47' Riviera 47 Open Flybridge Series II Sports Fishing Boats

Manufacturer Provided Description
Every new model in Riviera's long and successful 25-year history of building Flybridge Convertible cruisers features refinements and innovations. It's the quiet revolution. Sleek dynamic and elegant but never ostentatious. The Riviera 47 Series II is a beautiful expression of our approach to innovation. It is a marriage of form and function, a development and refinement of an already very successful cruiser. Below the waterline, a revolution in design has been developed by one of the world's leading naval architects, Frank Mulder. He has created a running surface that delivers performance that can only be described as sensational. The most notable feature of this hull is two pockets housing the propeller shafts in the aft section to deliver superior forward thrust, resulting in higher top speed and better fuel economy.
Construction

 

       * Hand laid, moulded fibreglass hull, cored deck and flybridge

• Independent compartments throughout hull
• Isophthalic gelcoat exterior (white)
• Solid reinforced GRP keel, chines and hull bottom
• Vinylester resin in first outer layer of hull
• Watertight collision bulkhead forward

General

 

• All stainless steel exterior fastenings 316 marine grade
• All stainless steel mirror finish with ground and polished welds
• Antifouling: 2 coats epoxy undercoat, 2 coats antifoul
• Fire extinguishers

Mechanical

 

• Acoustic & thermal insulation
• Airconditioning: 24,000 BTU, 16,000 BTU and 10,000 BTU condenser unit
• All through hull fittings on or below the water line fitted with ball valves, all hoses double clamped
• Bilge pumps, auto & manual override x 3
• Bow thruster 8HP with controls to helm/s
• Emergency rudder locking pins
• Engine hatches insulated & removable
• Engine mounts - anti vibration
• Engine room access with ladder
• Engine room flowcoated white
• Engine room lighting AC and DC
• External & internal seawater strainers for main water intakes -engines, generator & air conditioning
• Fibreglass aqualift exhaust system for engines / underwater outlet and bypass
• Fibreglass aqualift exhaust system for generator
• Fire suppression system for engine room with automatic/manual controls
• Fresh water heater - AC & heat exchange
• Fresh water system (pressurised) with dual water tanks, total capacity 620 Litres (164 US gallons)* (approx) with gauge in galley
• Fresh water tap & hose set in engine room
• Fuel lines all swaged
• Fuel shut-off valves with emergency remote to cockpit
• Fuel tank gauge at helm
• Fuel tank, GRP coated in fire retardant white, 2700 litres (712 US gallons) (approx) with sight gauge
• Holding tank capacity 151 litres (40 US gallons)
• Hydraulic steering
• Oil change system to main engines and genset
• Propellers, nibral five blade (x2)
• Rudders – aluminium bronze (x2) with zinc anodes
• Shafts duplex stainless (x2) with dripless PSS seals
• Struts aluminium bronze
• Trim Tabs - electric
• Vacuflush sanitation system with switch at helm for overboard pump out and deck fitting for dockside pump out
• Venting dorade system for engine air intakes with mist eliminators

Electrical

 

• Alternators - independent start bank and independent house bank
• Batteries (maintenance free) - Independent port & stbd start (total x 4), House (x2) and Genset start (x1)
• Battery banks individually isolated
• Battery chargers, automatic-70 AMP/12VDC and 20 AMP/24VDC
• Battery paralleling system for emergency engine starting
• Bonding system, to all metallic hull fittings under the water line with zinc anode including galvanic isolator
• Electrical control centre with back lighting AC/DC thermal/magnetic circuit breakers, voltmeters, amp meter
• Engine monitoring including instrumentation, alarms and hour meters
• Engine room lighting (AC) and (DC)
• Generator - Onan EQD 11 kw/50Hz (13.5kw/60Hz) with muffler, fresh water-cooled including sound shield, remote stop/start electronic, hour meter
• Navigation lights (international standard)
• Wiring coded, numbered & loomed

Audio / Visual

 

