteranian crusing. Alot of thought has gone into that boat. Did you talk about the keel which you meant to at the start?
No I didn't talk about the keel, sorry - as mentioned in a few comments: apologies, I had intended to try and show some images of the keel - and it’s in our magazine report. Pegasus have different keel options but favours a rather unique tandem keel with twin centreline fins connected by a bulb, which they calculate gives better directional stability, and less wetted surface for a low centre of gravity. Their studies have found it helps reduce leeway and brings better performance for its weight. It also helps keep the twin rudders to be kept relatively small.
Usually, I check out after about half of the review, these boats are such an impossible reach for me. But this one has so many Impressive design and layout decisions. Every cm well thought out, without being excessive. Tasteful, thoughtful - a perfect balance of form and function. I am enthralled.
Wow! I’m in love with this boat! Beautiful. Love the color, the leather, the deck. Could use bit more room in the forward cabin. Overall one fantastic sail boat. I could see myself sailing some oceans in her. I really like your presentation. Almost forgot, the stainless steel counter tops, perfect. I can’t stop gushing about this one, it’s amazing! Hope it stands the test of time!
I gather from your review of this boat that you are taken with it . I noticed no hull lights and you didn't talk about the keel . It is a nice boat another great review thanks Toby
Tom Bodett famously once said “When you’re sleeping all hotel rooms look the same.” Same theory here. Why do you need big luxurious cabins when their sole function is to sleep? When you’re awake on a boat you hang out in the saloon or in the cockpit. So maximizing their comfort & function is a good trade for losing big fancy cabins!
I get your point, but small counterpoint : if you’re on the boat for a longtime with the same people, some people crave a place where they can retreat to have bit of privacy away from the others.
Great review Toby, and like you say, a really interesting boat. I like the focus on 'seagoing social space' which would suit a cruising family so well. I'd put this lovely boat as an "alternative" to a HR50, rather than a direct rival. Both great, but different, which is good for the industry surely?
I LOVE the outside and living space aesthetics of the Yatcht IT looks sleak and modern. The cabins seem like an afterthought, though .Im not sure it would appeal to year-round liveaboards. IT would more likely suit wealthy weekend sailors or people who want to do some hard sailng for a few months each year.
Great vlogs, balanced, very informative with lot's of details. Toby's vlogs are unique offering "aftertaste" which others SY vlogger's do not offer with all respect.
btw I was wondering how did you miss Pegasus till now, but in the end you did it. Fantastic SY and finally something refreshing on the market, ofcourse ain't gonna be bestseler but at least community hooked on SY will enjoy.
Thank you! And I didn't exactly 'miss it' before now - but it launched during Covid which curtailed my normal early access to such a yacht. So while we nominated and covered it for yacht of the year back then, it was only more recently we had the time and opportunity to spend a proper period aboard one
Absolutely love this boat, but why would they put the windlass controls just inside the v-berth? What if you’re in the process of anchoring while it’s raining or gusting, or have to lift the anchor while it’s raining, and then having to deal with the v-berth hatch being open to access the windlass controls?
That is a brilliant boat. So well thought out and the raised sun-saloon is all comfort and visability while not forfeiting the right-setting balance of the boat. Would love to see this design in Aluminum... so comfortable. If this company built a modern interior design for the bedroom areas - like your see on the new HH44 OC catamarans, it would fly off the shelf I would think.
Agree with everything you wrote, but at the same time it's hard to fault them on prioritizing the living areas. At this point it's borderline unethical to be using more plastic. Aluminum is an ideal material for boats: durable but fully recyclable and recycled. Some of the French Aluminum boats have generally similar layouts.
She sails very well in relatively light airs. Interesting layout ideas and some very good design. 1.1 million is actually a low price for the performance and full specification included. I personally have near zero interest in monohulls, but this is a very interesting boat. Some good ideas and good execution of them. Wanted to hear about the keel. Keels are critical for performance. Hope you got well quickly, Toby.
I love the covered cockpit--that sun exposure is dangerous. Pegasus has managed to do this with a stylish look. So much better than the hideous looks of a certain (not to be named) "covered cockpit" 48-footer that was recently launched.
This is amazing boat with many great features I like. For the accommodation problem would help to ditch the second toilet/shower. I have never understood the need for several toilets in a boat. It’s still very small space. It’s like having several toilets in single room house. And in boat the space is so limited.
