I just got back from the Stuart, Florida Boat Show with this boat, many people who came on board said they thought it was the best value in the show. However they needed to sell a smaller boat, or sell a house, or wait until college tuition was over, all the normal things we deal with everyday. The boat is a 1986 53' Defever P.O.C. with three staterooms and three heads, galley up, stabilized. Defever is well known for trawler designs, the POC was designed to be able to run faster with a semi-displacement hull. The current owner, who has had the boat since 2000, tells me he ran the boat at 8 knots using around 8 gallons per hour, but liked the idea that he could push the speed up when needed, or when entering an inlet with a following sea. The boat has CAT 375 hp 3208 engines. In 2004 they were removed from the boat and rebuilt. The owner says they were running fine, but with 10,000 hours he was worried about his trip to Florida from Canada. He said the rebuild was $50,000, which not just a few hose clamps and an oil change! Current hours from his log are around 1500. There are two generators and in 2004 the 9KW generator was replaced with a new one (now 1600 hours) and the other, a 16kw had the diesel engine rebuilt, (900 hours) For alternative power is a TRACE 4000 watt inverter running from a dedicated bank of house batteries. Also done at that time was a complete Awlgrip paint job from waterline to the top of the arch, including removal of windows to be sanded and repainted and then rebedded with new gaskets. The teak handrails were painted with Awlgrip and there never were teak decks, so there is no exterior teak. The outside looked spectacular so his wife oversaw the interior refit with all new overhead lights, a new galley with black full size side by side refrigerator, black dishwasher, black full size oven and cook top. The counters were covered in Black Galaxy granite along with almost every flat surface of the boat including all three heads, the pilothouse and wet bar and table in the salon. New upholstery and valances with indirect lighting are themed with the granite and all teak floors were refinished. She also picked the color of the Bimini top and tender cover to go with the blue stripe along the boat and also on the waterline. About six months ago lightning struck the boat, not bad enough to hurt the refrigerator, air conditioning or other electrical items, but bad enough to replace the electronics. So there is a new VHF, Autopilot, new control head for the Naiad stabilizers, and a new Furuno Nav Net with Furuno radar and also running Nobeltec software on a Nauticomp daylight video display. This is all still under warranty. The boat is stored undercover here in Fort Lauderdale right outside my office so it is easy to see. Asking $399,000 and I just sold a bigger boat to the owner so he is motivated. Contact me for more details or see on Yacht World. Tucker Fallon Certified Professional Yacht Broker The Shipyard Group At Bradford Marine 3051 State Road 84 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 www.yachtbrokerguy.com Office 954-377-3900 Fax 954-377-3901 Cell 954-801-3645