• Flybridge - AM/FM Stereo CD player with 4 speakers to flybridge
• Master stateroom - (Forward) - AM/FM/CD player including 2 speakers
• Saloon – Bose Lifestyle system, located on top of the liquior cabinet, including amplifier & sub woofer, 5 speakers in saloon and 2 speakers in cockpit

Regional Specifications

 

• AC power outets (doubles) to all staterooms, heads, galley, saloon, Cablemaster shore power lead retractor (220V/50 amp split 2 x 110v)
• Outlets with Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) protection
• Vessel AC system built to 110V/60Hzflybridge and engine room

Deck

 

• Anchor 27kg (60lb), 70m (230ft) of 10mm (3/8'') galvanized chain
• Anchor chain chafe plate fitted to bow sprit
• Anchor locker with rope/chain divider (offset to stbd). Access from hatches on deck
• Anchor safety strap
• Anchor winch vertical with overload protection circuit breaker, suit rope & chain, up & down foot switches & remote to helm
• Bow rail welded stainless steel (316 marine grade, highly polished) with mid safety wire including flag staff and burgee (bow flag)
• Bow roller stainless steel self-loading with secondary rope roller
• Cleats - stainless steel, 11'' (x6), Bollards 12'' (x2), pop-up (x2)
• Deck hatches x5 (lockable)
• Fender holders (x 4) to Bow Rail (not available with lower helm)
• Moulded non-skid gelcoat deck surfaces
• Rails port & starboard of flybridge above window for safe passage to forward deck
• Rub rail - impact and UV resistant PVC (white) with stainless steel insert strip
• Wash down tap (sea water) at anchor locker

Cockpit

 

• Access ladder to flybridge
• Cockpit floor reinforced with alloy plate for future game chair or table
• Cockpit hatches with heavy-duty stainless steel lock downs and gas struts for lazarette storage and bilge access
• Cool box portside, refrigerated, top loading with lid & gas strut
• Door to Saloon - tinted tempered glass
• Double action manual bilge pump for engine room
• Dual purpose box locker located starboard forward corner.
• Includes rubbish bin and 4 x PVC containers (bin and containers can not be used simultaneously)
• Engine room access (lockable)
• Fair leads (x 2) rear corners
• Grab rails to assist access to side decks
• GRP moulded locker doors to storage with integral toe kicks
• Hand held shower hot & cold (Fresh water)
• Large removable fishbox, pumpout facility and 2 hatches
• Lighting - flood lights, overhead and courtesy (DC)
• Self draining cockpit to the stern
• Sink with mixer tap (hot and cold), moulded into engine room access door
• Steps to side decks port & starboard
• Tackle locker fitted above cockpit cool box
• Transom door GRP opening outwards with lift up bridge
• Wash down tap (fresh water)
• Wash down tap (sea water)

Saloon

 

• Air conditioning; reverse cycle, 24,000 BTU (split to galley)
• Built in storage lockers to starboard with holders for glasses
• AMTICO Floor
• Central vacuum system with accessories
• Electronics console overhead in saloon
• Fridge/Icemaker Combo
• Handrail, stainless steel, recessed into headliner
• Head lining, vinyl with padding
• High quality Amtico flooring at saloon entry door
• Lighting, overhead (DC)
• Lounge - L shape in premium leather with storage/pull out bed underneath
• Rod storage in headliner electric open & close
• Safety indicator panel for monitoring bilge pumps, high water alarms, sump pump, navigational lights & engine room lights

Galley

 

• Access hatch to storage under galley floor with auto lighting
• Exhaust fan
• Garbage bin
• Grab handle at the end of the galley divide
• High quality Amtico flooring
• Lighting, overhead (DC)
• Microwave convection oven
• Overhead lockers
• Raised servery/divider to saloon in solid surface and decorative acrylic
• Recessed electric cooktop, dual element with cover and auto shutoff
• Refrigerator's and Freezers / 2 x 2 Drawer units, refrigerator below, freezer above 110V  (U-Line)
• Single lever mixer tap to galley sink
• Solid surface benchtop with stainless steel sink and cover
• Storage cabinets & drawers below and above bench