What a wonderful layout for a 50-foot cruiser. I think each of the bedrooms needs another foot of living space. The living and sleeping areas should have a dividing door.
I agree it a good yacht. Really like the gimbled saloon area. I have been thinking for some time now, why don't yacht have a gimbled saloon and kitchen area. Gimbled beds would also be a good idea.
Two cramped cabins and one pilot berth would not appeal to me. Two decent cabins would be far superior. I strongly dislike any stateroom with no visibility horizontally and poor ventilation.
Absolutely love this yacht, it is so amazingly well designed, from a maintenance point of view and liveable point of view. It even seems quite aesthetically appealing looking yacht. Can't get over the pilot station visibility 360° and main beam. All that's missing is one thoses tinny helm wheels to steer manually if owner wanted (😅). I would have liked a different colour behind the seating area instead of the white currently (which I realise is personal preference).
You didn't mention anything about an enclosure of the cockpit during stormy weather sailing. I like the lightweight sailboat design and the design would suit my needs but I don't want to need to have full, bulky raingear on while sailing through a squawl.
Maybe sailing isn’t for you? You can steer the boat from inside from the nav station in bad weather. You will have to go outside to trim the sails though…would that suit you?
nice even a ss anchor chain standard, didn't like the volvo on a sail drive, and the high rev genset will give you plenty of mainteance, best would be a hybrid propulsion on shaft w regen...
A most revered independent journalist like Tony will probably never answer that question. Too much depends on your personal taste and experiences and desires. And telling you what to do makes him come across as sales person. I imply/mention some other YT channels below that share those aspects with viewers - apologies to Tony for breaking etiquette. I mention one channel by its channel name, for the others, ask me. Sailing YT channel "Sailing SV Delos" have an Amel that they sail around the world with a family like situation of mum+dad+infant and frequent guests. And, while I don't see their videos frequently, I believe they are in the process of replacing it by another concept. Another channel of M+F+dog fast-sails the world and "did" Cape Horn with a J/46 - that's an interesting series to learn both ocean sailing and what can go wrong and how to be best prepared for that (they are). Their boat has a very fast hull, but limited "bunk" in the aft and that makes it more of a daysailer to families. This "daysailer" thing applies to most sailing boats by the way, even the very big ones have limited bed space with privacy around each bed. Biggest challenge, you probably are aware of, is the max draft of bluewater boats that makes navigating shallow waters a challenge. One sailing channel, in the past 12 months or so, shared their experience of having an expedition sailing boat made to order (MTO - in aluminium) with a retractable keel (that however needs interior space for the mechanism and keel when retracted). Relative to the 50 ft confection models, the MTO price probably still is very reasonable. In terms of price, a lot depends on the boat yard's qualities in CAD-CAM (computer aided design connected into computer aided manufacturing). A few other YT channels had multi-hull boats built in Asia and as one of them said, to mono-hull people, your boat may flip over more easily but it self-rights, if mine does that there's no way back. To get a fast cat, you need two narrow canoes, and that is felt in the interior space. In the trimaran case, the question has to be what you will do with all the space in the two very narrow canoes on either side. Fuel? Fresh water? Sails? Can you use it for something. It struck me that both cat and trimaran designs overlook the option to maybe hang a dingy under the bridge, but that may be my ignorance.
@@jpdj2715 your argument that boats without big bedrooms are just daysailers makes no sense. Most long distance blue water sailboats have (always had) bunks, and for good reason : they are simply better on passage and in heavy seas than palatial island bedrooms…Palatial bedrooms are for marina queens or liveaboards who do a bit of coastal cruising. By the way, kids love to sleep in bunks, so no idea why you would call them daysailers ‘for families’. dinghy under bridge was done by alibi catamarans. They went out of business (for various reasons, not just the dinghy thing). It’s not a logical idea to hang a dinghy under a boat underway with all the slapping of the waves..
Well spotted! Apologies, I had intended to try and show some images of the keel - and it’s in our magazine report. Pegasus have different keel options but favours a rather unique tandem keel with twin centreline fins connected by a bulb, which they calculate gives better directional stability, and less wetted surface for a low centre of gravity. Their studies have found it helps reduce leeway and brings better performance for its weight. It also helps keep the twin rudders to be kept relatively small.
