Yo ho, yo ho...
Have you ever had the dream of leaving it all behind, hopping on a 48′ catamaran and pushing off from shore in search of wild adventure? Well, guess what. The world is ending and you should just do it though not on any old 48′ catamaran but a legendary gunboat previously owned by John John Florence and Travis Rice before him.
Vela, as Florence named her, Falcor, as Travis did, is currently for sale in New Zealand for an easy $1,349,000.
The embodiment of spirit and adventure, this Gunboat 48 is on the search for her next custodian!
Borne of Gunboat’s singular focus to quality and durability, “Vela” has spent most of her life travelling some of the worlds most spectacular locations with some of the worlds foremost watermen and adventurers.
Now its your turn to join the legend…..
“Vela” is currently lying in the North of New Zealand and has been a recent recipient of an extensive refit ensuring that she is 100% ready to go on her next adventure. Lightweight, robust and featuring North 3di technology flying from a Marstrom Carbon mast supported by ECsix carbon rigging, The Gunboat 48 strikes the balance between performance and comfort in a manner rarely seen on performance catamarans under 50ft.
The saloon space flows beautifully into the hulls and forward in to the forward cockpit, sail handling area which of course leaves the aft cockpit space open and free for socialising and watching the world go by.
Recently returning to her original metallic blue hull colour with black accenting provided by the forebeam, mast and trampolines, “Vela” is champing at the bit to get back to exploring!
Professionally managed and maintained, “Vela” is currently winterised with all sails serviced and stored with North Sails NZ.
The yacht was made very famous, of course, in Florence’s video series of the same name when surf fans around the world wondered if he was through with professional surfing altogether
Apparently he is here to stay, though you know who could use a lifestyle change?
You are certainly correct. Former World Surf League CEO Erik Logan must be feeling a bit lost right now and how better to remake his tattered life by becoming a pirate? Sailing the high seas with a patch over one eye, cutlass between teeth, pillaging and forcing young men on foreign shores to take their shirts off.
Yo ho, yo ho.
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Seems impractical for the performance oriented cruiser. Too much at risk if you mess it up. Give me 10-12 kts all day on a badass carbon cat.
Yep Ratta involved. And Megan Markle! And Bieber’s misso.
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I was fired because, innocently, I made a T-shirt with Jordy’s nipples
BOAT..bust out another thousand.
NYYAcht Club & ELO? “On The Plank.” more titties?
Surfer’s beating beachgrit to the punch lately. Kind of funny how gossip surf websites killed off the surfing press and now AI-generated surfing press is gonna kill of the gossip surf websites.
gossip websites w/out any actual gossip … brilliant business model!
Bet that Yeti advertising paid for a chunk if not all of that boat.
Tell ya this for nothing.
Cats can put the shits up ya in a following sea with a bit of weather.
Powered or sail – scary out of control shit. Can’t depower them quick enough once they pick themselves up on a rail… mind of their own.
Yep once they set a rail / pontoon it’s sketchy as fuck getting pushed that’s for sure ,magic in calm waters though.
Florence Marooned Ex
Florence Ex Marine
That boat is a specimen. Hopefully he’s upgrading.
Pffff, I’ll stick to my 14ft tinnie with it’s trusty 20hp Yammie!
May not be great for Island hoping in the pacific, but it’s good punching cones in, fishing ‘ n sinking piss and my favourite running over Sydney touro’s clogging up me boat ramp
Get a Dog!
then straight to the brothel!!!
straight home w/six-pack &
turtle souppizza. where’s home?All male brothel.
AI: “before you wenture out to sea, your prepared. are ya’ all?”
Prodan me sir!
Negs, Beef, what do you think? I can imagine us in Fiji, opposite ends of the cockpit, on our phones, occasionally sniggering. Only personal interaction with Negs is a brief glance and shaking of the head. He sits on me around empty lineups.
great idea for a reality show. then the censors start chiming in…
Soo JJF’s selling his boat before the Otter’s steal it or Pat’o repossesses it in order to save himself when WSL’s CEO new G.I. Joe Barbie chick moves in on Shakira all while Carissa Moore was sexually assaulted by Erik Logan last week in Houston in absence of Taylor Swift who was visibly upset about the WSL cutting to commercial breaks during Yago’s 10…Got it.
So many storylines!
Where’s the fucking cut and paste letter?
Pirates the world over worried Elo will rape and pillage their precious culture as he did our own
Perhaps children are on the horizon…
Comes fully crewed: Seaman Staines, Master Bates and Roger the Cabin Boy.
Cunt sorta looks like ‘ol Pugwash the Pirate too!
If rumors are correct then Logan would be an eager cabin boy
I would definitely kill myself sailing one of those things. I think I am more of a 50mil+ sailboat, parked in the Mediterranean, full staff, captain, laying by the pool with cocktails being brought to me all day kinda guy.
Heard of the “Yacht Girls” or “Yachting” phenomenon? Kris Jenner is the world’s most successful pimp according to this vid.
https://youtu.be/jSvvvrKhx0w
Makes sense to me!
Needs more hookers and blow!
It’s good to know that in the highly unlikely event of having $1,349,000 to spend I can either buy JJF’s old yacht or alternatively a garden shed somewhere a few miles from Byron Bay!
Wait for KS wavepools to go public. Everything he thinks up is golden.
Both will be money pits!
It’s false adverting anyway, don’t hear ’em mention anything about the vessel’s actual guns.
If i’m gunna shell out 1.4 mil for a “gunboat” I want at least a couple 16 inch deck guns and a torpedo rack as a minimum
I’m sure he could throw a few 10’ pyzels in to sweeten the deal
Sorry, but fondled/overdosed at a Houston airport is the best this bunch can offer….
aka the “riss special”
“And’riss” special
Houston airport is harsh on Hawaiian State Residents
with your credit score you can easily hire a ‘copter & pilot/