Master Stateroom

 

• Access to private ensuite with privacy lock
• Air conditioning: 10,000 BTU with reverse cycle, heat (split to ensuite)
• Carpet with underlay
• Hanging lockers (x 2), cedar lined with auto lighting
• Hatch - square white with screen and blind
• Headboard - upholstered
• Hull and head linings, vinyl covered with padding
• Mirror over headboard, full width
• Private entrance door
• Provisions for entertainment system located in stb hanging locker- includes AC power & an aerial connection
• Queen walk around berth with innerspring mattress
• Reading and overhead lighting (DC)
• Storage cabinets outboard with positive locking hardware and gas support struts
• Storage under berth including drawers & gas struts for easy access

Stateroom - Starboard

 

• Air conditioning: 12,000 BTU with reverse cycle, heat (split to stbd head)
• Bedside table with drawers
• Built in 3 drawer unit aft
• Carpet with underlay
• Double berth with innerspring mattress
• Hanging locker with cedar lining and auto lighting (DC)
• Hatch - square white with screen and blind
• Headboard upholstered
• Private entrance door
• Reading and overhead lighting (DC)
• Storage cabinets outboard with positive locking hardware and gas support struts

Stateroom - Port

 

• Air conditioning: 4,000 BTU with reverse cycle
• Carpet with underlay
• Hatch - square white with screen and blind
• Private entrance door
• Reading and overhead lighting (DC)
• Storage cabinets outboard with positive locking hardware and gas support struts
• Storage cupboard with drawers and shelf
• Upper & lower berths (foam mattresses) with storage under lower berth
• Washing Machine/Dryer combination

Heads - master and Starboard

 

• Air conditioning with reverse cycle, heat. (Split from cabins)
• Entrance to ensuite head from master stateroom
• Entrance to starboard head from stbd cabin and companionway
• Exhaust fan
• Hatch - square white with screen and blind
• High quality Amtico flooring (excluding shower)
• Holding tank level indicator
• Overhead and vanity lighting (DC)
• Shower stall with glass partition, frameless glass door, automatic sump pump and shower head
• Storage locker with shelf under vanity benchtop
• Toilet roll holder, towel holder and accessories
• Vacuflush toilet (fresh water)
• Vanity cabinet above sink with hinged, mirror doors
• Vanity with faucet, semi recessed porcelain sink into solid surface benchtop

Flybridge

• AC receptacle weather proof under console
• Autopilot with gyrocompass
• Chain counter
• Compass, 4.75'' with light
• Console aft, with comprehensive electronic engine
• instrumentation and vessel controls
• Courtesy Lights
• Dash cover (White)
• Depth sounder system
• Electronic engine control unit, twin lever gear & throttle
• Helm & companion chair fully adjustable (Pompanette
• Tournament) with footrests
• Helm chair covers x2 (white)
• Helm electronics with 12VDC feed, main circuit breaker protected
• Lockable hatch to flybridge
• Lounge seating forward
• Overhead and courtesy lights
• Rail portside of console at helm
• Rails on rear of flybridge including midrail
• Refrigerator (12V), flybridge port aft
• Safety monitoring panel for bilge pumps, sump pump,
• navigation lights, engine room lights and high water alarm
• Sink with drainboard and faucet (hot and cold), moulded into flybridge
• Steering wheel - Destroyer
• Storage lockers (GRP)
• Table (solid surface accented, Bright White) adjustable converts to bed
• VHF radio including aerial
• Wrap around front windshield/deflector

Electronics

Dual Garmin touch screen  panels

Cat C12 panels

VHF

 

 

Review

The  Riviera 47 is a wildly popular boat and remains especially good buying on the preloved market today. Creature comforts are an integral part of the 47  in what Riviera cheekily calls a "saloon in the sky". There's seating for five people on lounges around a lunch table, a moulded amenities centre with fridge and sink, and great views as you cruise. Nigh a drop of spray, either. 