Cockpit and Salon area reminds me of a Moody 48, just a bit less extreme and nicer for sailors. helmsman seats look quite pleasant, but not a fan of storing the ropes under them at all. also not a fan of so little cabin space
What a boat, sorry Oyster and Hallberg. When I win the lottery I know what I am going to buy. And a big bonus, I can't invite too many friends to come cruising. Perfect, I love it. Anyone want to give me £1,000,080 for my old Beneteau?
As an interesting concert boat but I think the Beneteau Oceanis Yacht 54 still looks better But if you replace the petrol motor with an electric one and just had a generator for we needed would probably change my opinion But if Beneteau match that it would still win
If you consider usually even for that length you barely find s comfy living space. It does make sense. Unless boating is for you just a sleeping experience but they managed to create a double bed on the saloon...🎉
It is somehow interesting that there are no answers regarding the performance of the solar system: How much battery capacity is available? How much power do the systems consume per day? Information about the underwater hull, the comfort rating, the keel, and the steering system is also missing. Can the electrical system be repaired by oneself? How is the insulation? How thick is the fiberglass or carbon, and how is the core constructed? How does the boat handle in 40 knots of wind? How much does the boat swing at anchor in the wind? This presentation is more advertising than an assessment of whether such a boat is suitable as a bluewater yacht. A carbon mast is nice and all, but it is not really important whether such a boat sails at 8 or 9 knots. No questions that a bluewater sailor needs to consider to shortlist this boat. Hmm.
Thanks for your kind words. The Yachting World review is in the July magazine, which readers and subscribers pay for - perhaps that may answer some of your questions. I am sorry that the 50min long FREE video showing the boat is not up to your standards
It’s a gorgeous boat that includes everything you need. I love the concept of prioritizing the living spaces but I think they pushed it a bit too far. The sleeping accommodations are too dark, cramped and spartan given the price tag and use case. There’s also no separation. If I’m hosting family and friends, it’s nice to have a place to retreat to when you want a little peace and quiet. And yes, I get that all boat designs are compromises.
I like this design. It's the perfect response to catamarans. I would go for this over any cat. But I would want 2 yanmars. Twin engines Then it ticks every box. I would go 2 cabin layout.
That interior space is very compromised compared to an Amel 50. Some cool features and certainly different, but for me I’d pick the slower and slightly more expensive Amel.
Very nice yacht. My only dislike is the exposure of the helm. Your butt is inches from the open sea. And no protection for the helm. This is why I like the Amel. Very protedtd helm. I am also not a fan of sail drives. A way to cheap out for an inferior system. But other wise I like it a lot. Perhaps inside joystick control for foul weather operation. I speak from experience. Having cruised tens of thousand of miles, and the skin cancer to prove it. LOTS.
I mentioned this in a couple of comments below: Apologies, I had intended to try and show some images of the keel - and it’s in our magazine report. Pegasus have different keel options but favours a rather unique tandem keel with twin centreline fins connected by a bulb, which they calculate gives better directional stability, and less wetted surface for a low centre of gravity. Their studies have found it helps reduce leeway and brings better performance for its weight. It also helps keep the twin rudders to be kept relatively small.
A few days, sure. A few weeks, ok. A few months, maybe. A few years, no way. The longer in use eventually I would want/need a bigger master cabin. For short durations I can see if more pleasurably to sail than heavier vessels.
Glad that there are still builders designers who dare to do something different. Wish I could own such a boat. They did a great job!
Why can’t you own such a boat?
@@philipadastra Are you joking? :D
Not many people have 1 million in their pockets...
@@Sonnell I’m not. Why don’t you have 1 million € in your pocket? What’s stopping you from getting it.
Do it
@@philipadastra I can't stop laughing, sorry. I mean, I am happy for you that you see this this easy. I do not know where you live, what are your possibilities. But where I live, making this amount of money is close to impossible. And saying that everyone can reach such impossible goals is a terrible myth this western culture is trying to spread. Since, I am not sure if you saw, 99.999999...% of the people on this planet can not make this much money, even if all they do just working for this. This is not a reality for most of the humans today, sorry.
@@Sonnell I hear you.
I’m simply trying to change your approach to your dreams. Wishing is not a plan. Neither is blaming your environment.
