STEVENS 1375 AC VLET
IN BUILD 1999-PRESENT DAY PRICE RANGE £160,000 - £300,000
Next time you’re at a boat show looking at a new boat and the smiling salesman assures you that you can choose whatever you want because ‘it’s a custom build’, try asking him for a little less draft, or for the boat to be nine inches shorter or for the roof to be two inches higher. You’ll see the smile freeze, unless it happens to be Karl Farrant of Thames-based Karl Farrant Marine Sales, and you’re discussing a new Stevens.
“When we were talking to Dutch builders about becoming a steel boat dealer, what impressed me most about Smelne Yachtcentre was the fact that they really will build exactly what you ask them for. Every aspect of the boat is up for discussion, within the bounds of what’s physically possible of course. The range brochure is little more than a suggestions guide.”
We’re sat inside a Stevens 1375 AC Vlet on a chilly January day on the River Thames. It’s a boat that epitomises the flexibility of the yard both during and post build, but before we get on to the interior we need to step outside into the drizzle and start