SOUND FOUNDATIONS
The track-proven 47 Open hull was designed by Dutch naval architect Frank Mulder. Part of his charter has been to get the Rivieras running flatter and, with prop tunnels to lower the shaft angle and underwater exhausts, the 47 is one of the flattest running boats in the family.

With a pair of trusty MTU S-60 diesel engines, the 47 is an  efficient boat to run. This was underscored by a top speed of 33 kts  and cruise speed of 29 knts.

As ever, construction is all solid fibreglass below the waterline with foam-cored decks above it. The moulded hardtop bridge - there's a clear curtain back aft. There are refinements to the 47's engineering compared with earlier models, namely a better plumbing system, new in-house-designed stainless steel sea strainers, while the batteries have been shifted aft of the engines for, among other reasons, better access. 

PENTHOUSE LIVING
However, for all that, it's the new room up top that remains the focus. There's a ladder to port leading to the big bridge boasting 190cm of headroom that adds to the sense of space. 

The moulded amenities centre to port flaunts a fridge, sink with hot/cold water, drinkholders, storage space and a grabrail. Five can sit around the dinette,  and there's a two-person lounge opposite.

The helm seats are trick new high-backed Pompanette types, offering good support when cruising, and the dash is similarly accommodating of electronics. Before me were twin Garmin such panels, autopilot and MTU engine-monitoring gauges.

The Edson wheel is a solid bit of gear that you can hang off, while the trim tabs are the QL low-maintenance retractable blade type from Volvo Penta. There was also a second Clarion sound system so you can stage a rooftop party.

ACCOMMODATING INTERIOR
The 47 has three cabins and two bathrooms (they're more than just heads). The third cabin with bunks will endear itself to children, while also doubling as a handy dressing room and storage area to toss your gear.

There's a nice big double bed and, I'm guessing, some owners might migrate here when the water's playing noisily on the chines. The communal bathroom - typically plush with big shower stall and Vacuflush loo - doubles as the second en suite. Otherwise, owners get the forward stateroom with signature island bed and second en suite. Plumbing on both showers has also been improved.

The saloon living area is vast and the views unfettered thanks to surrounding windows. The 47 comes with a dedicated dinette for four, high-gloss cherrywood joinery with improved finish since the company invested in a special Italian-made varnishing machine, and there's a big choice of soft furnishings so you can stamp your own style on the interior.

A large flatscreen television was mounted atop the wetbar opposite the boat's L-shaped lounge, which with trundle bed takes the accommodation to eight (plus two with that optional bed in the bridge). The gregarious galley down half a step is virtually on the same level as the saloon. The fridge/freezer 's are counter height and therefore unobtrusive.

The 47 as tested had a central vac to assist with post-part cleanups. Back outdoors, the cockpit lends itself to fishing or family use - a real convertible. Keen anglers will welcome the vision from the aft helm station in the flybridge, where the lone rear clear curtain can be scrolled up, to the fishing area. Seated, I could just see the bowrail when I took the throttles and bowthruster in hand.

CLEAR ROAD AHEAD
The hull with prop pockets or tunnels (and underwater exhausts) tends to run pretty flat. 

Whether you game fish, gad about the bay or harbour, or enjoy coastal cruising, the enclosed bridge is where it's all at these days. Do breakfast, lunch and sundowners in air-conditioned comfort and enjoy the penthouse living. You can come away from a big day feeling as fresh as when you started. No salt, no sun, and no kiddies' handprints on the clear curtains.

More power to the flybridge!

The flybridge amenities are an integral part of the design and mouldings, and create a second entertaining area

Air-con in the bridge means complete climate control

Excellent finish
Constantly improving engineering
Smart interior with three cabins and two heads
Best backing, service and resale value in the business

Disclaimer
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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