Change those thoughts to “one day I’ll own” and don’t ever let your surroundings stop you in living?
It just makes sense for Med performance cruising, and further of course. You only sleep in bunks. That's all. But cockpit, storage, sailing, saloon, galley... That's what's really important. Well done!!
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@@yachtingworldThat is horrible boat for Ocean Passages unless you you'll be sure of great weather. That cockpit would be a disaster after a hundred waves crash over or 5-7meter following seas.
Too much pretty.
Not enough Sailboat
Love the vessel. Game changer in my eyes. It's nice to see a builder thinking outside the box.❤
And still they should do the dishes to find out it does not drain on every tack!
very out of te box so great boat
What exactly is so out of the box on this boat?
The gimbaling settee? Ok, i hadn’t seen that. Nice novelty.
All the rest is just a refined variation of older designs (for the layout : remember the beneteau sense 50? or the shipman 60 for the gangplank? etcetera)
Not much new under the sun i’m afraid…only so many ways you can design a monohull, and most ideas have been done before, until they start with foils and such😂
I love Toby reviews. You can tell he really liked the yacht!
Thank you Toby for reviewing the Pegasus 50, I've been waiting on this review. I like it as well.
Thank you, Toby, for your review! Superb overview of our P50, love it! Nico at Pegasus Yachts USA
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Beautiful yacht Toby, thank you for the review.
Pleasure, thank you
This boat is so different from the norm among the volume builders. I'm really grateful for the long format of the review. This is a stunning vessel, and would be a privilege to own and sail.
I love Oysters, but they've gotten so large and heavy, that this would be a strong contender in the 50' range. Best wishes to Pegasus.
I have considered such boats as Amels and Hallberg-Rassy, but my dream boat is a Pegasus 50. The Pegasus is an ultra-long-range capable sailboat that is also friendly to me, a disabled vet, and my wife who has mobility issues. The two steps between levels are great. The ergonomics are great for single sailing. Safety is built in to include a fast cruising speed. The boat would allow my dream of circumnavigation while my wife would bask in the comfort and lifestyle at anchor. I sm only a lottery ticket win away!
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This is a Very Nice boat.. Perhaps the best i've seen reviewed in a long long time..Thankyou.
You had me in the first half. Cockpit and saloon look great. Cabins are bit sparse and ... open. Whomever gets stuck with the port side berth needs to be an exhibitionist!
Pegasus just nailed the design of this boat to a Hall of Fame. Every last square centimeter is bristling with intelligent and tasteful choices. The performance of course is the star of the show, but the boat just massively exceeds expectations everywhere else. The accommodations are pitch perfect for safely hosting a family or crew who are underway, turning them into sponges to let every part of the experience soak in and quickly synchronize mind and spirit to the conditions. So many boats pit their crew against the machine first to make war with the elements, or attempt to isolate them from understanding the Job #1 of the boat, which is sailing. This is what harmony looks like. Everything aboard is pragmatic and singularly focused on being the most obvious and best way to do its job, and each zone of the boat is built to serve her and her crew while being under sail. I think Pegasus have really set a new benchmark for performance cruising here, full stop. Just incredible.
I never really got the point of having really big cabins in a what is essentially a boat for a couple with some friends or kids visiting occasionally. You don’t spend time in the cabin unless you are sleeping. So why waste space on that? This is a fantastic departure from the norm. Well done.
Exactly! For sleeping I need 6 by 2 ft but I need and want more space during the day.
This is exactly what I think, beds are for sleeping in, when not sleeping I'm in the living/deck areas. Thou in this instance abit more room for the master area would be nice since 2 people have to live out of it.
At the loss of storage but I would be looking at maybe losing the master wardrobe to gain standing space for dressing etc "shrug"
you dont even need that,you need a hammock,lol
sometimes you might not only want to sleep in a cabin, and in such cases it is quite helpful to have a nice room with some privacy
Gorgeous. Nicest looking cruiser I've seen.
Toby does the best reviews in the business.
Thank you!
Too bad about that accent which at times makes him difficult to understand.
Gold standard. The best.
@@rski1036His accent isn't thick at all. Very easy to understand.
@@rski1036 are you high?
Hello Toby, I was on this very boat last year at Internautica, Portorož.
