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BOAT TEST: 2004 Cheoy Lee 68 Sport Motoryacht

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I was impressed with the 68’s engine room. It was huge, with headroom well over six feet, easy all-round access to the guardrail-protected mains, aluminum diamond plate underfoot, and perforated-aluminum paneling from one end to the other. Lighting overhead was generous, and I was happy to find a watertight door in the forward bulkhead that opened into the shower stall at the rear of the master stateroom—it serves as both an escape hatch and seagoing access during bad weather when opening the main entrance on the swim platform would be unsafe. One detail I didn’t like was Cheoy Lee’s use of just one engine-driven emergency bilge pump—while one pump’s good, two are better, especially when the pump-equipped engine decides to quit.

After the skipper and I finished up, we returned to the flying bridge to swap a sea story or two, a fringe benefit in my line of work. We lounged in the comfy chairs at the steering console with our feet crossed on the dash. A faint breeze blew. The shade offered by the standard hardtop lengthened. Eventually, I formed an overall opinion.

a d v e r t i s e m e n t

Cheoy Lee’s 68-foot Sport Motorytacht is the sort of big, relatively fast boat that can be easily cruised and handled by two experienced people.

And if one of them gets just a tad rowdy at the helm, what the heck! The other can still make coffee.

Cheoy Lee Shipyards
(954) 527-0999

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This article originally appeared in the February 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.

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BOAT SPECIFICATIONS

Boat Type: Cruiser

Base Price: $1,995,000

Standard Power: 2/800-hp Caterpillar 3406E diesel inboards

Optional Power: 2/875-hp Caterpillar C18, 2/1,400-hp 3412E, or 2/1,550-hp Caterpillar C30 diesel inboards

Length Overall (LOA): 67’11

Beam: 18’11

Draft: 5’5

Weight: 100,000 lbs.

Fuel Capacity: 1,200 gal.

Water Capacity: 430 gal.

Standard Equipment: Maxwell rope/chain windlass; 32-kW Northern Lights generator; 13.5-hp American Bowthruster; 4/freshwater-flush Headhunter MSDs; GE range, oven, ventilation hood, and refrigerator/freezer; Avonite countertops; Kenmore stacked washer/dryer; 100-amp shore-power service w/Glendinning Cablemaster; 97,000-Btu Aqua-Air A/C; 2/engine-driven crash pumps; 60-amp Sentry battery charger; triplex Racor fuel-water separators for mains and genset; fuel-management system w/Fill-Rite meter; Groco sea strainers; engine-driven emergency bilge pump; PYI dripless seals for prop shafts and rudder stocks; 1,500-lb. Nautical Structures electro-hydraulic davit

Test Engines: 2/1,400-hp Caterpillar 3412E diesel inboards

Transmissions / Ratio: ZF 1950V/2.45:1

Props: 38"x48" 4-blade Nibral

Steering: Hynautic hydraulic

Controls: Hynautic hydraulic

Optional Equipment On Test Boat: 2/Furuno NavNets w/repeaters; 2/Standard Quest VHFs; Furuno RD-30 radar w/repeater; integral pilothouse/bridge stairwell w/ stowage under; teak overlay on aft deck; Twin Disc electronic engine controls w/remote controls; Naiad stabilizers; Jennair BBQ grill on flying bridge; soft goods (drapes, valance boards, Roman shades, headboards); his and her head in master; Bennett trim tabs

Price As Tested: $2,370,000

Conditions: temperature: 86º; humidity: 80%; wind: 14-18 mph; seas: 4’ to 6’; load: 500 gal. fuel, 200 gal. water, 3 persons, 1,500 lbs. gear. Speeds are two-way averages measured w/Stalker radar gun. GPH measured with Caterpillar fuel-monitoring equipment. Range: 90% of advertised fuel capacity. Decibels measured on A scale. 65 dB is the level of normal conversation. All measurements taken with trim tabs fully retracted.

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