Such an innovative breath of fresh air for an owner’s yacht compared to boats crammed with cabins and heads for charter.
Reminded me a bit of the Beneteau Sense range but with more luxe.
Yes agreed!
I immediately saw the parallels with the Sense, which is by far my favorite production boat.
Love this! A different take on what makes a bluewater cruiser than lets say Kraken. On the pegasus luxury comes in the form of sailing performance, modern materials and good ideas. Crafty slovenians!
Unless I missed it, you never spoke about the keel which you mentioned at the beginning of the video.
Yeah, it's a low drag tandem torpedo keel. Great solution - very high AVS (125º), should have great dynamic stability - but should be costly. Great B/D as well. I'd guess this combination of light winds performance and stability is pretty rare on a boat this size. This is a very well (and I'd guess expensively) designed and built sailboat (sailing wise, I don't like the interiors), I'm surprised by how relatively affordable it is (for people who can drop this kind of money on a boat, not me).
@@cordobes Thanks for the info.
I was looking for that, too.
Looks like the Tandem Keel, originally designed by Warwick Collins 40 or more years ago. I had one cast to fit a small bilge keeler in the 80s. Worked a treat.
Beautifully designed, inside and out ❤
Love this yacht! Can't wait to see one in San Diego!
Reviewing beatiful boats - probably one of the best jobs one man could have 😊
Wow! This is a brilliant design, with a lot of careful thought out into every detail. Really enjoyed this. Thank you. Some fantastic solutions.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love this design, cabins for sleeping in, space for living in with windows out on the world also giving you a good protected area when you're sailing. Great built in Bimini. Good sailing performance in light winds. Great for mediteranian crusing. Alot of thought has gone into that boat. Did you talk about the keel which you meant to at the start?
No I didn't talk about the keel, sorry - as mentioned in a few comments: apologies, I had intended to try and show some images of the keel - and it’s in our magazine report. Pegasus have different keel options but favours a rather unique tandem keel with twin centreline fins connected by a bulb, which they calculate gives better directional stability, and less wetted surface for a low centre of gravity. Their studies have found it helps reduce leeway and brings better performance for its weight. It also helps keep the twin rudders to be kept relatively small.
Wonderful Boat. Great video. Thank you once again. I would love to own this boat. Very nice! Keep up the great work.
👍 Thank you
Usually, I check out after about half of the review, these boats are such an impossible reach for me. But this one has so many Impressive design and layout decisions. Every cm well thought out, without being excessive. Tasteful, thoughtful - a perfect balance of form and function. I am enthralled.
Wow! I’m in love with this boat! Beautiful. Love the color, the leather, the deck. Could use bit more room in the forward cabin. Overall one fantastic sail boat. I could see myself sailing some oceans in her. I really like your presentation. Almost forgot, the stainless steel counter tops, perfect. I can’t stop gushing about this one, it’s amazing! Hope it stands the test of time!
Thanks Dan!
i dont have much of an issue with the cabins since the communal spaces are so great. i think its a valid compromise and i appreciate it being done.
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Beautiful and well thought out yacht. And a bargain to boot.
Love that layout.
Great display of this super boat!
I gather from your review of this boat that you are taken with it .
I noticed no hull lights and you didn't talk about the keel . It is a nice boat another great review thanks Toby
Layout makes so much sense.
Great yacht
Tom Bodett famously once said “When you’re sleeping all hotel rooms look the same.” Same theory here. Why do you need big luxurious cabins when their sole function is to sleep? When you’re awake on a boat you hang out in the saloon or in the cockpit. So maximizing their comfort & function is a good trade for losing big fancy cabins!
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I get your point, but small counterpoint : if you’re on the boat for a longtime with the same people, some people crave a place where they can retreat to have bit of privacy away from the others.
this is true if your only use for the cabin is sleeping alone, and you don"t want times of privacy away from the other people on board.
Very interesting boat.
Cruising and Day sailing combined, I like it
Pegasus needs a 55ft version of this boat to solve the issue of small cabins and heads. Similar to what Beneteau did with the Sense 50 and 55.
Great review Toby, and like you say, a really interesting boat. I like the focus on 'seagoing social space' which would suit a cruising family so well. I'd put this lovely boat as an "alternative" to a HR50, rather than a direct rival. Both great, but different, which is good for the industry surely?
I LOVE the outside and living space aesthetics of the Yatcht
IT looks sleak and modern.
The cabins seem like an afterthought, though .Im not sure it would appeal to year-round liveaboards.
IT would more likely suit wealthy weekend sailors or people who want to do some hard sailng for a few months each year.
Great vlogs, balanced, very informative with lot's of details. Toby's vlogs are unique offering "aftertaste" which others SY vlogger's do not offer with all respect.
btw I was wondering how did you miss Pegasus till now, but in the end you did it. Fantastic SY and finally something refreshing on the market, ofcourse ain't gonna be bestseler but at least community hooked on SY will enjoy.
Thank you!
And I didn't exactly 'miss it' before now - but it launched during Covid which curtailed my normal early access to such a yacht. So while we nominated and covered it for yacht of the year back then, it was only more recently we had the time and opportunity to spend a proper period aboard one
Absolutely love this boat, but why would they put the windlass controls just inside the v-berth? What if you’re in the process of anchoring while it’s raining or gusting, or have to lift the anchor while it’s raining, and then having to deal with the v-berth hatch being open to access the windlass controls?
That is a brilliant boat. So well thought out and the raised sun-saloon is all comfort and visability while not forfeiting the right-setting balance of the boat. Would love to see this design in Aluminum... so comfortable.
If this company built a modern interior design for the bedroom areas - like your see on the new HH44 OC catamarans, it would fly off the shelf I would think.
The first ones were aluminium boats, this one apparently composite…
Agree with everything you wrote, but at the same time it's hard to fault them on prioritizing the living areas.
At this point it's borderline unethical to be using more plastic. Aluminum is an ideal material for boats: durable but fully recyclable and recycled.
Some of the French Aluminum boats have generally similar layouts.
beautiful
Sick design
"sick???"
The inside pilot station sold me!
perfect "something new ! Win!
She sails very well in relatively light airs. Interesting layout ideas and some very good design. 1.1 million is actually a low price for the performance and full specification included.
I personally have near zero interest in monohulls, but this is a very interesting boat. Some good ideas and good execution of them.
Wanted to hear about the keel. Keels are critical for performance.
Hope you got well quickly, Toby.
VERY GOOD
We need to hear more about your experiences in a commercial kitchen.
Well it wasn't exactly 'The Bear' style but helped pay some bills a long time ago!
Reminds me of the Beneteau Sense boats from couple years ago, liked that concept as well, wonder why they discontinued them…
An amazing yacht
I love the covered cockpit--that sun exposure is dangerous. Pegasus has managed to do this with a stylish look. So much better than the hideous looks of a certain (not to be named) "covered cockpit" 48-footer that was recently launched.
Blady nice what spaced and all its build.... shelf and space to getting all cleared away.
This is amazing boat with many great features I like.
For the accommodation problem would help to ditch the second toilet/shower.
I have never understood the need for several toilets in a boat. It’s still very small space. It’s like having several toilets in single room house. And in boat the space is so limited.
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What a wonderful layout for a 50-foot cruiser. I think each of the bedrooms needs another foot of living space. The living and sleeping areas should have a dividing door.
the inflation thing in the back that you showed under the sail. What is that for?
be nice to know the price early on and where you buy it
My first choice by far , quality and quantity in one boat
I actualy agree with you but i love the state room on a Oyster 595 sa well
But that's 10ft longer and twice the price...!
Looks just like a Shipman 50 (which is a good thing).
great galley !
I agree it a good yacht. Really like the gimbled saloon area. I have been thinking for some time now, why don't yacht have a gimbled saloon and kitchen area. Gimbled beds would also be a good idea.
I wonder if they can add windows, kind of like oysters have. that would make it amazing.
Does it come with heating and cooling?
Yep.
Классная лодка! Сколько человек нужно, чтобы управляться с ней? В одиночку можно перейти океан?
Love love love the public spaces and the sail plan. Hate the cabins. No, REALLY hate the cabins.
Two cramped cabins and one pilot berth would not appeal to me. Two decent cabins would be far superior. I strongly dislike any stateroom with no visibility horizontally and poor ventilation.
Absolutely love this yacht, it is so amazingly well designed, from a maintenance point of view and liveable point of view.
It even seems quite aesthetically appealing looking yacht.
Can't get over the pilot station visibility 360° and main beam. All that's missing is one thoses tinny helm wheels to steer manually if owner wanted (😅).
I would have liked a different colour behind the seating area instead of the white currently (which I realise is personal preference).
So sick
12:05 "I think I found thoose two missing people everybody wondering about."
You didn't mention anything about an enclosure of the cockpit during stormy weather sailing. I like the lightweight sailboat design and the design would suit my needs but I don't want to need to have full, bulky raingear on while sailing through a squawl.
Maybe sailing isn’t for you?
You can steer the boat from inside from the nav station in bad weather.
You will have to go outside to trim the sails though…would that suit you?
nice even a ss anchor chain standard, didn't like the volvo on a sail drive, and the high rev genset will give you plenty of mainteance, best would be a hybrid propulsion on shaft w regen...
They offer that too - and have done a full oceanvolt system on one P50 already
I would always go aluminum- a Kanter or Dutch built boat that’s bulletproof. Some, such as the Kanter are also fast.
Thanks for the update.
So Toby, when are you buying it from them?
You'll probably get the dual cabin layout
Aha. Well, seeing as you asked, I've started saving and am only about €999k short now...
Hi Tony, for a family who want to sail around the world, what is the best between Amel 50 and Pegasus 50?
That depends on how you like to sail, how quickly and where you like to sail from I would say!
A most revered independent journalist like Tony will probably never answer that question. Too much depends on your personal taste and experiences and desires. And telling you what to do makes him come across as sales person.
I imply/mention some other YT channels below that share those aspects with viewers - apologies to Tony for breaking etiquette. I mention one channel by its channel name, for the others, ask me.
Sailing YT channel "Sailing SV Delos" have an Amel that they sail around the world with a family like situation of mum+dad+infant and frequent guests. And, while I don't see their videos frequently, I believe they are in the process of replacing it by another concept.
Another channel of M+F+dog fast-sails the world and "did" Cape Horn with a J/46 - that's an interesting series to learn both ocean sailing and what can go wrong and how to be best prepared for that (they are). Their boat has a very fast hull, but limited "bunk" in the aft and that makes it more of a daysailer to families.
This "daysailer" thing applies to most sailing boats by the way, even the very big ones have limited bed space with privacy around each bed.
Biggest challenge, you probably are aware of, is the max draft of bluewater boats that makes navigating shallow waters a challenge.
One sailing channel, in the past 12 months or so, shared their experience of having an expedition sailing boat made to order (MTO - in aluminium) with a retractable keel (that however needs interior space for the mechanism and keel when retracted). Relative to the 50 ft confection models, the MTO price probably still is very reasonable. In terms of price, a lot depends on the boat yard's qualities in CAD-CAM (computer aided design connected into computer aided manufacturing).
A few other YT channels had multi-hull boats built in Asia and as one of them said, to mono-hull people, your boat may flip over more easily but it self-rights, if mine does that there's no way back. To get a fast cat, you need two narrow canoes, and that is felt in the interior space. In the trimaran case, the question has to be what you will do with all the space in the two very narrow canoes on either side. Fuel? Fresh water? Sails? Can you use it for something. It struck me that both cat and trimaran designs overlook the option to maybe hang a dingy under the bridge, but that may be my ignorance.
@@jpdj2715 your argument that boats without big bedrooms are just daysailers makes no sense. Most long distance blue water sailboats have (always had) bunks, and for good reason : they are simply better on passage and in heavy seas than palatial island bedrooms…Palatial bedrooms are for marina queens or liveaboards who do a bit of coastal cruising.
By the way, kids love to sleep in bunks, so no idea why you would call them daysailers ‘for families’.
dinghy under bridge was done by alibi catamarans. They went out of business (for various reasons, not just the dinghy thing). It’s not a logical idea to hang a dinghy under a boat underway with all the slapping of the waves..
Belo veleiro !
the first cat I like
You didn't talk about the keel.
Well spotted! Apologies, I had intended to try and show some images of the keel - and it’s in our magazine report. Pegasus have different keel options but favours a rather unique tandem keel with twin centreline fins connected by a bulb, which they calculate gives better directional stability, and less wetted surface for a low centre of gravity. Their studies have found it helps reduce leeway and brings better performance for its weight. It also helps keep the twin rudders to be kept relatively small.
@yachtingworld I did a google search on her and read this. A very cool boat.
Cockpit and Salon area reminds me of a Moody 48, just a bit less extreme and nicer for sailors.
helmsman seats look quite pleasant, but not a fan of storing the ropes under them at all.
also not a fan of so little cabin space
Price?
Yes, I could make the smaller cabin work.
What a boat, sorry Oyster and Hallberg. When I win the lottery I know what I am going to buy. And a big bonus, I can't invite too many friends to come cruising. Perfect, I love it. Anyone want to give me £1,000,080 for my old Beneteau?
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What is the price?
He said 1.08 million. I'm assuming Euro
It's in the specifications slide at the end too
Great boat, almost as good as a multihull of the same price.
Helm extreme aft, stuff of nightmares
Why?
Took you long enough to review this boat
As an interesting concert boat but I think the Beneteau Oceanis Yacht 54 still looks better
But if you replace the petrol motor with an electric one and just had a generator for we needed would probably change my opinion
But if Beneteau match that it would still win
If you consider usually even for that length you barely find s comfy living space. It does make sense. Unless boating is for you just a sleeping experience but they managed to create a double bed on the saloon...🎉
It would be nice if any one could put the sink in the middle so it drains on every tack! HC Does!
It is somehow interesting that there are no answers regarding the performance of the solar system: How much battery capacity is available? How much power do the systems consume per day? Information about the underwater hull, the comfort rating, the keel, and the steering system is also missing. Can the electrical system be repaired by oneself? How is the insulation? How thick is the fiberglass or carbon, and how is the core constructed? How does the boat handle in 40 knots of wind? How much does the boat swing at anchor in the wind?
This presentation is more advertising than an assessment of whether such a boat is suitable as a bluewater yacht. A carbon mast is nice and all, but it is not really important whether such a boat sails at 8 or 9 knots.
No questions that a bluewater sailor needs to consider to shortlist this boat.
Hmm.
Thanks for your kind words. The Yachting World review is in the July magazine, which readers and subscribers pay for - perhaps that may answer some of your questions. I am sorry that the 50min long FREE video showing the boat is not up to your standards
@@yachtingworld .;Lol !
should my feet face forward in sleeping areas.
Most peoples feet face forward richard.
It’s a gorgeous boat that includes everything you need. I love the concept of prioritizing the living spaces but I think they pushed it a bit too far. The sleeping accommodations are too dark, cramped and spartan given the price tag and use case. There’s also no separation. If I’m hosting family and friends, it’s nice to have a place to retreat to when you want a little peace and quiet. And yes, I get that all boat designs are compromises.
this very lovely vessel misses a few meters; cabins are a bit cramped and one shower should have natural light and ventilation.
Nice review Toby.. but you lost me on the cabin spaces. I think I’d rather have the Amel 50 for that price tag.
I like this design. It's the perfect response to catamarans. I would go for this over any cat. But I would want 2 yanmars. Twin engines Then it ticks every box. I would go 2 cabin layout.
That interior space is very compromised compared to an Amel 50.
Some cool features and certainly different, but for me I’d pick the slower and slightly more expensive Amel.
i like her
Very nice yacht. My only dislike is the exposure of the helm. Your butt is inches from the open sea. And no protection for the helm. This is why I like the Amel. Very protedtd helm. I am also not a fan of sail drives. A way to cheap out for an inferior system. But other wise I like it a lot. Perhaps inside joystick control for foul weather operation. I speak from experience. Having cruised tens of thousand of miles, and the skin cancer to prove it. LOTS.
what about the keel?
I mentioned this in a couple of comments below: Apologies, I had intended to try and show some images of the keel - and it’s in our magazine report. Pegasus have different keel options but favours a rather unique tandem keel with twin centreline fins connected by a bulb, which they calculate gives better directional stability, and less wetted surface for a low centre of gravity. Their studies have found it helps reduce leeway and brings better performance for its weight. It also helps keep the twin rudders to be kept relatively small.
A few days, sure.
A few weeks, ok.
A few months, maybe.
A few years, no way.
The longer in use eventually I would want/need a bigger master cabin. For short durations I can see if more pleasurably to sail than heavier vessels.
Sounds like a you-problem.
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